7 Oct 2011 at 7:05 AM
Hello PPHers,’
For those that dont know me i am the founder and CEO of ’ PPH. I have read the comments in response to this feature and would like to reassure you that the intention was quite the opposite of how its been perceived (we may have got it wrong in which case we will act fast and fix it). So rest assured.’
Allow me to explain’
The intention of this was NOT to go down the Freelancer.com way or promote cheaper bids. In fact we did it as a means of showing our users that the bids are in fact not all from ’ the far east and for slave labour rates as many people think. We have been sharing our stats with the community on PPH Econony for some time which clearly show that the cheapest bid doesnt in fact aways win - quite the opposite in fact it rarely wins. But then not many people look at PH Economy so we thought 'oh well lets just show the stats on the Job page'.. It may be the wrong means to the right end , we will dig in, listen to you and fix it if thats the case. But the intention is to promote quality local bids..’
Equally we started showing the country of the winning bidder in the "Awarded Jobs' section which again if you look will validate what ’ the stats on PPH Economy show - that over 70% of the bids are won by UK freelancers.’
In any case, as i say we will work on this and act fast if we have got it wong. But there is no reason to misread this as an attempt to go down the 'cheap' route. Why aftwer spending 4 hard years of building a quialty community would we just dump it all away?’ 
Once again we are grateful for your feedback’
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