Freelancer
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I'm a victim myself. I already stop using this more than a year ago. I'm surprised that the complains reach thousand plus and still counting... if that doesn't satisfy you I don't know what else will... goodluck

It is a PR platform that enables scammers to appear legitimate or verified. Freelancer doesn't care. They get a sizeable commission no matter if the posting is legitimate or not. Example: A fake ebook listing. Needs author to write 50000 words for US$ 2000. Unwitting freelancer bids and is 'awarded project' with message saying hurry up and accept. Once accepted, freelancer takes 'project fee' while you get tied up in their help callcenter trying to recoup not only the fee but potentially the fake employer gleaned from you using their platform. This site will be in the news soon. Trust me.

I was working on Elance for a long time, good clients and good pay. Freelancer is awful, they take your fee before you do any work and you have to fight to get it back. Don't use them - I'm going to try guru.com. Good luck!

Don't use them... big time a** holes...

Yes, freelancer.com is a scam site, please never trust on these scammers..

Just go to upwork.com. Ca see work computer screenshots there. Much better

In my opinion, there are SCAMMERS TOO. Take a look at my case, they took the money already from my account via PayPal. Then I complained and they told me that the job was fake, and my money is not refundable. WHY IF THE JOB IS FAKE, IS MY MONEY NOT REFUNDABLE. The issue here is not about their policies, the issue is that they are so greedy for money they put up a system to get their money from somewhere no matter if the job is fake or real. Why shouldn't people wonder if FREELANCERS themselves set up these fake jobs. People are really complaining but then the company boasts of MILLIONS. They are WICKED people, who care about themselves. The $250 I lost to them cost my team and I a lot of pain... but FREELANCER doesn't care. So many people are complaining, yet they set up some flimsy excuse to SAFE FACE. Not this year FREELANCER. Your unfair policies and fancy English cannot save you.

Stay Away from them please, involve yourself in local freelance jobs in your city or area. It's better than a company that doesn't CARE

No, it is not but their some of the policies are making them to sit on the client's money which they hold in the name of disputes and they dont give more informaton, we lost $620 to freelancer.com. After 6 months, they said their client had issues in the credit card hence we have revoked the payment

If you use them then use only pay per hour. As far as I know that is OK but under no circumstances bid for a fixed price job. If you're 'accepted' they immediately take 10% of the value of that job from your Paypal account. I am surprised Paypal allows them to do this as Paypal had to do a lot of work behind the scenes to get my money back.

I honestly have no idea. I've tried my best to sort it with them. They say that I've got to put in a dispute with the freelancer to get back my money that was their fault. It's really crap. I should have to be doing this.