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Re: Taking Contracts off Upwork
Jan 26, 2019 10:12:50 AM by Jennifer M
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Jan 26, 2019 09:27:34 AM by Caitlyn S
I have read through upwork's policies and it seems if a client wants to take their contract with you off of Upwork, they have to submit a notice and pay a fee. How can you know (as a freelancer) that this has been done? The client that wants to hire me states that they have done what upwork needs them to do to create a contract outside upwork, but the job is still in my active proposals section. I don't want to violate Upwork's terms of service. I just want to make sure this company is following the rules so it won't be an issue in the future.
Thank you,
Caitlyn
Solved! Go to Solution.
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Jan 26, 2019 09:29:22 AM by Jennifer M
hmmm is this guy chatting with you on google hangouts?
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Jan 26, 2019 09:33:14 AM by Tonya P
Tell them that you'll need to receive a notification from customer support that the opt-out fee has been paid. (Hint: It hasn't)
Don't go to Google Hangouts--almost all "clients" who use GH are scammers. This is particularly true if you are a new freelancer.
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Jan 26, 2019 09:33:42 AM by Petra R
Caitlyn S wrote:I have read through upwork's policies and it seems if a client wants to take their contract with you off of Upwork, they have to submit a notice and pay a fee. How can you know (as a freelancer) that this has been done? The client that wants to hire me states that they have done what upwork needs them to do to create a contract outside upwork, but the job is still in my active proposals section. I don't want to violate Upwork's terms of service. I just want to make sure this company is following the rules so it won't be an issue in the future.
I would hazard a guess that this is 99.9999999999999999999% certain to be a scam.
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Jan 26, 2019 09:46:00 AM by Jennifer M
Caitlyn S wrote:Yeah, that sounds like what happened. How do I report it?
If you mean google hangouts, don't deposit the check, chica.
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Jan 26, 2019 10:12:50 AM by Jennifer M
Caitlyn S wrote:
If you mean google hangouts, don't deposit the check, chica.
No, it was just email. How do I report on upwork?
ah, ok. There should be a report button in the top-right corner of the job page IIRC.
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Jan 26, 2019 09:52:41 AM by Tiffany S
Caitlyn, it's very rare for a client to actually do that. The minimum buy-out fee is $3,500, and depending on the amount of work you're doing with the client, it could be much more. Unless it's a long-term, high-dollar relationship, it's virtually always more expensive for the client to buy you out than it is to go through Upwork. Even then, it's not worth it from a strictly financial perspective--it would only make sense if the client wanted to hire you as a regular employee or something like that.
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