[kls]

I think it is foolish to write off all Eastern European developers (and those from South America, Asia, etc) as code bodgers who slap skins onto Drupel.

Sorry, I must have not articulated my point well, my post was not meant as a critique of Eastern European or Asian developers.

It was more a critique of the quality of projects on those sites as well as the expectations on those sites. It makes the economies of scale only viable to slap together projects and even at a slap together pace, you have to be bidding from a cost of living standard below most of the west. Sure there are some gems on those sites but you have to weed through a lot of crap to find them, most freelancers find it easier to get gigs through their network as opposed to weeding through these sites.

That being said, two of my best developers are from Romania and earn the same as US freelancers, a good developer is worth their weight in gold no matter where they are from.