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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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If you deliver quality service and you have talent, there is unlimited opportunities in Upwork. I am glad that I have joined Upwork and am thankful for the opportunities.
I have been working here for more than 1 year, I am pleased with everything, this is the place where I started making good money. Recommend.
With upwork you can find work that suit your skills and your salary is secured. Been working with upwork for 5 years now and I can say that I have the best clients because of upwork
It's been a while I'm working at Upwork platform and so far it was a great experience. You have to prove your worth, it's hard to get a job though unless you know your capabilities and there's an opportunity for everyone to build a successful freelance career.
I started off way back when Elance and oDesk were still a thing, they were great but something was missing and then UpWork came to be. Rarely will you see a platform skyrocket to success like UpWork did but this is well justified. From the clean design, easy to use interface and lots of must-have features to a professional community that keeps on giving, super-friendly and helpful staff and plenty to explore, UpWork has it all and thereby remains in top of my list of best freelancing platforms that a freelancer must be on. For the 4 year's I've been a Top Rated member I have met some truly amazing people to work with. It's that one site where you enjoy your profession like you're meant to and earn extra needed to help you and your family. I have only the best of recommendations for UW!
For months I've been finding the perfect place to sell my skill to the global market and I found the right one "Upwork"
Within Two Months, I have grown to love the platform. It's Interface is functional and aesthetics are beautiful. I would recommend Upwork to as many legit Freelancer here in Nigeria, Africa.
Thank you
I found some of the best clients in this market place. I think the fee of 20% at the beginning fo the contract is a bit too much but after $500 it becomes 10% which I think ok as they provide one of the best technique to guarantee freelancers money. I never felt that I may not get paid in Upwork. Also, I am not a fan new bidding system I think it make it hard for a new freelancer to join Upwork. Otherwise, I think Upwork is the best freelancing platform out there especially for long term jobs and they have the best environment for the freelancer who knows what they're doing.
Thanks to Upwork for opportunity of safety and interesting job. It helps me to find interesting photo editing projects
Upwork making Skilled professionals more skillful and also helping to make some extra buck by helping needy clients. Its the best thing happened to me so far. Its really easy to apply for opportunities, completing the contracts and getting payments. Good Job Upwork.
Upwork is really great platform to earn with your quality work.
But there is too much crowd you should have to spend many connections to get a job.
Up work get lot of money from freelancers from the connects + the 20% of the order which not fair at all. If they can give free connects it'll be worth it.
I have been a part-time freelancer for over a decade and Upwork is the only platform where I have managed to find trustworthy and long-term clients that have quality work as well. Upwork's fees are quite high and while that could be discouraging in the beginning, I would urge a newbie to stick it through the initial period to reap the rewards later. If you're talented, you will soon get solid responses from clients. I've had to turn down offers at points because I couldn't manage the workload. Thank you Upwork for a great platform. I would love it if they charged a smaller premium fee but for the opportunities we are getting, I guess that's a price worth paying.
I have done many logos work here and i love to work over here with clients and i recomanded this platform to others.
This platform is unique in it's own way, It will change your way of working as soon as you realise that the more effort you put in, the more you get from it and it is optimized to meet you with long term clients which is very useful if you are trying to make it a full time job. I am still amazed of the possibility connecting with clients from different part of the world and how you can be useful for them. Thank you Upwork.
Superb experience! 5 years on Upwork and it's been Totally worth it with many great opportunities...
Thank you, Team Upwork
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I am glad that I earned a lot of projects with active clients on Upwork. Upwork is good for finding and working with long term clients, be genuine with them and you can earn a handsome amount.
I have awesome experience on upwork, i got $100 order for creating an landing page and client send me $20 extra bonus.
Thanks upwork for awesome platform.
I have subscribed on Upwork in 2017, but I haven't got any job, and my account has been disabled due to my failing to get any project because I didn't have any experience in my field, I had forgotten about work as a freelancer. And after 3 years until now at the beginning of the current situation, I come back with good experience in my field, so I contacted the Upwork support and I followed the instructions to get my account activated again. After that in about a month, I have submitted a lot of proposal without getting hired, until I got my first 5$ project, and from this point, my successful story starts with Upwork and in about a month or less I achieved more than 1k $, I am only work in part-time in Upwork, indeed I am preparing to make Upwork my full-time work. I have worked on other freelance platforms but Upwork is the best because on Upwork you get what you deserve due to the review system, but on other platforms, you can work and get nothing.
Well, how should I start... i am so much happy now due to ability to work from anywhere. As i was not at all happy while working in city, but upwork allowed me to get 3times more salary than i was getting in company with 100times less stress. So now i enjoy my work, and can command good money for my service. Thankyou Upwork!
Superb experience! Six years on Upwork and it's been totally worth it with many great opportunities.
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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