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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I'm with you David - PPH has abandoned people here. Pilar is still posting blogs.
It's really shameful how they behave. One person on these forums has a missing payment issue and gets their query shut down by PPH support without a definitive response. I've also heard that a PPH crowdsourcer is shutting down queries rather than passing them up the chain (they have a financial incentive to do so).
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If you want another example of a clearly spam job that shouldn't be on the site check out job number #773668
This job was posted twice last week by buyers with different names. Never awarded. When freelancers send a proposal you get a reply asking for your email. They are then signed up to a spam site and receive lots of spam/hoax emails!! -
I made a suggestion in the clarification board that a buyers budget was poor.
He didn't take kindly and responded with a well known phrace that incuded F*** O**. PPH removed the message and replaced it with the reason. On my workstream it said "The WorkStream message was removed by our Customer Support Ninjas because using offensive / abusive language is not allowed". OK. The clarification board says: 'The WorkStream message was removed by our Customer Support Ninjas because
"there is a competitor website listed"'.Go figure.
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I agree David. Not a clue why they feel they need to distinguish between old and new sellers with the fees they charge. And why they think raising the fees for everyone is such a good idea is anyone's guess. I know they want to earn their commission but surely they are just driving sellers away. I used to purchase the 100 bid credits as a top up and they would last me a few months. However, now that I am only getting 15 free a month they won't last as long. Plus they are costing more to buy. Add the increased fees plus the increased cost of credits and then the fact that the average budget for jobs is getting absolutely ridiculously low, this site is becoming more and more of a joke.
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I don't know if PPH are desperate - the Greek crisis could have/is a big problem for a company headquartered in a country with a banking crisis.
They pay for advertising and the placement is not necessarily chosen by them - the adserver will serve ads according to your likely interests - hence PPH appearing.
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How does this guy named christopher is in the first page & holding a Top Cert badge with 2projects done?
http://www.peopleperhour.com/freelancer/christopher/proofreader-numerical-reasoning/868561
What's wrong with PPH?
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Its not top 10 anymore - its top 300 or something like that.
Christopher has a top raking because of the value of his work: PHP do not look at how many jobs you have done, but how much you have been paid and the rating you have got - so Christopher has done one job, but its 12,000 euros of work and he has a 100% rating.
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Today: "Soon Buyers will be able to send you a request for a hire based on the per hour rate you have set on your Profile. Therefore it is very important to make sure it is set to a rate you are willing to work for."
So now PPHers will no longer to price-differentiate between jobs because buyers will be able to filter according to the lowest price per hour.
So, if I set my hourly rate to reflect my rarest skill, I won't appeal at all to people wanting a simple job not requiring that rare skill. I mix my jobs and rates but now this is going to be a real problem.
Why does PPH always have to meddle?
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