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Freelancer.com has ruined my life

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Re: Freelancer.com has ruined my life

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This is why I only take clients from there and make em pay me in either bitcoin, paypal or skrill (after project completion of course) the people that own and work on this site are just too sketchy, acting like gangsters more than a firm and I wouldn't trust them with my money.

Re: Freelancer.com has ruined my life

#5

Can someone with experience explain how freelancer.com works and how the account holds work?

basically you get a job from there, client makes a project offer, you accept the project from their interface and your funds go in escrow. Except sometimes the support people there feel like taking 30$ and 50$ here and either make up excuses or straight up take your cash without explaining themselves.

Re: Freelancer.com has ruined my life

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Can someone with experience explain how freelancer.com works and how the account holds work?

Account hold usually means that the person cannot withdraw their funds. According to this text, it looks like "on-hold" accounts cannot start new projects too. Effectively last step before the complete ban and a nice way to say GTFO.

Re: Freelancer.com has ruined my life

#10
I don't understand why he would blame Freelancer and not himself. How do you even sleep at night if you rely completely on one platform? It's also widely known that all those sites suck and the same story happens over and over again.
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