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Just wanted to inform to the Freelancers out there to be careful with this employer. In his job postings he will say that milestone will be created after 5 to 7 articles. I did 6 and I had a very hard time getting him to create them. Ended up chasing him for payments for more than a month. He gave a million excuses, e. G: waiting for his client, milestone system is down etc, but at the same time asking you to submit more articles to him.

Fortunately the Freelancer support team helped me out with this one. Like a sulking kid, he paid me. He told me to give a 5 star review and he will do the same for me. I kept my end of the bargain but he gave me a 1 star review instead (a total sore loser).

I think he has done this to a lot of other Freelancers as well. Avoiding payment then he blackmails them for 5 star reviews.

Please be careful with this employer. He has no professionalism whatsoever and will do whatever he can not to pay you. I really think he is just a high school kid with no life. Very immature.

I had a good experience with FL support though so thanks to them as well.

This site is a nightmare. The support system is there to deflect issues, there is literally no dispute system (it's only there to take some of your money and allow the employer not to pay for work). More then half of the employers are scammers, and they complete less then 30% of the projects they create. The contest system is rigged, and they manipulate the number of projects. Half of the projects in every category are already over. They charge for everything like tests, bids, disputes. I made 900$ in the span of 6 months, and this month I am down 15$. So if you plan on scamming people for free work, by all means, this is the site for you. If you plan to work, stay away from this site. I ended up loosing 15$ on my last 5 projects. Only one of them was paid, and I lost money on all other 4, because of the freelancer fee they make you pay before project starts.

I am trying to become a freelancer. My technical skills are excellent and I thought Freelancer.com would be a good way to find employers. So far it has been a nightmare. They charge fees for everything. Searches don't return results properly or even at all. The interface is difficult to use. Dispute management is non-existent. Tickets are closed as 'resolved' when they are not. Advice on technical issues is appalling. The 'exams' aren't accurate and some questions are outright wrong (my English should not be better than that of the exam I'm sitting to prove that my English is good). Basic functions don't work and instead of bidding on work I spend my time trying to deal with problems. I am giving it two stars (instead of one) as the times I've talked to someone using the 'Live Online Support' the people have been friendly. Not helpful it's true, but at least they're not rude and I figure manners have to count for something.

About 5 days ago i started to use freelancer and i manage to get done some project, all employers paid me and give me possitive feedback, i even hierd a guy to work for me and ofc i paid him and all was fine till today wen I wakeup and find my account susspended without any reason. I contact support via chat online, and he said to send mail to *******@freelancer.com. Ok done send mail and after 5 hours to get a response from them:
"
We regret to inform you that your account has been closed by Freelancer.com administration. We offer no recourse for rebuttal for this penalty"

So now all my money that i made by doing the project and ofc the employers got the job done, are gone, i say done wanish, abracadabra..., and even the guy that i hierd got scamed, they took even that money that i paid him!
So ia basicly i worked for free all my work go 0 paid!

Stay away from freelancer.com, trust me you will regrate using them!

I realy hate to post reviews, this is my first review!

They (formerly getafreelancer.com) used to be my number #1 source for finding freelancers on projects, and never had any issues for many years. Overall, I had good experiences until they started to be the big brother type with suspending my account and need to constantly do an ID verification! They are not a government officials and asking for personal documentations when they are just a bidding website! I haven't done anything illegal except they are treating me a criminal!

After 10 years, I will start looking for another freelancer websites and taking my money somewhere else!

They charge you for commission fees before you get paid! With that being said, there are a lot of employers! Who offer jobs only to new comers. Since new comers have no idea what is going on, they would accept the project and as a result, they get charged a non refundable commission fee by freelancer, what happens next? Employer disappears! NEVER accept any project before receiving milestone and beware of rip offs when you are trying to withdrawal. A word to the wise, don't waste your time and money! Stay away from this website.

I own small business and I used to be a regular user of Freelancer.com. Over the past two years I have paid for over 20 projects.

Two months ago I downgraded my account from one of the paid memberships.

Since then I have been able to release any payments without providing Freelancer with unnecessary ID.

I have an open project with over $2,000 sitting in milestones. The freelancer wants to paid but I am unable to release the payment. I am using my PayPal account (the very same one I have used 20+ times with them.) and they still ask for more ID.

Now I am forced to contact PayPal for a refund and pay the freelancer separately.

Advice for anyone thinking of using Freelancer - DO NOT. They have their hand in your pocket at every opportunity, the support staff are arrogant and horrible PLUS there are much better outsourcing platforms around. I really REALLY recommend avoing at all costs.

This site is so classless, I joined contest here and all I see are images stollen from other sites. They don't even do anything about it. Most of the contest holder don't even know that those images are stolen. The site has the worst UI seriously their site is been online for a long time and they can't even fix the bugs. Plus almost everything you do you have to freeking pay up. Even just taking a test you need to pay up. If you don't want your talent to go to waste don't join this site. It's a waste of $#*!ing time. Also you can only bid for just a few jobs and they suddenly they will require you to pay up. $#*! THIS SITE!

I was #38 coder on vworker.com(ex rentacoder) where I worked since 2002 with over 300 projects completed on time and 10 rating on all. Then freelancer.com comes in and buys the site, including the users, they make a shamefull import of projects and I can bid now 10 times per month(pay if I want more) and whenever I bid I am last, after their 20-30 robot bids because I show up as new user with 0 projects completed. They bankrupted me!

I signed up for freelancer maybe 6 months ago not sure. I hired someone and that person was an absolute nightmare. He was supposed to hyperlink a table of contents - did it wrong and then asked me to pay him more, then kept harassing me about wanting more work. So I switched to a different freelancer site and had good results. Now today I realize I've been paying $10 a month for my freelancer membership. It seems that if these things were legit, I might get a notification that I'm paying this.

This place is terrible! I was hired, send my work thriough freelancers chat but the employer never pay for my work and... freelancer charged their commision to my credit card!
Two days ago I closed my account as a freelancer, after complaining for more than a month, without any help to solve the situation.
Freelancer charge my credit card with $24.14 for nothing!
Please keep away from this site!

I hate writing bad reviews, but sometimes they're deserved... I went to freelancer to hire a web designer. I also went to Guru and Upwork. I found Freelancer by far the worst of the three. I think every submission I received was from people who likely couldn't handle my complex requests. And the site itself is difficult to use compared to Upwork and Guru. Overall, a bad experience. The extra $30 I spent was a waste too. Just a bad site. Save yourself the time and money - don't use it.

I am a participant guaranteed contests. But when I withdraw my funds was canceled because there are issues that they need to follow-up on the account of contest holder. I sent a message to contest holder and he did verify payment. But Freelancer Support reply contest holder that they now want him to send them his government issued id, my bank account statement and a picture of himself holding a copy of some form they want him to print out. He said that was they treat him as a criminal and didn't done.
When contest holder got the files in contest handover and money is added to my Freelancer account, it is difficult to ask them to do more verification steps. Freelancer doesn't make secure payment method before contest holder posted the contest. I was very disappointed when I participate in the competition are guaranteed but not withdraw money from Freelancer.