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I have the same experience
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Freelancer.com is not a scam at all. They have a milestone payment system in place to prevent situations like this. All freelances are encouraged to prompt employers to deposit funds into the milestone payment system. Once this is done and if the money is not released after the work is completed you are then able to dispute it and Freelancer.com will then release the funds after they have investigated the situation.
By not telling your employer that work will not start until milestone payment is made you are opening yourself to a bad situation like this.
By not telling your employer that work will not start until milestone payment is made you are opening yourself to a bad situation like this.
even though i think its a great website, but there is a flaw in there.. just recently i got a job done from Writeandgetpaid ( a freelancer from freelancer.com ), i created 100% milestone. Once he delivered me the articles ( job ), i took 3 days to check and then released the milestone. in those 3 days, this freelancer repeatedly asked me to release payment but the most surprising thing was that he told me to write good reviews once i clear his payment so that he can do the same. Once i released his payment, i wrote genuine review about the freelancer and in return because i didnt give all 5 stars, he gave negative review to me ( as employer ) . Then, the most funny part, he emailed me saying that he wrote the review i response to my review.. Thats funny but at the same time its blackmailing. He indirectly blackmailed me to write good reviews about him..and i can report this to freelancer.com ( may be i dont know where should i )!!
All i will say is stay away from Writeandgetpaid ( a freelancer from freelancer.com ) because his reviews are not genuine.
All i will say is stay away from Writeandgetpaid ( a freelancer from freelancer.com ) because his reviews are not genuine.