PeoplePerHour is a website that connects small businesses with freelance workers from across the internet to help them complete small projects quickly and affordably.
According to PeoplePerHour.com, thousands of small businesses use them to hire remote, freelance workers to complete small projects, or just to work for a few hours a week. They claim this allows small businesses to stay flexible.
PeoplePerHour says this benefits small businesses because they can create virtual teams of people across the country – or even internationally – “without the red tape, cost, and bureaucracy of traditional employment.”
They have seven main categories of projects: IT/Programming, Marketing/Sales, Design, Admin/Secretarial, Writing/Translation, Accounting/Legal, or Other. Each category is broken into smaller, more specific categories so workers can something that works for them.
Both businesses and workers can register at PeoplePerHour.com for free. The website does take a small fee from workers, however, when they successfully book a job.
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But what I see a lot of is buyers wanting to pay $1 for 100 words, or want stuff done so cheap! I only search now for $$$ jobs - professional level. If you offer cheap pay - you get cheap work.
Also I would probably never use PPH for design work, or IT work... there are too many cheap bidders. With writing you kind of know what you are getting - based on samples. Over the past couple years - I have booked recurring jobs for magazines, blogs, video scripts... over 100 jobs. Now I am a full-time freelancer with repeat clients all over the world. You have to make yourself worth more than the bottom of the barrel - and there are buyers on there willing to pay for quality. You just have to find them.
And about the Iranian team, (proves your words), they have been working for a long time, and yah, at some point "Boy sorry but I just see you are an Iranian, God you should shut your account."
Aside of that, the buyers and sellers should be vary careful who they choose to do business with.
Nikolay
I am doing IT work and definitely, I bid if I am 100% sure, that I can do the job, if the proposal is clear, not common words.
Unfortunately lately PPH removed the ability to see the buyer's link before sending a proposal, so that lowers the amount of proposals I sent, I want to read reviews and read them in between the lines.
So I prefer, buyers making NOT generic but specific posts, and writing NOT generic but detailed and specific reviews so more or less try to protect myself in advance than cry out later.
Hope my tips help
Nikolay
I noticed small fees around in my account that I didnt know was the reason for this fee and I coulndt find it anywhere.
The site should connect sellers and buyers and take a fee. But they filled up my mail box with advertising slogans for work, like it was PPH that sells these services. Strange mix of roles that I do not like. I stopped using PPH and the owner contacted me PERSONALLY, if he could do something for me. Clearly they notice who stops buying and take action..crazy..thinking about the many users
Firstly, they used to offer a telephone number and the people answering seemed very unprofessional and like they come from the council estate side of town. They would often fob you off with short answers and just keep you on the phone repeating sorry they can’t do anything and how sorry they are. Remaining apologetic, brash, rude and quite brazen.
My first bad situation was during a telesales campaign that I wanted to run. The seller was silly enough to use his real name and once I realised he was a convicted criminal. The scam all came to light. The escrow system doesn’t normally release the money straight away and it takes time to be released. This is used to protect sellers. However, on the other hand. If a seller releases the invoice and the buyer doesn’t reject it. The invoice and funds are unrecoverable and paid automatically. When signing up you do not need to put many details other than you name and email. This should show you that as a consumer if there is no such transparency. Why on earth would you purchase from the website.
The telesales agent made fake follow up emails to show he had done the work and then charged me around £300 - £500 pounds. I soon did a background check with a simple Google search and found out that he was a conman. He had burned down a hotel and been in prison. I was absolutely flabbergasted and shocked to say the least. I called up PPH and they didn’t seem to care that much. They said they deactivated his account and cannot recover the funds. I said to myself that I will recover through PayPal, as they kept repeating their garbage. Pending the claim that I made to PayPal. Their account was frozen as a result and they sent me a very rude email saying why did you not ask us for help and in a very rude tone said why did you do that??! To which I thought what kind of low company is this.
I also had solicitation through a fake call centre based in Dubai by an owner called Adam and another one who promised me targeted emails. They almost conned me and I was clever enough to see they were not genuine. There is a plethora of scam sellers online. Even the highly rated sellers are fake and with fake reviews. You will see so many similar names and it doesn’t take a genius to work it out. I believe that I was probably the only seller on there with real and genuine reviews!
Furthermore, I also had a buyer change his order half way through for a £3500 project. I had already completed the work and was left out of pocket by £1500 pounds!
I recently purchased a press release and it was completed and there were minor amendments. The buyer was highly rated on the site and so I felt that I was in good hands. However, the buyer quickly sent the invoice on first draft and I thought this was very cheeky and unprofessional. I didn’t reject the invoice, as I wanted to pay them and felt it was ok. The changes were just one or two words. The second part of the job was to send the PR. However, to date it has never been sent and I don’t even have a copy of the amended version. The invoice was then automatically released after 7 days and I was very busy. I thought he will reply and as a gesture of good will I didn’t reject it as we were having dialogue every few days. As soon as the invoice was released he has disappeared for around a month now. PPH state they cannot recover my funds. They are appalling and their behaviour is atrocious. They are one of the most unprofessional and low ended companies that I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. As a seller of hourlies and popular featured services. I would often have sellers threaten me to give free work and they would not release the invoices. They would blackmail me to do extra work that was not included in the cost given. This website is a sham through and through for decent freelancers. The only ones that are making money are the big scammer owners at PPH and the scam sellers. Stay away from PPH at all costs!
lying, cheating scam with no morals at all
I really cant tell you how bad this firm is
Try and find a number or address for them, you wont be able to, thats how much they want to avoid people finding them when they rip you off
They will hold your money, even if there is no problem at all, for weeks and weeks, they lie and steal
I have reported them to every organisation and government body for money laundering, fraud and illegal money holding, let the fun begin
I have also contacted all the relevant Greek bodies as well (were they are registered) especially for Michael (customer service manager, thats a joke!) and their joke of a ceo for crimes and illegal activity as well
I have also started every single avenue open to me to get this scam firm investigated (guess what, been told that there are many investigations already ongoing!!) and closed down
I am in the process of contacting direct all of their investors as well with all the prove re their crimes and lies. Not hard to get these people emails and phone numbers, pm me if anyone else wants them. Get their investors to see what is happening and they pull the plug!
Leaving feedback for a seller that doesnt perform is impossible. Believe that their system blocks feedback for "unsuccessful" transactions. So the worst sellers that cant perform do not get dinged for feedback. Oficially they ding sellers for cancellalations that isnt buyer initiated, but all cancellations are automatically considered buyer initiated regardless of circumstances, this way they can collect a 15% cancellation fee.
Other marketplaces have plenty of sellers and a robust monitoring system as well as established procedures and professional customer service staff.
Absolutely no reason to deal with People Per Hour.
I was using PPH.... Bidding this morning.... logged out of PPH to have lunch... While having lunch, one of my client emailed me this:
"Hey
Why you just sent me my money back? You are not interested to work with me?
Let me know.
Mark"
I as surprised and when I tried logging in my account, I got this Error
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Your account has been deactivated. If you feel this deactivation is an error, please contact customer support as soon as possible.
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My client said that He got the money back with $7 deducted. And I am speechless because they sent me no prior notice about this... i dont know why they did this.... dont know anything.... im blank and confused....
Sad and Feeling like a looser.... My profile ranking was 99% with 18 jobs successfully completed.
just emailed them... Will update you all once they get back to me.
I've worked in the creative sector for more than 25 years & I know from experience there's no amount of shortcuts/scripts etc that can create artwork to the sample standards for the sample fees and all it does is make my services look ridiculously expensive. The only service this site is offering is that it may direct the bad clients towards the hack workers allowing me to target my marketing to genuine clients I want to keep.
I've de-activated my account, but if people are happy to churn out artwork for £1 per hour minus 15% good luck to them.