Jobs being cancelled....

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Martin

• February 02, 2018 11:04

Why are SO MANY jobs being cancelled I wonder!!

After putting in a lot of time bidding for a job I then find it's been cancelled

VERY frusatrating indeed!

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  Permanently deleted user

  • February 02, 2018 13:41

  Hello Martin,
  
  I hope this message finds you well. 
  
  It is very disheartening when you put in the time and effort to send in a professional proposal, I know. People are being unprofessional by putting up jobs and then cancelling them without notice to sellers that put in the effort to send detailed proposals in. Some of the sellers/buyers on our platform don't realise until it is too late exactly how much support we provide behind the scenes if a job goes wrong, something you wont get without us! Of course this has such an effect on people like you. You have been an active hard working seller for so many years and I wish you all the luck for the future! I hope the penalties to those that may decide to be unprofessional users didn't have any negative effect on you. PPH is trying to minimize fraud and I kindly ask you to report anything that might seem suspicious. Your input is always valuable to us. We have the ability to ban any and all users that take work away from the platform.

  Please let me know if I can help with anything else.

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  Simon

  • February 03, 2018 11:53

  This is one of the biggest problems on PPH. The amount of time that I waste bidding for work that I don't get takes a big bite out of my available time. This is partly due to the cancellations but also the mechanism of bidding and competing against other freelancers. If ten or more freelancers are reading a specification and putting a bid together and only one of them can be awarded the project, that is a lot of wasted work.

  From my experience, some of the reasons for job cancellations are:

  1. Some buyers cross post and the same job may appear on another site. I do most of my freelancing through PPH but I occasionally bid on two other sites and the same projects can be listed on more than one.

  2. Some buyers don't know what they want and after some correspondence with a seller they decide their requirements are different. For example I had one recently where I spent an hour talking to the buyer with a telephone call/online meeting trying to make sense of what he was trying to do and he actually needed to buy an upgrade to some existing software rather than have a bespoke add on written.

  3. In my line of work I find that some buyers use PPH more as a help forum. They are simply getting free advice. I also suspect that some freelancers are providing solutions with their bids, particularly with the smaller projects.

  4. I suspect some projects are being taken off site. Both buyer and seller are charged a significant fee and there is an incentive to deal privately. These charges have increased recently, which is not helping.

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