I got a phone call regarding our Shopify site. I had approached a Toronto based Shopify expert but had not heard from them for 2 days ever since. So I was not sure he is from this Toronto based company. The quality of the sound was pretty bad, but I was very sure he understood my question very well: Are you based in Canada? He said yes. Due to the poor quality of sound, I said I would call him back. But I did not because the phone number he gave me was out side of Canada.
He called me back and I explained to him I could not do business with someone who lied before we even started.
I used ODesk before (we have 4 sites) and hired someone from India to get a small job done. After $500+ cost he failed to fix the problem but created even more. And he kept claiming hours he put in which will cost us further.
I just want to share this experience with other companies. Just be careful.