Just used Freelancer.com and had a bad experrience. Picked a freelancer and he was terrible. I did not release and money but had to put a large deposit down, over $600. I was very unhappy with my freelancer and decided to go to another site as I had great experience there. I used upwork.com and 99designs. Should have stuck to them and not tried Freelancer.com. I had to fight the person I hired to get my money back as for some reason they have power to hold your money hostage. After a lot of back and forth and filing a dispute I had to pay $50 USD to get the rest of my money back. Just a terrible customer experience. Again there are much better sites out there that are cheaper and just better in general. Let Frelancer.com die out and the competition win. Back to Upwork or 99designs. Even Fiverr was better!