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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Quite disappointed with PPH - there's a buyer 16 years of age on PPH and I have reported the job twice to PPH but it's still there. In the past it would have been gone, but it seems being a 16 year old buyer is OK now.
I doubt the job is going anywhere, but I did expect PPH to remove it - I think you need to be 18 to use PPH. So much for buyer checks..
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Given how PPH works (escrow payment means you should not have to worry about going to court to force a buyer to pay, for example) I see no reason to exclude under 18s. There are some things I would want to check before giving some types of work to an seller under 18 but I think most, if not all, work done on PPH would be OK.
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Well, on a very basic level, it concerns me that children are allowed to interact in an adult environment where the adults could be anyone with any background and there could be issues that affect any child should the working relationship go wrong in any way - from exploitation by the seller to abuse of any kind.
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Yes Paul, lets treat all adults at threats and wrap children in cotton wool until they are 18 - never mind what opportunities we deny them. What a good idea.
How shocking that this 16 year should want to learn something - lets protect them from that! They have no business showing initiative and should stick to learning in school like sheep.
PPH is highly unlikely to be a channel for abuse, and very likely to provide opportunities.
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Graeme, facetious exaggeration is not required.
In this case, I have engaged with the kid and suggested a better way forward and also suggested that given his age he should take care over who he engages with.
There are enough dodgy people using PPH from both sides for adults to cope with without children having to cope with them.
The naive kid wants to program a game, there are better (cheaper and safer) ways to go about it.
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It seems that this message is generated because I made a proposal and wanted to add some information. This is now forbidden unless the buyer sends me a message first.
It's a very stupid idea for PPH to block communication, worse still they don't mention the policy anywhere and feel an unrelated error message is an appropriate way to implement this.
They are bad.
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No, the "awesome" adjective comes direct from the self-effacing PPH..
The quoted message is exactly as appears if i try and send a message. Any other company would have removed the ability to post a message (if it was forbidden), provided a descriptive message or never implemented the stupid policy in the first place.
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Well I'm currently still waiting for an answer from these 'awesome ninjas' as to why I for the past 2 weeks I've been receiving no email alerts of proposals getting accepted or hourlies purchased!
I'm still getting all the bilge obviously but have complained now about this 5 times and am yet to recieve a response.
Another word beginning with A springs to mind.....
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For all their faults, PPH does seem to pull most of the jobs I report to them.
It's scary how people will actually want to go along with jobs like that. They don't seem to realise they could be getting into some seriously bad situation.
There was another job that required a collection of something (it might have been trainers) and to post them on. It really made me think that that could by itself be very dodgy indeed - you never know what you might actually be collecting. Made me think of the old crime series where third parties would transport all kinds of illicit stuff instead of the real perpetrators.
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Malcolm I'm baffled by this as well. I don't use PPH anywhere near as much as I used to, whether you have noticed my absence on here is open to debate :P, but I still have never had to pay to submit proposals. If I ever used up the 15 free proposal credits I get at the beginning of every month I would have to buy more but I've never been asked to pay anything else. x
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Hi Deb, the only absence I've noticed is the lack of 'activity' on the discussion forum, and I miss that :) I'd have to check my records, cos it's been a while (and perhaps things have changed a bit), but I definitely remember that I couldn't submit any more proposals until I'd subscribed. I can't remember what the payment options were. There was, I believe, a small amount of discussion about this on THIS very thread. I'm sure I didn't submit many proposals, because a lot of the projects were unsuitable. I can easily go back and take a look.
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