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cimjanac
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Top Freelancer with 100 % success score bidding without any response

I don't know what happened to Upwork, but I'm thinking about switching to another freelancing site. I'm a top freelancer with 100 percent success score, 30k earned and 1700+ hours done, but literally no one is responding to my bids anymore. I'm ranked very high (when you put the filters on highest, I'm the first on the list) in the results and I'm doing my best to present my skills like I always did and had good results, but now there are none. I have a feeling that I'm throwing away Connects, and they are not free anymore...  

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shahinur120
Community Member

I have also this problem.
volkot
Community Member

Hi, Damjan.
I had the same stange sutuation 100% JSS, good reviews and no any new projects since June. I want to say you - don't worry. Very soon your JSS will start to go down. I had 100% last week, now I have 91% only. Why? I don't know - I said before I hadn't any new projects since June, didn't close any projects, didn't get any chance to get bad review from custmers. But JSS changes!
As I saw on one of the topic here, Upwork don't have enought money to comply with their obligations.
Also, try to google "Microsoft buying Upwork". In face of these ideas Upwork needs to have a better finational situation, becouse it will increase its cost. So now Upwork tryies to find money in any sources. Payment for contacs is one of these source!
Do you understand? They need you to pay more and more, in hope to win a project.

cimjanac
Community Member

I still have one client trough Upwork, and we are working together for years now, so I think that is why my JSS don't drop, we are paying a lot of money for the fee, and I think most of the clients just put the job on and hire people outside of Upwork and we all know that is illegal. Why there is no sistem for punishing clients, and why the site is not helping it's freelancers? We're the ones who is making money for you!

chasb
Community Member

This issue is being reported by more and more top rated freelancers over the last two months or longer.

Perhaps it's time for a moderator to step in and finally offer some insight?

volkot
Community Member

They don't think so.
Their strategy is "100 dissatisfied freelancers will leave - thousand new will come and start pay" Look arround on the forum - a lot of top level freelancers have same problem now.
What do Upwork do to help them? Remove free connects!
By the way. This night, I've opened a topic with question about my JSS's evolution. They deleted it!
I opened it again - they deleted again!

petra_r
Community Member


Valentine C wrote:


By the way. This night, I've opened a topic with question about my JSS's evolution. They deleted it!
I opened it again - they deleted again!


They did not delete it, they moved it into the JSS thread, all your posts are still alive

tlsanders
Community Member


Valentine C wrote:

They don't think so.
Their strategy is "100 dissatisfied freelancers will leave - thousand new will come and start pay" Look arround on the forum - a lot of top level freelancers have same problem now.
What do Upwork do to help them? Remove free connects!
By the way. This night, I've opened a topic with question about my JSS's evolution. They deleted it!
I opened it again - they deleted again!


If they thought thousands new would come, they would have come up with another system, because one of Upwork's biggest problems is having far, far too many freelancers sending far, far too many proposals. 

 

It's been reported (I can't remember where, but I've seen it more than once) that they are currently rejecting 98% of new freelancers.

moonraker
Community Member


Valentine C wrote:

I had the same stange sutuation 100% JSS, good reviews and no any new projects since June. I want to say you - don't worry. Very soon your JSS will start to go down. I had 100% last week, now I have 91% only. Why? I don't know - I said before I hadn't any new projects since June, didn't close any projects, didn't get any chance to get bad review from custmers. But JSS changes

JSS is calculated over rolling 6, 12 or 24 month periods, whichever is best. If your JSS is dropping without you closing contracts, it will likely mean that good feedbacks are dropping out of the calculation.

Most of the jobs stays on Upwork without hiring anyone, so freelancers don't get back the Connects, or just the response from the client that they will not be hired, and it's really frustrating. Upwork need to find the way to notify freelancers about the status of the job they are bidding on, and they are hiding all the stats. Now, you need to pay to see it, and that is really not good. 

florydev
Community Member


Damjan C wrote:

I don't know what happened to Upwork, but I'm thinking about switching to another freelancing site. I'm a top freelancer with 100 percent success score, 30k earned and 1700+ hours done, but literally no one is responding to my bids anymore. I'm ranked very high (when you put the filters on highest, I'm the first on the list) in the results and I'm doing my best to present my skills like I always did and had good results, but now there are none. I have a feeling that I'm throwing away Connects, and they are not free anymore...  


Why do you have to "switch"?  Go to another freelancing site and see if you can find work there and if it is the worker's paradise you are looking for.   It might have made sense to be doing this all the time and treating Upwork is just another channel for finding work.

 

If you see a job you really, really like on Upwork then I would bid on it if I were you.  It could be that the way you have always done it isn't working anymore, it could be you are going through a cycle of misses that seem to plague everyone, it could be that Upwork is failing.  I wouldn't dwell on what is the cause and instead find something that works for me.

 

lysis10
Community Member


Mark F wrote:


Why do you have to "switch"?  Go to another freelancing site and see if you can find work there and if it is the worker's paradise you are looking for.   It might have made sense to be doing this all the time and treating Upwork is just another channel for finding work.

 

If you see a job you really, really like on Upwork then I would bid on it if I were you.  It could be that the way you have always done it isn't working anymore, it could be you are going through a cycle of misses that seem to plague everyone, it could be that Upwork is failing.  I wouldn't dwell on what is the cause and instead find something that works for me.

 


no no no, that's not what you do. You have to make an announcement on the forum that you're leaving and wait for an Upwork rep to beg you to stay. You don't get it, so you take your $10/month in commissions and tell them YOU ARE DELETING YOUR ACCOUNT and do it and you know in your heart that they will regret their decision to let YOU go. Oh yes, they will regret it. Freelancers are leaving in droves, you see, and oh yes they will regret ever letting your sweet sweet $10/hour profile go.

 

Then, you wait like 6 months and beg them to reinstate your account. But oh no that's not good enough. You then explain how they are doing everything wrong because you aren't getting jobs. Make sure to mention stock prices and how competitors are doing this and that and all the value your now $0/month is lost on wrong things. Make sure to prefix everything with NOW THAT I PAY FOR CONNECTS because we need to drive that point home.

florydev
Community Member


Jennifer M wrote:

Mark F wrote:


Why do you have to "switch"?  Go to another freelancing site and see if you can find work there and if it is the worker's paradise you are looking for.   It might have made sense to be doing this all the time and treating Upwork is just another channel for finding work.

 

If you see a job you really, really like on Upwork then I would bid on it if I were you.  It could be that the way you have always done it isn't working anymore, it could be you are going through a cycle of misses that seem to plague everyone, it could be that Upwork is failing.  I wouldn't dwell on what is the cause and instead find something that works for me.

 


no no no, that's not what you do. You have to make an announcement on the forum that you're leaving and wait for an Upwork rep to beg you to stay. You don't get it, so you take your $10/month in commissions and tell them YOU ARE DELETING YOUR ACCOUNT and do it and you know in your heart that they will regret their decision to let YOU go. Oh yes, they will regret it. Freelancers are leaving in droves, you see, and oh yes they will regret ever letting your sweet sweet $10/hour profile go.

 

Should I make sure to mention that I was a TR freelancer with 100% JSS?

 

Then, you wait like 6 months and beg them to reinstate your account. But oh no that's not good enough. You then explain how they are doing everything wrong because you aren't getting jobs. Make sure to mention stock prices and how competitors are doing this and that and all the value your now $0/month is lost on wrong things. Make sure to prefix everything with NOW THAT I PAY FOR CONNECTS because we need to drive that point home.


 

Is it at this point that I should forget both my password and all of my security answers?

 

Thanks J, I don't know what I would do without you.  I can't wait to quit in a huff...

russtice
Community Member

You are not alone with your thinking unfortunately and yes countless connects are thrown down the rabbit hole. The probablilty that someone will even respond with a "hello" to your connect is well......Let me say I have seen better odds in a Vegas casino. 

I’ve got couple of invitations that had nothing to do with the jobs I bid on, and after generic invitation and my response in less than couple of hours, nothing happened and these jobs are still opened without hiring...
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