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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How's this for a job people? Lucky me I got a personal invite :D
http://www.peopleperhour.com/job/i-need-100-000-pages-of-content-on-history-social-sciences-575609
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Entertaining isn't it? Not wanting to be rude I put in a bid of course, for the ACTUAL amount of words I would be prepared to do for £800. I don't expect to hear back from her any time soon. Then again I could be wrong, as she may tell me that if I am prepared to work for this insulting rate now I can make great riches in the future......
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Lol Mindboggling3D same here! Only one had the 3 figure feedback that i have but they had only done 1 job. One thing I did find interesting, when I had a neb, am a woman its compulsory, is that 2 of them were cert 5 yet had only completed 17 & 19 jobs respectively. Am sure when I had 19 jobs under my belt I was still languishing on level 2 :/
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@Deb did they have lots of endorsements (from strangers) or the same person who has bought quite a few of their hourlies? That's what pushes your cert level up quite a bit apparently. I've come across quite a few cert 2 freelancers who have only completed 1 job!! Just shows how poor the cert rating system is
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@Deb It depends on the size of the jobs. One thousand pound job is worth more than ten twenty pounds jobs. Seems fair enough to me.
My experience is that endorsements did not help, billing an external client for a few hundred through PPH pushed me up from CERT 1 to 2, getting another few thousand paid (by clients gained through PPH, not a client I introduced) pushed me to CERT 5 and it only seems to take a few hundred pounds of sales a month to maintain that.
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There are times I wish this site worked like Facebook and I could block frigging Lucy Clarke and her incessant bloody emails trying me to get other people's hourlies! Seriously, if I ever want to buy an hourlie I am perfectly capable of hitting the buy button and browsing for myself, I do not need these shitty recommendations!!
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@Deb did you get the email offering you 10% off purchasing an hourlie providing the exact same services that you provide? I'm a Virtual Assistant/Administrator and I was sent an email promoting loads of Virtual Assistant hourlies and offering me 10% off them if I buy one today! IDIOTS!!!
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A) I'm blind trying to see anything on the new site.
B) I've noticed a lot of jobs are receiving NO bids. I guess the new matching thing is not working out so well.
C) The invites I get are still totally useless.
D) I love all the pop-ups for SuperTasker. Makes me feel real good that while I am bidding on stuff, PPH is bidding against me trying to get more work for the Golden Chosen SuperTaskers.
This month I start doing more with a site of freelances who have joined together on our own site. No CashFish, but just a site were we all promote one site, instead of our own little efforts. No fees or commission. We'll see how that goes. My goal is to be fee of PPH within six months.
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@ Eric & Karen, The new aesthetics on the this site are appalling and all my clients are complaining too, so another major cock up. Personally I can;t wait for Maven (was Cashifsh) to launch on the 1st October as if I have to keep looking at this for much longer all my earnings will be spent at the opticians :(
@Rebecca, yes I did. 3 freelancers offering practically the same kind of writing hourlie as myself and I could save 10% on buying there's instead of making money myself. As far as cockeyed ideas go this wins hands down.
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I had the same problem. My skill set is for "Business Plan" but when I look at the required skills is says "business plan".
I'm already fed up of this skill matching! I tried to bid on a job for "tax advise" - I know American but that's what it says - I have a "tax" skill in my profile but I'm down as no having the relevant skills.
PPH really need to change this!
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@ Selva : I have been bidding and winning on PPH for a few years without issue. However, I admit that for some unearthly reason I have had to re-apply for my seller status (this happened a month or so ago). Until yesterday, I was able to freely bid on projects (although not until 2 hours after project submission by the buyer). This has now changed in the past few days! Why?
As for not being able to send a proposal before approval of a Seller Application, one of the pre-requisites of approval is winning and completing proposals (within 3 months). How therefore can anyone win and complete proposals if they are unable to submit proposals in the first place?
Finally, please explain how I am able to "sort this out asap"?
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I might be getting my wires crossed here David and Selva, but, unless things have changed since I joined, you have to get your Seller Application 'approved' before you can 'submit' proposals. Which is fine.
one of the pre-requisites of approval is winning and completing proposals (within 3 months).
No, I don't believe it is. You are supposed to have to achieve a certain amount of sales (I think) within 3 months to qualify as a 'trusted seller'. I know this because that msg is/was coming up whenever I logon to the PPH site.
I think different terms are being used here to what I would use. For some unknown reason, some people, after a certain amount of time, are having to go through the Seller Application process AGAIN, which before they do, may stop them from sending proposals. Hope that makes sense.
On a completely separate note, I notice that the browser fault that causes you to have to scroll along the page is still there. Thought that would have been fixed by now, because I would have thought that that would affect nearly everyone who uses PPH.
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@Malcolm, in the normal world it would have been fixed but this is PPH remember, the parallel universe where they go out of their way to make life as difficult as possible for the ones who are putting the money into their bulging coffers. Their main objective at the minute is clearly to send out as many shitty emails as is possible that are no good to anyone but hey, when has that ever mattered?
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LOL yeah, I was kinda thinking that one Deb, but thought I'd put it anyway.
What I was sorta thinking though was, as long as they don't start to p*ss off the BUYERS, because without them, they don't have a business. However you could also say the same, of course, for the SELLERS. So it's a 50/50 really. BUT this browser problem that's suddenly popped up, I would think may be affecting the WHOLE user base, bother buyers AND sellers???? I haven't tested the site with all the browsers under the sun, however I would expect that IE/Firefox are the major ones. Unless someone's going to correct me on that one????
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@Malcolm., I am having multiple problems with Chrome, the main one being that if I am sending a message on the workstream I cannot type past the little grey 'attach files' box. This is proving frustrating for both parties as you can imagine as there are multiple message being sent for one thing. A lot of my clients have also been complaining about the appearance now so they are pissing off the buyers as well :/
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@ Malcolm, shame on you forgetting about Chrome! Well considering the shit now clogging up my inbox to an even greater level than before, the fact everyone of these is pushing Super Tasker and the fact that site is all in dollars I would say that is the route they are going down and are trying to crack the US market. I might be completely off beam but some of my clients are also saying they are being encouraged to try Super Tasker as well doesn't bode well. Roll on next week when I can start working through Maven, I will miss our little chats tho :)
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