FreelancerReviews 20,195

I have won and complete 3 project and cannot receive money for these project. Support is closing my tickets without my permissions. This website is a frauds. They cannot guarantee to freelancers that they can receive their money for done projects.

UPDATE: Past 3 years this issues has not been resolved. This is really sad!

Freelancer.com - this site used to be a marketplace for people to find work and others who want to get their work done. Just after this site got merged with scriptlance.com and vworker.com (Rent a coder - old name), the pool of freelancers increased to millions. Most of them from Indian and from Pakistan, Bangladesh. Now the situation with freelancer is that they are not interested in looking at the way projects are being posted or whether there is any minimum bid policy. People on freelancer can ask for anything that can take weeks and just post $30 to get this done. Obviously, many will jump into this to get done, but the problem comes for employers after they start work with such people. They either don't get satisfied work or get reasons from freelancer that scope is increasing. The problem is somewhere in middle, it is freelancer's bad policy if exposing others bids, others profile that make the situation so vulnerable. Is there anyone who wants to pay more for getting something done, when there is some one else who is so confident to say he can get it done.

Freelancer is just getting more and more worse day by day and they are just looking to be interested in making their UI more beautiful and fancy. Come on freelancer, focus on value which has created your base of business. Focus on your freelancer and employers who work together. See how many of them are happy. Else sooner your days are countable in fingers. People will just stop using you.

Also please stop marketing gifts, coupons etc. People come to your website for work, provide them good work place and they will be happy. Learn from elance and odesk. They know how to do business better. You have scored high only by acquiring your next competitors and showing your self big. High time to learn and you can see this page where 80% people have not scored more then 1 star for you.

Just about everything that could be wrong about freelance work is right here. Fake accounts everywhere, and although it operates in a free market, with thanks to the Indian, Pakistan & Filipino members who are happy to work for less than $1.00 per hour creates two real issues.

1. The quality is typically inferior, as most jobs are required in 'real' English, something that cannot be delivered by most from the sub-continent and far east members on the site, who are awarded the jobs because they are cheap to hire. As a Native UK speaker and writer, I cannot find anything on the site that becomes worth my time as I am not prepared to work for such ridiculously low amounts.

2. Because the bids are low, the projects are rewarded at the lowest cost - then the employer wonders why the quality is no good! You get what you pay for and if you want to cut costs - write articles yourself or pay proper money, to 'real' native English writers (From UK, US, Canada, Australia), who can actually string a sentence together correctly.

Of course, Freelancer do not care about the quality, and will wash their hands of this aspect of the project - all they want is money. A bit like eBay, they don't really care about their sellers, just their $$$'s

Stay away from this...

Really a bad experience with freelancer team. Tried to find out a good freelancer for my web portal project. But got all bids from really fake like accounts. All good words to say by them to us but when asked to give brief on proposed solution every body replied first give advance and then solution. I dont know how freelancer.com is motivating his freelancer to work but this is defiantly not a professional way of working. When a customer is out there to give work of 900 1000 dollar and more one will expect come understanding of solution. After all this is not just work for 10 - 20 dollars.

I would suggest to all viewer here do not wast time and money here..

Signed up as an Employer, very disappointed with the service, continuously deduct money from my credit card with no prior or post notice, just deduct money once you put in your card details and make one transfer, it becomes license for them to deduct as much money as they wish to without any notification which is illegal.

Very disappointed with the site and it is not straightforward closing the account, they continue to delay and play tricks.

If you have extra money and you do not know how to spend it, then this site is perfect for you.:)
On it, you can only lose your money, time and effort. Earnings forget.
A few months ago I did a few projects through this service, but I have not earned.
I lost $ 1,530 and then I stopped using this marauding service.
I do not recommend to use this site. Support is terrible, balance only goes to minus. It's too expensive.

Think carefully before you start to work through this site.

www.freelancer.com gets most traffic of freelancers, old and new, in view of its convenient and easy to remember domain name. In my opinion, that's the first trap laid out.

I am seriously considering sticking to www.odesk.com and www.elance.com as they are more publicized, professional and have far more good reviews. I will close my www.freelancer.com account for good due to a couple of reasons.

First, freelancers on www.freelancer.com have to bid and compete for projects. Freelancers from third world nations, like India and Pakistan, have ruined the market.

They are more dominant in bidding as they can go really cheap to a level that is "ridiculously" low. They are able to stoop so low due to favorable exchange rates.

They surely need to establish "minimum bid" policy on projects and quality control on freelancers.

Second, www.freelancer.com takes such a long time to process my payment and at the end of it, it keeps disputing several payments on work done with all sorts of excuses.

As a result, this held back the whole sum that I have requested "cash out".

I have been doing freelancing as a full time job via www.freelancer.com for almost three years now. As my numbers add up, it keeps disputing and delaying payment of amounts due to me. It's habitual. Recently, they froze my account at their whims and fancy.

I give a big NO recommendation on www.freelancer.com to anybody. DO not waste your time and effort. Consider www.odesk.com or www.elance.com. They honor payments promptly.

I've made a project and it was my first time in freelancer.
My project was to ask someone to recover my account on Instagram.
Someone has bid with 5/5 reputation and good feedbacks.
So I accepted him and as it was my first time, i didn't know what was a milestone was. Then, the freelancer asked me to release the milestone which i thought just to pay him. After that moment, we went to Skype to discuss the project. Blablabla, he said he will do it tommorow, but until now he has not been replying my messages. I though he was a honest guy because he has positive reviews! I WANT MY MONEY BACK! PLEASE ITS ALL MY HARD WORK MONEY. I paid him $150 just to recover my instagram account back from a hacker. Please freelancer support help me.

At first, I wanted to think "Gosh, all these bad reviews must just be malicious or some kind of smear campaign by freelancer.com's competitors because it seems as if this is a very reputable and "together" site"... I was wrong. Behind those pretty graphics and constant "opportunities" flashing on the screen is an undeniably sketchy operation that if we look in Websters, we will find that freelancer.com fits the bill as a scam.

Their Customer Service is absolutely the worst and my first go around with them, I thought perhaps I was going insane. As far as money and time invested into this site versus a return? I have lost thousands of dollars (I can easily prove this by averaging the amount of money that I made via other routes as a freelancer and not through freelancer.com). Between the gamification that never works correctly to the nearly 90% of jobs I bid on actually expiring because the creators of the jobs just left them hanging (and I have bid on well close to 50-60 jobs and submitted proposals with said bids) to the fact that their marketing is geared toward constantly making you spend money to "highlight your bid" or "take yet another test to move ahead"... it's absolutely sad and I regret every cent and bit of time that I spent with freelancer.com. If 90% of the bids I had just simply expired yet I spent all this time highlighting and taking tests to win them and answering questions of the job owner before they left running. This means I was coaxed to spend more and more money by the website with repeatedly getting no return. While making money and thriving as a freelancer through other means and websites so I know its not my ability or presentation... and if I google freelancer.com, nothing but terrible reviews come up for them... well. I don't know about those of you reading this but I'm going to have to go with SCAM! Feel free to email me at *******@mikejdavis.info if you need any further proof.

Ok, first I do not represent freelancer.com in any way. Second, most of the people who are giving these reviews are those who couldn't find projects, or find the right freelancers. The satisfied almost never come to give reviews.

I admit, yes, there are issues with the website. Sometimes, their support doesn't respond the right way, as it just happened with me, but there is a great potential of earning if you are committed.

Personally, I would encourage everyone to give this site a try.

Signed up with freelancer.com four months ago and have applied for around 30+ jobs. Unfortunately, every job ended up 'expired', which means the job posting was never awarded to anyone. I am now personally convinced that freelancer.com outsources fake job postings and more than likely pays their workers their standard outsource hourly fee of 1.17/hour to post fake jobs everyday!

I am also convinced that the supposed 9 million users are mostly fake or scam accounts. And the legitimate employers are the ones that want to pay you 20 bucks for 100 hours of hard work! I also just read in a freelance poll that 46% of freelancers never receive the full amount agreed upon which shows the great need for better protection for freelancers. Obviously, reading these reviews here, shows this as fact.

In reading all these reviews about people getting ripped off, I am now glad I did not get awarded any jobs because chances are that I would have been ripped off anyway.

The only good thing freelancer.com is good for is for the entertaining reading of their fake job postings, which some are totally hilarious! And I get a kick out of how some of these losers post a job "I want exact replica website like booking.com" with a budget of 80.00 bucks! And then there are 30 bids! WTF? LOL!

If you are willing to work for pennies per hour, then freelancer.com is for you! Or maybe freelancer can hire you at 1.17/hour to post fake jobs. The only qualification, pass an English test and sign a waiver.

In 25th March, 2013 I am also freelancer.com victim and lost $288 at that time when I really need that money but freelancer.com did not support or refund my money back into my account and said that some one hacked your account and withdraw your money and that is not refund.
Ah its really painful for me seriously because someone using freelance debit card for this withdrawal and his payee id is mention into my transaction also my withdrawal detail.
I had sent lots of email to customer support agent like *******@freelancer.com, *******@freelancer.com. And some other but all in vain and lost my money even then didn't remove fake payee id that mention in my freelance debit card.

Freelancer.com is a total joke! They force you to take online knowledge exams for $5 each or you can bid on any posted projects. They charge 25%! Fee of anything you bid on. Furthermore I was scammed out money for two projects. Freelancer took THEIR money first before I had made a single DIME and now I am NEGATIVE in my account because I was ripped off and not paid. This is the WORST company EVER. I have read terrible TERRIBLE things about them. They have this guy 'Marcus' here answering all this stuff because they know this website is hurting them! They don't care about you or the problems you are having. They only care how their REPUTATION looks. I won't ever use this crappy website ever again. Stay Away! There are better companies like oDesk.