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Been looking at the site again today and it does strike me that there's definitely a need for a place to upload material to support a bid. You don't necessarily want everyone to be looking at the cards in your hand, so although it's possible to upload a file to a bid which is viewable by everyone, there would be value in having an upload facility in a private message.

It's finding the way to make it appealing to buyers and to writers who want to be earning a fair wage for what they do. O-Desk is one way, I guess, although the pay by hour / online monitoring set up is difficult to work with if you're a creative writer.

One way of stopping spam / automatic bids would be to have one of those password thingies (type this sequence of numbers) when you place a bid.

Ultimately, I guess it comes down to what the optimum balance is between the owner making money, the writer making a decent living, and the buyer understanding the value of what they're buying when they're selecting a writer.