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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I have been on PPH for 5 years now. Had Cert 4 Rating until recently. Now at Cert 3.
I am ONLY coming to the point of reviewing PPH, because the site uses others review of our work(I have had 20+(i.e., 100%) 5 star reviews ) to penalise us, "reward us" and so on.
And yet - without wasting any more of my time than I have done on PPH for the last 5 years- I would say that, there are some NICE things about PPH; just like other well-known freelancer sites.
They enable clients and candidates to find each other – clearly. There is an opportunity or two- once a month- to earn a few bucks, if one is unemployed and not earning their day-job wages , that they are used to earning and living on. (I’m a contractor engineer, so used to earning “high end” daily wages, even if it’[s only for 6-8 months at a time, due to health /life style reasons). There is an escrow system, which “protects” the buyer(client) and……(for most part) the seller. Unfortunately, my experience of doing LARGE projects on this site, as a seller(worker) has been very very negative, stressful and compeletely unworthy of my professional time, dedication and 20 years experience.
Anyway, PPH, on the negative side, is a complete scam, in MANY ways: 1) The customer support Ninjas are NOT professional or objective- and are completely useless, uneducated fools who ONLY look out for their site’s good and financial goals…..!! 2) The (client) feedback system(unlike, say eLance) is completely usless, as we have no way to leave COMMENTS on clients feedback. 3) The automated feedback is completely unreliable and (often) UNTRUTH based ( I recently received(1 out of 5 stars, “job not delivered”) for a job I had spent 45 hours doing, and had offered a FULL 100% refund for – was completely unfair and ridiculous !! As I never got to leave feedback for the other party, and yet they took my software, (bulled me in to adding more and more features) and then refused to talk about releasing the escrow payment – and then I refused to work with them and offered them a 100% refund. 4) The site is mostly geared towards honouring the buyer/client and NOT the Creative, intellectual and technical expertise of an engineer such as my self. Extremely poor experiences, is all I have had with about 2 dozen clients(even though who left 5 star feedback for me), when it comes to various personal, technical, moral and ethical values/issues. 5) Finally…. And this is something the U.K Government would want to know about. PPH is ******ridden with fraudsters/liars(i.e. not real clients who wants to get jobs done) who use it to : a) carry out fraudulent eBay transactions, b) gain new passports (British passports), c) get their student/university home work done(plagiarism), d) and lately, I have noticed certain members of certain Islamic countries in the Lebanon/paletine region posting jobs with “windows applications(.exes)” that need modification, and when I scanned those .exes with my anti virues(as did dozen other developers), it turned out, they were viruses!! (Trojan horses). One job advert even said” this job is only open to software developers from Israel”. So, clearly, this is a case of CYBER WAR being carried out , thru the PPH medium. What do the U.K police have to say about this criminal conduct? Eventhough I reached CERT 4 on PPH , I would say, as a fully qualified and nearly-retired engineering consultant , PPH is a complete WASTE Of time, in terms of: 1) hourly rates(some actually post jobs requiring up to 10 -20 man hours of work, for say $20!! Is this site a joke or what??) 2) QUALITY of folks who post jobs(mostly individuals and “veryyyyy.. small businesses”. Wonder Mwhy Ericsson or Microsoft will not hire thru PPH(Both of whom I have worked for, by the way) 3) Quality of many of the workers/candidates too is DISMAL – to be fair. 4) The actual SITE it self has a few bugs, some of which are as old as the site(functional bugs)- and inspite of repeated requests, haven’t been addressed. 5) And ….. last but not least, the “customer support ninjas” who work there(probably just half a dozen of them, sitting at home, replying email and queries), are completely NOT caring in their ways, and only keep repeating the same song(just like many other customer support hot lines in the world!), for all kinds of scenarios.
Overall, I would give my 5 years of PPH experience 2 out of 5.
Will NOT recommend it to anyone who is a fully qualified, sincere, hard-working and MATURE professional.
I WILL recommend it for getting your “logo drawing”, “quick website creation”, “cheap proof reading” kinda jobs done.
Thank you for having this forum, for my Self, as a 5 year PPH veteran to be able to leave feedback for THEM (PPH) – for a change! .
Please stay from PPH, you wish to have inner peace and NOT be abused - of your skills, creativity, intellect , and .. sometimes, PERSONAL dignity!
Impressed by your objective review. I am still happy though with PPH, because one thing to add if I may, it is also our responsibility to bid on the right project or for buyers to get the right seller.
When I bid for a project, I look for previous seller activities. If I see for example that he previously has accepted proposals for $5 for people who do not understand the project (that may be visible from their profile), so bidding here is useless.
For example if some one awards a project for making functional word template and sellers profile claims that the seller is a designer he knows photoshop and so on, basically it says to me the buyer is not capable of making objective decision so I do not bid.
Best regards,
Nikolay
Suresh, inform me that my fund will process soon and after just one day my account deactive and also my my wallet money in PPH.
Is the freeze my balance? Is the really a good site? I’m confused.
Note: I have been submit my all of necessary document and sign in error: You account is deactive.
They need to be reported
Jayne
I will never recommend you to even list your business there! it is a huge rip off! Do not even think to become a member nor put your listing there! It only works for people in India!
I have also done one job. The client has released my payment but this website deactivated my account and took my balance money.
You upload your CV they ask you to remove contact info, when you do it they ask you to do it again and after 2 or 3 tries you can not submit your applications again.
You do need to be a little bit savvy on the site and use common sense, yes their are scammers out there for sure and I will only bid on jobs that are paying what I am happy to work on after PPH fees are taken away. It's never taken 3-5 days for my money to clear and i'm perfectly happy with this.
The reason for just 4* is the fees charged, 15% + VAT is high but as I said above I charge to cover this cost,plus I claim it back on my tax. If used properly, there is competition but there is in the 'real world' for jobs also.
I rejected the work midflow as it was not what I requested. The Escrow service is in place to protect both parties but PPH made the payment to the con artist on my behalf!
After a number of emails with PPH support adviser called Panos, expressing how sorry they were but, they were unable to refund the funds back.
In reality, they had broken the Escrow conduct by making a payment on my behalf without my consent.
So, not only does the place exist for con artists who want to make a quick buck either as they will always get a slice of the price but PPH itself works with the same policies.