madblacker
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- Nov 2, 2009
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I hate O*de*sk (dot) com, please do not write their name in this thread or link to their site as I obviously don't want their arrogant dumb asses to see this thread. Basically, I used to use their service and spent quite a bit of money on it but then started getting screwed by some idiot workers on there and with their stupid work checking system they always sided with the employees because they had logged in to their tracking software had had 1 screenshot each half hour showing they had done "work" despite the fact they were sending me nothing for hours of work... had a few assignments going at once when this happened and after this just bailed on the website..
There is a loophole in the way they charge service buyers in that you could use a throwaway visa card, or something like it, get verified (they just put a couple small charges that you have to verify) and then rack up the charges and bail... they bill in 1 week cycles so you should have about 5 days worth of free work, hire away! KEEP IN MIND: they have a policy where THEY will pay the workers regardless of whether your charges go through, YOU are SCREWING THEM and not the workers, if it was the other way around I wouldn't post this since I don't want to further exploit some 3rd world workers than they already are.
Well, its pretty simple, you can check up on the facts about how they guarantee payments to the workers, if you want to get really creative and do all out fraud (if this isn't already) then you could work out a way to "hire" another acct that you own... I doubt I will do any of this myself but just thought I'd throw it out there since they really pissed me off and karma is a bitch, if you're outside the U.S. you probably have a lot less to worry about if you try this, btw, this is definitely not one for newbies as you need to be good at covering your ass
There is a loophole in the way they charge service buyers in that you could use a throwaway visa card, or something like it, get verified (they just put a couple small charges that you have to verify) and then rack up the charges and bail... they bill in 1 week cycles so you should have about 5 days worth of free work, hire away! KEEP IN MIND: they have a policy where THEY will pay the workers regardless of whether your charges go through, YOU are SCREWING THEM and not the workers, if it was the other way around I wouldn't post this since I don't want to further exploit some 3rd world workers than they already are.
Well, its pretty simple, you can check up on the facts about how they guarantee payments to the workers, if you want to get really creative and do all out fraud (if this isn't already) then you could work out a way to "hire" another acct that you own... I doubt I will do any of this myself but just thought I'd throw it out there since they really pissed me off and karma is a bitch, if you're outside the U.S. you probably have a lot less to worry about if you try this, btw, this is definitely not one for newbies as you need to be good at covering your ass
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basically they are a bunch of jackasses, actually they are based near where I live in the states, not 100% they haven't closed this loophole but I doubt they have, just hope they lose a few 00,000's on this, wouldn't mind seeing this company shut it doors at some point, there are other sites like getafreelancer that treat their clients a lot better