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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85 free credits
That's close to three proposals a day for the next month.
Nancy, I'm sure you're so talented you can find 85 jobs this month that fit your profile, but I suspect for mere mortals like the rest of us, it would be a tough ask. You might have a busy month ahead and doing a lot of waiting and watching for that two-hour window to expire.
I don't understand why PPH would be spreading credits like confetti while trying to improve proposal quality.
There's no coherence in their behaviour is there?
Proposal and seller quality is an issue - no problem we'll promote sellers with little to no track history, with or without the right skills and hold back the people with the right skills so they can't bid. To help this along we'll spread free bid credits around because the people who have the skills and can get work won't possibly make a proposal if they don't have three free bids a day.
Madness.
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The free proposal credits aren't a new thing, I've been getting them occasionally since I joined, they seem to just select you sometimes to receive them - the email says it's because you're a top seller, but I don't know what it's actually based on. It's always many more than you can realistically use. I'm not complaining about that though, free credits are great!
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Hello PPH,
I think you have a wrong approach with this new feature. Instead of not letting other freelancers bid on the job, you should've just given the freelancers that "fit" a free bid and maybe find a way to highlight their bids. Like, in the first two hours, the people that "fit", get their proposal sent to the employer with a "PPH recommendation" while others can bid too. This, I think, is a better approach because it's not based on punishing the freelancers that don't "fit" but promoting the ones that do. -
Dear PPH admins! Would you please login to my account and try to apply for a job?? From yesterday I'm looking for a job for which I could apply. There is not even 1 single job for which I could apply. My skill tags include graphics design, logo, logotype, advertising design...... But I cannot even apply for a simple logo design or flyer edit! What should I do now?! How can I work here?
"Graphics Design" itself is very diverse and universal. It includes logo, banner, brochure, banner, flyer, stationery, Corel, PS, AI, etc. However, I can't even try editing a logo! Is there anyone listening at all?!
From hour to hour, I am checking my PPH account hoping a note of change. :-|
It is now dead actually. Please remove this troublesome useless bug and let PPH go on like it did before.
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As someone who's received a lot of these "you have been selected to bid" emails I'd like people per hour that it hasn't encouraged me to bid on any of them. I think I've had about 40 this month and hardly any of them have been relevant to my skillset!
The skills tagged in our profiles are too vague for this to work and often Buyers wont really understand what skillset they require so will tag any old skill that sounds about right. This means myself and many others are getting spammed by irrelevant emails and its really putting me off using this site at all.
If there's an issue with poor quality work then maybe you need to look into dealing with those sellers directly rather than inconveniencing everyone. I also think you need to give more guide lines to buyers on what quality they should expect for the price they offer as if someone is offering £20 for 7 hours work then obviously they're not going to receive a professional finished product at the end.
I've gone from using this site regularly each month to maybe once a month, not because I cant get the work, but because things have become so convoluted with CERTs and now this new feature it feels like its more effort than its worth. I actually thought your site was brilliant when I joined in 2011 and wish it could be more simple like it was back then. Oh well...
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The more i read about this the more my blood boils. Once again little people sitting wherever playing with their whatevers have no idea what goes on the in the real world. This is one of the toughest ways to make a living and a site that is supposed to help us is making it even tougher! Do they care that, thanks to their sheer stupidity and inability to listen to the very people who make their money for them, my earnings are now less than half what they were a couple of months ago, yet my outgoings remain the same! Let's hope Maven come through on their promises as I foresee a mass exodus to a site that actually gives a s**t about freelancers. Oh btw, my new skills for today is 'flash action script added to a banner' go me! :/
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waaay too many chiefs at pph _ obviously!
a load of senior and middle management 'vacant suits' _ all trying to justify their own worth to the company by messing up the REAL worth of the company _ if you read between the lines of pph support desk replies it's easy to see that the actual pph work-force have had enough of the upper echelons as well _
WELL DONE peopleperhour.com _ you've managed to turn a prime steak into something equivalent to dog food -
@Bryony, Deb, Maik - Couldn't agree more. I feel like such a fool for investing so much time into this website now when I could have put my efforts elsewhere i.e. my own website.
Before this job matching craziness, I would have put PPH head and shoulders above any other freelance site out there. Purely for the fact that you can actually find decent paying work here. Unfortunately now you can't apply for most of it, even if you're ideally suited to the job.
I just cannot believe that they're persisting with this despite all the tension it's caused. They've annoyed so many of their sellers already and it's growing by the day. I can't help feeling like many there's some ulterior motive at play here..
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I am furious, I have complained about this numerous times, today I have been offered to translate a document into Chinese - I barely have GCSE French. I have been blocked from 3 jobs though that I DO have the skills for (graphic designer). I have patiently waited my 2 hours - the job has now gone. PPH TAKE THIS FEATURE OFF PLEASE!!!!!!
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I don't think they will take any notice of us until we start disappearing in our droves, and even then they'l probably shrug their shoulders as they will still have the £2 brigade and while they won't as much per job the turnover will be huge. I wish this new site was up and running now or I'd be off! Sick to death of sitting here for 12 hours a day in the hope there'll be a job I can actually apply or and that I will be the lucky one amongst the 50 or so other bidders
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“You're one of the most qualified Sellers for the Job "Proof-reader Farsi required" because of your skills in Proofreading”
Brilliant.
I don’t even list proofreading as a skill. And meanwhile, someone who actually speaks Farsi and has a great eye for detail who happens not to have listed proofreading as a skill is being told they can’t bid at all.
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request submitted to pph support _ 1724GMT _ 01072014
hi _
my question refers to pph support feed _ http://support.peopleperhour.com/entries/74562353i have been monitoring this feed for the last 4 days and can report that it now has 130 entries posted on it _
pph has marked the feed as 'answered'please can you answer the following _
a) what does 'answered' actually mean to pph staff
b) is this feed still being monitored by pph staff
c) what (PRECISELY AND IN DETAIL) is being done to resolve the issue that is the subject of this feedi look forward to a prompt response _ preferably from the level of pph management
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thanks Chris
my biggest worry is that anyone who puts their 'head above the parapet' on this issue
is in danger of having their account suddenly closed _
and thereby the ability to report back here at all _
i'm beginning to think we should all be sorting an alternative 'meeting place'
in case anyone is interested (or in case i can't report back here....)
my email is inputforcolor@gmail.com -
Last week I went after a job to be told you know what, so I sent a message asking to be invited, I was and won the job and the client has now left PPH due to the fact that, as mentioned earlier, he would not have found me if I hadn't asked for the invite and he needed somebody quickly. Now however, that has changed too, and you can no longer ask to be invited to a project during this 2 hour window so that says to me they know exactly what they are doing if they have also blocked this line of communication. It makes me physically sick to know how much money they have made from all of us in the past yet we are treat like garbage.
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52 people want this answered! Surely that means it is a failure, you are shooting yourselves in the foot with this new system. I continually get invites to jobs do not have the time or experience for, yet jobs I do I'm locked out of. Just admit it's a failure already so we can all a less stressful time.
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Well I am a native Farsi speaker and I can't bid on that famous Farsi-proof job!!! REALLLLY FEEEELS GOOOOD!!! 2 persons from US and India can bid on that job, but I can't!!! God give me some more patience please!!!!!!!!
I am getting crazy.
REPEAT FOR THE 4TH TIME:
"I CANNOT BID ON EVEN 1 JOB OF MY PROFESSIONS; EVEN 1 JOB."
For more than 30 times I've changed my skill list; reversed them, changed its words, played with the words, and still no luck.
Now it includes these keywords:
Graphics Design, Logo, Logotype, Illustration, Stationary, Books & Magazines, InDesign, Website Design, Website Development, Character Design
And I cannot even bid for converting a logo, designing a business card, or illustrating one page for a book!!!! GOD!!! I am slapping in the monitor now!!!
Is this a game? Are PPH staff awake? Is there someone out there reading these things???? What should we do now? Sometimes I think to myself may PPH wants to close its website and this is a polite way of saying farewell to its customers. Don't you think so?
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