Freelancer.com Reviews

This is not a post for a job but more for the criminal activities by DREAMZ MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS.

I hired these inexperienced and unreliable people to add product attributes and pricing to an existing 150 products. Amir ([email protected]) promised they would be able to do this in a timely fashion which was not the case, they have no clue how JOOMLA/VIRTUEMART works and stalled the project for a long period of time and came up with excuses each time I contacted him.

The initial payment was supposed to be 100$, he changed a few descriptions so I offered to give him 25$ which in my opinion was fair. I told him I was going to hire a reliable, professional competent programmer. I got no response. It went into dispute today and 10 mins later he accepted my disputed offer. I thought that both sides would be happy with the outcome.

This is where these imbeciles start their CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. He logged on my server and deleted all 150 products from my website; they never entered these products it was done by someone else. I have a backup but just come to show how these low life’s can destroy an honest community by doing these things… This confirmed my first intuition with these people from the beginning, they are scumbags.

I felt a need to warn other people about these clowns.

Beware, you will lose money and time. The support is crap, no real answers. The worst experience you can imagine is better than this website.

You will find an american speaking broken English....Yeah you will certainly..because there's no verification of the location like elance.com. So please take care...

And the site has fake id guys, Dumb projects which would never pay you in a dream like write 100 articles per $2 each of 500 words...which is more like a wholesale offer than a professional freelance writing project.

If every freelance writer gets paid $2-$3 per each article,then they will be living on the streets as they will spend the whole amount for their electricity and internet bill to sit so long and complete those "Word Mills".

Please stay away from these projects,people and site. Use Elance,Odesk,Guru,Get a coder instead.

Now a days even in these sites there are a few scams, so use your common sense to keep yourself safe.

Whenever a contract is made, it takes money from both sides - the worker and the employer. They have no changes to get the money back, it lost.

I really loved vWorker (former RAC). But in the end, unfortunately, the CEO acted stupidly. I don't understand why Ian did that?

As many people pointed out, I had same worst experiences working with such a service, so I'm not talking about that (the same cases).

Let me talk about the account merging process from vWorker into freelancer.com.

The first site I worked online is RAC, you know when I say RAC that means I've worked for vWorker long time ago. Then I wanted to work for more sites, one of my mistake was taking freelancer as a choice. So after some projects I knew there was something abnormal with that service. At that time my e-mail address for both sites (RAC and freelancer.com) was (for example) [email protected]. Before leaving freelancer.com I've changed the email to something [email protected]. That was about one year (or more) ago.

After freelancer.com bought vWorker, it merged my vWorker account into the old one that I left. I thought it remembered the old email address I used - even I changed it.

Now I lost my vWorker account, which has good ratings. Honestly I was one of top worker for months. I don't even care to come back to freelancer.com.

Again, I was really loving RAC/ vWorker. But in the end, Ian did a huge mistake. In the end, he didn't protect his workers anymore. They should be notified on what will happen with them before bad things happen.

Sorry Ian, I can't tolerate and I can't forgive you for that.

Thank you Ian, for all you have done in the past, except the last thing you did.

I can barely believe how rude and unhelpful their customer support is.

As if that wasn't enough, who wants to work on a website where shady people hire women to get naked in front of a webcam? Pure exploitation.

Freelancer.com is unbelievably unprofessional. If you are there, get away asap - that is my recommendation. Awful service.

I've been charged for 100$ just for winning a project where a client never shown, there were no any warnings or me being agree with this condition, sure they do have agreement according to which they actions are legit, but it just unfair! Also they said that they could help to resolve any issue but in fact they stay aside saying that they just introduce you to employer and they don't care what happened next, it's their's official policy:

Project fees are non-refundable whether a project is complete, incomplete, cancelled or re voked. This serves as the introduction fee for the employer and the freelancer. It is likewise for the purpose that contact details would be allowed to be given by both parties immediately. Our role as an online venue is already fulfilled when the the employer and freelancer meet, agree on and work on a project.

Note that Freelancer.com is an online venue for employers and freelancers to meet and work on a project. What will happen upon acceptance of the project is beyond our scope of support neither do we get involved in the transactions and interactions between employers and freelancers. It's our part to introduce the two parties but the project's success still lies only between the employer and freelancer.

Customer support is getting worse and worse. As they grow, they have started to turn into a scam company. Their main goal has become to take money from users as much as they can. They need money for every thing. They charge you heavy commission if you don't pay to become member. They don't care to solve issue. They charge commission and to look into issue they need more money. The whole system is created such that they can suck money out of you. It used to be good in past, but now a days it sucks with so many spammers and so many fake projects.

this website freelancer.com is 100% scam i had post project got a lot of bidders i choose the one i like depend on his information then after 7 days he cancelled it so i lost 15$ in Dispute then i repost the offer and award anther bidder he west 10 days so i cancelled the offer and ask for Dispute but the admin send the Milestone of 75 to the lancer ... What ! he asked me the login information to start he never been online over skype or over freelancer.com i had check the server logs he never login and i lost 75$ for nothing this website is totally a big scam you will spend money and never get ur work done

The whole Freelancer site is in total Shambles. I got ripped by a Freelancer So i started posting on his projects. Freelancer then warns be against this. This Freelancer called scriptphp87 works under so many Fake names he plays across bidding on his own Projects and has a lot of Fake IDs like tkbeduvn and TiemTran1954 are all him created to boost his ratings. I have brought this to Freelancer’s support but they don’t seem to care enough. Then I realised the reason why they don't care is every single Action a Freelancer does makes them Money including Fraud and Scam like awarding their own Project so for their sake of making money they Ignore the pleas of Employers like us who are the ones that actually keep the system going. Bloody ridiculous Customer Service. Don't use the site as you cant't Expect any recourse from their customer service if you get scammed.

I have had my battles with the freelancer.com customer service as well. They may have 120 people working there 24/7 365 days a year but nothing good is coming out of there. I probably received the same answer like 10 times, always stating the obvious and not helping me at all. On top of that freelancer.com has turned into the biggest screw job ever, screwing people as good as they can.

Freelancer.com used to offer a good service but now it looks more and more like a pure money making business that's doesn't care about the freelancer. There is no user-friendliness anymore and no transparency.

I contacted freelancer.com because I had an issue with the exam payment. I got free exam coupons and thus I decided to take a few exams. Logic would say that once I get those rewards, that I can use them right away, that's at least how ANY other website does it.

But logic doesn't seem to apply at freelancer.com, instead the company aims at screwing freelancers as good as they can. Because one has the first activate one free exam coupon after the other before taking the exam. This should be explained much better but again, freelancer.com is not user-friendly and not transparent. On top of that the actual section where those coupons need to be activated is well hidden.

What should be is that either the coupons are immediately activated after they have been ordered. If that's too difficult, then at least give freelancers the choice when doing the exam, if they either want to pay or use a coupon.

But currently it only looks like freelancer.com is looking for any possible way to screw its users, plain and simple. I wouldn't care if it was 1 exam, but I took 3 and never has freelancer.com reminded me about using one of my coupons. When do they think I wanted to use them? 50 exams later?

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.

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.

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 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.

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?

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.

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!!!!!

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.

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.