Upwork

I was a client on Upwork. Hired a freelancer who turned out to be a fraud! He tricked me into paying him lying that the deadline had been approached BEFORE I had a chance to review his finished work. On completion, it turned out he had stuck me with a FREE SSL certificate for my website that was going to expire in 90 days. It did not even have my domain name on it! It caused a security red flag on my website. I had to spend MORE MONEY to fix it. When I showed them proof of that, free-lancer admitted to giving me a FREE certificate to expire in 90 days. But Upwork DID NOTHING to get me back my money. ASKED ME TO PAY AN ADDITINAL $300 TO GET BACK $150! BEYOND RIDICULOUS!

I started my freelancing career on Upwork 7 months ago. There are a lot of jobs which are fit with my skills and I met some great clients. I really enjoy working on Upwork!

UpWorks escrow system is very helpful for me. I like their security measures to protect freelancers and clients. Their customer support is readily available by phone. Their website is sometimes hard to navigate. I like their option for phone and video conference through Upwork although many clients don't seem to have a clue how to use it -- maybe some client instructions on that could be added. I would also like to see the service fee % set for total Upwork sales level rather than only on repeat client sales. More and more freelancers are using Upwork for work that doesn't get repeat clients such as in my business of landscape designs which target homeowners who have only one property to landscape and my designs will last for years. This is discriminatory to businesses such as mine. Since client's payment methods and my bank have been verified at the time of hire, why does UW take so long before the payments are transferable and show up in my bank account when the transactions are electronic?

Upwork is the best freelancing marketplace for the freelancer like me who are trying to grow his/her career with a full of joy. I recommended Upwork for the self employed people for their career.

I am SO glad I did not begin any work at all through Upwork. I was told in the past of their unreputable practices, but I took a chance and created a profile anyway. In the midst of a contract discussion, I informed the client that I was going to contact my bank to confirm the claims Upwork had made regarding payment options and bank policy vs their policy. I decided after a day or two that I really wasn't interested in the contract offered, so returned to the website to decline and found they had suspended my account for "policy violations" of attempting to work out offers with clients off the site. That did not happen whatsoever, and I kept all of my emails exchanged with the client - and also informed the client of the accusation and they said they knew nothing about it. It was the only contract on the table, so they are definitely up to something weird. Every freelancer worth their salt knows how to secure their own gigs anyway. Don't bother with this one. You'll likely waste your time!

I`am highly recommend UpWork for a new Users and people ho wants to prove him selves and can gets some fund for this.
UpWork give a opportunity for new level of experience.
UpWork is a best site for Freelancering and i now will be fist in the worold after cople of years.
Make acount now to get benefits later.
Now is your chanse to be someone ho want to be belive in your self and start your dream to be real get in UpWork family.

We spent almost 2 hours trying to use Upwork to get a project started. Upwork first of all DOES NOT HAVE phone support. THE 24/7 855 phone support is 100% fake and deceitful. You will start as number 7 or 8 and when you get to 1, they will tell you there are no Representatives to support you and to email them instead. If you use the chat function, the reps will provide you with cookie cutter answers to any issues, most being useless.
Upwork charged our CC for the amount $2000, then required us to call the bank and get the amounts they charged to our account to verify ownership. After verification, the programmer started working but then UPWork decided to hold his payment and are stating they will release it after several days.
Furthermore they did not have any knowledge of the distribution of our private details placed within search engines to raise their search placement (complaints written below). If you read about the complaints on Odesk and Elance you will see that this company is run no differently. The fake 855 number is one tell tale sign of how this company runs their operation. I suggest everyone file a complaint with the BBB, post your experience in forums and online reviews sites.