Sep 14, 2021 05:12:57 PM by Melissa F
Have you noticed that the number of job postings with unverified payment far outweigh those whose posters have verified? It is really frustrating to have to weed through all of these. I don't even consider a job if the client hasn't verified their payment. Honestly, I don't think Upwork is earning their % when freelancers have to dig to find a trustworthy client. This is supposed to be a professional space where the jobs are better curated than a random crap-shoot online.
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Sep 14, 2021 05:18:45 PM by Jared K
Yeah, my last two clients were newbies so their accounts said "payment method unverified" until the the job began. Don't let that hold you back and Upwork actually wants these clients because they are new blood and shekels for the platform, and all of us.
Sep 14, 2021 05:16:51 PM by Robert Y
You're missing out. Loads of good clients start out without verifying a payment method, and only do so when they hire someone. It's not really a red flag at all, unless combined with other suspicious signs.
Sep 15, 2021 05:12:57 AM by Jamie F
Robert Y wrote:You're missing out. Loads of good clients start out without verifying a payment method, and only do so when they hire someone. It's not really a red flag at all, unless combined with other suspicious signs.
Shhh.
Don't tell everybody - it means more clients for us.
Sep 15, 2021 05:30:06 AM by Melissa F
Sep 14, 2021 05:18:45 PM by Jared K
Yeah, my last two clients were newbies so their accounts said "payment method unverified" until the the job began. Don't let that hold you back and Upwork actually wants these clients because they are new blood and shekels for the platform, and all of us.
Sep 15, 2021 06:42:31 AM by Melissa F
Thanks so much, Jared! Many people had a similar "answer," but your reply was the most straight-forward and kind. I appreciated everyone who took time to set me straight, but you actually spoke more like a mentor or colleague. Using positive talk instead of negative - which helped balance out my own negativity! That's a gift that not too many people share these days. Many thanks.
Sep 14, 2021 05:19:20 PM by Wes C
There's nothing wrong with having an unverified payment method when posting a job. There's no reason for them to set up a payment method until they're ready to hire. It just has to be verified before you accept an offer from them. The last thing I do before I accept an offer is to check that, and I ask them to take care of it if it's still unverified. Before that, it doesn't matter.
Sep 14, 2021 07:12:45 PM by Phyllis G
Requiring clients to verify their payment method before posting a job would be like making you verify your credit card at the door before allowing you to browse in DSW.
First rule of freelancing on this platform: We don't want UW to do anything that injects friction into the process for incoming clients. They bring the money.
Sep 14, 2021 08:11:16 PM by Melissa F
Sep 15, 2021 05:08:34 AM by Martina P
One of the larger misconceptions that newbies seem to have is that an unverified payment method is a bad sign. No idea where that came from.
Sep 15, 2021 05:28:06 AM by Melissa F
Sep 15, 2021 05:15:13 AM by Petra R
Melissa F wrote:I don't even consider a job if the client hasn't verified their payment.
How very shortsighted.
I'd have missed out on many tens of thousands of Dollars if I had the same attitude...
Melissa F wrote:Honestly, I don't think Upwork is earning their % when freelancers have to dig to find a trustworthy client.
Two unfounded assumptions... 1) That it is a mistake not to allow unverified clients to post jobs and 2) that that unverified clients are not trustworthy. Both assumptions are false.
Upwork understand their customers. They listenend to clients when they overwhelmingly told Upwork that they would never have posted a job had they been required to verify their payment method first, and would have gone to another platform.
So those clients, even the ones with multiple 100k spending, would have been lost to Upwork and to the freelancers who have made money from them.
Sep 15, 2021 05:24:06 AM by Melissa F