Good day Upwork Community,
This is the first time I would be posting something here and I just signed up a few days ago. So anyway, to make the story short.
- I was sent a proposal to do reverse engineering work.
- I discussed him the limitations of what I can do and I even told him I could only get the *imperfect* reversed code.
- I also told him that I do not do illegal stuff such as removing license key of products and whatsoever.
- He says its okay then he hired me to do the work.
- At first he told me that we transact via PayPal and I declined immediately because I got a warning from Upwork saying that my account can get deleted because of this.
- I told him to get 'Payment Verified' since he was not as I am scared of not getting paid or I might get scammed, so he did what I asked.
- Once I have finished the task, I told him that I have already done the task and he can buy the reversed source code from me. He just has to send me a decent offer for the work and so he did.
- I have given him the project via *his* dropbox because 25 MB is the max limit of Upwork for uploading file. I also provided screenshots to him.
- He already said okay and he would pay it so he funded the escrow though I have not yet received the money.
- I tried messaging him to mark the milestone as completed because I got all excited and he says that he already funded and it should be on the way.
- Once I received the money (its in pending now), we chatted as if we are close friends. He was good and nice at first though I couldn't respond to him that much as I am busy with other projects.
- A day passed, then he told me that I did not do what he asked for and said I was very unprofessional. I told him that we already talked about how I would deal with the problem and he just said yes and hired me so he should have nothing against what I did.
- He then threatened me that he will report me to Upwork and he also bragged that he already have the source code (so why hire somebody to do the work right?) and I told him that if he can do that then he is a magician.
- I told him that he can say all the bad things to me and he can threaten me all he want. I have backup of our conversation in my end so I am not scared.
- He then sent me a couple of refund requests (2 at the moment) and I cancelled it all.
- I asked my wife's advice and have read some other community post before posting here.
- I have decided to end the contract and just honestly rate what I have felt towards the client.
- Right now, I do not know what to do and I am dumbfounded.
I am feeling kind of scared that I would never get clients anymore because the client might give me a negative feedback and would-be prospects would always decline me because of his feedback. How do I do this and how do I deal with such action? I already have read some threads though I am just anxious on what to do. Thank you very much for reading this post. Thank you and have a good day!
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