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Very few jobs in programming and all clients want very cheap work. Wasted my monthly subscription for nothing. They should help new poor freelancers not make them pay

I had no troubles with confirming my card anywhere but at guru.com. And that's why they charge you with 10 dol instead of a small sum like paypal does ( it takes 1 dol and gives it back instantly). It was a month since they wrote that they returned money.

Yes to much help ful and amazing app I am always suggestions to others to use this app and further suggest to others

I was scammed by my freelancer. Contacted support and they never responded. I was forced to pay freelancer half the fee that he did not deserve as he did not complete job and passed off others work as his own. Arbitration feature is horrible, it forces you to either pay half or they will automatically pay it in full. No support, no help from guru staff. Avoid this site like the plague.

Hello, I have just started looking for jobs at this website unfortunately with my very first encounter I was faced with a scammer who already took $40 dollars from me and now even asking for more, its so unfortunate that this happens to me with my very first opportunity makes me never want to trust this platform again, hence I'm writing this hoping to do something about it as I have taken screen shots of everything that can help identify and do something about it,
Their name is or claims to be Mark 2436 and looks for "Arabic translation" and many have already quoted for this opportunity so I can only imagine how many have been trapped in my situation and not know what to do about it, and just few days after I received a similar request using the same Telegram from another person by the name James 3271 again looking for an Arabic translator while using the same tactics. I will be reporting this matter at the App review as well so people can know and hoping to update it should you ever do something about it

Thank you.

I write it here because I don't know where to write this.
I joined Guru as a costumer because I needed some promotion for a ebook I have written.
The book is on Wattpad.
Anyway I wrote a job announcement and many freelancers replied to it.
I hired this freelancer, an indian woman. Her reviews were amazing.

Anyway, her book promotion was supposed to last for twelve weeks. (30$ for week)
I paid this freelancer after the first week of work and I gave her 30$.
And now it starts becoming strange.

At first, this woman, last tuesday, had told me that her paypal was not active because of some limitations of her account. She told me that her new paypal would have been active last friday.
"Okay I will pay you this friday". This is what I replied.
Then (and it's pretty strange) last tuesday, she sent me another email where she asked me to release the payment on her other paypal.
I did it, but it looked pretty strange to me.

In the meantime, the book was gaining a lot of views (I had 900 views before and now I have 1700), but I could not detect the location of the views.
It seemed strange but maybe, who knows, they are people who are not on Wattpad.

Besides, I have to say that I had already found a scammer from Nigeria (on Fiverr) few weeks ago.
To be honest, I keep receiving views and comments from nigerian fake accounts on Wattpad, but I didn't pay this Fiverr guy, because on Fiverr they replied me soon and canceled the order.

Anyway... This woman of Guru assured me that all the views of my book on Wattpad came from Seo and social medias. She also sent me a weekly report which I couldn't understand.

However, the views on Wattpad were increasing, but I still couldn't detect the location of the views.
It was so strange that I decided to take a look at the profile of this freelancer.
I noticed that her profile picture was a little blurry and some feedback were written by the same people.
(i.e. An account yesterday wrote her "She always do great job". The same account on the 7th february wrote her "She always does a great job". Another message of the same account appears on the 6th of january and it says "She always do a great job".
The same thing happens with a lot of accounts that give her reviews.

I don't know if I could trust her, so I wrote an email to this freelancer to call it quits. I used an excuse, because I didn't want to accuse her of scamming me, without any actual proof.

Yesterday I also decided to write a message to the assistance of Guru. No reply.

In the meantime, the freelancer replied my email and she told me "No problem, but I request you to please release pending $30 payment".
Since I am not certain about this person's identity, I don't want to pay her.
I wrote to the assistance of Guru again. No reply, again.

I don't know what to do. But I wanted to write this review, hoping that it could be helpful to other people.

Hundreds of dollars wasted on fake jobs copied from other freelancers/websites. When a scmmer gets blocked - they just create a new account and do it again. No support or measures in place to protect freelancers or employers. Scammy sad place

Transactions that should be simple take multiple steps - funding, Safe Pay, then pay invoice, etc. I get that safeguards are in place to prevent ripoffs, but Guru goes overboard and unnecessarily complicates matters. Adding more money to the account still doesn't make the funds available to the person you hire, and when you try to fund their account it won't let you because apparently the additional funds have not yet posted... or disappeared into some netherworld. Never again - I will deal with people directly.

Ask for a survey, offer a gift and charge large amount later. Will not answer telephone, very poor customer service

Guru gave my info to a scammer who almost got $2000 from me. But Guru wanted 4 docs to verify my id, charged me $4.95 to vet them, rejected 2 docs, asked for 2 more, and wanted another $4.95 to vet them. I'm thinking SCAM.

When I tried to verify my card, they deducted $9.5 + $1 from my bank account without any refunds.
Such a lame marketplace with no opportunities.

The site is full of scammers. Most of them want from you to pay them some fee before project that will be "refunded" to you later. Please... pure scam.

I put up an advertisement for a role which they decided to police and refuse to post because they in incorrectly assumed that I was looking for a someone to do school work even though I as very clear that it was for curriculum design. It is also not incorrect to have someone assist in writing papers as long as you follow your institutions guidelines. Which generally means you can have some edit your work but you cannot have someone do your research, findings recommendations etc. They really need to just act like a job site instead of trying to police everyone on areas they know little about. Avoid- if I could give a lower mark and leave a comment I would.

Guru.com is a shady company run by fraudsters. I have already reported them for fraudulent activities on the FTC government site and I will also open criminal charges with the FBI. Guru runs a fraud scheme whereby they make it difficult to withdraw your deposits. After that they will delete the buyer's transaction history and account deposits. When you ask for your refund, they tell you they sent the refund but can't provide transaction proof, transfer ID, bank name and account number. It's been more than 30 days and the funds haven't been returned nor received. If you can't provide a bank transaction ID, it means you never sent the money. You stole it. I am sure Guru has stolen money from several clients. It's about time they faced the music from the Federal Authorities. If Guru has stolen your money, dont hesitate to report them to the FBI and FTC. Contact the links below:

Report Consumer Fraud - FTC
Https :// www.usa. Gov/stop-scams-frauds#:~: text=The%20Federal%20Trade%20Commission%20(FTC, Phone%20calls

File Criminal Charges/Report Crime and Fraud - FBI

https://www.usa.gov/report-crime

Fraud hotline at *******357

Guru.com is very kind to customers and It is my pleasure to work there.

Thank you to GURU.COM SUPPORT!

Guru.com is a freelancing website, where many projects are available for the freelancers and many other best jobs

STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY SCAM

I FOUND SOMEONE ON GURU.COM TO WRITE A ARTICLE FOR ME, THEY SEND ME WORK WITH SPELLING MISTAKES AND 33% OF THE WORK WAS PLAGIARIZED, GURU.COM DID NOT CARE.

WHEN I CONTACTD GURU TO COMPLAIN AND GET MY MONEY BACK, GURU.COM TOLD ME THERE IS NOTHING THETY CAN DO ABOUT IT AS THE FREELANCER HAD ALREADY TAKEN THE MONEY OUT OF THEIR ACCOUNT,

I SAID WELL SURELY YOU CAN RECOVER MY FUNDS THEY TOLD ME TO STOP THE PROJECT AND I LOST HALF OF MY MONEY,

I ALSO WROTE TO THEM SAYING SO ANYONE CAN JUST OPEN A ACCOUNT ON GURU.COM AND SCAM PEOPLE,

THEY NEVER RESPONDED,

I FEEL GURU.COM ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING THE CUSTOMER SAFE AND THE MONEY SHOULD NET BE RELEASED UNTIL THE JOB IS COMPLTED PROPERLY,

I WOULD NEVER EVER USE GURU.COM AGAIN AND WOULD TELL ANYONE TO STAY FAR AWAY FROM THEM.

When I commissioned my first two graphic designers, their work was extremely underwhelming. What they charged me for their shoddy work was downright laughable. But, then the real issue with the site was revealed. It uses this terrible "Safe pay" system, which gives the "guru" total control over the funds, as if you just fully paid them upfront. It defaults to "auto pay" which means your funds might go through even before the work is completed. But auto pay is not the main issue. Regardless of "when" it forces you to pay, you are still going to be forced to pay in the end, no matter what. You have no recourse if the work they provide is garbage or doesn't even match your instructions. There is a reason these sub-par designers are using this site. It's because, unlike fiverr, customers have no way of rejecting their garbage tier work. Don't bother. It's completely anti-customer. I only wasted a couple hundred dollars on this site. I can't imagine hiring people for more expensive jobs like web development, using this shady platform. Don't even bother with this.