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[#1]

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Danny B wrote:
I don’t know why I have to have Upwork hold my money In the first place.

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You don't.

• When the client approves your work on fixed price jobs and releases escrow, there is a short "security" (stop loss) hold of 5 days, after which you can withdraw the money to whatever bank accounts you've registered with Upwork, or to PayPal or some other payment method.
• For hourly jobs, your money becomes available in the second week after you've completed the work, much like a paycheck. (The client is given a week to review your work diary [time sheet].)

I'm not sure, but you seem to be focused on the backup provision for how you want Upwork to handle any funds you haven't already actively withdrawn yourself.

[#2]

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Danny B wrote:
Usually when I pay bills I just use my credit card or have it automatically
deducted from my account or “withdrawn” I don’t know why I have to have
Upwork hold my money In the first place. I don’t know why the people that
are paying me can’t just send the money to my bank account.

Like what happens if I go under $100 are they gonna send me a fee like the
bank would?

Furthermore your condescending tone and hyperbolic responses aren’t helping
anything so I don’t really understand why you continue to berate me when
you could just tell me what I need to know . if you know.

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This thread is just too funny, thank you for that!

And yes, you are right. This is a huge scam. No freelancer has ever been paid, many have not been paid for many many years, "earning" over half a million dollars in some cases. Never saw any of that money! Even the SEC hasn't caught on yet. Pretty slow, wouldn't you say? 

And that's not the only weird thing they do. They use hourly contracts, in which one hour is 6 segments of 10 minutes each. Now that's not how a clock works, right? Or does your clock jump in 10 minute increments? I didn't think so! 

(I'm just letting you guess if I am sarcastic or not.) 

[#3]

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Danny B wrote:
Usually when I pay bills I just use my credit card or have it automatically
deducted from my account or “withdrawn” I don’t know why I have to have
Upwork hold my money In the first place. I don’t know why the people that
are paying me can’t just send the money to my bank account.

Like what happens if I go under $100 are they gonna send me a fee like the
bank would?

Furthermore your condescending tone and hyperbolic responses aren’t helping
anything so I don’t really understand why you continue to berate me when
you could just tell me what I need to know . if you know.

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Everyone is trying to help you out, no one is being condescending or berating you ... they're all just trying to explain how things work here. Now I'll try.

Perhaps you're not clear on what Upwork is? It is not a job/employment site. Clients post jobs, freelancers bid on those jobs. Upwork makes money by the fees they charge, that's why the money comes through the site.

You bid on jobs, and if you're hired, you do the work and get paid. For flat rate projects, clients fund milestones and their money is held in escrow until the job is completed. Hourly jobs mean you use a time tracker and are paid for your hours. Upwork is not holding your money, they are holding the client's money until clients receive what they've hired a freelancer to do. We don't get paid directly, because then Upwork makes no money. This system means everyone works smartly and safely. I'm simplifying things, because there is a learning curve.

Upwork cannot offer what this site does for free. The site gives you the opportunity to connect to clients all over the world. Is everything perfect? No. Many of us have complaints about some of the things Upwork does, but one thing we don't complain about is making money.

Many freelancers do very well here. Nichola, the first to respond to you, is a good example of a very successful Upwork freelancer. It's not easy ... the competition is fierce. You have to be willing to put in the time and effort. Some people make it, many do not. But there's no scam.

[#4]

Thank you that has been repeated a few times now.

However I have to say that I have been replying though email and i did not
k ow I was speaking to different people. That is why I thought i was being
talked down to and why I became so defensive.
And I apologize. However that is probably another thing to as to the
evidence against using upwork.

Any way I know that up work charges a fee i just dont know why thay have to
holed 100 dollars and what thay mean by “withdrawal to my account”
especially if i dont have any money in my account. What would happen to
that 100 if i decide to leave upwork? What if it takes me a long time to
get a contract? Why do i have to give them money in the first place?

All these thing are hard signals of a Pyramid scheme. I am not saying this
is a for sure definitive proof that it’s a pyramid scheme I just don’t
understand why they would do with this especially when they already charge
a fee.

[#5]

Hello Danny,

I would like to clarify that you can manually withdraw your funds at any time even if they are less then $100. You can do this simply by clicking on the Get Paid button. Thank you.

[#6]

Thankyou

[#7]

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Danny B wrote:
Any way I know that up work charges a fee i just dont know why thay have to
holed 100 dollars and what thay mean by “withdrawal to my account”

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You don't have to hold $ 100. When you earn some money from work you have done, your client pays Upwork and Upwork deposits that money in your Upwork account. You can then choose to withdraw (transfer) your money to your bank or you can leave it sitting in your Upwork balance. 

So, let's say you have $ 20 in your Upwork account. You can just take that out, or leave it until there is more.

When you set up a scheduled withdrawal, you can decide the threshold. I have mine set to $ 1000 every 3 months, because I don't want any scheduled withdrawals, I take my money out as and when it suits me.

"Withdraw to your account" just means transferring your earned money to the payment method you have chosen. Your bank account or PayPal for example.

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Danny B wrote:
What would happen to
that 100 if i decide to leave upwork? What if it takes me a long time to
get a contract? Why do i have to give them money in the first place?

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You don't have to give them money. That's the whole point. This isn't about giving Upwork money, it's about the way Upwork gives you the money you earn.

You seem to think you have to send Upwork $ 100 and that's just complete nonsense.