[Tench_Coxe]

"You'll be paying for one person working and 5 more observing. It's a different culture and work ethic."

My experience has been that the 'bargain' usually ends up consuming more resources on this side of the world (US) than what would have been used if there was no 'bargain' (usually, one or two on the US side to actually do the work, and another 2 or more to fix the screwups).

One thing I can say: there is one culture over there that should focus on graduating salesmen and marketers,i.e., very little scruples about misleading prospects.

[Myrddin]

I don't get too worked up about outsourcing. It in the end it means great opportunities to clean up the mess. I can keep the in basket full with classified stuff that won't be outsourced while I'm waiting for the next cleanup on aisle 5.

Unscrupulous sales and marketing seems to be a universal constant. You can find them everywhere. It's the honest ones that are scarce.