"In short, Freelancer.com acts illegally, binds users to terms that either do not exist or do not relate to the users situation"

The title of the article actually is the comment made by a user of freelancer.com! Though his problems got solved after his public post about the issues with freelancer.com, the memories that he shared in his site give a vivid picture about how freelancer.com is operated. Along with challenging so called legal obligations, the user also pointed out the bad quality of the customer service.

The boomerang comment - An example of mention-worthy REUSE

On Linkedin, the CEO of freelancer.com was discussing some other thing, where he said- Sorry, but who are these f*cking morons? The discussion was about ACS and it's policies, nothing related to freelancing or Freelancer.com. But the point is that someone made a mention worthy reuse of the phrase to explain that how users feel about freelancer.com.

Legal threat to Kent Mauresmo - unfortunate attempt of Freelancer.com

After complaints after complaints by the users about it's malpractices, when it became irresistible for the outsourcing market place to tolerate free speech and true stories, freelancer.com chose the way of threatening. A former users of the site wrote a blog entry describing his sufferings with the site and got huge response from the readers. There are still some 350+ comments there. His ISP was sent a legal notice claiming that the blogger is violating copyright and the blogger himself was threatened by saying that he was defaming the company. Freelancer.com failed to understand the old saying - "what you reap is what you saw".

The surprise of NEGATIVE BALANCE - J.S. Wayne's experience

The issue of ripping a worker off through project fee where the worker is not paid for the said project has caused J.S. Wayne to leave the site forever. But as his balance was negative freelancer.com was reluctant about hearing his request. But how his balance gone negative? The answer is "project fee" for accepting a project for which the employer never paid him. Freelancer said that as his account balance is negative, his account will remain temporarily suspended unless he deposits money.

Request withdrawal of your money - the suspension nightmare will descend up on you

The more you will read the reviews of the users about freelancer.com, it will become clear that the term "verification" tickles into the head of the operators at freelancer.com when users submit a withdrawal request. They want you to bring money to their site. No verification will be asked. The will take money from you for depositing the money, posting a project, accepting a project... without any verification. But when you will submit withdrawal request for the deposited money or earned money, soon your account will be suspended.