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I recently worked with "Designcreative" in Freelancer.com. Before you decide to work with this company, please read the review first. I need to tell you this company is an inexperienced and team located in India just got an agent in USA or a faked IP address to show them in USA, so if you want to pick a freelancer in USA to work with. This will be the first trap. Don’t believe it, ask them directly or you can locate the IP of developers log on your server but it’s too late when you can find out this truth by yourself. Wrong location of developers slowed down the communication. I live in Vancouver, so this team tried to work with me between 9:00pm and 6:00am next day or blamed me no quick response. When I questioned it, they said they never said the team is in USA. It looks like I was playing with a 12 years old girl. I can tell you the only creative design is their profile. Second trap: After I sent my design ideas to them. I received a professional answer actually just yes to everything with some powerful words and quick responses to show their good CRS skills. They are very good actors to gain your project. By the way, have a look of how many projects they are bidding and percentages they finished. Third trap: they will rush you to release milestone. You will be told a team is waiting for your project. You can imagine about 10 programmers get nothing to do and waiting to start your project and wish to finish your project ASAP. Is it true? Again, have a look of how many projects they are bidding and the percentages of projects they finished. That’s a lie. Forth trap: Sorry, there’s no forth trap anymore. You released milestones already and Freelancer.com can’t retrieve them for you. You can check with Freelancer.com regarding milestone rules. Arguments: They will argue everything with you what they have said yes. Nothing wrong if you are thinking you are dealing with a 12 years old girl. They just want more money, that’s all. Communication: You have to repeat everything again, again and again. Sometimes I thought I forgot mention something. After I checked my Emails I found they really don’t have time to read you E-mails, they only try to find a few key words. I sent an E-mail to say please not set the store for Canadian to a French link but shows English because I don’t speak French. Now, I got a French store with Lang=French link. Because the E-mail key word is French. They read E-mails like Google. Skills: If you are a programmer like me, or if you really spent more than 2 months to research Magento plus a little designer experiences, or if you like to find solutions on forums by yourself. Then, you have more skills than the team from India. I mean you can pick another India team but not this one. I felt this team got no background on programming, no Magento designer licenses for sure the only thing they know is to find solution from forums for you to gain a five star by solving a little tricky problems. If you need them to some something need strong programming designer background, you will 100% fail your project. My project: promised 12 days to finish it, but by the end of 12th day only 20% finished I mean quantity if consider quality then I would like to say 5% finished including a free extension installed through Magento connect. Even though, they never save a single copy of my store to my server in 12 days after they messed up template and extensions. The only choice I have is install a clean Magento again to re do everything over again instead uninstall malfunctioned everything. Their manager said they can fix everything and finish the project in next 5 days. This is another trap. You know you must quit them to avoid more damages, then it’s your fault. It looks they are willing to make things beautiful but you quit. You don’t quit them then another few days pain to have a nasty web store you really dream your competitors have it, anyway you will be told job perfectly done as confirmed, you need to release the balance of milestone or start to argue again for more money to fix it. Anyway I quit the India based team with a USA flag and a creative designed profile.

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The worst website of this kind ever. It is a complete fraud (s. http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/getafreelancercom-c121389.html; http://www.xomreviews.com/getafreelancer.com; http://www.ripoffreport.com/book-magazine-publishers/freelancer-com-getaf/freelancer-com-getafreelancer-4c539.htm; http://publiccomplaints.org/2008/09/get-freelaner-getafreelancercom.html)

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(Rated 3 out of 5 stars)

Hi, this is Nicole from vWorker.com (formerly known as Rentacoder.com). Like Freelancer, vWorker provides access to a wide variety of jobs, but the services available at Freelancer could limit success. Consider the following: 1. Freelancer doesn't allow you to verify your time by punching in and out of a real-time system, and cannot conclusively prove to the Employer that you were working. As a result they do not guarantee payment, and if the Employer does not wish to pay you, you may end up with no money. 2. Workers on Freelancer cannot place more than 30 bids a month unless they pay a subscription fee (which also reduces their commission fee from 10% to 3%). With limited opportunities, you may not be successful with a service that limits your ability to bid. 3. Freelancer limits arbitration to projects with milestone payments of more than $30. And its mandatory pre-arbitration processes allow an abusive Employer to stall the start of arbitration (and prevent you from accessing your money) for weeks. You can learn even more about Freelancer through this link: http://bit.ly/cqH64H If you have any questions, feel free to call in to talk to a facilitator 7 days a week, or send email throught the site's feedback form.