Gustavo A.

Short version: Freelancer.com wins money when the employer creates the project and when a worker accept it. Both times freelancer.com gets his money no matter what happens afterwards. The ideal scenario for freelancer.com is to have lots and lots of employers, even if they are thief's, scammers, it doesn't matter, freelancer.com is winning money with this.

Long version: The first project an employer accepts me, it was for $70 and I payed $7 to freelancer.com the moment I accept to do the work. The employer didn't want to make the milestone payment but since he has 12 5-star reviews I accept to do the work first.

After 3 days of work, the employer wants more stuff done even thought I've done everything that was in the project. I've said I would do it after the payment, since I already has done the job.

Then, the employer reviews me with 1-star, marked the project as incomplete. AND USED THE SITE I DONE AS HIS MAIN WEBSITE. Since when I showed him the site, he just steal all the code. His was malicious since the beginning because I put the site on air for just 10 minutes so he can see the project, but he already know how stuff works and grabbed the code.

The fun stuff starts now. Since he didn't pay me I can't review him. WTF? That's why he has 12 5-star reviews in 120 projects! I didn't know that before, but if someone has lots of projects and few reviews DONT ACCEPT IT. If we can just review when we get paid, it's obvious we'll review for 5-star.

That way employers never gets bad reviews. And keep posting projects and getting the results for only $3. And freelancer.com keep winning money. And workers losing it...

The result for me (worker): Minus $7. Work 3 days. Get a 1-review (less chance of find work).

The result for employer: Pay $3 (pay to create the project) to get a FULL HOMEPAGE DONE!

The result for freelancer.com: Won $10

While they don't change that skewed review system THE SITE IS UNUSABLE.

Since the employer is a thief I'm posting his data. If I can't do that please remove the links

THE EMPLOYER
https://www.freelancer.com/u/jeremiahfarris.html?ref_project_id=*******

THE SITE (I"VE MADED IT but with good quality, the guy is so bad that he screwed it to put it online haha, way better deal to pay the $70 and get a good site)

http://eternityready.com

(A christian site by the way)

UPDATE:
They reply my ticket:

"Hello Luis,

Thank you for contacting Freelancer.com Support.

We understand your frustration regarding this. As previously mentioned, the option to leave a feedback and ratings is only available for both parties once the project is completed. Moreover, the feedback system is between an employer and their freelancer and it is not designed for us to intervene."

--- As you can see the feedback is only available for BOTH parties after the project is complete. But BEFORE that the employer can give you 1-star and you can't review him. It'd make more sense for BOTH parties give review AFTER the project is done. This site wants the most employers they can get, don't matter if they are scam or not, they're making money.

--- I'm trying to get the fee I payed for this project back from paypal (since the project didn't complete). Freelancer.com escalate the dispute for $7 so PAYPAL decide who will get this money.

I've never see a company like that. In general, companies that works serious refund the money with no problem at all. STAY AWAY!

----------- UPDATE ---------------
Paypal decided that I'm right and the $7 is refunded! If you got scammed, escalate a dispute in paypal and they will decide in your favor.