Comments on: oDesk Review – Top Places to Bid on Freelance Web Projects

By: k mehaffy

k mehaffy — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:36:41 +0000

I have been ripped off twice in 7 days by odesk contractors, and the site admin refuses to do anything about it. Once by a contractor WHO DID NO WORK, used his timelog to check his emails, shop online, and browse the web. Odesks response?

“oDesk has reviewed the work diary for this contract and determined that all time was logged in accordance with the oDesk Payment Guarantee.”

and once by one who just took the money and ran. BEWARE ODESK – there are a few good programmers there I am sure, but alot more thieves.

By: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

Aftab Alam Siddiqui — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:23:19 +0000

Great site for Freelancing ….

By: Shara

Shara — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:20:04 +0000

I have been with odesk for quite a while. I have been getting succesful applications with it rather than on elance or freelancer. Staff.com is also good. They focus more on full time positions, giving a freelancer some sort of job security.

By: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

Aftab Alam Siddiqui — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:38:57 +0000

If you want to start your career as a freelancer at oDesk – Then checkout our Short Course – http://www.learnodesk.com/learn-odesk-course/ This will help you to get started in the world of freelancing. The Completion is very fierce and if you are not prepared with bidding techniques, how to handle clients interviews etc…then you will get lost in the crowd.

This course will help you to stand out from the rest.

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:07:08 +0000

I’ve used odesk to hire and found it to be brilliantly simple.

I did not know about the hidden comments though! Interesting… and something I will have to be careful about.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:48:42 +0000

Wow $1 for 600 words? That’s super low no matter where they’re hiring someone from!

I’ve used both sites, but only to hire folks. I found the Odesk site easier to use, but I seem to have better luck finding the right people with Elance.

By: RACNicole

RACNicole — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:11:06 +0000

An unfortunate feature of Odesk now allows both workers and employers to hide bad profile comments. When services do this, their users are duped into thinking they’re looking at qualified candidates when they really might not be. That is isn’t fair to the site’s employers nor to the site’s workers and it’s why so many people prefer vWorker (formerly Rentacoder). vWorker doesn’t allow this — a bad comment stays as is at vWorker, so that its users are (sometimes, painfully) aware of who they’re facing. Sure, some people may not like that, but when it comes to spending a significant amount of money or investing time and effort into a project, it’s a feature vWorker users come to appreciate in the long-run.