27mdmo7sn
Newbie
- Feb 7, 2020
- 34
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Recently I had a horrible experience with http://freelancer.com/
Some client opened a milestone with me, http://freelancer.com/ took upfront fees from me [regardless the project done in success or not, I take the money from the client or not] they take their commission first and not refundable
I don't want to go in details, simply I was not comfortable to work with the client he was busy and added a requirement to access his laptop to work on it, he was very busy and working on his laptop in the same time
I could not work, cancelled the milestone & asked him to work with a different freelancer in a professional way
he started to threat me
"I will give you 0 rating"
"You will not get work again"
"I will hurt your profile"
the client was a person with mental diseases
The point is in the rating system inside these freelancing platforms
they give the clients the green flag to threat us and hurt us
Some points
- I'm a senior software engineer [+8 years] with Top Rated badge on Upwork [best 10%], Working in multi-national companies, no client treated me like this before
- There's many opportunities in the market to get work [outside freelancer.com] & I refuse a lot of interviews & possible work
- http://freelancer.com/ itself is a scam platform, they took commission and their client did not pay anything to me
- It's expected to see clients like this in this trash platform
I canceled my subscription in http://freelancer.com/ and told their support that they are useless for me, f##k them and f##k everyone who threat us and consider himself have the control over our future jobs
also I gave them 0 rating in all the popular reviews websites
ZERO for them not for me
Some client opened a milestone with me, http://freelancer.com/ took upfront fees from me [regardless the project done in success or not, I take the money from the client or not] they take their commission first and not refundable
I don't want to go in details, simply I was not comfortable to work with the client he was busy and added a requirement to access his laptop to work on it, he was very busy and working on his laptop in the same time
I could not work, cancelled the milestone & asked him to work with a different freelancer in a professional way
he started to threat me
"I will give you 0 rating"
"You will not get work again"
"I will hurt your profile"
the client was a person with mental diseases
The point is in the rating system inside these freelancing platforms
they give the clients the green flag to threat us and hurt us
Some points
- I'm a senior software engineer [+8 years] with Top Rated badge on Upwork [best 10%], Working in multi-national companies, no client treated me like this before
- There's many opportunities in the market to get work [outside freelancer.com] & I refuse a lot of interviews & possible work
- http://freelancer.com/ itself is a scam platform, they took commission and their client did not pay anything to me
- It's expected to see clients like this in this trash platform
I canceled my subscription in http://freelancer.com/ and told their support that they are useless for me, f##k them and f##k everyone who threat us and consider himself have the control over our future jobs
also I gave them 0 rating in all the popular reviews websites
ZERO for them not for me
