Recommended service providers on Fiverr or similar sites

Thanks inyourway for the helpful reply. I've seen that site posted here and will have to check it out. Anyone use these guys? http://www.fiverr.com/in2town They were mentioned somewhere else on the forum. Any specific recommendations for providers on these sites?

I have had really mixed results with Fiverr. The graphics work I received were well done, but writing gigs were hit and miss.

Understand that many of these writers lie about being native English speakers and that they provide well researched and well written articles which are not spun and will pass Copy-scape.

One of the worst writers argued with me that the article was not spun. When I pointed out that a person's name "Bill" had been spun to "Invoice", she said she would get one of her better writers to redo it. This second article was also spun off of the internet with extremely broken English.

Another writer actually gave me two well written articles so I bought another gig from him. The difference was night and day. Whoever wrote the second set of articles definitely spun the article and did not do any grammar or spelling checks.

Things to keep in mind.

1. The person you buy gig from may not be the one who writes the article.
2. The writer may not be English speaker. Gig owner may outsource to India or another country.
3. Even though they say in ad that article is not spun, well researched and written by native English speakers, you will get highly spun, non-researched, articles written by foreign language writers which will not be readable.


Main Point

The rating system is rigged in the sense that if you eventually cancel the order and you receive a refund you will not be able to leave a rating or comment on the gig. I choose 100% feedback rated writers for my articles. When I eventually got the refund I was not able to rate the gig.

Suggestion

- do not trust the rating system
- take note of the gig ad, if the ad is in broken English you can be sure of what you are buying, some are so bad that you can sometimes tell where the writer is from by the "accent" of the text. Indian, East European and other Asian writers do display an "accent" in their writing
- the country of the gig owner may have nothing to do with where the writer is actually from
- do not fall for the pretty face. Many of these people use pictures of models to lure people in. Hey, sex sells even for crap articles