I certainly lost a lot of freelancers, but I also gain a lot, money loss and project delays mostly due to over promises etc. But my gains was tremendous, I gain as friends some of the best technical brains in the various OS because I had hired them as freelancers, found them to be fantastic and keep hiring them. Their help far far exceed my losses in those inept freelancers. Sometimes you may be unlucky to pick up a stone, other times you may pick up an unpolished it all depends on luck I guess.
If you only escrowed the money you can get it back, I did a few weeks ago. I think in Buyer Activity you can cancel the project, after that you get some options in a drop down menu. I can't remember them exactly but it's pretty straight forward I think. If you get stuck you might have to contact support and get them to explain it, it's pretty simple though I think.
can u show me some details regarding ur project? also, at GAF, once u pay someone, u never can get that money back, Its a GAF policy, there is no arbitration system at GAF
If you usee gaf and you payed them not puten in Escrow money are lost .... It's your foult even gaf says to use the ESCROW
to who ever surgessted to make a claim... it worked his talking to me, his sending me the project tomorrow
I've had bad experiences but also good ones. They're better for simple things. IE graphic design, link building, easy forum posting.. it's important to check if they speak well and also their rating. #1 being quality of writing. If they don't write 99% well, even though that's the first thing you'll be judged on, then they aren't serious.
Obay can you invite your coder here? we all want to hear his vision. ....I'm kinda tired to hear requests to create a "basic" clone of adwords/phpbb/aweber/etc for $500 and complains that the project is "half done" after 2 weeks of work and a working prototype.....
locdev, that's what I tried to ask him earlier, just in hidden way Personally the way he sounds here (starting even from the name of thread) speak for itself.
I completely understand what you are saying. If the dude gave you a beta, why are you upset and wanting your or in this case, the money that he has worked for. You wouldnt work a job 2 weeks and they fire you and say you arent getting paid. It just doesn't happen that way. I always figure, you get what you pay for, I remember when I was bidding for a major retail store hired me. They said that my work showed them the price that would be acceptable. I encourage all freelancers to stick by your price, it gets discouraging not to get the bids at time but in the long run. You will end up ahead. Peace, J
The problem is that people bid asininely low, freelancers get desperate because they can't pay the bills on such shitty wages, and rather than pass up the project, they just take the deposit. If the price you paid was good, the guy would want to finish and get the other half. If he's not in the US, your an idiot and he might not even know how to program. Anyway, I quit freelancing and just got a job making 35k a year with medical, and 12 days a year off, and a 5k a year raise after the first 90 days - and I'm probably the worst paid programmer in the whole city Once all this "I want YouTube+Facebook+mySpace for $500" shit dies down, I might come back - atm I'm just excited to *only* work a 40 hour week.
in every good thing there is bad thing involved does that mean the whole thing is bad no , there are thousands and thousand freelancers around the world and 100 of them are noob you are right anyway , for a person to start off this career off a designer and stuff he becomes freelancer , just makes fake profile and grab some projects for money , later become pros you got into a hand of new comer
I myself am a freelancer, I take offence to this post. Obviously you just chose a bad freelancer and that blame could partially be squared onto you. I'm not trying to start anything here I'm just saying that a verbal agreement just isn't enough when it comes to freelancing. You should never undertake a freelancer when there isn't some kind of clear agreement in place. It sounds like this freelancer didn't present himself professionally from the start. You have to be careful who you chose but you can't always see things going well. Sorry to hear about your bad deal, don't let it ruin your faith in the freelancers who are very competent at what they do. - Dwayne Charrington.