Odesk Corporation

Hi, folks, I suggest people of the same area should gather together regularly to work out ways to fight with odesk. we should be united. due to dirty games played by some people from inside the odesk , my account was suspended for no reason. basically they are burglars! ugly company ugly people1 I have been permanently suspended by oDesk! I have been a trustworthy provider, who has relatively extensive working history and very good reputation both among the oDesk community and internationally However, I was permanently suspended by oDesk!! oDesk suspended my profile, account, job applications, job offers and contracts in order to force me to provide private details including date of birth, photo, address, government issued ID number etc., just to verify my NAME. Odesk simply cut off my livelihood, while I have a family to support. I feel that this act of oDesk had crossed the line. A provider should also have certain amount of privacy. I asked around, but other buyers and providers did not have to provide with such information! The information they requested from me would endanger me to potential crimes like identity theft, and I am very worried my personal information will be used for illegal purposes. Instead, I suggested to oDesk other means of identity verification like video verification or submitting a credit card, but oDesk simply rejected any goodwill to solve this problem in other ways. I lost all my future income! I have been working hard to build good reputation as a provider, but now I am simply deprived of all my rights to work! Odesk has also suspended my access to forums, so that they can bury this issue! Because I submitted many tickets to customer support, odesk even blocked me from their customer support! Now odesk permanently suspended me NO MATTER I provide my private details or not. Some of my clients have contacted odesk in order to testify my reliability, but odesk simply ignored their requests and even compromised one of the buyers’ ID. Coincidentally enough, another new provider emerged, using the same name as mine. This fact and others that I came across may imply that these acts are orchestrated by malicious groups that specialize in ID theft inside of the oDesk community. Long time ago before this incident, my profile was secretly hidden by oDesk from “providers search”, without any warning or notice. I wasn’t aware of it until someday a buyer told me he could not find me! These mysterious hidings occurred not only once but several times! Another mysterious incident was that many of my job interview invitations from buyers ended up in archives without any notifications sent to me at either oDesk or my email! Both cases were explained and solved by oDesk as “engineering problems” after I complained many times to oDesk. On the day I was suspended, I could still easily find several users who were using obvious fake names or photos from some famous singer or movie star, but they were still happily working at oDesk! I have heard of a lot of cases where buyers were scammed by providers at odesk, while odesk did nothing to help (http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/beware-c102579.html#c399173). Even several of my friends had very bad experiences at oDesk too! I am an honest and reliable provider and I never scammed anyone, but my account is suspended! This is very unfair! I filed a complaint at BBB. Since the end of the debate with oDesk at BBB, I have not heard from BBB for more than 20 days, after which I sent BBB specialist Elsie Thomas emails but got no replies. Then I called BBB, but did not get a clear answer for the case until a week later. Before I resorted to BBB, I contacted oDesk CEO, marketing director and press department, by email and phone calls, but was never able to talk to any human!

Ievgen K, from odesk.com: The freelancer hijacked my dedicated server. The first contract he tried helping me, got stuck and was not able to get into WHM, I told him (I thought politely) that I'll find someone else that can fix this problem. He removed me on skype and changed my root password on the dedicated server. I then messaged him saying I figured out the problem and does he want to continue work. He changed the root password back and I was able to restart cpanel thru ssh which was the problem and it was fixed. Since this was a simple fix, I knew that freelancer wasn't the right one for this project so I closed the contract and let him know that I didn't appreciate him changing my root password. After a few minutes, I was not able to access my dedicated server anymore. His profile IDs currently: https://www.odesk.com/users/~01c5b709e305b524fa https://www.elance.com/s/tushkine/ Full Name: Ievgen Kolotushkin He is currently working with EasyIT as a Umbraco Developer. His skype is: TushkinE Poor morals, poor business practices, very poor skills. I've hired over 20 others in the past 10 years, he's the worst by far.

I signed up for oDesk. I got a job and did it. The other guy paid me. oDesk immediately suspended both of our accounts for "irregularities." We both asked them what they meant by irregularities, but they keep saying that they reviewed our accounts and found irregularities. Now, I cannot receive my money because my account is suspended. The other guy cannot get his money back because his account is suspended. I searched the web, which I should have done before I signed up with oDesk, and found that this is the normal way that oDesk works. When they get the money, they suspend everyone and keep the money.

A friend recommended oDesk to me about a month ago. I’ve had good experience with Elance, and I wanted to compete for additional projects. I have already experienced the following three problems with oDesk: 1. I created a profile and they immediately flagged my account because my auto-fill had populated my name in upper case. Unfortunately, there was no intuitive way to make the correction using their website. I contacted customer service, and they eventually sent me a solution. I applied the solution, and there was a delay in activating my account. As a result, it took about a week before I was able to use the site. Speaking as a programmer, this never should have happened. When I was filling out the online form, it should have flagged the uppercase entry, posted an error message, and allowed me to make a correction before continuing. Evidently, whoever programmed this site doesn’t know much about web design. 2. I lost out on a bid because the site failed to e-mail me. By the time I noticed the project and submitted a bid, the client replied letting me know that he liked my qualifications better than the candidate he had just selected, but it was too late since the project had already been assigned. 3. I contacted oDesk customer support regarding these issues, and they started bombarding me with e-mail. The first rep was polite and helpful, even though he couldn’t resolve the issue. Unfortunately, after that, they put me in some sort of ***. I have now received e-mail from three other customer service reps, none of whom bother to read my previous replies. I have repeatedly advised them to close the tickets, but they just keep sending me more e-mail. Blocking them would probably mean blocking bid acceptance notifications, so I have to just keep deleting their spam manually. In my opinion, this is no way to run a company.

Softprodigy is a fake company. It charges client for experienced resources and place junior of trainee resources for billing. I worked in this organisation. Its cheating with client and lost trust of client in outsorcing. Most of its accounts are fake and does wong billing. Odesk should stop its portfolio and should ask for proof of identity for these client and there equcational qualification. Most of its accounts are fake and does wong billing. Odesk should stop its portfolio and should ask for proof of identity for these client and there equcational qualification. Cheater Softprodigy Cheater Softprodigy Cheater Softprodigy Cheater Softprodigy Cheater Softprodigy

oDesk supports slavery, they allow publishing of fixed price job for 100 USD per month, 5 hours working per day from Monday to Saturday. screenshot: http://s10.postimg.org/57ya3tga1/odesk2.png So, if Iran allows selling of kidney for max 5000 USD and user is from Iran, but oDesk is registered in the US, odesk must forbid such business. It is the same about economic exploitation. Whatever excuses odesk can find, you can see from screenshot that it is typical example of exploitation, published mentioned salary and monthly work 5 hours per day 6 days in a week. It is not contract for some product, it is monthly salary. One more woman wrote negative experience (race and age discrimination): https://www.change.org/petitions/odesk-corporation-make-the-odesk-marketplace-fair-for-everyone

Payed a web developer suresh sahu for some basic work on a website. Talked about how professional he was and the work will be done perfectly and on time and it turns out the guy refuse to communicate with you. Once you finally get a hold of him he tells you he was busy and will work on it that day and have the work finished by the next day. He is completely unprofessional and is probably not even a web developer. If come across him or his fake company run for the hill, he has no idea what he is doing.

I was ripped off by odesk many times in the past but I am now fed up with it. The customer service is run by people who barley understand English and who just do not understand much. I have spent around $50,000 in the last 1.5 years on that website and what a mistake Before I had a contractor who was new to odesk and decided to give her a try. She ended up scamming me out of hundreds of dollars and I left her 1 star feedback because of it. She then left me relatively poor feedback and closed her account and made a new one with the same exact information. I discovered this new account along with the old one and went to odesk about it. THEY DIDN'T CARE AT ALL AND LET HER CONTINUE TO SCAM PEOPLE. They told me it wasn't against the rules to do that and she was fine. What recently happened was I had a guy doing SEO for my website. He was working on the hourly system (which is flawed in many ways) and as I was looking at his weekly report of 50 hours I see a major problem. I had him advertising pet supplies and I see he was on the clock doing another contractors work for the entire 50 hours. He was advertising a limo and wedding service which was completely unrelated to my website. He scammed me out of nearly $400 so I asked him about it and he said he would refund me but never did. I made a comaplint to odesk and faught the hours to get my money back. Here is what Kristine Magnifica from the odesk help center told me.. "We did try to check on this case and the work diary for this contract and determined that all time was logged in accordance with the oDesk Payment Guarantee. We do apologize for the inconvenience this has brought you. We would like to advise you that the decision is final. " You notice they did not even check what work he did but rather he logged time on the clock. They don't care about anything besides keeping their fee. This website is a complete SCAM and you are better off going to elance.com Also if you get a refund from a contractor odesk will make sure to keep their fee as that is not refundable (10% of what you paid) P.S. Odesk has also removed my work diary because I threatened to post it online. They refuse to send it to me so I have proof of the contractor advertising a limo service. After asking them they told me it was a security issue and it was their property and refused to turn it over

Odesk sent me an email with the following subject: "Critical Notice about your contractor" and provided a phone number to call them back with questions. The phone system will place one on hold and then after a few minutes of holding, it will ask you to leave a message, Messages and calls are never returned. Online Chat system ha sno value, since the staff is not qualified or has no idea about the cases, and they would constantly differ the case to the premimum customer care, which will make an appointment with you to contact you but that will never happen either. They charged my card in full and never paid my contractor. Now, I am calling them on a daily basis to get the funds to my contractor and every single day I am being told a different story. I will not deal with Odesk ever again. They are a waste of time.

I had an website and contract odesk service but those people are dishonest , I hired independent design name ( Priti Sharma) they just destroyed my website and Odesk did not do anything to help me, We will for sure looking for the best way to take odesk to the right place. I have contacted odesk at least 5 times but they have not helped resolve our problem , now our site is out of business for the time being , We have to hire an honest company to repair the damage done by odesk in depend contractor . I want the money that I will spend fixing the problem reimbursed.

ODesk does not allow you to manage your payments. I have a duplicate payment going to a contractor, and I cannot contact support. I will not use Odesk again. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed. I am pissed.

i am an employer, odesk is tracking my eye movement, fingermovements, and taking screen shots of my account, my bank account, passwords, everything is comprimised. These guys are thieves and need to be shut down. i am pissed. pissed off, i knew they did that with the employees and i didn't like that but decided to outsource anyway, they are actually doing it to unknowing employers unless there was something in tiny fine print i didn't catch. No wonder they were laughing when rachel called me. Because they were watching me. they need to do shut down, they now have all my personal info,

I have been a loyal member from Odesk.com since 2009. I have spent as employer over 30.000 US Dollar on employees (contractors) there and have been rewarded with a 4,99 contractor rating. Unfortunately I have been forced by Odesk to stop using them. The reason: About two weeks ago, on the 1st of January 2013 there was a payment to one of our many contractors which I didn't recognized. I opened a ticket to Odesk (Incident: 161****) to ask clarification about this transaction. It didn't took long until I found out that oDesk sends the payment confirmations with a delay of 2 hours. This causes the confusion. I contacted Odesk again about the misunderstanding, but instead of closing the ticket they suspended my financial account I have been using for 4 years now without any problems!!! I have sent on daily base emails to Odesk to ask them to lift the suspension immediately, but no response! Two weeks have past, and all this time I couldn't pay my contractors. My entire company has been paralyzed by Odesk. I have been forced to close all contracts. This is the way that Odesk treats their long-term and loyal employee members! I am extremely disappointed in Odesk!

Odesk Scam - Don't Hire Odesk Programmers Odesk based in California did not lift a finger when we got scammed by oversea programmers. WARNING BEFORE USING ODESK READ THIS We recently hired Odesk to introduce us to a "So Called" affordable software programmers. Here's the Scam that happened to us on Odesk: 1. We were quoted a large fee (about $10,000) by a very nice programmer to develope software for us. 2. Midway into the stage the programmer comes back to us and stated he miscalculated his quote and demanded another approx. $5,000.00 to complete the project. 3. We were so deep into the Odesk Project that we agreed to pay the additional money to Odesk. 4. After the software was 75% completed the programmer came back to us and DEMANDED ANOTHER approx. $20,000.00 to complete the Odesk Project 5. After we told the programmer we already paid twice and another approx. $20,000.00 is way out of our budget he instantly turned into a Nightmare! He was no longer nice...he told us we need to pay the other $20,000.00 or we will basically get nothing for our money that we can do anything with. 6. We contacted Ron Aquino from Odesk about this issue. They basically told us to work with the programmer and there was nothing they could do other than send them an email. They said they would talk to the programmer but instead of helping us they gave the programmers more money. Ron Aquino told us to pay the money the programmer was asking for...because the programmers was not happy with our solution to make payments for the extra bribe money. Please understand that Odesk gets paid when a programmer gets paid. There's something fishy about that. Odesk takes a commission every billing hour. It only makes sense that naturally they don't mind a client getting over billed and Price Bait and Switch because the more money the programmers earn the more money they earn...Thus there was no conclusion...or help from Odesk. Ron Aquino informed our company to stop using odesk. Probably because of our massive complaints. The Odesk Corporation did absolutely NOTHING to help the situation. We have Nothing to show for the thousands of dollars we lost. Our recommendation is if you want to use Odesk to out source your programmers BEWARE of Bait and Switch of the pricing...because the programmers know once you are deep into the job and the work is almost done you will have no choice but to pay what ever they demand to finish the job. Beware of the Mr. Nice guy routine as first because the first second you tell them you can't afford to pay more...you will experience a living nightmare and will loose your money and time invested. That was our Odesk experience!