Upwork

Upwork technically is a safe platform to transact. However the processes to protect clients from fraudulent freelancers is flawed. I was scammed by freelancer Rehan Hamayun on an hourly contract. He billed 100% of his time in week one using the Activity tracking provided by Upwork. This activity tracking is flawed and cannot be trusted!

After week one, I did not get any deliverables, but the freelancer started asking a lot of valid clarification questions. This was a delay tactic to go beyond the 5 day dispute period. This continued into week two and that was when I started to get suspicious.

I now lost just under $2000 and received nothing. And as far as Upwork is concerned, all is legitimate.

Do not trust the Active hours! This is creating a sense of false security that work is actually done.

Do not trust the identity verification. Make sure you do your own verification.

You have 5 days to dispute anything! Make sure you get actual deliverables and do not get fooled with someone being very engaging!

I spend over $******* on Upwork but when I hire (most Indian) freelancers they where all a disaster. No deadline reached, they lie about the work which is not done to get a payment, they log in for more hours. They drag the project to keep your for long time to benefit the payment.
I hired a Indian company who had a good feedback on Upwork. But then I found out they gave my work to students so they can focus on getting more projects.
At the end you pay triple the price than developing it in your country. No outsourcing for me anymore.

I WILL NEVER EVER USE UPWORK ANYMORE!
*******@hotmail.com for proof

Elance was a good place to work for both clients and freelancers. UpWork, on the other hand, is absolutely terrible. Not only is it the WORST freelancing platform, but it seems like generally worst place to work online.

Scams, bugs, bugs, more scams, upselling, lead generation, scam, bugs, and more bugs.

Support is the worst I've seen. They promise you the world and literally don't do anything.

Incompetent, completely lacking logic, and feels like it was developed as a high school project - I've done better in my first year of programming.

DO NOT SIGN UP to UpWork - promote better platforms out there, and let UpWork die the slow death that it deserves.

I couldn't think of a title but will, when I get to the end of this review.
We live in an era when humans feel more isolated than connected.

Covid-19 made sure of that.
It came with blessings - Family. Spending time with family and really connecting with them.
The Family is a Unit or Node. Every Family on Earth are Billions of Nodes.
If every family is happy and in turn billions of nodes happy, The Earth is Happy, No more wars - one day!

The Business of Upwork is in making sure that we all while seemingly being disconnected or isolated, are connected with remote work we love to do while being with the people we love.

Upwork helps to facilitate and support your growth.
As a Freelancer on Upwork, all you need is to be professional, honest, mature and play by the rules.

If you do a great Job, your work touches lives of people in remote parts of the world.
So Upwork provides you with a delivery mechanism for you to touch the world.

I have not violation any rules issues by work but my upwork account suspended due to submitted proposals for jobs. Freelancing work is the part of sending proposals and Upwork suspended my account for sending proposals; What a non-sense decision from upwork. Really BAD and POOR decision from upwork.

Also I am not able to withdraw my money(USD $380) from upwork account to my bank.

Guys beware about upwork fraud. Please do not use this site/company.
This is Fraud and Scam company. I will report to FBI and upwork will suspend.

Please contact here to report FBI:
https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.upwork.com#299

Upwork name will be Downwork.

I recommend you to work with Upwork 100%. As a freelancer from Central America, I have been able to connect and do business with companies in the US very successfully, creating many new opportunities for my work life and increasing my income. Helping businesses and their owners to achieve their goals and creating long term business relationships is very easy and fair with Upwork. I highly recommend business owners to find the professional talent they need for their business on Upwork. You wont regret it! Freelancers around the world Upwork is the future; Work smart and create the life you want using this amaizing tool.

Benefits for freelancers
*Payment protection
*Clear contracts terms
*International Clients
*Easy payment methods

Benefits for clients
*Qualify professional
*Reduce your operations cost
*Provide life changing opportunities
*Grow your team faster
*Easy payroll execution

And more

Silvia N

This is pretty much a stab in the back for the hard work and dedication I had put into Elance. As with many of you we put in the extra effort to have our clients satisfied, thinking the result would be more business for the service we offer.

Out of the blue my account was under review with no explanation as to why, other than form letters. "Close out all your jobs" and then we will review. I strongly feel it did not matter what I did... something triggered my account to be shut down. I guess I will never know.

In the long run it is better off for me not having to deal with an unprofessional company that does not have the "Balls" to talk to me to give a reasonable explanation. I just have to apologize to all the people I have worked with who put the trust in me recommending Elance.

Brian Verigin, YahSuccessBlog.com

PS. Elance please stop sending me offers to bid on jobs... I do not have an account with you.

I had dreamed of being a published author since I was 12 years old, but I lacked the confidence to try. A friend introduced me to Upwork. It was so easy to submit proposals, and the clients genuinely valued my skills and talents. I liked that Upwork guaranteed payment, so clients couldn't rip me off. Upwork handled all the payroll and administrivia, so that I could concentrate on producing quality results for my clients. I love that I'm able to get quick answers to my questions via their online chat. Highly recommend Upwork!

I accepted my first job on elance. Indian-based company paying $5/hour... I accepted it thinking I would do the job to get a rating. Big mistake.

This company is out of Mumbai and the guy was impossible to please. Said my work was of exceptional quality, then turned around at the end when I said I wouldn't do any more work until we renegotiated a new rate and gave me a 3.7 out of 5 rating.

That just ruins my rep for any future clients.

Client ratings are too subjective and the rates offered freelancers are way below market value. I would not recommend elance to anyone in the U.S. or, at best, only submit proposals to U.S. or European-based clients.

I had an issue with a freelancer I hired going MIA. He got paid for 1/2 the job went and then went silent. Upwork is more concerned with keeping every dollar than admitting when something goes wrong and correcting it. You provide security for the freelancer but what security do the people and companies hiring these freelancers get? After months of dealing with the very unprofessional CS team they FINALY came to a resolution when they could't get in contact with the freelancer either. They were suppose to refund my money back to my credit card as I explicitly stated. They gave me a credit and it was used my another person on my team. HENCE ME EXPLICITLY stating refund back to the original form of payment.