Freelancer.com

I have used this service after 2 weeks work like a charm. About service charge, you should be beware recurring payment. They charge everything if you want more option like highlight, seal, etc. So you should be considering before click anything I recommend you should use Paypal for payment better be safe if you worry about payment.

The Pro They offer to get free premium service for 1 month which another freelancer service not even offer any free service to you at all Strong community can drive more sell and support your work

The Cons Really hard to pass high score exam even in level 1. It does not look like level 1 anyway I have been testing some skills which I have experienced more than 5 years but can not get 100% pass mark.

For malware or danger things I have been checked with WOT, McAfee and Virustotal not see anything wrong. https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/freelancer.com http://www.mcafee.com/threat-intelligence/site/default.aspx?url=https://www.freelancer.com https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/8f3b95e37c382540322fe4cbc493e4cf19d1134191c76c8230181285d5204625/analysis/

Their pricing introduces bad incentives

When does Freelancer make money?

1. When a project gets paid - which is the correct way to charge fees. That way, if you don't find work, they don't get paid either.
2. When you buy their "membership subscription", which gives them money in exchange for more bids. Why would you ever pay for this? Problem is, the free tier has just 8 bids. This will get you hired at most once a month, and it's not enough. So, this is the real way Freelancer makes money: scamming you into paying for the "treatment" letting you apply to tons of spam projects instead of giving you the "cure".

Support is a joke.

I have three support tickets on various issues. All were closed by Freelancer and not me. Of these, only one satisfied me.

I have a recent ticket about their handling of VAT. Support told me that they forwarded my request to the "relevant team" and they'll contact me later, but their ticketing system tells me to contact them again if I still need help, otherwise they'll close the ticket. "Once your ticket is resolved, our agents will no longer respond."

Isn't this a joke?

Another one is about the project price filter. You can search and filter all you like; but it only works haphazardly; some projects just don't get filtered out.

Same story. I was assured that the problem was relayed "to our engineering team. Rest assured that we will coordinate with them and we'll inform you once we received an update. ", after which their system automatically closed the ticket, then I heard nothing for over a month and a half (still doesn't work).

If I can't even filter properly, how am I supposed to bid my 8 free bids?

I did receive a response for one ticket. It was about how the project location filter works. If you search for a project in a specific location, they told me you only get projects that NEED to be done in a specific location; not projects with the employer in a specific location, as I believed. This is completely useless to me as a software developer - I am interested in selecting the countries of my employer because of differing amounts of paperwork.