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He lives in the Phillipines, which obviously changes the scale of cost.

I had done this a few times in the past and would routinely charge just $100 for scrapes because I had written a robust enough application that the actual work involved (creating a manifest file) took about 5 minutes. I was attempting to work at scale.

Eventually I just got sick of oDesk. I had a regular job and was just looking for beer money anyway and the vast majority of jobs were essentially content stealing for some half-assed SEO purpose. I'd ask people if they'd read the TOS of the site in question and that's when communication would stop. Or they'd come and say "how about $15" and then I would quit communicating.

The lesson is good here - this site (and others like it) are filled with cheap, low-skilled programmers and clients with iffy intentions.

I'll also say that "5 star" doesn't mean much on this site. Reputation is established not by merely having a good aggregate score.

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yes, I have similar experience, I just developed own python scraping solution to automate the process. But many of clients want script plus data and willing to pay only $15.