Freelancer.com Reviews

Suspended my account with money on it (a few times), demanded hi res of my id and mugshot of me holding it to unsuspend... multiple other issues but I suppose that those two are more than enough!

1. Freelancer.com is a scam. Even killing ONE account with money deposited there makes them thieves. Not mentioning freezing users' funds, disgraceful customer service (I PAY FOR IT!) and many

other small and big scammers

2. Emir is from Philippines (L. Emir Samonte) like other members of their support. Proven and verified. Nothing bad in it... but IT IS an issue when you get people who due their intellectual and liguistic capabilities behave like some robots!

3. If you have been a victim of freelancer.com , you are entitled to get your revenge. I am a writer and consultant been analyzing the company and I am ready to fight back.

I became the victim of swindlers from freelancer-com

They stole my money of $220

They should be stopped!!!

they are scam and they have very very big bugs in their system. keep away!

yes its true, My id is imaginativegfx on freelancer.com

Please check my profile I'm a very old user of this site, More than 75 reviews, 5 star rating and won 17 contest, but I have to say that they are stealing designers money.

This is to aware all provider about freelancer.com fraudent behavior.

I won few contests on freelancer.com recently

http://www.freelancer.com/contest/contest.php?project_id=6930

client paid me but, freelancer.com not allowed me to withdraw the fund to my bank saying that client's details are not verified.

My question is why don't freelancer.com verify these details before any one posting the job. once someone posted a job and I worked on it and now I'm unpaid for done work. Is not it cheating.

2nd one

https://www.freelancer.com/contest/contest.php?project_id=9519

I participated in this job after checking that client details are verified. His email, profile and payment, all are verified.

I feel that I will get money for this contest. I won and client paid me. I withdraw some money into my bank account. Now freelancer.com Reversed All Prize Awarded and my account is showing negative

balance. Now suspended.

They also closed his account So that I can't communicate with him and deleted the contest to end all possibilities to communication with him.

I honestly worked on contest and need money for done work. if a client is fraud than Freelancer.com is responsible for this. I will not pay for negative balance. Instead I will love to leave the freelancer.com and soon you all will realize that this kind of behavior by freelancer.com will lead to the closing of this website

Hello, this is a good day, a really good day.

My luck is that my withdraw was done in time, because and now I have -$500 negative ballance due to a problem with one of my employers.

Why the hell you take money from me if he scammed you.

If Freelancer.com gets scammed, the next person scammed will be the users.

You can take my account, in your Freelancer Hell.

I'm sorry for my account good reviews, I worked a lot to build my reputation.

I found great employers there, I've made some money, but Freelancer.com is crap.

SUPPORT are robots, they are there only to tell you that he can't do anything, and don't hesitate to contact them again hahaha.

DON't WORK WITH FREELANCER, I WAS SO LUCKY, JUST DON'T WORK WITH THEM, STAY AWAY FROM FREELANCER.COM!

If they try to advance and get my hardworked money from me, we'll se on a process.

Hope higher persons in Freelancer.com will see this, not the robots from the support.

Sorry for my English, I'm very angry!

Another scammed guy,

Andy.

They had taken my money before I was eligible to use your services. They have exposed me to a commitment to pay before they give me the ability to pay someone.

Unbelievable !!!!

Huge huge huge huge scam company, and guess what? Their policies and practices encourage scammed freelancers. I hired one of their freelancers. There was a 2 week project deadline. This freelancer gave me a plethora of excuses ranging from sickness, to Internet going down, to storms, etc. The 2 weeks pass, he provides me with a half completed job and begs me to release a "milestone" so he can afford to keep working on it assuring me he would have it complete in 1 more week. I reluctantly release a portion of the funds to him, and he literally COPIES and PASTED a design from one the websites I gave him as a sample. HE STOLE their code and imported it into my site, and he wasn't even crafty about it leaving references to their company name, offer, etc. When I pointed that out to him, he said he was just trying to give me what I asked for! By stealing it? WTF?

I reported him and showed the evidence of his scam to freelancer support.

They DO not care!

This was evidence that there is someone scamming people on their site. Do you think they suspended the account? Nope. Instead they initially return email with some form/cut and paste responses. After being challenged further to have some accountability, they further suggested that I try to "work it out" with the freelancer, and that there is nothing they can do.

Finally, they tell me to leave feedback.

I go to try and do that and guess what? There is no option.

They inform me that it is past the "reasonable" time limit to do so!

WTF is that?

I'll tell you what it is. It's one scammer (freelancer) protecting their own (freelance scammer)

And why would they do that you ask?

Because every time that scammer freelancer accepts another project, they get a % of the milestone, and that's really only what they are after!

Freelancer.com gets paid when you deposit funds and make milestone payments. Why would they limit the amount of jobs their freelancers can get, even if the freelancer is a their and scammer? They know that most people won't be bothered to fight it, or go the extra length to complain on a blog site like this, and even if we do, there are a lot of would-be employers getting caught in this trap daily.

In other words, they're getting away with it.

I'm seriously considering looking into getting a class action suit initiated against them for collective damages, and hopefully to put them out of business. Thankfully I have a lawyer in the family, and coincidentally their firm specializes in online scams. If anyone has similar stories and wants to post them here, I'll consider giving my contact information with respect to getting in touch.

I don't think it will be easy but it will send a message!

After I have engaged in consumer protest against their policies they have... PUBLISHED MY PERSONAL DATA ON WIKIPEDIA. See entry for Freelancer.com, go to history of editions and see what was happening on August.

Have I mentioned I received illegal threats from their representative? They said I am to shut up (remove my posts - my blog is Get a Hindu at the Blogspot) or they will "commence actions against me" (!)

This is beyond scam and lack of ethics. This is personal.

I don't think its a scam but:

Last time I paid a seller they had a bug on the site and they double charge me.

So I ask for a refund.

It took about 2 weeks until they gave me one and since that time they limited my account and harass me with many questions. Each time I answer they have some more questions.

I just can't belive how bad service they can give...

Yesterday I uploaded money to pay for a project (www.rtw.com) . Now they don't let me pay...

"for account security reasons until we can verify your identity. You can continue to work and receive payments, but you won’t be able to transfer or withdraw funds. To verify your identity, visit the Verification Center."

The only reason I started using them was that they bought the amasing scriptlance.com site, and now I don't have an alternative...

Freelancer.com charged me twice on my Credit Card, will not refund me and will not even email me back. The only way I could actually speak to anyone is by going to a section on their website which has a chat online option ( its only on pages where you buy something ) Anyways they told me the same, that I need to email higher management. Still no email, I lost $600. I have never had so much hatred for an online company. I HATE FREELANCER.COM they should be arrested and thrown in jail.

I will set notes:

- website too slow

- website not organized, hard to understand ("simple is good")

- 70% of projects are fake

- home of scam employer

- lot of ads

- you always have to pay (to pass test - to highlight bid...)

- hard to win a project even if you are "BILL GATE"

- when they acquired Vworker my life become a hill ("Hate you freelancer.com")

Negotiating around their webite is a nightmare. Almost all of the people I hired (5) were useless. Their customer service is non-existant. Did I leave anything out? Oh, their fees are too high and they will hold your funds for ransom.

Thank you for posting this! I found it because I was searching for ways to post a scathing review of freelancer.com myself. I am a freelance voice over talent. During the only job I received on freelancer.com, the employer decided not to pay, and simply leave the site. You see, freelancer.com took money from my account as a “fee” before I was even paid by the employer.

As a result, for my honest work I ended up PAYING $30 TO FREELANCER.COM, and not even being paid what was promised by the employer.

freelancer.com offers no protection (such as escrow, or dispute resolution) for the freelancers on the site, and really don’t even deserve to use the term “freelancer”. I am truly disgusted by this money stealing site!

DON’T USE FREELANCER.COM !!! BEWARE !

Freelancer.com is full of scammers protected by freelancer.com. The users on the site will take your money and disappear, even the users with over 300 positive reviews. Freelancer will do nothing about this, they won't even ban the scammer and you cannot leave a negative review for the scammer until you release all the funds. Freelancer will simply tell you "too bad". Never use this site!

Very bad company, the idea is good but they make it near on impossible to withdraw money, i am still waiting for 4 weeks now to withdraw money, first they tell you you can use a variety of options to withdraw money pay pal, money bookers, express withdrawal to your bank account, but because it's your fist withdrawal you have to wait two weeks, you wait two weeks then your withdrawal is cancelled because you have usd in your account not aud, then you have to exchange your usd to aud at $.90 aud for every dollar when the current rate is one usd for one aud, then they charge 15 dollar exchange fee.

Then you put in for a withdrawal again, wait two week, because it's your first withdrawal, then you withdrawal is rejected again, no reason given, now you find out that because you didn''t earn the money you can't use any of the options available pay pal, express withdrawal, moneybookers, instead you have to request the money to be reversed into your account that credited, none of this is explained to you, it's all in the terms and conditions, they love quoting the terms and conditions.

I've then been requested to provide details of when i deposited the money, the amount deposited, the date deposited, the email of the account etc etc, very annoying,

i have been reading about others problems when withdrawing money and the next step is them suspending the account freezing your funds and asking for a photo of your holding your passport in your name, in hd of course, then they ignore the requests, etc etc

also anytime you ask a question via sending a ticket you may have to wait anywhere from one to three days to get an answer, then if you do not answer within 24 hours they assume the ticket has been resolved, then you have to make another ticket.

thats just one of the problems i had with freelancer, there are many more i had with their website/system. not happy avoid, you will be happy.

Watch for the hidden fees - there are lots of them! Like when you make a deposit payment they secretly hook up your PayPal account to withdraw what they want when they want, without asking you again - ouch!

Anyway the site now looks more like some cheap and nasty game show than a serious pro job/work site.

I was signed up for the free membership for several years.

One day, $5.37 was taken from my PayPal account. Apparently, they had upgraded my membership without my permission from free to basic. I requested that they refund me, and they said they would only return $4.95. In other words, they basically stole 42 cents from me. I would be very careful with this site

They do not care about the ultimate end user: the freelancer. They charge both sides (project creators and project bidders) and will do whatever it takes to keep the money they squeeze out of both ends.

Example #1: If you put in a bid and are accepted, then do work and are not paid (partially your fault for not creating milestones and handing in the 100% completed work before being paid, sure..), they do not give a hoot whether you get paid. Even when you complain to them about an employer not paying you, they gladly place the blame back on you and don't lift a finger to punish the thief either in the form of a negative review (you aren't allowed to leave one if the project is never marked as "complete") or any other punitive measure.

Example #2: If you accept a project that is set to earn you, say, $500 dollars, 10% is instantly taken from you. $50. Say the employer never gets back to you, follows up, or anything even results (no work is even done, etc), you CANNOT get back your $50. You can plead them, but your pleas will surely fall on deaf ears and automatons towing the company line about the necessity of following their high and mighty "policies" .. USE THESE GUYS AS A LAST RESORT, or if you do use them, TREAD CAREFULLY!

when you try to withdraw funds, they suspend your account, then try to get you to send in high res photos of you holding your passport and current bill statement, not only that i had to wait one and a half months in order to get to this stage in withdrawal, then you have the exchange rates which are criminal, the nonexistant customer support etc etc avoid at all costs

They are not authorized by US law to suspend accounts with money in them for "verification purposes", and certainly not because I stopped an unauthorized payment that THEY forced on me!

I was posting a project, which was supposed to be a free activity on this site. However, in the review process for the project a $199 fee was added to the posting of the project. Note that the average bid for this project was under a $100 dollars, and I did not authorize this $199 fee. Before that, I rejected the fee and tried to repost the project without the fee multiple times. This was not allowed. When I looked at the statement for the fee, which I did not have enough money deposited on the site to pay, it said that I would have to deposit on the next page if I wanted to post the project. I was given the impression that if I clicked through, I could change the project settings and then I wouldn't have to pay the fee. Instead, the money was taken out of my account.

Username- thoughtspeech

→Project ID- 4082357

Edit- my account has been suspended because I suspended the UNAUTHORIZED Paypal payment. Freelancer wouldn't offer any hope of giving me back the $199, and it won't even let me get away with the $9 that Paypal was responsible for! In addition, they are forbidding me from taking any additional money that has been released to their site by my other employers.