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Had similar issues with oDesk, which is now as I know is owned by the same company as freelancer.com. Though it has time tracking and I always tried to bid only
by mk3 12y ago
Had similar issues with oDesk, which is now as I know is owned by the same company as freelancer.com. Though it has time tracking and I always tried to bid only on projects with hourly rates, I got stuck with non paying client which dissapeared from the face of the earth, and even when submitting that project is canceled from my side because of no show they are not closing the project. Not to mention I was not paid at all.
After this incident I decided to move away from oDesk and similar platforms. As the hourly rates are low, and getting repeating clients with whom you already have relationship to work outside oDesk is easy.
Also there is an issue with 3rd world developers who are making impression that freelancers should be paid dime on a buck.
From client side there are different horror stories when clients are scammed into accepting low-rate bidder, and get burned heavily, and then either turn back from these platforms, or turn to accepting only bids from local country.
- flavor8 12y ago> Had similar issues with oDesk, which is now as I know is owned by the same company as freelancer.com Are you sure? Elance and ODesk "merged", but I thought they were still competitors with Freelancer.
- mk3 12y agoSorry my bad, tried all of them stuck with oDesk, at one point in my freelance career, cause they had time tracking quite nicely integrated, then decided that working with clients directly on one hand it's harder to find one outside of the system, while on the other the hourly rate is worth the additional effort. Though I miss badly time tracking capability with screenshots outside of any system where I could share screenshots and work done with my client.
- Bahamut 12y agooDesk and Elance are owned by the same company, but different from Freelancer.
- chrisked 12y agoOdesk and Elance merged. Freelancer is different. They IPO'd in Australia.