Crowdsourced design work -- worth it? Anybody have experience on the client end?

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threeprong wrote:
I never implied his business had to work any particular way I merely made recommendations as you did.

Let's revisit what you said:

threeprong wrote:
For your start up business, would you be interested in working a couple of hours on a project I have where you would be going up against perhaps 10-50 other companies in the hopes of getting paid for that time?

If that sounds promising to you, then I would go the crowd sourced route.

You don't even know what the OP's business is, but you assert that what's "fair" for a design business model is the same for the OP's as well.

There may be "plenty" of dabblers playing the 5 minute logo game.. and there "may" be others spending hours on their logo designs. i haven't seen any real data on it.. Ultimately, I doubt the spec work scenario is fair, though I will not make up any assumptions about how plentiful the bounty is, and will not assign some arbitrary hourly rate to those involved to make my point.

By saying that crowdsourcing isn't "fair" you were applying a rate, though not a specific one. I demonstrated another scenario simply to disprove your false assertion that crowd sourcing is somehow not "fair." You would have to know how much they're making to make any sort of assertion. Perhaps next time you should try running some numbers to see if your take is accurate.