Upwork

I had an amazing experience in Elance, jobs were easy to browse based on clients background and number of proposals submitted and also I used to get invites from which i bagged many projects! BUT UPWORK IS TOTAL $#*!, the whole user interface for freelancer is mundane, you really dont have much option to browse though the jobs you fit in, and the fee structure is a total fraud, if you get work of $100, you only get paid $60 and on top of it, the minimum job rate are literally minimum, atleast ELANCE had a bar of $20. In ELANCE for abt 3 months and made almost $2k working part time, however ever since this UPWORK $#*! happened i am busting my a** on regular basis and i have been awarded ZERO jobs!

Where do I begin?
Customer service? NOT!
Transparent? NOT!
OK, the good stuff. I have never had a client who did not pay. Gotta know this, almost all my freelance clients came from Elance. My five ThrowUpWork clients have been very good to pay.
The major problem-the so-called Job Success Score. This is life's greatest mystery. For some reason my score dropped below 77. Invites are pretty much non-existent now.
ThrowUpWork reassures us that scores above 75 are good.
Oh? Every job proposal has the little button activated, the one for a score of 90 or better.
They obviously have a lack of mathematics knowledge because 90 is NOT 75.
I raised the issue on the message board. The response from ThrowUpWork?
'Life's not fair!' Seriously.
But there is a remedy. An email said if I upgrade to a higher-level account my status will change.
Not a surprise! First, ThrowUpWork takes 20% of what I earned and now there is an attempt to squeeze more.
I apologize for giving one star but as we all know there is no negative-star feature.

FedUpWork

I hired a highly rated Thai translator. He was supposed to do translation for a piece for me. It had some Isan words in it but he was meeting with a Thai person that knew those definitions. He not only didn't have the discussion, he charged me for work he didn't do. When I followed up with him, our entire discussion was why he charged me for work he didn't do. So he then charged me for the discussion as well. I was charged the highest rate, 30.00 an hour for this.

When I asked for a refund, he accepted the refund. He gave me back 1.00. That closed my options for a dispute.

The second translator I had do a presentation I was giving. She was supposed to give me the Thai translation. She gave me this stuff that had multiple options in it, with notes about the work mixed into the translation I was supposed to cut out. She asked me, a person who I made it very clear could not read or write Thai (that's why I hired her!) to proofread her work, pick the best word all in Thai, no English whatsoever to guide me, then edit out the stuff that was just notes to me. Incredible. I'm done with UpWork,. They also did not publish either of my negative reviews, so this whole website feels shady.

Avoid - July 2017. Having been scammed before when working directly with freelancers, but having good experiences with fiverr, I needed a place to get some development done. I was delighted to find responsive developers and an escrow system and had my first job completed within 24 hours and happily released funds. And then, I couldn't get the freelancer to do any more jobs. Apparently, they couldn't get the money from Upwork either. I queried this with Upwork and was told they had permanently suspended the developer with the weasily response ". We are unable to provide details as to why we have done this". Great! So the great experience I have with the freelancer, upwork decide to bin for a reason that only upwork knows, and force to me to find another way to work with the developer. It literally doesn't get worse than this. If upwork cared for their customers (like me) they would at least have the decency not to hide their reasons. So upwork have my escrow money sitting in their account earning interest. My freelancer hasn't been paid. Bad result.

Upwork as a platform is game changing! I've monetised my skills with 5 jobs completed on my first week on the platform as a freelancer. Really excited to see the potential here! Highly recommend.

Upwork is a great Business Galaxy, where you can connect top professionals around the globe!
If you are looking for Potential High Quality work, Upwork is a great platform for you!

I am really happy working through upwork. I always have new clients and the website is really trustful. I trust upwork services and policies. Again, I don't regret being a freelancer at upwork.