Freelancer.com Reviews

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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

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

I have write a plugin in Wordpress which is about 60$ contract approx on Freelancer.com. When work done the client telling me that this is not what they agreed on.

They sell that plugin in 67$ for a single copy. That fraud lady have sold more then 10 copies on just WarriorForum.

The lady who never pay me (I made it) and sell the plugin a single copy more then what I made for. The problem is not price. The problem is they never pay me. I got only 30$. I spent my 20 days (because this is my first project).

The second fraudy is maksut96. When work done they refuse to take my work. Gave me bad comment and delete the project. I even can't answer what they do. They never paid even milestone when they want work start.

Yesterday I make mistakenly converted my funds into INR and lost 20$ on this BS. They even have no answer to roll-it-back.

They are #1 fraud site I ever seen on Internet.

Let me start by saying that I found a really good and reliable programmer on freelancer.com, but that is where the good news ends. On a small bill I got hit with an extra 15% in fees from freelancer.com. When I tried to contact support regarding what I perceived as an over charge I was met with extremely uncooperative and poorly trained support staff. While they were friendly and respectful they have absolutely no intention of helping you, or really any ability to. All they can do is point you to terms and conditions, privacy policies, etc. Actually talking to someone was a nightmare because they do not have phones. I finally got someone to call me, but it was over skype and a really bad connection.

Also, my inbox is FILLED with spam since signing up to freelancer.

Lesson learned. Stay away from freelancer.com. If you must post a project, insist with the programmer that you move to another site (elance, guru perhaps) or direct pay through PayPal, otherwise you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Sue the MF's. This is what all the victims should do!!! Today they withdrew 5-6 dollars from my PayPal without me authorizing, or interacting with anything at all.

I immediately opened a dispute, reclaimed my money and deleted the billing agreement they had inconspicuously put with my PP account( was somewhere in the PP settings - watch out).

Get the word out - save innocent freelancers, migrate to reputable websites.

Please recommend good websites for people like me - employer and employee.

Very poorly executed website, with many technical issues. At the same time, tech support is poor and unresponsive. Website is meant to be a marketplace for slave labor, so not surprised that these issues are present. Don't get duped into giving them a single dollar. It is all a game.

I'm an emplyer looking for gemnuine help from good coders that I can afford but without exploiting them. I always pay a bonus and have mostly repeat coders working for me.

Having used Scriptlance I was dismayed to find freelancer had taken it over some time ago. I had already vowed never to use freelancer after they took 1 month to refund an over deposit.

Now I have used it several times since hoping for the best -- and each time I wish I hadn't. This is now abouyt the time I will look elsewhere.

1. The site interface is dreadful! User unfriendly and takes a long time for pages to load. Strange links - strange navigation. in a word - CRAP.

2. They rip you off. Charge for everything -- even editing your job. Any money left over from a payment in the past is always gone the next time I log in.

3. Lot's of things missing in the site 'skills' list that make it difficult to look for certain skills - such as ssh, etc

It is full to brimming with Indian bidders asking you for your Control panel URL and unable to use SSH even though you've specified Linus coding, php scripting, etc.

From what I hear they also rip off coders.

So in a word -- employers and coders -- find another site!

Freelancer is a garbage website aimed at making money for themselves.

This website is 100% Scam. Few days back so called Matt MF Barrie was asked about their scamming by a newspaper and he blew that. Guess what, this site is a scam. Today after 2 years they reversed $1700 from my account that one client paid me 2 years b ack. According to them, the client got issue in his account. I must ask, if client got issue with his account, what my fault is. As now we cant't blame the mother of Matt Barrie as he gave birth a bustard. Whenever that guy will need money, he will take money from innocent people’s account. If you are thinking to use this website, that means you are going to throw your money in water.

Do not use. Freelancer.com scam. Freelancer.com is 100% Scam.

I've worked at freelancer as a graphic designer making websites and images for clients. Freelancers policy on fees is RIDICULOUS, unreasonable, and outright thievery. As soon as you accept a project, they take 10% of whatever you charged DIRECTLY out of your account and then refuse to refund it even if the client decides they don't want to actually go through with the job or some other issue comes up. Think about it, you've made no money but Freelancer is charging you a hefty some of cash. WHY would they even do that?

I contacted support to get my money back and they informed me that I would not happen. The support agents are heartless bastards, they refuse to be reasonable and their job is to support the company 100% no matter how wrong it is. They KNOW it's hurting the freelancers who are trying to make a little money and getting charged big amounts rather the project pays them or not. Does Freelancer care? NOPE! I begged and pleaded for them to be reasonable, but they would not budge on their policy. Their "policy" is illegal and it's just a matter of time before their butt gets sued in a class action lawsuit. You can't charge someone for literally NOTHING and then refuse to refund them.

If that wasn't bad enough, they literally suspended my account BECAUSE I had a negative balance, which they themselves caused by charging me a big fee on a job that never happened. The CEOs are rotten! Stay far away from Freelancer, get your projects done anywhere else!

We wanted to have a project developed and tried to hire some IT people through freelancer.com.

The whole process has been one of being confused and giving the feeling of being cheated upon...

At first it was not clear what charges came with every step I took and believe me: everything you do has an extra charge!

The system lured me into registering my credit card including my paypal account, ok it was my fault I should have been more awake not to do so... but I trusted them. :-(

Afterwards not 1 single amount that was agreed figured as such on my CC statement! They were all higher :

30 $ have become 31,01 $ ...

20 $ have become 20,78 $

5 $ have become 8,57 $  

and an initial payment for the project of 300 euro became 404,11 $ (317,25 eur) ???

The developer himself received about 265 euro, all the rest remained in the system of Freelancer.

By than the situation between all parties had become so sour that everything got cancelled!

I have asked them to unregister my CC, just hope they will not deduct any more amounts of it.

It has all been one long story of stress and feeling ripped off!

A great shame!

I started working at Freelance a month ago. The first project I got was worth 100$. At the end of it the employer awarded me with bonus 25$. So I actually got 112.5$

The second project I got was worth 440$. After a few days of communicating with the employer he said that he is aborting the project. That is when I was that Freelance already took the 10% fee (44$). I tried to contact them but they ignored my request for refund.

So, now anyone can post a project, and a freelancer who accepts it will suffer.

Dear,

Please read before post and hire freelancer in freelancer.com!

Nothing help when the freelancer disappear, I have a case that the freelancer promise to have 1 year maintenance for the project. The payment is completed after the project is build, the freelancer agree that the 1 year will fix any issue if found any bugs.

OK, then, i found the bugs, freelancer cannot contact, i ask freelancer.com to amend my comments for the freelancer (Because they have something so called reputation), i need to give bad comments instead. Freelancer.com tell amending comments should both side agree!? How come a people agree another people to give bad mouth?

No sense! They said it is the policy.

OK, I give "I HATE IT" rate. Hope people don't be cheated anymore!

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