Scriptlance - what's the point?

Scriptlance is supposedly a place where people can place projects that they need help with and then others can come along and bid to do them. Seems simple enough and I've been signed up for some time.

However, there was one flaw - those bidding seemed to be bidding stupidly low amounts for the work to be done. We're talking $5 for a 5 page web site for example.

Whenever I bid for a project, I bid a more realistic amount and mentioned that in my bid. This must have annoyed a few though because first I got suspended and then I was banned.

Try and talk to Scriptlance about it though and you come up against a wall of silence.

The first thing you know about it is when you get an email that goes something like "The admin has suspended your account (aipuk) on ScriptLance. Please submit the form at https://www.scriptlance.com/suspended.shtml to find out how to get your account re-activated."

so I did.

In order to use that form though, you have to use your username and password, but mine apparently wasn't just suspended, it had been removed altogether!

I did have two accounts though - programmers and a webmasters account, so I used the other one to enquire.

The response I got was "

At 4/25/2007 06:57, Jamey said: * aipuk (banned username)"

The original email remember said "Please submit the form at https://www.scriptlance.com/suspended.shtml to find out how to get your account re-activated."

so I asked for a more descriptive reply to find out what I had done wrong to which the reply was "At 4/28/2007 09:29, Jamey said: The account is banned from scriptlance no information will be given out"

and then

"At 5/2/2007 05:17, Sanjay said: ScriptLance reserves the right to provide services at its discreetion and don't wish to provide you the same anymore. Please don't use ScriptLance anymore."

So, I am left mystified. Both my accounts have been removed completely from their system, my IP address has been banned, there is no way of emailing Scriptlance and I can't even log into the forum as I need an account to do so and I am still none the wise as to why Scriptlance felt the need to ban me!

Mind you, I only once got anything out of Scriptlance, and that turned to nothing anyway. I can only think it was because I dared to speak up about the low bids that were constantly being made and that Scriptlance SAID in another exchange of emails they would not tolerate.

So if you are on Scriptlance, be careful what you do - you may find yourself banned and if you are, don't expect to be told why!