Penalise buyers who don't respond
I've been on PPH for a number of years and the response of buyers has dropped very low. Many don't even acknowledge your bid, yet they ask freelancers to submit a bespoke quote. Nothing happens to these buyers; their score or profile remains unaffected, yet freelancers use up their credits.
It's time that buyers who ignore bids get negatively scored so freelancers can know if a buyer is genuine and likely to acknowledge a bid.
The quality of buyers on here has dropped a lot in the past 2 years, most of whom I no longer believe to be genuine.
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I sometimes look for work on other platforms such as Guru and Upwork and it is disturbing to see how many jobs are cross posted across these platforms. You should be able to identify these and mark them as such.
I waste far too much time bidding on projects that I don't get as it is, and I avoid the low budgets, the badly described projects and the ones with a very large number of proposals. If the job appears on other platforms I don't want to touch it.
It would also be useful to indicate how much a buyer is paying, if they have posted several projects. You need to be flagging the low value jobs so that those of us who are trying to earn a living can avoid them and stop wasting our time. I get people offering £30 for a project where they want a "professional" and say that it "won't take more than 3 hours if you know what you are doing". By the time I've charged them VAT and PPH take 20% I would not be getting £7 per hour. I don't want to see it. I don't want an email to tell me to bid on it.
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