FreelancerReviews 20,203

I received two milestones for my work and after one hour both of them were 'Reversed'. I tried to contact them, but they firstly don't have any number, secondly their live chat is a crap, they don't even bother to help you. They say they can always reverse the money, but HOW is that ethical? You work, you are paid and if they decide to get the money back, that's it? For no reason? Even in the terms and conditions, they are unclear: 'eg a stolen credit card'. Yeah, and they detected that stolen credit RIGHT after I was PAID. Scams, they have people who post fake projects to earn commisions! Avoid

First of all its a client BIASED platform so even if you file any dispute or client decide to initiate a refund even after months of work complete, you will get a refund confirm without notifying you and all they will say is ontact client.
Never work on Hourly contracts.
They charge there comission in advacne and they give a $#! T what they pay you or even not pay you after they change there access and stop responding to your messages.

Go for any other site but not freelancer.com Never ever

Freelancer is a scam with a scam behind the scam. I could not believe this ridiculous site! Furious that this site is still running. I was charged all kinds of fees because I accepted to work jobs. The jobs did not get completed because the job was a scam. So while someone was trying to scam me, freelancer got their cut. For example I accepted a job that paid $80 i think the freelancer fees i think were 5$ and they keep that 5$ weather you get paid or not! It's ridiculous how many "employers" are on their that steal your time and money and freelancer steals your money right off the top! Don't waste your time with this site!

WARNING PAYPAL WONT PROTECT YOU!
Freelancer takes your money but you'll loose even more. Without realising.
Employees are all part of there sceme!
Do not agree for them to automaticlly take your money, they take it with out you knowing they say to paypal you've signed an agreement and paypal close the case against you! Your money disappears for nothing. Writting emails no answers. No phone number they are scammers to the highest degree. They use the law in a criminal way to get away with taking money from your account. I am going to a current affairs and ASIC will be my next move. I am also discussed in paypal.

Any good reviews are from made from Freelancer scammer themselves. Don't get fooled!

I just happened to visit their site and obviously happend to create a login. I might have gone through their site for 5 min
After may be 15/ 20 days woke up with a message that freelancer had withdrawn money from my bank account for some subscription.
Had to block my card online banking and have to apply for all these manually. I never authorised for any subscription I really don't completly what how do they do in the first place
Registered a case. I wish I had never visited their site at all

It doesn't matter that you took my money, I will forget it in a while. But I will post reviews on here and other websites so everyone can read it for a long time. If your company's credibility is affected, it is karma for what you did. I had been a good customer and never caused any problems for you all these years but then you brought this on me. Today you lost me forever, keep doing such business practices and tomorrow you may lose everyone else.

To everyone reading this, I do not recommend you use freelancer.com, they used to be good but this is no longer the case. Nowadays there are so many issues of financial dishonesty towards their users. Yes they may be a public listed company, but that doesn't matter if on the ground they treat people like you and me badly, and that somehow our money in their system may 'disappear'. Stay away, there are many better alternatives to go for.

Hired 2 web developers for 2 different projects and they take forever to get anything done at all. I have lost my money and will have to hire someone else or do it myself. Not impressed. Will not be using this site to hire people again. Would definitely not recommend to anyone else

I had an experience with other design websites and liked the outcomes. I tough I would give Freelancer a shoot after seeing their ad on FB. What a nightmare! Ive specifically chose the non-guaranteed contest, which them magically becomes guaranteed! After receiving literally unprofessional and childish designs, I've contacted them to cancel and refund the money... They simply disappeared, no response to any of my many emails. I am now dealing with them trough my bank trying to get my money back. What a joke and waist of time!. Just stay away, period.

Beware! This site is unstable, full of scammers, freelancers who pick up big projects with fair payments, but then return to hire freelancers for peanuts... Literally $1 ave per 500+ word projects. If you get screwed Freelancer does absolutely nothing. I have made money here with legit employers who pay well and fair. But I have also been scammed numerous times, completing work under their "verified" employers and suddenly the employer vanishes without payment. We are talking upwards of 50 articles basically written and given to them for free because Freelancer will do nothing. Their dispute process is a joke. Half the time, it doesn't even work like it should. You can't actually get a timely response from CS. Also, they over charge you in fees. Like price gouging! The projects you bid on cost you, even with memberships. They will eat away at your profit more than eBay and Paypal combined. STAY AWAY or USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

IMPORTANT: I don't know how about others but my experience with Freelancer.com was just a nightmare. They actually allowed to steal my money twice!

Contests - there is a money back guarantee but be careful if nothing reasonable will be delivered they will ask you to extend the contest for additional fee, how many times I don't know but you will never get your money back. They will distribute your allocated budget to all the contest participants and that's it. No refund no nothing.

Projects: You can post projects get quotations, create milestones etc. If you have bad luck you'll award lousy provider that won't even be able do anything. They are all showing excellent designs but most of them are stolen form others. You will release some milestones for work that was done but even nothing tangible is delivered you may end up paying for everything because you either did not respond in time or that lousy provider raised dispute. Freelancer.com without checking anything can just transfer money to the provider any you'll end up with no money and undelivered project.

I have made one of the biggest mistakes trying it out.

I wanted to upload a project which I want sure I was actually gonna follow through because I was thunkibg of doing it myself, the wevsite suggested me that it was better to do a contest for the type of project I was suggesting, so i did what i didt know is that they had charged me since the beginning. I eas just browsing around with no idea what I was doing its a new platform for me and all of the sudden im doing a contest with 97 dollares charged on my card. I am never usung that webpage again.

I a very proud to be a freelancer member. Its a very flexible to earn money and very easy to communicate with employer, I love freelancer.com
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