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Johnson 51 is his guru.com name (as employer) then with skype id as: wyatt. Collett1

He is a total scammer. Made me write so many articles and when it's payday time, did not bother to respond anymore. His job post is titled as "advanced writer needed" and he had many postings about it. Be very wary with these kind of people!

What i will do is i will post to webs all my write ups and so the students who paid him will be marked plagiarized!

Never ever trust this site especially if you are looking for a freelance job. I worked for this person named "Precious Hudson" with skype details: precious. Hudson62 who I can say is a TOTAL SCAMMER. Made me write around 100 articles and promised to pay me a good sum of 3$ per article. Seemed legit at first since she offered plenty of tasks after the other. However, when pay time came, she had plenty of excuses until one day she went offline in Skype! So disappointing! And I saw my works posted online. If you happen to be employed to this person, never ever trust her!

The same goes for those who only have Skype as a means of communicating with spammer employees trying to rip you off from all your efforts!

Tried two separate $1000+ jobs. I am very experienced project manager of this kind of work and needed an extension to my team. Both "gurus" failed to deliver as agreed and long, long after promised.

However, both Gurus had 5-star ratings! How can this be? It turns out Gurus can delete their negative feedback for money. Ugh.

The final failed project resulted in a refund, thankfully. However, adding insult to injury, Guru kept a $30 "transfer fee" for allowing me to withdraw my refund money. Thanks Guru!

After reading all the reviews on this site, including the most recent one by Andrew which definitely sounds like a planted review, I have to concur with others that this site is pretty much full of scammers and fake jobs. If you do find a decent paying job, chances are the posting will be deleted within a day or two after it's listed. Their fees are high, not low - 8.95% of the project cost. Most of the postings aren't worth bidding on. Asking for expert writers with top notch skills and the offer of $4-5 per hour? It's gone downhill in other ways too since they changed their format, such as the algorithms that you can't change for employers to find you. For example, the main algorithm they set for me is writing articles. There's absolutely nothing on my profile that says I write articles! Nothing! It's really annoying because content warehouses invite you to apply for their jobs of writing 25 to 25,000 articles paying a dollar or two for each one! Lol! Guru is now basically a site for people that live outside of the States who will work for next to nothing, or scam artists around the globe. So many good freelancers have left, and I'm another one. Don't go into these jobs blindly. Ask for good faith money upfront. To the employers who posted bad reviews about freelancers, practice due diligence. Ask to see a LinkedIn or other professional profile. Call them up... talk to them. I always gave my phone number out along with proof of my editing/ writing by providing a list of works on Amazon and other sites that list my name as editor. Stay smart.
Posting this to warn other freelancers to stay clear of Guru. It used to be a good site years ago. Not anymore.

I've worked on Guru as a freelance off-and-on for about four years. Certainly, compared with the competition, it is the best-managed and most useful of sites in which one can offer services directly to those who seek them. Everything works on Guru, and the fees are reasonable. What's more, Guru has been largely successful at attracting serious professionals who seek work from their peers. This has kept the fee levels reasonable on Guru, whereas on most of the other freelance sites they are derisory. Because, most of the time, one deals with serious professionals there is little friction. When there is a problem, it is usually because the employer is a poor communicator or is challenged in some fundamental way, and it is fortunately possible to avoid these (though not always). However, in the time I've spent on Guru, the quality of the employers has been relatively high most of the time. No similar site can make the same claiim -- I've been on all of them, and given up almost all. Where Guru does fail is in its arbitration process for disputes -- this continues to be of a low quality. But all the other services are top-notch, and one need not get into arbitration if one avoids poor employers. So thanks, Guru, for doing what no other freelance site seems to be capable of.

I should have read everyone reviews about guru.com before using the site, I have lost $3000( anuva technologies), paid every single milestone and was time to deliver the final work which contain the file for my project the freelancer stop replying to my emails & Skype messages, I contacted Guru and there is only that one person by the name of Joe who answer the phone and just told me there is nothing he can do but just delete the freelancer account(anuva technologies), I have an agreement in place and guru told me at beginning that the agreement is your protection and now they telling me there is nothing they can do, I asked to speak to a manager or supervisor well apparently there is none but only a person named Joe! I called daily to resolve this and no help, this is just to easy. I need to take action people can keeping on getting ripped off like that, anyone for tried a class A action lawsuit? *******@gmail.com

In short, if you are a troll/vampire, thief - go join guru. If you are an honest developer/employer, don't go anywhere near this place.

Thankfully the flags went up before I deposited money, I'll start with the company/website, from what I see it's meant to protect the developers/artists, as it highly favors them, not the people spending money... Which tells you who gets what out of the deals on the site. Basically you promise to pre-pay someone before they deliver... which is ok, unless the site is populated by trolls, thieves and children who think they are 5 star material and return with 1 star products.

Within the first day of posting I received 5 "quotes", one person e-mailed directly. The person who e-mailed me I'm still working with is great! 3 of the people I was talking to on their website were great, 1 was a fraudulent company from India, quoting a low number, then replying with literally 1k% increase in total cost. The last was from what I could tell a teenager trying to make money.

Lastly, I was about to throw money at a couple of these artists but Guru deleted my posting, which also makes you unable to contact those who quoted you. Why? Because I mentioned that my project was for Kickstarter and that volunteers with a passion for the idea/game were going to be favored for long-term paid positions after it's release over non-volunteers. There was an outline for what I was paying, for non-volunteers.

I have lost about $2000 on Guru.com. I have had freelancers lie and cheat, and misrepresent themselves. I paid for a website from a company that had a sterling 5-rating (which was lie aided and abetted by Guru.com) and they took my money and delivered nothing. I argued once again that this was both misrepresentation and fraud and that Guru.com should give my money and indefinitely suspend their account until things are rectified. I have contacted BBB and Guru.com has an F-rating (no surprise there) and I sent a letter to the Attorney General's Office. Has anyone sued these guys? Class action lawsuit all the way. Contact me: *******@yahoo.com

Never use guru to hire freelancers. Guru is a website that encourage freelancers to scam the people. I have hired a web developer to develop a website for me, Guru asked me to put money in their safepay account to have the freelancer start working on my project. I ended up to be the fool to put the money in their safepay and once I told the freelancer that I am not satisfied with the work I received, he immediately filed invoice and collected the money. I don't know how guru gives him my money although he has no proof of delivering any work that I accepted. Please guys stay away from both Guru and their freelancers scammers.

I used Guru to find someone to do my business logo. They guaranteed their work, but the logo that I received was of extremely poor quality. The work was definitely from an amateur. The person had very poor communication as well. I don't think they understood what I was asking for, and their replies were difficult to understand as well because of poor grammar. When I requested a refund, Guru sent me to an arbitration process and rewarded me half the money. I am also almost certain that the person released my logo idea out there. All of a sudden I see the exact same logo that I wanted all over the web. I DO NOT RECOMMEND GURU! Their customer service was also horrible.

Don't use Guru.com until it commits to protecting clients. Guru allows contractors to delete negative reviews if the contractor is earning a minimum amount for Guru. This is a conflict of interest. Guru knows of one particular contractor which does shoddy work, uses the bizarre auto-pay feature to bypass the protection of escrow, insists on full payment to allegedly finish the work, retaliates if it receives a negative review and apparently earns enough to block negative reviews. Guru is aware of multiple complaints about this contractor but has not banned it.

Site's like Guru make a joke of being a freelancer. Gone are the days when you could bid on a project, complete it and be paid. This site is packed with scammers who ask for contact on Skype, refuse to give out their contact details and then ask you to do work with no intention of paying you.

This is THE worst freelance site out there and the fact Guru.com do nothing to prevent these scams speaks volumes. They clearly don't care about their reputation, or freelancers. Avoid this site at all costs!

In spite of:
(a) money being held in an ironically named "safepay"
(b) a police report submitted together with mountains of evidence against the cyber criminals "NIX SOLUTIONS"
(c) "NIX SOLUTIONS" actually admitting to illegally leaving ransomware on our servers

guru.com and their "arbiters" decided to award 100% of the disputed amount to these crooks citing "we do not find evidence...""