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As the mother of a child with type one diabetes, I have personally designed a team t-shirt for the JDRF One Walk. I'm NOT a designer or artist by any definition of the word! This year, due to an unusually hectic schedule, I decided to splurge and have someone design the tee for me. The Freelancer.com contest format seemed like a great idea. I paid $80 with the idea that I would have at least a few decent designs to choose from of the 30+ they said would be submitted. RESULTS: 79 entries submitted. Of the 79,23 had blatant copyright infringement (Minions and Pink Panther). Of the remaining 55 entries, 54 of them were either just writing or had nothing whatsoever to do with the theme (Example: a drawing of an astronaut, with no writing or anything to tie it to the theme. Another example: A quote about "Me and My Best Friend" with absolutely nothing to tie it to the provided theme.) I was left with one theoretically acceptable design, that I am now obligated to choose due to contest rules. However, the one 'acceptable' design is not one I would spend hundreds of dollars on to print team t-shirts, so I will be cramming tonight to design something on my own. A total waste of $80. I do NOT recommend this site or their contest format.

We have face difficulty on facing a un cooperated freelancer who do not want to send us the final video to us. And forcing our company to pay before they sent. It is violate the freelancer rule.

But luckily, the service of Freelancer.com is really direct and instantly. They help us to get our rights on the contract and make a fair action here to against any bad situation.

We highly recommend to use freelancer.com as a middle man and make international freelancer trade to be a honest platform.

Nice job! Thanks Troy!

Someone posted an offer for btc transfer,

He needed BTC worth 540usd. I replied and in turn he gave me project immediately,
He made the payment- which appearnt in my account and i transferred btc to his account.

Then after a while i found OUSD in my account because Freelancer banned the buyer and return his funds back,

In the end i had a loss as i made a contact with their support team latter on but they refused to help saying they had returned the money back to buyer and banned his account,

I asked them why dont they bane btc buyers directly but they apologized

Their support team sucks and be aware of btc SCAMMERS on Freelancer.com

NEVER EVER BID ON BTC PROJECTS on FREELANCER.COM

I've used Freelancer.com for more than a couple of years and unfortunately it is one of my least trusting platforms for several reasons. First of all, there's a lot of unwanted micro-transactions going on -- taking a small amount of each credit card you enter in order for "verification"; a lot of currency conversions during the process of getting credit (usually, it goes through 3 conversions with bad conversion rates that are unavoidable); so many limitations that appear as favorable opportunities behind a payment to the site (ex: tests, not able to bid higher priced projects without a paid-membership, etc.). They should stick to only the commissions they get from projects and the promotions like the other sites, not numerous, petty methods to profit from freelancers. The second reason I cannot recommend the site is because I feel that they are posting fake high budget projects in order to lure freelancers into paying for a premium membership. I think these are fake because these projects do not contain any information (even a job description) and are posted almost every week or so. Lastly, customer service and moderation is very bad. Theres been an issue of a freelancer posting fake projects almost everyday for a prolonged period without ever awarding the projects which I believe is to steal unreleased original musical compositions (either to get inspiration from or to steal outright), but theres been no moderation even after a few of us have reported it. Another issue is the bad platform which never seems to improve. Notifications button (and sometimes the message tab) is always lit for weeks after everything is checked. Need huge improvements if to thrive in the future.

I was interviewed immediately by someone named Mr. Sparks, who then immediately turned me over to an IM HR person on Google Hangouts for a live IM interview. The desperation seemed a little strange but then it got weirder. The interviewer was typing like a bot: wouldn't answer my questions, would instead just type copy-pasted blurbs from the website. His email address was also ending *******@gmail.com rather than a professional email address. After answering a few questions, I asked him why I felt like I was talking to a bot. He literally said "Bot? This is an act of professionalism. Understood?" This was the biggest red flag, the rude tone. I left the online interview. If you're going to use this website, please be careful whom you talk to and be mindful of how they are communicating with you and treating you.