Safety of Outsourcing to India?

[shmay]

I have the perfect job for outsourcing -- updating a sunglasses company's website, which involves repetitious uploading. Unfortunately there are a LOT of glasses out there to upload, and I could really use some help.

Of course, if I get help, I would have to give away the password to a website I don't own and the password to the wholesaler websites (where the user could buy an unlimited amount of sunglasses) so one could download the photos. That's giving a lot of power to someone I don't even know.

So how trustable are these Indian companys? Should I just look for someone local who I could trust, but would cost much more? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[RichB]

I've worked with a few Indian companies on projects exceeding 1MIL and found them to be just as honest and their US counterparts, that is, some honest, others not. I don't feel an increased concern with what you're talking about. If we're talking direct access to funds, maybe so, but I'm concerned with that regardless.

[PhilnCedarPark]

Any of these should be good, but to be honest for basic repetitive work that involves access to a client server, I would start out with a posting on the "gigs" section of craigslist. Have good luck with that here in a large college town (Austin) and a lot less cumbersome.

I have actually paid (and been paid on occasion lol) with Starbucks gift cards.

AND on a safety note, why not create an ftp account with read/writeonly to a non-web directory? Then just copy em over. Just got to get the naming conventions right - but I have done that when server access and security is an issue.