Showing posts with label freelancer scam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freelancer scam. Show all posts

Sunday, June 9, 2013

"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.

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Defending yourselves or EXPOSING - Funny comment made against read2learn

Someone defending freelancer.com has made a comment on a forum post saying that one of the blog posts that was made to share the experience about freelancer.com is still kept because "We think he keeps it up there because it gets traffic to his website"! Does this comment defend freelancer.com or exposes the truth about freelancer.com?

Thursday, May 16, 2013

The actual business - Withholding the user's money

At freelancer.com holding freelancer's money is justifiable when it is about reaching the minimum allowed amount before one request for withdrawal despite the fact that users do not like this. But this post is not about that. The victim users know that holding user's money has become a business model for freelancer.com. They apply every trick to keep the money without trying to resolve the issue regarding the disputed money.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Der Untergang - The downfall; Not of Berlin but of freelancer.com!

The world's biggest crowd sourcing market place Freelancer.com is getting back what it payed to its users. A vivid infographic reveals that from more than a year freelancer.com's traffic is falling. Users are gradually abandoning the site. Despite it's frequent take overs of other market places, instead of a boost of traffic, it is facing Dawnfall.

Friday, May 10, 2013

Inducing new (fraud) projects to increase bid package sell

You know that bids are limited for users in Freelancer.com. The more you spend bids the more you are prone to spend money to buy bid quota. Else you will have to wait for the recovery time after which you will be given 1 bid. Freelancer.com is exploiting users by this mechanism. They are inducing false projects to let freelancers spend their bids and later spend money to buy more bid package.