Ghosted by Client After Contract Started

[03dedd38]

I accepted an hourly contract from a client to provide web development services.  After the contract was accepted he completely ghosted me.  Sent a few messages his way (politely) seeing if he still needed my services.  He's sent nothing even though I can see he's still logging onto Upwork.  No work was logged for this contract.  If I end the contract, can he write a bad review and negatively effect my JSS?  If so, what's protecting the freelancer from these types of situations?

[prestonhunter · Accepted solution]

re: "If I end the contract, can he write a bad review and negatively effect my JSS?"

If he has disappeared completely, then he is not going to leave any sort of review whatsoever.

If no money has been earned on this contract, then it is impossible for the job to appear on your public profile.

Just close the contract now and stop worrying about this.

[03dedd38]

Thanks Preston!

[aabdprto]

Hi Dean!

I have the same problem like you, to think that it's my 2nd contract. Wanna check what happened after you ended the contract?

[03dedd38]

Hey Ara 👋.  After closing this particular contract, nothing adversely affected my JSS and there was no review left on my profile.  The job didn't even show up on my profile.

[martina_plaschka]

The protection against a situation like this is feedback removal, which is available to top-rated freelancers. The premise being, if you have proven yourself on upwork, an occasional bad feedback should not count against you, because sometimes things go wrong without the freelancer's fault. 

[wlyonsatl]

Preston,

If a freelancer closes a project on which no earnings have been made, does that adversely affect the freelancers calculated JSS?