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The "Black Freelancer" List of Freelancer.com
The “black freelancer” is a list of people on freelancer.com with whom you should never do business with. If you know other names worthy of being on the “black freelancer” list post a comment below and I’d them right away.
1. xplore (4.7/5 stars) – I worked with this person in 2011. Everything was ok on the website; he made a milestone and everything. He asked to work outside the website and I…
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50 Going on 50k (Part 4)
I would rather work as a freelancer my whole life, give the finger to the state rather than 20% of my salary, and enjoy my freelance money.
I’m 26 years old and I’ve worked once in my whole life. I’m talking about a real job – not the hostess kind of job where you get to smile and look pretty all day. I was a waitress for 2 whole summers back in 2009 and 2010. I was in college so I wanted to…
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50 Going on 50k (Part 3)
“I had to drink a lot of Redbull to get where I am today!”
Back in 2010, when the term “freelancer” was barely known by the people, winning a project was not really that hard. I started slow. I researched everything I could on “freelancing” and I tried to understand the concept. I went through a lot of struggles. I actually started with elance.com; I gave up in 3 minutes only to come back on the…
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Top 10 disadvantages of Freelancer.com
I decided to do this post in English because I would like the website in question to read it as well. Freelancer.com keeps bragging with their 7 million users. So what? The website is getting more and more confusing with every day that goes by. They don’t seem to understand what people want, they don’t seem to listen to anyone, and therefore I believe they’re sinking. Whether I’m right or wrong, only time will decide!
1. Freelancer.com – the only site that charges a fee prior to getting paid
Freelancer.com is the only freelancing website that charges a fee prior to getting paid. That’s crazy! You make an account, you win a $250 project, and you get stuck with a debt of $25 if your employer doesn’t pay you. Both elance.com and odesk.com are charging their fees after the freelancer was paid. Hence, as a worker you have nothing to lose.
2. Freelancer.com or freelancer.in?
Freelancer.com is a dead market for aspiring online writers, marketers, developers, and so on. The platform is already packed with Indians that have over 500 reviews on their profiles. They’re everywhere, they’re cheap, they don’t do good work and they can barely speak and write in English. It’s extremely difficult to compete with them as their teams will work for up to $1 per article and $3 per hour. I’m not saying they’re not good people, but from my personal experience they’re like plague on freelancing websites.
3. Freelancer.com – an ideal platform for a scam
There’s no better place to get scammed than on freelancer.com. A lot of employers on freelancer don’t want to place a milestone prior to starting a project. As a starting freelancer you want to take a chance and see what happens. Don’t do that! Don’t take a chance on freelancer.com. A trusted employer should be willing to place a milestone before the start of a project. A fake employer will ask you to do the work and get paid after. Watch out as they’re everywhere!
4. Freelancer.com – a sneaky, sneaky platform!
Don’t verify your payment on freelancer.com! Don’t verify your credit card! That’s one of the biggest mistake you’ll ever make. Freelancer.com grabs their fee the moment you win a project. If your project is worth $250, their fee is $25. If you don’t have money on your freelancer account your balance will have a negative amount of -$25.
However, because this platform is soooo sneaky, they changed that. By verifying a payment (credit card, paypal, moneybookers, etc) they will AUTOMATICALLY extract money from your personal accounts if you don’t have cash on your freelancer.com account. So, picture this: I am a new freelancer on freelancer.com. I bid and I win a $2,500 project. If I havepayment verified and I have money on my credit card, paypal or moneybookers, the platform will take their fee from my personal account, namely $250. So, if the employer is a scam and there’s no milestone placed, I will lose that money forever. If you don’t have money on your credit card, paypal, or moneybookers your account will have a negative balance of -$250. Again, if there’s no milestone placed and it’s a scam your account will remain on negative. If you don’t pay the fee your account will eventually be closed.
In order to minimize this risk, the platform invented this stupid feature ‘verify payment’ just to make sure they get their money no matter what.
5. Freelancer.com – Indian winners only!
Freelancer.com has the habit of organizing weekly, monthly, and annual contests and competitions for designers, writers and so on. In 80% of the cases the winners are those from Asian countries, namely India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. I’ve never seen an American, French or a Dutch win one of their precious $50,000 contests, ever!
6. Freelancer.com – one of the most confusing platforms out there!
Freelancer.com is one of the most confusing, poorly-designed freelancing platforms on the market. I started in 2010 when everything was so simple, I loved it. Now, in 2013, things have changed to 360 degrees. It’s a total mess. Bidding on a project is sooooo confusing. You can’t attach files, you can’t explain your bid because it’s visible to everyone, and the message system is dreadful. You can’t scroll down the page, you receive errors all the time when it comes to attaching files, oh my God should I go on?
7. Freelancer.com – useless features!!!!!
Freelancer.com is struggling to surpass elance.com, so they came up with the ‘work hourly’ feature. I have to say it’s completely useless. On both elance.com and odesk.com you have a program that you have to download. Using that program the employer can monitor your working hours. It’s like a live machine that does periodic print screens to your desktop. It allows the employer to observe you. Freelancer.com introduced the hourly feature just to add something. Nobody can actually prove that you work a specific amount of hours. As I said, completely useless!!!!
8. Freelancer.com – commissions over commissions
Just like every freelancing website, freelancer charges 10% of your winnings. However, that’s not all. You win a project, they take 10% commission – you receive a milestone and when that milestone is released they take another commission. I mean seriously??? It’s like working for the state.
9. Freelancer.com – not a place for writers anymore
When I started on freelancer.com in 2010 there were over 800 active jobs in the writing category. I had so many options to choose from, so many employers and a lot of interesting projects. Now they’re barely 350 and most of them are scams. 1 in 10 projects pays more than $5 per 500 words, so why stay? I decided to leave freelancer.com and focus on a platform I knew it was good from the start, elance.com. Back then my skills were not that polished for elance, so I got stuck with freelancer.
10. freelancer.com – it’s just irritating
Last but not least, I would like to close this list by saying that freelancer.com is just irritating. It’s not a pleasant working environment anymore. Most projects in my section are not even real, the platform is packed with Indians who are barely offering $2 per 500 words, so why should I stay?
Quit freelancer.com, go for elance.com
I decided to focus on elance.com more, and my work has paid off. My elance account is from 2011. I used it for the first time in January 2013 when I finally won my first project. At this point I have 15 reviews, over $2,500 won and an excellent reputation. It’s so simple to make an account, so easy to work on the platform. I love it! You have 40 bids per month and the 8% fee is taken by the site after you get paid, so you have nothing to lose. Give it a try!