I know the feeling. I search jobs on CL every now and again (IE Craigslist) and I find that people who charge too much actually get a bit of mistreatment in the form of a secondary ad created by another user who refers to the original ad and tells them that htey are charging too much. To me, it depends on the type of things they are asking for. If they are asking for you to know PHP, SQL, Ajax and/or Flash but only want to pay you $10 an hour or something, I understand why that is seen as too low.

Raya, are you looking for a simple web page (html/css based) than its probably a bit of overpricing you are seeing. (but I dont know how much you asked for). Do you have a link to your advert?

Try Amber,
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm

Not sure if she is still doing freelance, but she is good, cool, and reasonable.

Dave