Upwork

If you want put your money in the sea, please go to upwork. They are stealers who stole my money. I hired a freelancer who didnt complete the work but upwork has released my deposit which was in the upwork escrow without my consent.

I am an eBook and children's book writer and since my services were listed on Upwork, I have had more clients in 6months than in my entire business career.

I appreciate Upwork. All the challenges I had were addressed swiftly by their customer support.

I want to start one. I have maintained 5 star feedback and had a high percentage of repeat customers on elance. For no reason, elance permanently suspended my account for a lack of customer satisfaction. I don't appreciate elance messing with my livelyhood like that, do you? I know of 3 other people that had their accounts suspended in the same week. It's like elance switched to upwork and in the process suspended thousands of peoples livelyhoods. No ok in my book. I'd understand if their reason was justified... but if people have 5 out of 5 star ratings on elance they are nothing but saints! The buyers took advantage all the time on the site anyways (would ask for more than mentioned in the job posting before paying). Elance would back them up when questioned... it was already cruel to the worker. Now this? WOW no way--wrong!

I don't go on there anymore. It seems impossible to make enough month to month paycheck, letalone week. Elance should've never sold out to them because they suck now. I lost respect for them. Hardly ever got jobs.and the ways they make you pay...

I wrote a review about their unintuitive website and missing phone contact. They are threatening to close my account instead of improving the website. My crime: I cancelled a duplicate order, while the original order has been completed and paid - how stupid!

Dabeer Mallik

I had made Account many years ago but never used this platform yet, I was active past month at upwork and meanwhile I got a project from client, after completion of 1st task he awarded me with another job and I again completed that job in time, which really boosted me and I see the charms and attraction of upwork. Since then I shall be online most of the time and searching and waiting for job.
Overall experience at Upwork platform is Superb for me and I recommend people to join this platform to explore the new heights of your skills and experience as well as your knowledge.

Elance is probably the most disgusting freelance site on the WWW: it doesn't really protect the freelancer; most clients never state how much they are willing to pay and when they do - they offer Third World rates. It's a slave's site - avoid it.

Terrible, I wanted someone to do some marketing for me, he sent me pictures of the Pakistan army with ak-47s and women with plates of money in their hand. I disputed and Elance claimed that I should pay him because he did the work in good faith. I even told him before we started the project that I did not want him to do anything for me and he still did it. He then called me a fraud. Wow, I guess I am naive to the real world for having faith in him. I have recently re-disputed the matter and is currently ongoing. Elance and all of those similar sites are too expensive and you have to compete with people who are willing to work for $5 per hour.

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

Very poor site I have 2 grand right now on fraud checks I have no clue what to do with. I have reported them to the fbi and bbb. I also got harressment by the community for something I did do but other client hired me to do.

I started working on Upwork in 2011 and I achieved so much. Upwork gave me the platform to learn with Top companies in the World. By working on Upwork, I managed to raise a considerable amount of money for my future.

Best Place to Find Freelance Work!

Most of the people posting here broke ToS or the protections in place. Very successful here. If you want to be a business owner you have to own up to your business this is not a scam. Only people that pay low and want the moon and stars are the people complaining

Dear Sir,

I have scored 3.75/5 in "English Vocabulary (UK Version) & 4.10/5 in "English Spelling Test, but I have been shown as 'Below Average' in both of them.

Please get this error rectified and do let me know.

Thanks and Regards,

Yours Sincerely

Sultan Muhammad
(essenwork)

This upwork do not appreciate their freelancers. They make you feel like your a crap, even though they earn money from YOU. Well not anymore, I will go directly to clients and get paid for what my talent is really worth. To Filipinos, you may want to consider finding work with onlinejobs.ph whether you are a newbie or experienced.

I AGREE TO THIS GUY! ITS VERY TRUE!

Experienced freelancers are dying on this platform.

Their ranking system will punish you and your Job Success score if you make "ANY" mistake. Once you are below 90% you will never get work again.

Their ranking system punishes freelancers if the client does not leave feedback - Your fault.

Their ranking system will punish you if there are any problems with a job.

With good intentions I was looking for work writing, editing and reviewing for media sites. Here is an example of some of the work offered on UpWork. First employer: I need a 40 page e-book written in 2 weeks for $50. Second employer: For my blogsite I need 2-4 blogs per month (1,000 words each) to be paid at the rate of $10 each. Must have a minimum of a masters degree. Third employer: Need a tutor for my bratty kid to train in the sciences. Will pay $5 per session. These a facetious representation yet they come close to the mark to the job offerings on UpWork. This company keeps a minimum of 20% of the wage. My advice: Upwork is a disaster paying slave wage with potential employers who are either nutcases or live under a rock. Many better sites stay light years away from this one.

Excellent platform to work with Upwork and find new clients with minimum effort, payment protection and Upwork team support is Awesome. I and my team is lucky, we are the part of Upwork, Thanks to the entire Upwork team who are always with us in any problem, issue!

They make up stories as to why they have to close your account and they will just close it for no reason. They make up stories and say that you have had too many bad reviews. I have a 4.8 / 5! And I have not done any work in like 6 months through Elance. How can I all of a sudden have bad reviews. VERY VERY Shady company. I would never use them again.

What I recently found is that the elance may have a team who post the project and yes fake projects. Now if we bid on this project there is no response and the connect is gone too. Like this they sell connects for more profit.
Recently I applied for a job and I was awarded and after that I could not post any messages to the client. Now this issues happened and i did not got any message from the client too. So to keep my profile clean I closed the job. Now since then they have blocked me. Now how the hell do I know. So Elance is Going to be a big SCAM. In coming days Scam from Elance is going to be famous. Elance Scam as I searched and found tons of result. This confirms that the elance is really doing something fishy to trap users and loot their money throught selling the connects and posting the fake projects.

Upwork is helping me in showing my skills and gained knowledged from my previous work experiences while earning.
The app is legit with freelancers looking for a legal jobs as well as employers looking for a freelancer's superb services! Keep up the good work Upwork!

Upwork is the first freelance website I work on and I don't want to run away, it opened new horizons for me, tried to work on different exchanges, but this is where I can work normally and not think about the various little things that are already thought out on the site.

This platform works in many positive ways. They support freelancers and provide all the necessary information to make your work easier. I have been happy working with them for 6 years and hope to continue working with them for yesrs to come.

I had my 5 star account closed without any warning. I was informed that my client satisfaction was low and they would not reconsider my account. That was in September. Since then I have had numerous emails from them telling me that my account satisfaction is low and I should try to improve it. The latest email states that I need to pay a client back $9 as they found I had not completed the job to satisfaction. Fine. I just wanted Elance out of my life so I agreed to pay. Now I have been told I need to do a wire transfer as they don't accept PayPal. So I need to pay $45 in fees and drive a 4 hour round trip to sort out a money transfer. Yeah right. Elance can go jump in a lake.

Recently, hired the team from India and it ended up $#*!ty and not completed project I have complained about the freelancer to upwork and they could not help. And I have ended my project and tried to get the files that has been so far and I have paid 90% of the total project cost. And upwork could not even helped to the files. They kept say "We understand your situation blah blah " but nothing was use-full. I have left feedback for the freelancer and I did not know that freelancer can delete the client's feed which was worse than I expected UPWORK"S service.