oDesk

Odeskwork.com website is a scam, i'm a freelancer i worked there for over a month and they didn't pay me my earnings even thou i applied to withdraw them, and send them multiple emails to verify whats the issue, they never reply to me, and then they closed my account, stealing over 800$ from my earnings.
I managed to get back some via a paypal dispute, but still they took the majority.
I have no faith on website located in india, they are scams.
AN ADVICE to ALL FREELANCERS and EMPLOYERS don't use the website.
IT'S A SCAM... BE AWARE.

You will pay for and Indian job, and half of the time they will not do the job and run with the Money. If you open a case with PayPal PayPal will not refund you
Don't used o desk is not a good place to work

I am still trying to look for project on oDesk but I would say it's sad when you see the demoralizing offers coming from oDesk employers. Being new to oDesk doesn't mean a freelancer is new to "working for someone or for an entity" at all. Why would you offer people from the Philippines 10 cents per hour? Some even entice us to give up 5 stars after getting the job done if we accept such rate. ODesk should block abusive employers who post job vacancies with rates offered way below decency.

There might not be their fault but when you finally got in you think: Ok after all this trouble its gonna worth and I'm gonna be in touch with great clients. No way, the design jobs suck and are so underpaid. I live in Colombia and our coin is so weak compared to US dollar but I still get better paid for my work than the shamefully low amount that those cheap dudes are willing to pay. And most of the jobs are not attractive at all, they look like pulled out of Clients from Hell.

Upwork really sucks. It only promises to solve our problems but it never does. Im highly disappointed with the service of Upwork. There are not one or two problems that we can count on. I dont know why the hell they created Upwork. Its just a website full of useless things. Upwork charges 20% and the employers here look for $1/hr freelancers so working on upwork is like counting pennies. Even the tech staff is not skilled enough and they cannot resolve issues related to tracker.

Buyers have not any protection of refund if they don't like/can't use the work delivered. The freelancer has been paid and prepaid for the work no matter what they deliver. I am the perfect example, I paid A half salary in USD, I can't use anything.

The Risk Management Team locked the accounts of both my developer and I without explanation. Customer Service continually promised I'd hear back in 24-48 hours. The only response I ever got from Risk Management was an email this morning -- 8 days later -- saying that they couldn't respond to my queries until my other complaints had been addressed. As I only have one complaint, their response doesn't make any sense.

I've never seen a bigger display of mismanagement from any company in the history of businesses. This is not an exaggeration folks, it really is that bad. They only care about clients, making short-term profits and refuse to listen to feedback whatsoever.

They accepted a job, I interviewed the guy over Skype. After 10 days, 4 days before deadline, nobody responds :)) ) They hold onto my money for two weeks and simply refunded. I contacted the customer service the guy said do not trust freelancers, it is not oDesk responsibility! Bunch of losers, I wish I could take them to the court.

I signed up for oDesk. I applied to three jobs. I got one of the three. I did it and the other person paid me through oDesk. The oDesk administration immediately suspended my account and the other person's account. Once suspended, I cannot receive my payment and he cannot get it returned. So, oDesk just kept the entire payment for themselves and told both of us the same thing: Your account has been suspended for irregularities. I have searched the web for complaints and I've found this same thing happens regularly. When oDesk gets the money, they suspend the accounts and keep the money. How is this not criminal?

Terrible site to work with. We have tried a lot of contracts with Odesk and it always goes poorly. You either get incompetent people who overstate their qualifications or people who don't finish things on time.
Also, Odesk seems determined to make as much money as they can by continually increasing the minimum wage to increase their revenue. They are not responsive and we have disliked working with them immensely.

I worked on Odesk from March 2014 to March 2015. In 3rd week of March, they suspended my profile without any notice.
It took one week to get a response from them. They started asking about people who I dont even know. After that again I had to wait for 1 week to get to know they are closing my account. Reason (no reason).

I am ready to provide screen shots of conversation to show expose their $#*!.

I have earned 14,000 dollars in a year on odesk. 93% success rate. 15 Successful Projects and I brought 5 people to work on Odesk, 3 employers to hire people from Odesk. The reward got is suspension without reason and then closing of my account.
Odesk Management is bunch of $#*! WHOLES.

Hello!
If you use a laptop (like 99% of the freelancers do) and you don't want headaches I would recommend you stay away from the Odesk time tracking app.
It crashes A LOT and it will make you pull your hair out and work for free for your customers. It crashes and does not notify you, so you keep working and 3 hours later when you check - 0 time logged!
3 weeks later - still working with their support to find a solution - on my time! And money!
:( very disappointing

Adriana

This website is a big scam. Odesk does nothing about it. I got a complaint opened with them and the Better Business Bureau. I won't let it go until I get a refund of my $26.17. Someone scammed me and sent me stolen software from another website and closed the job. How can they close the job marking it complete? I'm the employer! I say when it's complete! I want them to review/change their policy and refund my money.

ODesk did absolutely nothing to earn it's cut.
ODesk had no monitoring system in place or any method to keep a contractor on their deadlines.
The only thing this site did was find me a poor contractor (who never finished to job) They do provide a very nice UI for me to pay them their money.
Never using this service again in my life! It's a shame too as I have many projects requiring contractors, just not a good service to use.

ODESK is terrible! Absolutely terrible! My complaint..."I applied for 8 jobs yesterday I wrote cover letters to all of them. You have decided to suspended my account. So the jobs i applied for are not being seen. Is this fair to you? I have resolved the problem you said i was suspended for yesterday, yet my account is still suspended! I want to make an official complaint about your site! As it is wasting my time and money! I find this absolutely disgusting behavior!"

Yesterday I receive a email that oDesk close my account. I ask several time why and nobody give me a valid reason. They just tell me "it is final decision". And now ban my account in the community forum to not ask WHY. I have 7 feedbacks with max stars. 100% completion rate and still my account is closed and banned from the forum?

ODesk assisted a non-performing programmer to defraud at least $1000 from me after doing no work and lying about delivery. They recovered a small portion but let him keep the rest while they kept me dangling with review process and no means of notice. Caveat emptor! I will be very careful if I ever use odesk again and probably avoid it. -Professor John Amaral

I had been signed up with ODesk for 2 weeks when I was scammed out of $3,100. I had applied for a database entry job and an assistant job. Both job postings were a scam. I am a single mother trying to get extra income and I am left with a huge debt due to my interacion on O"desk. I have filed a complained with O"desk 3 weeks ago and nobody has contacted me. This was the first time looking for work on the internet and it will be my last time. DO NOT TRUST THE "COMPANIES" on this site!

I had three year old odesk account with four active project. Odesk disabled it without any proper reason. My husband opened another account and continued the work. Odesk team disabled that account without any proper reason. It had impacted project progress without any issue. I had provided my accurate address and identity. Support and risk management team are unreasonable and rude people.

I highly recommend to avoid Odesk and use other options available in Market. There are plenty.

Odesk doesn't really care. At all. Even if you are the client, agency owner or even just a freelancer, they don't care. I don't know if it's because of Elance and oDesk merger but still, they don't care.

The worst thing that could ever happen to me in terms of paying for services. It was so bad that the freelancer offered me some money back to give him a 5 star rating, i didnt accept it and took it to Odesk Mediation team, they said there was nothing they could do after 30 days of waiting and that they would refund me 1/10th of the money the made to use to find another $#*! on odesk. Its just garbage, there is no protection against customers. Never using it again Never!

I have done 24 successful projects. Having 5 star in 23 project and 4.40 in 1 project. No desputes, no client complaints, good responsiveness.

There is no reason to close my account but then told me that they didn't seen improvements in my profile. I have 4.99 ratings overall then now what they want me to improve?

They are cheaters. I asked them to give me PROPER reason to close my account but they are not replying to my emails.