You should look at elance.com and odesk.com.
They are both outsourcing websites where you post projects and people bid on them.

That being said you could still compete. There is always room, the question is how would you be different?

Brenden
http://www.crowdsourcethis.com

I was also thinking of http://www.elance.com for this kind of services.

What I don't understand is why you want a bidding system if the user doesnt have to take the winning bid.
Tommy

The way it would be designed is so that 70/80% of auctions would choose the winning bid however the ability to choose another one of the bids is in case the winner doesn't have a good reputation or doesn't follow through.

odesk actually seems to have about 90% of my ideas however it seems to be a bit less intuitive than I want my solution to be I also want a community much like Cambrian House has and after my short look Im not sure ether of the two mentioned solutions offer that.

There are a hand full of sites that do this. It all depends on what project you want to get done.

"sigh" Just because something has been done before - does not mean it won't succeed. It doesn't need to be such a common response around here.

Google is a search engine, it's "been done", when they received funding. Put a small twist on a "been done" and it can make a world of difference. Decent idea I say.

I completely agree with you GroundLoad. As I said it completely depends on what project you want to get done.

I understand the best price part in the pitch but how do I know I will get the best service?

Your point intervierwables is the exact reason you don't have to choose the lowest bid. If for example the person who wins the lowest bid has a very low rating or if they don't do the job you can choose to have one of the higher priced bidders with a better rating do the work for you. And they will win the auction instead.

As a precaution so that new users can still get work every new user will start out with a 50% rating because if everyone has no rating when they start than people may be reluctant to choose new users to do their jobs. And the last thing I want is for new users to be left out.

I gotcha. A rating system.I think some have missed the part about this not being stand alone but part of CH.

I think this would be a good part of CH however it is possible for this to be on its own. The biggest reason I would like it to be a part of CH is because of the community and because I think the current bazaar is lacking.

As an example for how it may integrate in to the CH community is for example posting a job position. People could include their resumes and qualifications in their bid.

Regardless of being a part of CH or not I would probably use a monitory system similar to cambros as a way of handling money. I would also have a type of escrow system in the service so that once the auction is won the money is put in to the escrow and once the product is provided the money is transfered to the winner.

Could work for CH too if implemented like RentACoder:

http://rentacoder.com

There you have to put the money in escrow once you find the best candidate and agree on the price. How would this be handled in CH?

zer0, at first I thought this wouldn't help because I'd expect most of the work agreements on CH2 would eventually depend on a deeper spec than presented in the Bazaar and a on-click agreement. Private messages would be exchanged, needs clarified, and (possibly non-Cambro) payment mechanism agreed to.

But maybe the reverse auction itself is a means by which those extra pieces of information could be communicated.

That it would be non-binding would be key. Perhaps not even a deadline. The project lead could monitor bids, and strike up conversations with the current lowest bidder.

In terms of (Stevesitv) concerns about escrow and even ratings... well Laura is currently making water cooler comments deletable (due to spam). Any non-deleteable comment opportunity can be spammed, so we could look at keeping watercooler comments permanent (and keep manually purging spam), or I'd need some new idea how to handle a feedback loop.

So in a nutshell, I think the value here is allowing members to strike up conversations about specific jobs, with the topic being the developer's tentative bid.

Brainstorm any options on this? Like a bidder might want to put a date range on a work offer. So might the seller. But I'd likely let them put such details in a comment field rather than specific fields. Date filtering would be nice, but we'd need to keep the coding effort minimal to implement this.

wow i actually got attention of CH. Im pleased. I kinda gave up on my idea after it was established that there where already services marketing in this area.

Gordon i think you touched on another idea thats well out of this ones range. I do agree though that an improved messaging system would make the bazaar much more useful. The ability to send messages between people with the message being tagged with the item for sale on the bazaar would be an improvement however you seem to already have those ideas and honestly my idea isn't of much use until improved communication is implemented. So maybe you can let me know if i can help you out when it becomes time.