US $636 has not been paid by freelancer.com

There many reports that freelancer.com is not letting its users withdraw the money they have earned. This is not done only to the freelancers but even with those who post projects - the employers. Among many many incidents here is one that mentions about ripping a user off.


This was reported by some one who wrote with the name (or pen-name) Festus Ndebele. As per the source, the freelancer lost his hard earned US $636 as the employer failed to respond freelancer.com's order to supply additional papers. When they took project fee they didn't care to ask to verify the user. But after taking their fee they started blocking money.


The freelancer from South Africa stated that despite the fact that the employer was marked as verified, freelancer.com blocked the money and said that without additional papers from the employer they will not let him get his payment.


Informing freelancer.com that the employer has his own wish to respond or not to respond to their demand was in vein. Even after 12 weeks the money was kept by freelancer.com. Festus Ndebele also wrote-

Instead, there is some disagreement  between my employer and Freelancer.com and I am caught in the middle.   I did a search to see if  other people had experienced this problem and to my amazement I found hundreds of similar complaints about FreeLancer.com not paying the wages it collects from employers.