New system aimed primarily at matching newer sellers with buyers
So now it seems I have to wait two hours before I can bid for a job. This is extremely unfair. Not only do experienced creatives/designers have to compete with an unfair playing field, ie people offered to do a job for £10 when it is clearly worth £100, we are now not allowed to bid for jobs as soon as they appear on PPH. What kind of system is this?!
Awful. Unfair. Unprofessional. Discriminatory.
Regards
C. Howe
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Michael and Pilar, hopefully you will see this and flag up to the right person.
Also on site revamp, the profile page has been changed. Being able to add a banner image is welcome.
However, there is a problem regarding hourly rate. I have never put an hourly rate because I offer services that are charged at different rates because of the varying levels of complexity required in terms of technical knowledge and skills. The skill required for one of the services is worth far more than some of the others. So my profile has shown £-/hr as my rate. Now the new profile says I charge £0/hr.
I certainly will not work for nothing!!
PPH - could you please change that back to indicate £-/hr as putting in a zero here is very misleading.
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@Graeme and @Paul - I tried to either leave it blank or put in a hyphen but it will now only accept a numeral so I am either forced to opt for one particular figure or leave it as 0. I can't be the only seller who has variable rates depending on the type and complexity of the service provided, so surely it would be better to have the option of either leaving this blank, stating a firm figure or showing a price range. I've dealt with it for the time being by putting a note at the beginning of my profile description explaining why it is showing as £0/hr. I think that will suffice for the moment.
Whilst on my profile it suggests I charge £0/hr, if you look at the Find Freelancers listing it still shows a hyphen if someone has not entered a specific hourly rate. Strange.
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They have messed up somehow. Either they want to make an hourly rate mandatory (and have forgotten to remove the word "optional" from the form), or they have messed up the code for checking the form entry (because of it is mandatory it should not accept zero).
@Paul, the Supertasker rates look OK (although some of them are hard to judge given its depends on quality of work) but a lot of it looks incredibly boring - installing one wordpress theme after another, for example, is production line work. Not my idea of freelancing. The terms really make it more like being on a zero hours contract.
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I do payment gateway integration for eCommerce sites.
One on my client sent me this message earlier today-
"All of a sudden the checkout page is not leading to the payment gateway to payu, paypal, and not even showing direct payment bank details page. can you troubleshoot it? "
PPH removed this very urgent message with the Filtered Term: bank
Highly thoughtful!
If you need some real human to monitor site activities please hire us!
Tired of these bot ninjas who can't even detect any spam / fraudulent job post with $60k per month budget in a marketplace!
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