Better job descriptions for jobs
I've just taken a browse through some of your active Contests, and looking at the Descriptions of the contests there, you seem to ask for answers to a lot of questions, so you can provide all of the applying designers with a reasonable brief. This is fantastic, but...
Why are you not doing this for descriptions on jobs, where so often job descriptions are so vague they're impossible to estimate for.
I'm becoming very disillusioned with PPH of late due to this very issue making it so painful to find any decent work. And you keep increasing freelancer fees also, but delivering a declining level of service.
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Many thanks for your suggestion. I will pass it on to our product team.
Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.
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Yes, I believe there should be some way to force buyers to write sth correct.
At the same time I like vague described jobs, approx 90% of jobs I was awarded are the same vague dudes, what I personally do in similar cases is write a 2 lines proposal same as the job description may be do a -fake low bid- to grab attention, ask for more details and explain that my bid/quote will be updated and changed accordingly...you may try that :)
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The point is, I shouldn't have to invent workarounds for an issue that is to do with the CORE system of the entire PPH site - listing jobs to connect buyers to sellers. They've already solved this for Contests, which is a new feature for a fragment of sellers (designers only). If PPH fixed the core issues, rather than add features which are of no use to me, they may be able to at least begin to justify the high fee increases.
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Yes , but this is the jungle, whether you bark or not it won't change, may be become worse if it changes.
I complained once about the deposit fees, this is what happened
You know on any freelance platform, they won't ever make job posting difficult, you can post a job even if you have payment method unverified, there is no account approval no nothing, this is money input, how many times you find yourself explaining to a client how to make deposit what is escrow what is an invoice etc... while PPH should force the Buyer to take a "readiness test" to understand how to use the platform and make a correct job post
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