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Upwork has a rating of 2.8 stars from 2,128 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Upwork most frequently mention customer service, credit card and job success. Upwork ranks 3rd among Freelancing sites.
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Upwork is a great pool of talents for business owners! And a great platform of opportunities for freelancers at different levels & industry. Professionally reliable for all who can follow Upwork's guidelines, terms & conditions.
Flexible working hours and communication with clients are really exciting. Great Place to work I loved it!
It takes a lot of work to get started. It's taken me the whole of 2020 to get $800. However, the more positive reviews you can collect, the more people start to approach you for jobs. Once you complete a job, the chances of landing similar jobs go up by a lot, and you can swing your weight around bidding for jobs like that one once you have reviews explaining success from someone else.
Bottom line, success is based on performance, but you need really spot on proposals to land gigs before you have positive reviews.
Starting out as a freelancer is hard, especially if you are coming into the field with little to no professional experience. That's obvious. But Upwork provides a platform to connect you with clients and a secure way to communicate and get paid. There is a lot of support in the community forums and through Upwork's support team. I'm so glad I joined!
It is a great platform for those who are professional and have their skillsets. No hassles, simple process, setting up milestones, and just do your work. Very helpful support team.
I'm absolutely happy to be part of Upwork! Brilliant opportunities and very comfortable conditions. I'm planning to build my career with Upwork.
Upwork is a very good platform to find freelancing jobs that matches my skills, it's very challenging and it open doors to opportunities that isn't easy to find elsewhere.
It is a great platform for learning and working. As a freelancer you are assured to always get work given that you have necessary skills.
Upwork is a great platform for freelancers to search for jobs and get hired! I started using it in 2020 and it really boosts my career.
Upwork is a life changing website it helps professionalS connect to the world while working at the comfort of our own home.
I started getting many clients from Upwork and a really good platform for freelancers and startups. It really boosts my career.
I got many clients from Upwork and really good planform for freelancers and startups. I started using it since 2017 and its really boost my career.
Upwork is a great platform for freelancers like me to search for jobs and get hired! Also, I am confident that I will be paid since Upwork also verifies identity and payment method of clients.
Upwork is a great platform for freelancers and their support is amazing. I have worked on other platforms but their support was not so good. I had a couple of issues in this week but their support got my back.
Excellent platform for skilled person to perform jobs while ensuring save payments for both freelancers and clients.
I am a Technical Virtual Assistant specialized in Web Support. I have been working in Upwork for many years and getting paid. Even though there are bad clients but most of the clients I faced are good people. You have to be a very serious and professional freelancer to be successful here. If you complete your project in a timely manner and with accuracy, there will be lots of work with repeat clients.
I have only good experience on Upwork. Its great platform for remote work. Getting jobs or finding freelancers to help to work on stuff that you need is realy easy. Freelances on Upwork have lot of opportunities to find various jobs that they need.
I went to work on the platform Upwork (then it was called oDesk) from platform Elance in 2015. Gradually gaining experience in communicating with customers and in software development, I gained confidence in the future. I see the movement of the platform Upwork in the direction of improvement of work with clients and freelancers. I hope that my work with Upwork will last a very long time.
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Thanks for reading my review.
Let's jump to one year ago. I did not have any income sources to support my expenditures. Then, I started my freelance carrier on Upwork. This platform really helped a lot. Now, I am earning handsome money by providing my professional skills.
I am really thankful to the Upwork team.
Upwork has changed the game for me as a designer. Their platform brings excellent clients from around the world directly to me. They provide advice, protection and the largest pool of high quality projects for me to consider. Sincerely, Upwork has changed the way I work.
Answer: They are horrible. Every freelancer I've gotten from Upwork has cost me more to fix the small job they have done. There's absolutely no customer service! I would stay away
Answer: This is not the place to inquire.
Answer: No, just 20% of your job when we talk about fixed price, and same for hourly but after some week it's been 10%
Answer: Go to Settings › Contact Info › Click the Close my account link. If you meet the requirements, click the button to confirm that you want to close your account.
Answer: I am a customer and have had a really horrible experience. Upwork claims a 100% guarantee before you pay anything. That is not true. The process is actually quite horrible. You put money in escrow. You only get your money back after a bad contract if the freelancer agrees to release the money. If the freelancer refuses, you get a bargain offer to still pay them something but still you are paying for a bad job you can't use. Then, if you refuse to bargain over a bad job, you are told that it will cost you an additional $389 to arbitrate with a 3rd party affiliate that the customer (me), the freelancer (scammer) and Upwork (ripoff enabler) has to pay. I took it all the way to arbitration with the end result being that Upwork decided that I was just too uninformed to know their policy and that they would give me a one time only refund of my original amount. What they didn't tell me what that they just gave me a "credit" of my original amount and that was the end. So I am still out the original amount and can't get my money back. This sight is a ripoff. Plain and simple.
Answer: Because of their policy changes which are geared towards the client rather than the freelancer. They have dug their own grave with their policy changes of late.
Answer: Go to Get Paid on PC or Mobile, you will see 3 dots in front of your payment method, tap to select edit/remove to change them. Go to Billing Method on PC under Billing Section and tap three dots to change (edit/remove). Thanks
Answer: Be part and see, dont look at the sold mine reviews people, upwork can bush you to reach.
Answer: I agree with Sam. This place is a scam. They have bad reviews everywhere. Katrina is probably working for them!
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