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9/15/14

VWorker veteran here. (2005-2012 rip. Last rating: top 300)

I am staying away from freelancer.com after they acquired vWorker. Firstly, I don't understand the reason why they acquired vWorker, almost all of the freelancers knew about freelancer.com but they didn't use it. It's reason may be various: policies, bidding structure, arbitration, support etc... A lot of people chose vWorker and vWorker really had it's own culture of freelancing.

Once freelancer.com acquired any other already running business, they SHOULD respect the other culture which directly affects thousands of people.

One simple example, I have tons of successfully completed projects and I kept hidden the information about project prices. I have my own reasons to keep it hidden. What happened in freelancer.com? All of my projects' prices are now public and support service says it's impossible to hide them.

If they are not supporting old work culture of vWorker, why did they acquire it?

This is why I quit working with freelancer.com, they think they can force people work with them.

Tip for consumers:
vWorkers of the world, unite. (and build another vWorker!)

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Jielyn L. – Freelancer Rep Over a year old

Hi there David, Marcus of Freelancer.com here. Thank you for sharing your feedback about how you've felt when we acquired vWorker. Shoot me an email at marcusc@freelancer.com as I would like to hear more about your experience in our site and see what we can do to improve our Customer Experience. Thank you, David.