To avoid fraud from employer
1) Never send your original content, example instead of jpg of high quality use low quality. Don’t send a watermarked original content.

2) Ask for payments on achieving milestone.

3) If employer rejects the project in middle, don’t loose heart, complete your project with excellence and list the completed project on eBay with demo link. If you done a good job. You will get a good amount for that project.

Note: Whether employer purchase the completed project or not. You are the developer of that project. It depends on you, how much better you can code, design or other fields.

Don’t curse a company for not getting project or freelance job. I started with Basic profile, year 2005. Now employers wait for one or two week to outsource their project to me. Many time I encountered with such employers who not ready to pay in the end, makes excuses. I just told them “bye” and sold the completed project on eBay with higher price in auction compare to the project price.

Online market, it’s like huge place for selling and purchasing. Even 15 line of code sell in 2000 dollars or more.

I’m not saying that the site can’t work for some people. But to me ,if you allow anyone to post as an employer than how can this be taken labeled as the biggest freelance website. Give me a break. I don’t see this site up and going in 10 years unless they revamp. Unless they use it as an engine for people to hire cheap labor in third world countries. Also I think they should charge employers to post to weed out some of the empty employer posts. Maybe like 5.00 a post or something like that. And if they award the project they can refund it. Even Ebay makes you pay for posting whether you sale or not.

I have another two months on my membership and after that I don’t see myself renewing. I am sure guru.com doesn’t care they already have my 74.95 for the subscription.

My impression, unfortunately, is that the majority of the employers are either bottom fishing (those dudes in India work mighty cheap, ya know) or they’re listing projects just to see what going rates are.

It seems there are quite a few stay-at-home moms who took an English class or two who are willing to work for McDonalds-style wages as well as the overseas types working in third-world economies.

But, ya never know, maybe I’ll cover my fee at some point.

Guru has been a complete waste of time and money for us. The site isn’t friendly to use, the lack of transparency disturbs me, and the fact that 10 proposals a day for the past month has not even stirred up communication with a potential lead concerns me.

On any other site, we’d be already working by now (and I’m including the crappy sites, too)

It’s expensive and not cost-effective. There has been zero return on investment and when our three-month Select subscription expires, we won’t be coming back to Guru. We’d rather burn our money than waste it.

I’m glad to see that there are plenty of reviews out there about the lack of quality for freelancers on Guru. Join my voice to the ranks.

There are at least 20-50 bids for each project after a few days, and I don’t think these people get award any job to anyone.

Guru.com has to be more friendly to providers and be a little more cheap to them. They can start charging a bit to the buyers since they are the one to spend the main money on the site.

I’d be suspicious about that 20% statistic. It’d be interesting to know exactly what jobs those invoices were for.

You should name the fortune 500 company that didn’t pay you-I think it’s at least as much their fault as Guru’s-unless the company was required to walk away. If they weren’t required to, but were just entitled to, they should have had the decency to pay you.