Freelance Programming

I am entertaining the idea of signing up on a couple of websites for doing freelance programming. There are plenty of sites out there that I can join (rent-a-coder, elance, guru.com, etc), but after doing some research I’ve found that each have half good/half bad reviews.

So I wanted to put this out there and get feedback. If anyone out there is doing freelance work through a 3rd. party site, then please share your experiences. Which sites are good. Which sites should you avoid. Any lessions that you learned in the process?

That kind of stuff……

Thanks