Joe S.

I submitted a request to them. Here is my request in its entirety:

"I write programs using Excel and VBA to harvest data from ODBC/ADO compliant corporate and cloud databases. I have a requirement to harvest data from a cloud database (Bluebeam) that can only be accessed using OAuth 2.0 and RESTful. I have found an application on the Internet that I was able to download and install on my computer that talks with Google Maps using OAuth 2.0 and RESTful, It can be downloaded from https://github.com/VBA-tools/VBA-Web/releases/tag/v4.1.3. I need someone who can work with my on my computer using Webex to go through the lines of code from the downloaded application and re-direct the calls to go to the Bluebeam database. I need someone fluent in English please."

They immediately closed my account. I suspect the decision to close the account was automated because it came so quickly. I asked them "WHY?" their response was:

"Thank you for contacting Freelancer.com Support.

Your account "ComplyWell" has been closed by Freelancer.com administration due to a violation of our Terms and Conditions. We offer no recourse or rebuttal for this penalty. The funds you have deposited were already reversed to your payment source.

Based on our Terms & Conditions, Freelancer.com may terminate the participation of a user if we think that they are creating problems, legal liabilities (actual or potential), infringing someone else's intellectual property rights, engaging in fraudulent, immoral or illegal activities, or for other similar reasons.

You may refer to the Site's User Agreement Section 23. Right to Refuse Service for more details:

Terms and Conditions
https://www.freelancer.com/about/terms"

Section 23 states:

"23. Right to Refuse Service
We may close, suspend or limit your access to your Account without reason. Without limiting the foregoing, we may close, suspend or limit your access to your Account:

If we determine that you have breached, or are acting in breach of, this User Agreement;
If you under-bid on any Project in an attempt to renegotiate the actual price privately, to attempt to avoid fees;
If we determine that you have infringed legal rights (resulting in actual or potential claims), including infringing Intellectual Property Rights;
If we determine that you have engaged, or are engaging, in fraudulent, or illegal activities;
You do not respond to account verification requests;
You do not complete account verification when requested within 3 months of the date of request;
You are the subject of a United Nations, Australian, EU, USA or other applicable sanctions regime, or our banking and payment relationships otherwise preclude us from conducting business with you;
To manage any risk of loss to us, a User, or any other person; or
For other reasons.
If we close your Account due to your breach of this User Agreement, you may also become liable for certain fees as described in this User Agreement.

Without limiting our other remedies, to the extent you have breached this User Agreement, you must pay us all fees owed to us and reimburse us for all losses and costs (including any and all of our employee time) and reasonable expenses (including legal fees) related to investigating such breach and collecting such fees.

You acknowledge and agree that: (1) the damages that we will sustain as a result of your breach of this User Agreement will be substantial and will potentially include (without limitation) fines and other related expenses imposed on us by our payment processors and Users and that those damages may be extremely difficult and impracticable to ascertain; (2) if you breach this User Agreement, we may take legal action against you to recover losses.

If we close your Account for a reason other than as a result of your breach of this User Agreement, unless as otherwise specified in this User Agreement, you will be entitled to receive any payment due from us to you.

In the event that we close your Account, you will have no claim whatsoever against us in respect of any such suspension or termination of your Account."

I reviewed section 23 but I have no idea what I did wrong. The reader of this review has all of the facts I have.