Chris B.

All the money is shipped offshore as soon as it is deposited. Every client is Western and every contractor is ISIS. Many contractors had names like Tom, $#*! and Harry but they communicate in broken English.

The hiring system makes it impossible for anyone imported from oDesk or Elance to get hired. I went from a level 11 with 4.8 stars on Elance to an unexplained 63% completion rate on Upwork.

I contested this arbitrary 63% completion rate since out of nearly 100 contracts I only returned/refused 2. They got back to me over 6 MONTHS later saying they would look into it.

The site is a fraud. You are better off surfing Craigslist.

First of all the tiny bit of good. Guru seems to do some quality control on their job posters. Most jobs are legit from decent people.

Then the bad. The escrow system allows you to automatically bill your client without providing any results. All the money is instantly funneled offshore despite their lies about being located in Philly or NY. You add those two details together and you get a scam site. Where most freelance sites like to scam the contractor Guru goes after it's clients.

The order went though and I got my food when I was supposed to. This would be a win except I made the huge mistake of trusting GrubHub with the personal phone number that I have shared with the restaurant.
GrubHub sold my personal number to telemarketers and they started calling before I even got my food. I will never use GrubHub again.