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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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The best and easiest Upwork is an excellent platform to work on i ever saw. They are great at helping new freelancers. Who they like to start their own career online
My life changed once I joined Upwork. I quitted my 9-5 job and started working as a freelancer 100%.
I enjoy it. Now that I am in the "Top Rated" team, everything is easier!
Upwork is a great opportunity for Freelancers in all sectors and good opportunity for companies to hire talent from overall the world.
Its like a HOTCAKE! New jobs open every minute.and hirings are done every minute. Its like a hotcake. The support system is good. They protect who stands for what is right. There is protection in both the freelancers and the clients as well. This is the best site
It has been a great journey so far, I'm looking to expand with Upwork. They have the best clients base. The quality of the platform has never been easier.
Profile. https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~010acecd7ae8b1d124
Upwork is the best freelancing marketplace that also change every freelancer life and skill. Expert freelnacer also make better life work in upwork. Thanks
Feeling successful to be apart of upwork family!
Thanks for everything Upwork team!
All credit goes to my colleagues.
I found this platform and it's really change my life, It's really a wonderful freelancing site, solution of any problem always there. Thanks a lot.
Upwork is a platform for freelancers to sell their services. I love the way Upwork connects sellers & buyers. Highly recommended.
This is the best freelancing website I've worked with, for 7 years now, and they never failed to solve any problems I faced and everything is in order.
It's an amazing work and network platform. In my opinion, the strong points of Upwork, are the effectiveness of results, you really get jobs, you really get paid, it's very easy to get in touch with clients. And it has a very interesting jobs post, well paid. Every day Upwork is getting better and better!
It's a best freelance site for earning and its user friendly provide alot of opportunities to move forward in life
Upwork has provided me and millions of people around the world the means to work and earn at the safety of our homes - truly a blessing in the middle of this pandemic or crisis.
Is the most great idea in the world! I love the experience, love the page, love the función and more
Upwork is fine. It solves some problems for freelancers, but not all. You have decent payment protection, but you still need to understand how to navigate your own industry. It has a great built-in testimonial system that rewards successful contracts, but you're ultimately still at the mercy of your clients. Messaging and file sharing is in place, but with limited features. You can meet clients but can't take them off platform for 2 years. It's not perfect, it's not bad. It's fine.
Major problem: I suspect that there is an implicit regional bias at play that fails to properly navigate the realities of a global economy, which results in tons of freelancers getting paid poorly, and mid-high earners thriving on regional/racial bias.
Another problem: there are lots of predatory clients on the platform seeking to exploit anyone and everyone with crafty language and false faces. You learn to take care of yourself quite quickly on Upwork.
Lastly, Upwork is very clearly foremost a business. This is not a problem, but it is something to be aware of. Upwork functions in a way that best suits their bottom line. They are not FOR clients. They are not FOR freelancers. They are FOR profits. As long as you understand this and don't expect anything otherwise, you can approach the system from a business-oriented perspective. Is the cost of Connects worth the potential profit? Will a premium account result in a net gain for my bottom line? In this regard, I have no problems with the way Upwork operates. It's a tool, and you can use it - or not.
Great place for you as a freelancer to search or get a job and work from home! I would recommend people this website. Thanks Upwork!
Thank you, Upwork made this platform. I hope Upwork will best for jobs near the future.
I want to also part of success.
Over 5 years on UpWork I worked with many clients, and some of them became long-term ones. I had a great and fruitful experience using UpWork to look for projects worldwide.
I had this account on 2013 and I had some clients at that time. I have to leave to join BPO industry. This time I'm planning for a full time hombased set up and I came back to this platform as it is the best since then. Upwork, please give me time to digest everything before getting a client, it's been a while and there's a lot of changes (^_^)
I had a great experience as a freelancer and I highly recommend! If you are a 5 stars worker I think you will succeed on the platform and won't have a lot of issues getting projects.
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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