FreelancerReviews 20,196

Don't ever, ever, ever give this site your information. I have been stuck for months in verification hell and no one there will give me a straight answer on anything. "Just refer to your ticket" I am told... yet there is never any answer on why the picture ID and address verification I am supplying them will not work. They told me to "get another government issued ID". HUH? They don't just fall off trees. Be smart and stay away.

My account is ashishicfai, i completed one project near about 2500 usd when empolyer did paymnet me! freelnacer.com block his account and told block my money to withdraw and told me settale your empolyer account1st! I given all file to empolyer! So why i requested many time to my empolyer the did not reply me since 30 days, and when i talked with freelnacer support they told without empolyer account issue we can not permit to withdraw money, i have my team, i have to pay them! After this my al team levening me, very helpless

Freelancer is complete fraud and scam website, It playing with the life of People and cheating with people's fund and earning amount.
And here
MARCUS from Freelancer he too cheater, just doing timepass and faking with the review of this site.
He is not solving any issues just wasting and making fund of us to only comment on the review.
Freelancer.com ruined my life -They closed my account and taken my all fund.
I left my job for freelancer.com and started working for its project but when it was to come fund on my account they cancel my withdrawal and closed my account now they are not responding my email and all.
I am very much frustrated that i am forced to kill my self due to freelancer.com. Now i have no fund to eat, to pay my bills and all. I have already not meal last 3 days,
I told them every my personal problem and asked about returning my own earning fund but they are so clever that they are master in doing cheat and fraud businees now i don't have any source to reach them. Kindly if anyone know that how should i get my fund from them please tell me.
My user id is Aftab7860 on freelancer. Com
And please contact me at
I need really help Please.

Now freelancer.com motive has been changed.

We have been using freelancer.com site for last 5 years (when they were calling it a getafreelancer.com). We are small company employing almost 100 people and catering to different groups of clients through our outsourcing services. As we have more candidates and therefore we are having five different marketing peoples using the site with different accounts.

The strange stuff starts from here;

#1 Recently, we noticed the most of the projects are being either canceled by Buyers or expired because of non activity. We have been awarded with some projects and as usual after accepting them, freelancer.com deducted fees (no issue with that).

#2 Second, those project's Buyers have requested us to stop working on projects because of change in mindset. They do not want to continue developing the project. So we mutually agreed to stop working and they deposited partial payment as we requested.

#3 Now, what freelancer did. They have deducted payments as Reversal milestone and make negative balance in one of our account. Next, to remove negative balance, they converted other currency payment. Done all within an hour and we lost our hard earned payment.

Now we have been trying to contact freelancer.com customer representative, but still did not get any response after 48 hours. Though, as a matter of fact, we posted general ticket and we got response within an hour. Should not we assume there is something wrong doing going on behind curtains?

SPECIAL NOTE TO EVERYONE: IF YOU HAVE PAYMENT IN FREELANCER.COM ACCOUNT, WITHDRAW IT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE YOU GOT PAYMENT DEDUCT WITHOUT ANY JUSTIFIABLE REASON.

Thanks
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Horrible experience with the site. Posted a project, awarded to employee with $50 deposit, employee disappears and I got nothing done, ended up having to dispute it, minus fees and commission! Then I went to withdraw my money and they are saying it's going to take 18 days! They took my money mad quick at the beginning... Already have lost over $100 and have nothing to show for it and they are still holding $345 US of my money hostage until January 28th. Will never use again or recommend to anyone!

The site policies are horrible and totally hostile towards the user. I did a project, employer released the milestone. BUT - freelancer.com is not releasing the payment saying employer's account is under review. And they expect me to contact the employer to settle their account issue. I tried to tell the customer rep that I delivered the project because employer RELEASED the milestone and freelancer showed the money in my account. But they wont listen. The amount is very big and important for me and freelancer support staff is not only insensitive, but also unethical.

I wish there was a way God would help me against these big sites with bad policies.

I want to share my experience, recently lost my job and so decided to go as full time freelancer and found freelancer.com a good platform to create earnings for me, past 2 months i put a lot of efforts in building reputation and getting projects.

But now some where i feel wrong, completed some projects and now upset with recent activity.

1) Fake project: recently i caught with a fake project, the employer awarded me
The project and after awarding fixed project the guy just went off. Really upset as i got nothing from it and still deducted with fees charged from freelancer. What to do instead of making money i am losing money. I also reported about project on freelancer but no response from *******@freelancer.com.

2) The second incident is regarding my payment withdrawl: I appreciate that i got some good project from freelancer earned some money for my living, but hen i was trying to withdraw it, after 16 days of processing time freelancer have limited my account. Asking for verification and prvious employer cnversation details. I will even provide my verification detail but whatever i have read and recent activity happened to me Now i am surprised whether it is any earning i can make or not.

Please someone help me on this.

Total scam, STAY AWAY! After reading all the experiences on the internet, I am truly surprised this site is still up and running! It should have been shut down a long time ago!
They limited my account for no reason, they wouldn't even tell me why and now they don't want to close my account because they want me to upload my ID first! For what!? To steal even more information from me? And since when I don't have the right to have my account closed? It's not written anywhere in their TOS.

Also, don't be mislead by the copy pasted fake diplomacy replies from their representative Marcus here, they are only that: fake diplomacy replies, exactly the same kind you get when you write to their support but they never really reply to your questions, nor solve a problem!

Freelencer is a scam website it has limited my account few days before stating that it is for security resons and asked me to sumit my verification details. Even after submited my details they did not unlock my account and has frozen my $580. They even deducted $390 when i posted an project and didn't allowed me to award that project. This means that the money is with freelancer and they have stolen it.it also deducted $50 without giving any reason. Soo they are big scamers don't trust them...

Hello my account name is ImmortalProducts and I got scammed by prashanthundre with a project. I bidded something about 555$ he accepted and I was about to do the work, but he didnt communicate at all until this date. I want my money back that I had to pay for the Fee! I payed over 55$ for the fee's so I am not willing to pay it because of scam. I hope I can prevent you guys from working on the site to get money, because all they do is getting money from you! I'll share this on different sites so less people get scammed since the support doesn't change anything. I'll let you guys know if my experience with this website changes.

Today I was awarded a project for writing articles and without any prior information, freelancer deducted Rs. 1,175 from my paypal and didn't even inform me. Also the employer has cancelled the project and still I haven't received the fees I paid. So in the end, if you bid on a project, you pay the fees and if the employer cancels the project, you don't receive a refund for the fees you paid. Please don't make me say that freelancer is a cheat because I really like the site.

Please let me know how should I get a refund. I need your help people.

I am on Freelancer for last 8 years with an excellent reputation (197 reviews with 5 out of 5) You can see my profile and client feedback here: http://www.freelancer.com/u/ambar.html Recently, I noticed freelancer just reversed a payment made by one of my employer and that also $550 without even notifying me. When I inquired they told me my buyer has reversed the amount. When I contacted buyer here is what he said:
"This was a freelancer mistake that I have raised 3 weeks ago. I was trying to pay with my usual paypal and but they have charged my credit card which was never deposited into my account on freelancer.
Don't know why they contacted you, it was their mistake." When informed freelancer about it they said they as per terms, I am not supposed to get my money back until buyer refunds and they did not even pay me back their fees that they have taken. They say they wont contest the chargeback even. So, apparently, you dont have any security on freelancer They would pay you for your hardwork and then they would take money back for their own issues and they would not even return the fees. So, at the end, you pay for your client's work plus freelancer fees and waste a lot of your time as well. Be aware of this and they dont really care if you have been cheated as long as they are able to recover their money from you. So, they hardly care about you.

Freelancer, I really liked the site until this point and it has been my only source of income and till now. Freelancer.com was really good in the beginning but losing the essence now. Please guys, give the seller protection a serious thought and do fight chargebacks. I still love freelancer.com and want it to improve.

When I originally registered with Freelancer, I royally screwed up my user name. I later had the account removed and set up a new account with my correct user name. But I couldn't set up a verification phone number because it was used on my original account. So this leaves virtually little that I can do with Freelancer but bid jobs. I can't take tests or anything else requiring a credit card because I don't have a verification phone number. I am not going to purchase another phone service just so I can use Freelancer, so my only other option is to say Bye-Bye.