Freelancer.com Reviews

did job for an employer, spent 6 h..at night.. received only 75% from payment required, after 2 month that partial payment was canceled by support staff of freelancer.com like employer has not verified account.

in result 6 hour... of night.. instead of sleep I spent for free for an idiot! freelancer.com is an unresponsible place... of scam

First they froze money, second stole them. Support says its for your good! Don't work with them they are criminals.

Paid for logos on this site and loved them but then found out they were coped from a free vector site, therefore cannot be copyright protected. Complaints were basically met with fake responses that pretend people who pretended to do absolutely nada. Run away!

Lost months of time, 500 usd and got a creep giving us a really nasty review hitting on SEO.

We unfortunately hired a fraudster USAGraphicsPro on Freelancer.com

After weeks of delay and no activity on our project it is finally rushed through in 4 days. (the deadline was 8 days, set by the guy him self).

We got absolutely nothing of what we asked for.

In the end we did not get the refund nor the files - as he claims on we did on Freelancer.com

Only after opening second dispute he actually got to do some work.

We can write books about this fraudster and his behavior - and later Freelancers lack of assisting in anything, before, during and after the disputes. (we also filed some violation reports - with absolutely no results or reply - simply nothing).

Bottom line is:

Freelancer has NO interest in helping the employers.

The employers may open a single project and then no more, either because they don't need more or because they have fled the scene.

The freelancers, like usagraphicspro, are the ones making money on and for Freelancer.com - so Freelancer.com has a financial interest in protecting the fraudant freelancers and not helping the employers.

Here is a hint on how to make big money online, in no time, without lifting a finger:

Sign up as freelancer on Freelancer.com

Bid on a lot of projects.

When you win a project:

Claim your milestone (preferably as big a milestone as possible), then stall the employer for at least a month (this way he can no longer stop his payment via paypal/creditcard).

Send a poor result to the employer, who will then open a dispute - this will buy you even more time to catch other fools.

Make sure you also make employer profiles as time passes, you will need them regularly to pretend you also have happy customers.

You can be certain Freelancer.com will not lift a finger to stop you - they make money on your scam.

I used RentaCoder, then vWorker and just tried to continue with that strategy by using Freelancer.com. However, the experience is very different. Besides the non-intuitive interface the coders may not even be coders. I had one guy offer to do the work then insist on getting more money than he had bid after I had accepted his bid and not contacted other coders.

Freelancer.com support was not willing to help even when I told them that I thought it was fraud. Three times freelancer.com support has closed my support tickets without doing anything, ANYTHING!

I have hired over 100 people over the past 5 years through many different websites such as oDesk, PeoplePerHour, and eLance and let me say Freelancer has got to be the worst out of them all. They are no where compared to any of the sites I mentioned above. Freelancer only cares about making their money and disregard any dispute resolution you may have.

They require you to add a credit card on file on their website (not a problem with me) but then charges your account without your permission.

For example: They upgraded my account to premium a few weeks ago, and the last time I used their service was 5 months ago!

Their website structure makes it easy for you to send payment. I mean really easy. Just click on a two word text and you will send a payment. There is no additional page where you can review your payment or confirmation whatsoever. Check your bank account and there are 2 transaction made. One for that total amount and one for the fee (average $3~).

Ask your freelancer how much they charge him? Took about 30% of his payment and charges a withdrawal fee and hold his payment for about a week.

O also, they charge to post projects and charge freelancers to buy additional bids.

If you have a dispute, they can't do anything. They will tell you that its best for you to work things out with the freelancer.

They regularly implement new fee structures so be sure to regularly read through the fine prints on their terms of condition.

Among dozens of won contests, I have participated in a contest on Freelancer.com in December 2012. The contest was "guaranteed", which should tell that the prize WILL be shared between top freelancers based on design ratings, even if no winner might be selected. The prize of the contest was $690, and since the contest was "guaranteed", I have put my best efforts in it to make a decent video for Contest Holder, and even hired a 3D designer to design certain elements of video. I was the one among 2 other contestants. I have never heard back from the contest holder and got no private message in return ever since.

The contest end date was 31st of December 2012.

After exactly one month of contest end date, my account was deducted by $11.50, which is exactly 5% (standard membership freelancer fee) of $230, which is exactly the third of $690. But my $230 is nowhere to be found. I have contacted Freelancer.com customer support and got a feeling that I was chatting with a robot instead of human being. Instead of getting answers to my questions, I got thrown at with a bunch of side things that have nothing to do with my problem. All they were saying is that they are unable to disclose any more information due to circumstances and that they cannot disclose any information for security purposes, although I have clearly stated that I have made all the screenshots regarding my issue.

At some point they will tell me that a locked contest can occur when: - a refund is requested. I asked them if they refunded the prize to contest holder, but got the same answer as before.

I have been reading about scams Freelancer.com is capable of doing and found out that this is not the first time FREELANCER.COM IS TAKING AWAY YOUR MONEY INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH THEIR PROBLEMS IN ORDER TO CLEANSE THEMSELVES.

This is a screenshot of the contest while it was locked:

http://zveki.com/work/freelancer.gif

Here it is now:

https://www.freelancer.com/contest/contest.php?project_id=12274

This is a screenshot of my transaction history page:

http://zveki.com/work/freelancer2.gif

They simply shut my mouth and deleted the contest.

So, after seeing this, I have lost all the confidence in so-called "guaranteed" contests, and no matter what is the prize, I will hardly participate in one of them again. Freelancer.com should really ask themselves what a term "guaranteed" actually means. Unfortunately for me - absolutely nothing.

I got on freelancer to get a simple logo done. I paid 50% down (as I was told this is to get the project going). I saw absolutely no progress for 2 weeks, asked to refund my project. Support does NOTHING to help resolve issues, they send the same generic email over and over. The freelancer got away with my money providing absolutely NOTHING in return. I would never use this site and I recommend no one to risk their money on it.

From my direct experience, Freelancer.com is a big scam. They are leading experts in money extortion. I advise employers and freelancers to keep away from this dodgy fraudulent business.

Yes, as the title says, don't even try this website.

Freelancer is made only to make money, and so, to steal your money.

Then, in this website regroups all the scammers.

SCAM, SCAM, and SCAM again.

Prefer working with oDesk, Elance, etc., but of course, scammers are everywhere, so just be aware.

So to finish this message, Freelancer was one of my nightmare.

Hi,

I spent there more than three months I could not get a single job.

Most of the jobs are fictitious, projects are cancelled, closed and disappear. Also I saw very suspicious responses from employers, very good English for the advert and later horrible English spelling in the PMB; it is not possible for the same person, and finally projects are closed.

That is the reason they need to get money from contractors, via testing skills and membership upgrade, because projects are not real so they do not get 10% of them.

The few real projects, if they exist at all, are taking from people with reputation, if you are new there is no chance at all to get a contract,never ever, so people find friends to contract themselves and get reputation.

Also they cheat you when selecting the skills, they are really mean, If you do not choose all the skills you can at first, then later you are limited and cannot add more skills until next month, unless you pay, of course.

And when you sign they hide information, you do not know their commission, rules,.., nothing. And you have to get their spam mail every day, no opt-out option.

The worst is the time you waste, not just the money.

Really trust me, stay away from them, as far as possible.

cheers!!

New World Order (NWO) elite members were losing a lot of money through outsourcing, some serious money started shifting from west toward east, so they needed a way to destroy entire market. They funded and are still funding Freelancer which is instructed to purchase all freelance services out there, one by one, and then establish a complete domination over freelance market, which will try to return lost money to the west as much as possible through various scams like xp points, memberships, "account verifications", credit card "verifications" and whatnot. While the plan is progressing, it's still not fully complete. However, a couple of good freelance services were already purchased and destroyed by this trojan horse.

I have spend considerate time (and money) on the 3 main contracting sites (oDesk, elance, freelancer) and it really isn't close - freelancer.com is the worst one by far.

.) the quality of the bids is beyond bad. I am writing rather specific technical projects, and the vast majority of bids are similar to "i understand what to do, i can do this, i can start immediately". You also get bad bids on other sites, but there they are the exception, not the norm.

.) the search for contractors is completely useless, which is of course intentional because you need to post a project and pay for it.

i once got a mail from "my personal concierge" asking me if she could help me. i told her yes, she could provide me a list of possible contractors with the following qualifications (as said, the search is useless so you cant't do it on your own). she then provided me two names, one hasn't worked for 2 years, the other one for 5 years. i told her to leave me alone.

.) freelancer.com is the only site which charges you to hide projects from search engines, or to delete a past project.

.) the user interface can only be considered a joke. but a site which uses "experience points" and "level ups" to make it look like a game when all you want to do is to use it for business, says enough.

odesk and elancer are by far better, and i am missing scriptlane which has unfortunately been bought by freelancer.

I had some balance in it and they are deducted my money without my intentions though i was active on site. they still manage to upgrade my account from free member ship and deducted money.... what a scam site!!!!!

So we decided to run through our paypal account for a normal audit, and what do we see ? 9 transactions from freelancer, and we haven't even done anything !

Support... you cant't call it that, couple of people reading text and responding with a lengthy standard format in seconds, ie, already pre written, probably for the masses that have the same questions.

Onto account cancellation, their site says you can cancel at anytime, but fails to tell you how, and support dribble on about downgrading on the site, which we did, and guess what, it didn't work.

We posted one project, this apparently failed their policy, fair enough, but we don't think the deduction of $8.57 from us because of it. Their answer..... ha ha.... the fee is because it costs them money to list on google, which they do every 30 minutes.

Refund ? forget it, its their bread an butter, probably already spent.

Our advice, steer well clear in every respect, unless you enjoy being taken to the cleaners.

Absolutely agree with all people above- i got same problems- never get quality service from outsoursers-or scammers or you can find trickers there. Never get money back as requested and my $100 was stolen (paypal confirm that- i never get those money but they disappear from my freelancer account and shown like sent to paypal- i got official paypal email that they have't found transaction with such number from freelancer),next- got 0 from $96 because i'm not loged in on site in during 1 year, got hidden fee for membership that i never order. Why paypal who suspended thousands of other business accounts owners for nothing still work with absolutely criminal company? How is that possible that they stole money? I understand- i'm far away from Aus and i'm live in Eastern Europe but why ppl who live in usa eu au don't go to arbitrage?

I felt being scammed by Freelancer many times since starting using this website in 2011. Many unknown fees were charged without my consent., but I still keep using it because I don't know where else to get freelancers. Today I found out there were more unknown refundable project fees charged since 2011 were not refunded yet! I didn't even know they exist because the projects were never rewarded to any freelancer and were supposed to be free posts, so I really had no idea where the charges came from, and it says refundable but I didn't see any refund since 2011. I am so pissed off! I would stay away from it if I could.

Dear, friends. Be careful. They are scam. I was robbed some times in total about 2,5k $. They take money without any reasons after some period 2-3 months after payments. Support is the dumbest. Only simple answers as bot. Many fake projects where they ask for take exams for money. Many customers with 0 reviews which asked for your personal emails or skype. It is a hidden staff. They ask your personal info: passport, credit card with all digits and even security 3 digit! They are thieves. After some time they will get money from your card! They take money after you accept project, but if customer ignored pay escrow they would ignore your asking for help.

Never trust to them!

Best regards, Denis.

I have been a member of Freelancer.com since November 2012 and my total account balance was $ 14000. When I tried to withdraw the money, my account was blocked for 'suspicious activity' and my account balance has now been reduced to $ 99.15

Some one please tell me how to get my hard earned money out of this scam website.

I am contemplating legal action as well. Please advise about that as well. If there are more users here who have the same issue, please contact me.

I am very disappointed using freelancer.com.

I put money in deposit and they mislead me that I can use some free extra options (rewards). After I did, they stole my money from deposit and send credit charge to my paypal account!!! I did not even know that paypal account can be credited without my authorization with password!!!

Their service says that I should have navigated through multiple menus and activate my rewards, but it is simply cheating customers. Now I still have rewards in my account, but they stole my money!!!

I hope that someone will take legal action and close freelancer.com swindlers.