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freelancer.com
Founded in 2009
Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia
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Freelancer Reviews Summary

The company enjoys a strong reputation for its exceptional customer service, with numerous reviews highlighting the professionalism, responsiveness, and expertise of its support team. Customers frequently express appreciation for the helpfulness and efficiency of representatives, particularly in resolving issues and guiding users through processes. Positive sentiments emphasize the platform's user-friendliness and the diverse opportunities it offers freelancers. While the feedback is largely favorable, there are occasional mentions of concerns regarding account verification processes. Overall, the company's commitment to customer satisfaction and support is a notable strength, fostering a positive user experience.

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service
1,157
value
1,007
shipping
684
returns
774
quality
1,012
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Romania
1 review
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Very Helpful
October 26, 2020

Benny S. Helped me with all my questions, also with a refund.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much.

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
Romania
1 review
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Payments question
October 26, 2020

I recently joined Freelancer.com, as a employee and those guys make a good job to clarify for me the fees and taxes and everything of that nature. Thank you Benny!

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
India
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I wish I could rate them in negative. The freelancer.com team is pathetic, unprofessional and highly inefficient in every single way. Every time I create a support ticket, it literally takes several weeks to get the issue resolved. However, this time they tried my patience like anything. 9 weeks and every day I get the same 'Sorry, we know how frustrating it is' response from them alongwith a warning that this ticket will be closed in another 24 hours if I dont respond back to their totally useless messages and excuses. Every single day I am answering them just to keep the ticket open and despite of umpteen efforts, they are just not bothered to resolve the ticket. There are over 20 representatives on the ticket and everyone is just beating around the bush doing nothing and wasting my time every single day. I want to see to what extent they will go to test my patience and how much more time they will take to resolve the issue. Its a good marketplace to get new projects and beneficial for both the freelancers as well as freelancer.com as they charge a good amount of commissions for each project but their support team has tested my patience big time. Despite of premium membership, they don't bother to give a good service experience to their freelancers so that they may concentrate on bringing more projects on the table which is ultimately going to benefit them only.

Date of experience: October 25, 2020
Missouri
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Membership Josie's Help
October 26, 2020

Josie was very helpful in helping me deal with my membership. I really appreciated all her help and efforts,

Date of experience: October 25, 2020
PS
1 review
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Disappointing
November 24, 2020

Freelancer.com is full of fake jobs, one can hardly find an appropriate project! This is so frustrating. Further, I have never asked the support team any question via e-mail and gave me the final solution Their answers are always open, and they add nothing to me. The only thing they do is that they attach articles! Even though I at once asked a question and asked not to attach articles, since I read them but did not get it well, I found articles on their replies. It is actually not the perfect platform to work on, so bad experience.
Another thing is the ID verification, I added the required information many times and I am always rejected! How can I approve my ID! And, I asked the support team over chat and they make it even harder!

And there is no badge, only preferred freelancers, which is paid! And has tough conditions to have.

This is not everything, yet! I actually started to hate this platform! Too much

Date of experience: October 24, 2020
Iraq
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Freelancer Support
October 25, 2020

I recently joined Freelancer.com, which is a site to help employers and freelancers reach out thier goals. I would recommend using this site for all people who want to work or get work done. Recently, I had some problems with employers on Freelancer.com. I contacted the support and they were very helpful. Their assistance saved me from being rubbed! They were also fast. But I had a problem that I didn't receive notification for their response, or maybe I just didn't notice it, because I received a notification on my email for the second response. If you have any problems using Freelancer.com I recommend visiting Freelancer Support on this link https://www.freelancer.com/support/?ngsw-bypass=&w=f try searching your problem on the Help Center. If you didn't find the question or answer you want, you can scroll down to Cantact Us option, click on it and write your question(s). The Costumer Support Team will then respond to you.

Date of experience: October 24, 2020
Malaysia
1 review
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Nice support mason
October 23, 2020

Nice support man. Thank you very much. Appreciate it mason

Date of experience: October 22, 2020
India
1 review
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Amount deduction
November 22, 2020

Freelance support team response is so bad they are not understanding the conditions and not reviewed properly before replying any clauses.

Situation: As service organisation we ready to serve our clients but response is must. We bid and accept the work as per post. But after acceptance client was unresponsive. If client gave no response then we are not liable to pay any organisation. But the clause of to pay bidding amount to freelancer team whether client unresponsive and no authority to service organisation to cancel the project for unresponsive reason not think a good clause.

Date of experience: October 22, 2020
Portugal
1 review
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Really helpful
October 23, 2020

Raven B. Was really helpful in understanding my questions and giving me great answers. Thumbs up for Raven

Date of experience: October 22, 2020
Turkiye
1 review
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Special thanks
October 22, 2020

Jessica B was very sympathetic
I hope there will be no more problems for me
If that happens then I'll definitely want Jessica B to help me again
He was very polite, enthusiastic and professional
She made me happy today.

Date of experience: October 22, 2020
Indonesia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Very helpful and fast response
October 21, 2020

I was having problem with one of my ex-employer (it turns out it's a scam project) and Robyn from the support team explains everything to me and giving me advice in taking Freelancers' projects. Thank you, it's been really helpful and I'm glad I asked.

Date of experience: October 21, 2020
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Great customer service
October 21, 2020

I had an issue with the payments system, and Kelvin walked me through it, which was very helpful. He answered all my questions.

Date of experience: October 21, 2020
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Helpful
October 21, 2020

My issue was resolved nicely and he was extremely helpful.

Date of experience: October 21, 2020
Belize
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Wire Transfer Withdrawal
October 20, 2020

I was having great difficulty because of my address and my joint bank account. At first i felt like i was going around in a circle but eventual members of the team were able to show why we will always need humans behind our machines. The matter was cleared up after i provided all the information that they requested and today i received my withdrawal. I thank them greatly for their patience, understanding and for following through to the end.

Date of experience: October 20, 2020
Pakistan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awesome Support Experience with Robyn G. At Freelancer.com

Date of experience: October 20, 2020
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Speedy in responding with attention to detail. Extremely satisfied. Keep up the good work Josie! Awesome support experience

Date of experience: October 19, 2020
Philippines
1 review
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Quick response
October 20, 2020

I got an issue for one project and thought it was a scam but fortunately I got a quick response from general support through chat name Mr. Raven B. He gave me consistent feedback and guidance how to deal the project through the terms and condition since I am a newbie here. Kudos to your customer service Mr. Raven B.

Date of experience: October 18, 2020
Bangladesh
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Excellent support I got!
October 20, 2020

I would like to thank you for your great support on solving my issues. Very fast and prompt solution I got from you.

Date of experience: October 18, 2020
Pakistan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Greate Customer Support
October 18, 2020

A little bit late to connect to representative. But support is great.

Date of experience: October 18, 2020
Canada
1 review
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Freelancer has a Monthly dormant account fee taken (USD) if you have a balance and don't sign in or something like that. I never received a email notice about this change -- they refunded my dormant fees -- so I can use that money in Freelancer again. Seriously... I was impressed - most companies would say "too bad, so sad"..

Date of experience: October 18, 2020