Upwork

My Upwork experience started from March, 2018. I used to have up to ten clients. But the one was strange. It was Emma Serlin. Firstly, she asked to prepare the transcription without opening a contract. Secondly, she said that the result was great and opened the contract in order to pay for the previous file. Then she asked for another transcription and suddenly ended the contract with low feedback. After I asked her what was wrong, she said that she was not satisfied with the results. I can't understand, why she didn't say that she didn't like something when she actually did not like and asked for changes. I don't think this is reasonable. Be aware of such kind of employers, who can make a poo to your job success score.

I have very mixed experiences with upwork, no good ones for SEO, some
Lovely ones for a marketing adviser and photoshopping of images, but
Terrible for website design. Am in the middle of a dispute now, the
Designer was supposed to do design templates for 3 specific pages, and
The layouts, looked great. However his integrating was and still is a
Mess, affecting text and layout on all the pages, to the extent, that I
Am now having to spend hours undoing and re-doing all the work. And the
Upwork view..." it appears that no clear violation of our terms has
Been made"So sure, use them, but you are entirely alone if it goes wrong.

I started out freelancing on Upwork. I bidded for over 30 tasks, a few of them would contact me back only to decline my proposal after I had sent a sample. After two months I receive an email saying the amount of proposals I had submitted without a job means that my skills were not of value in their marketplace, so my account was suspended. I tried to delete my account but they would not even allow me to do that. I contact support to delete my account but I am replied by a bot several times.

I was with Odesk for several years before it became Upwork and have had a good experience with them the entire time. The only problems are that the site goes down more often than I'd like, and it would be nice if they had more payment options in addition to Payoneer and PayPal. They seem honest and aboveboard, the clients I've worked with have nearly always been viable and easy to work with, and their payment process is very straight forward. In addition, I must add that their customer service department has always been exemplary whenever I've had a problem. All in all, I've had a good experience with the company going on almost 6 years now and I intend to continue working with them for the foreseeable future.

Upwork has given me opportunities to connect with great clients from all over the world and build long-term relationships with different companies. It gives protection and security to both the client and me as freelancer. I would recommend Upwork as the platform for everyone looking for online employment.

We got ripped off by our freelancer. Elance released the funds they held from us to the webdesigner even though he had never finished the job. We called the customer service: unfriendly, unprofessional, giving us the feeling that they did not care

And above all

They did not do anything to get back our money or to make sure our website would be finished. In the end we even got charged for copyright violation by GettyImages because the webdesigner had used stolen material from the web.

I do understand all the good reviews from freelancers: they can basically do whatever they want!

I have been working as a freelancer for more than 6 years, working on a lot of websites through the years, and finally found the best website with a super helpful support team and real trustworthy projects.

I worked as client for upwork since it was called oDesk, I have had many open contracts for designers, programmers and developers. I tried to work as a freelancer and I managed to win many contracts, but suddenly my account was suspended and all my contracts were suspended too, as result I couldn't force the freelancers that I hired to continue working and I lost a year of working. I called the support team, an old rude American woman who has no authority to do any thing but telling you to hold and ask you then to talk to the support using ticket system.
By the way, upwork claims that your earning is protected if you choose to be paid hourly, false, they will suspend your account instead.

Upwork is one of the oldest and most popular freelance marketplaces that connects millions of employers and independent contractors from all over the world.

Upwork is the perfect example of what the modern market of freelance marketplaces calls a generic bidding marketplace. And although this model proves to be popular for some, throughout the years both freelancers who get jobs from Upwork and clients who want to hire remote or part-time employees have discovered that it also has some flows. In this article, we aim to point out both pros & cons of Upwork, show you the real Upwork reviews gathered from all over the web, and give you all the information necessary to answer this question for yourself.