You cannot sell services until we have approved your application
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So out of the blue you have now barred me from submitting bids and paused all my hourlies until my new seller application is approved? Are you people trying to drive all your freelancers away by continuing to roll out incompetent new features that don't work properly? What the hell are you doing over there! The job matching feature you recently rolled out is still giving me alerts for unrelated jobs and now you've just moved straight onto the next annoying feature. Did you not think it would be better to warn us that an application needs to be submitted before just blocking all seller activity and then having to wait up to 3 days for a review?
And what's the deal with "favouring" applications with videos? Do you really think your average web developer feels confident recording a video to explain their services and explain why they are the best? We are not actors or voice over artists!
I'm seriously losing patience with PPH and I think it's best if we just move elsewhere.
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I am in the same boat, can't bid on jobs anymore until I upload a qualification, which I don't have as I learnt everything myself. Qualifications are not everything, how many employers hire people in everyday jobs without qualifications, but the individual has the experience? If I was to list keywords like "Twitter Bootstrap", would I then need to upload a qualification for that?! Also can the PPH team tell whether a quafication is legit, or will one created in MS Paint do?
I expect the PPH team haven't gone through the same ridiculous hoops when applying for their jobs as this kind of feature wouldn't of been in place.
Think I will use another site, remove my account and stop getting spam about new jobs I now can't bid on.
Merry Christmas.
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My seller activity is still not approved please give me the way to start. http://www.peopleperhour.com/freelancer/kinjal/web-designer-e-commerce-specialist/845231
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Hi Jefferson,
Please can you send an email to support@peopleperhour.com and we'll look into this for you.
John - please note this is a curated marketplace so we want to ensure the best quality. If you have past experience and case studies please also make these available to the PPH team and email us support@peopleperhour.com explaining your circumstances.
Many Thanks,
Pilar x
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Hi,
I am a new user to this site, but every time I am trying to submit a proposal, it is saying "In order to send a Proposal, you should get your Seller Application approved"
I have dropped in a mail to support@peopleperhour,com, can you please look into it and get back to me.Thanks in advance.
SBanerjee
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I have just entered the world of PPH today and read myself through all the do's and don'ts. What alerts me very much is, in order to complete the seller profile, the demand to upload a video to sell personal competence by giving access to my personal PC's webcam to PPH (alternatively, you can upload a video via various social platforms which I don't use). Demanding access to my PC's webcam is highly controversial as it is known that spyware can be planted in this way on somebody's PC, and this is against common data protection and internet legislation. PPH should be aware of this, and, if eager to provide this opportunity (which should be optional and not forced), should provide a possibility for sellers/users to upload a video in a secure way. I certainly will not do so via my webcam.
The comments above alert me very much - there is an issue with privacy here. I hope this can be solved.
Otherwise, many thanks for the warm welcome. Astrid Gross -
mmmm very interesting I have used PPH in the past with great success and like a lot on here I now have to be approved and that is a mission...it was simple and easy to use now its over complicated...its a job board at teh end of the day...buyer and seller looking to match...we should not be forced to submit doc or pict if we dont want to...a buyers wants a seller not a pretty picture...
Sorry PPH really gone down hill......
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Any freelancing website is a business, and they're trying to get their part. We, freelancers, join hopping on not having to deal with marketing and bureaucracy and just be able to start working on things we like right away.
But no method of having to handpick people has ever properly worked in the past, this is no different. I'm very often the one who is left out for no good reason at all. And too many who are there to game the system get in for worse reasons yet. This is far from being a PPH problem alone.
What's the alternative? Well, that might be the 1 million euro question.
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Candace, support@peopleperhour.com has all the answers!
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I have emailed PPH support, uploaded a council tax bill AND passport yet still have not been approved, what next blood samples? They seem to want a lot of personal info, more than if I was applying for a regular job yet still want proof of where I live, I am a freelancer, this means I sometimes move around for jobs! Please advise as I am starting to feel that PPH is a scam.
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PPH works well for most people, but unlike just about any other organisation I've worked with, we are effectively talking to an organisation through a brick wall - there is no phone support and the guts of the organisation seems to be based in Greece. If they don't choose to talk to you, it's difficult.
PPH seems reluctant to say much about their seller approval procedure and rejection ( judging from the comments I see on these forums) seems to be in the form of silence. It could just be that PPH are so busy with seller applications and everything else that there is a substantial delay.
Seller approval is a comparatively new thing for PPH and they are (it seems) now not just interested in paperwork, they also need to decide if you are up to the job.
I can appreciate the frustration. I'd hope that PPH provide a definitive response when doing these approvals, but as you can see from this thread and elsewhere, they don't seem to.
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