Stay away from freelancer.com

Good thing I read this! I was just about to post a posting.

I`m one of the victim , stay away from them !!!:beach2:

Yes Freelancer.com is indeed a fucking nightmare. I have had multiple instances of them auto creating a milestone for the FULL amount of a project instantly without prompt and fully funding it from my PayPal account. This is in addition to the milestone I manually create when prompted for the exact same project upon creation. They do some sketchball shit with your PayPal and it's a massive, delayed pain in the dick to get them to correct their totally insane errors. Not to mention to find someone capable you will need to manually sort through 150 auto-response bids which are not even written in accurate English

freelancer really sucks indeed!!

Man was i glad to read this thread, i was also about to use them. smh, it would be nice if you can actually just make connections and not use the site.

Freelancer is awesome. I use it ALL the time and have never had a problem with it. Quit complaining about $2 - $5 fees. If you are worrying about such small amounts, you are never going to take risks, and never be successful business people.

Freelancer is full of people begging 4 money

pringlez said:

Freelancer is awesome. I use it ALL the time and have never had a problem with it. Quit complaining about $2 - $5 fees. If you are worrying about such small amounts, you are never going to take risks, and never be successful business people.

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It's not the amount, it's the action of taking money without telling me. I wrote to support and no reply for a week now.
What happened was I de-authorized freelancer because it took money without telling me. I had to authorize again to make one payment. Guess what? four payments where taken from my account, no explanation at all. Disputing them now, see how we go (Just a side note, they didn't tell me if there where any outstanding payments, and nothing was displayed on my account summery page on freelancer)

Lost $1650 on freelancer last month. I made two pretty big projects of 1200 and 450 in November. After one month I noticed that money are gone from my balance!

They closed employer's account (different employers for those projects, both accounts were frozen by freelancer's team) and in support they keep writing me: "contact your employer" How is that even possible..

Anyway in the beginning they were telling me that money are just frozen because employers have problems with their accounts, after a lot of chat and couple days they told that they took my money because of security reasons, and after I wrote to them that I am actually going to investigate on how they managed my money, they wrote that money were chargebacked by my employer.

Holy cows. So they managed my money and I did not have any messages that chargeback is pending and .. They can not tell me where are my money and I can not get transaction IDs of my transfers because of their Privacy Policy.

I asked for a contact person from their company because I want to sue them and they answered with a contact to their law person legal at freelancer (something like this). I never get response from this email. They are just ignoring me.

I will not care much about $100, but 1650 is my monthly income and I expected these money to be my living money for next month. Seems like no luck with working as a freelancer.

I was under the impression Freelancer was a reputable platform in which to operate on, this thread has opened my eyes somewhat. My only experience with similar services is with Elance which I have yet to encounter any problems.

I never deposit more money than I need, you never know what they can do. I learned the hard way!

Im often lose money there through my resellers as they got reversals so money also deducted from my balance

Freelancer For Life. I Love That Company. Today what i am in all because of freelancer & BHW . Stay Positive People. reelancer Rocks

Fuck freelancer they stole my money and I had to chargeback to get it back. Now my account balance is negative but I will steal all there clients and tell them do the business outside freelancer DDDD fuck freelancer!!! thieves

Good thing I never did any business there.

i have had bad experiences with freelancer too, moved on to elance long back

Super small project = fiverr.com
Medium project= odesk.com
Big project = elance.com

Don't have better idea. I never use freelancer.com

I really appreciate your post! You just made me realize that I have an account there! I need to get rid of it! How did you do to stop them? Is there a way to unsubscribe or something related?