It was really great initially. You get to watch TV, play computer games and go to bed early (although "early" has always been subjective in my case since it meant 3-4am) while someone did you work, for a small price.
I got the deal off freelancer.com and I chose this guy who had many many good reviews written about him (I cant remember probably over 60?). So I was quite relieved since I had to come up with some banner designs within 3 days. I have had many good experiences working with people from Freelancer.com even when they had very few user reviews.
However, these were the cool, kick-ass graphics I got:
When I first received these designs I slapped myself to make sure I wasnt dreaming, and to my horror I really wasnt. In fact after I looked at these cringe-worthy "graphics", I was at a loss of whether to cry or laugh.
I would never have expected someone to submit such work even if it were for a measly $60USD, much less a "professional graphics artist". So I filed for a dispute and got 3/4 of my money back. Not before the "professional graphics artist" had the cheek to tell me he spent hours on this. (which was really just pasting text which I emailed him onto the pictures he found online using some state of the art graphics editing software like Microsoft Paint).
To verify his claims, I spent some time to see how long it would take for a noob like me to really do up a masterpiece. I spent about 3 minutes googling for a more suitable image. Then I spent about 3 minutes replicating what he did to the images using Fireworks (a watered down version of Photoshop).
If I had used Microsoft Paint I would have shaved about 1 minute off the total time taken.
Oh and did I say I found one of the images on google?
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