You can bid and ask for milestone. Employer awards you, you ask employer to create milestone but employer says" freelancer suggests me that only create milestone if project is completed". And freelancer suggests me "Only accept job if employer create milestone". Employer enjoys total right create milestone or not. But what to worker? Just bid; get project completed; give commission to freelancer.com before you earn and go back empty hand.
My suggestion to those who want to work on freelancer; dont trust this website. If employer have good review; they have only good. Because freelancer doesn't allow to share your experience with them. They only allow to rate if project completes successfully. If project is not successful they can't so how other can know that he is good or not. Dont trust on their rewards(badges) like payment method verified, made deposit and blah blah. Its totally crap this doesn't help for anything. Its just stylizing your profile.
Freelancer.com is only in hunger with your money. They just seeks money where they can get. Not good support; no protection of employer and worker. And milestone is only "$#*!" id doesn't do anything for you except holding money(if employer pays)
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