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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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Nice platform to find your required work. Just a little bit costly now for the freelancers. There should be some relief for the freelancers.
I've been with Upwork for several years now and I appreciate the efforts they have to improve the platform for both clients and freelancers. I just hope that they would consider reducing fees because freelancers are getting hurt with the fees. Overall, it's still a great platform because clients and freelancers feel secured. I believe that Upwork will still do its best to improve more. Thank you!
Upwork is deducting 20% commission on our hard earned and also taking from us about 1$ for each proposal submission. J It is showing popups to buy connects to apply on jobs. I pray God to put a lock on Upwork doors and the CEO of the company should see a path to Hell.
When you build great platform with great culture, you find great clients and great freelancers. I'm happy to be part of upwork!
Its a good place for freelancers to find clients or to get additional work. If you know your field, you wont have any problems
I am working on upwork since 1 year and found upwork is the best website on the internet for online earning for freelancers
Upwork is very helpful website to find work on it. I have just started to work for last 20 days and found many jobs to work. I love it!
I have been on the platform for quite some time now and it is a great place to meet top talents and actual work. I highly recommend the platform for both employers and talented professionals.
Very helpful for freelancers. I've helped some friends joining this community since it worked well for me and now my friends are also spreading the word.
Very helpful for freelancers especially this pandemic. Although searching for a client is not easy, I still enjoy working with Upwork.
I've been using Upwork since the beginning of my Freelance Career and so far I've had nothing but a wonderful experience. I've helped some friends joining the community since it worked well for me and now my friends are also spreading the word.
A big thank you to the Upwork team!
Excellent platform, many clients, there are no problems with payments, I don't like only a large commission for transactions, and it is annoying that the commission is removed from bonuses, I don't understand this... the commission for the transaction is ok, they make the work safe and take a percentage for this, but when the client decided to thank me and gave a bonus, why should I give a percentage for this?
Before Upwork, I was confused and had no way to express my talents. I recommend Upwork to every talented kid out there.
Thanks Upwork
It's amazing website for a unemployment person.
He work on upwork from anywhere and earn a huge amount from this amazing website.
So far, I earned a huge amount from this site. I love it.
I'm really thankful of the CEO of upwork, He introduce this website in the people and we're working on different projects from home, or anywhere.
Regards
Yasir Mehmood
Upwork is a great freelancing platform that connects freelancers with clients. I enjoy working on Upwork. It is flexible, convinient, and the pay is attractive.
Just 1 month here, great app for freelancer. The best platform I used. Will recommend to my friend, Ithink they will love it.
I personally believe it's great community to be in. I wish I new before about upwork. I enjoyed working on the projects.
I have been working on other freelancing sites as well, but I think Upwork tops all of them and is best platform for freelancer given it's friendly and helping nature towards sellers.
Thank you Upwork!
I would like to share my experience about working on upwork as freelancer. Upwork is doing the best to make a great platform to support both freelancers and clients. It made great helpful update form the system during the covid 19 to help freelancer to get paid faster and to handle their other clients outside the platform. Thank you very much
To the self-entitled reviewers who can't read or follow the necessary policies that is required of any successful business or community of legitimate members: "Read & comply the instructions. Contact UW Support (anytime) if you have a legit problem. Otherwise, don't embarrass yourself with egocentric rants."
I've been writing professionally for more than 40 years, I have a dozen external, longstanding clients.and joined Upwork about 5 years ago. I've subscribed to no less than 9 other online platforms over the past 10 years. One by one, I have canceled all but Upwork. I long ago realized that I was wasting my time with any but UW.
Some of my projects require subcontracting services such as graphic arts, technology or other computer geek-type stuff. Maintaining both a freelancer & client accounts, being somewhat techno-stoopid, I can rely the company's focus on providing a human Support staff (available 24/7/365) & constant monitoring/anticipation of trolls/hackers/scammers, I can in turn provide one-stop service & to my clients.
Upwork's business model is why it is the most successful (among so few) publicly-traded freelancer companies. Its focus on service, security & protection of both freelancers & clients from the wannabe's & whiners is why I can have a 100% rating (and make a couple of bucks).
"Read & comply the instructions. Contact UW Support (anytime) if you have a legit problem. Otherwise, don't embarrass yourself with egocentric rants."
Mike S.
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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