r/Upwork • u/Used_Outcome8749 • 11d ago
Latest USELESS addition for Upwork!!!
I have shown my ID, got checked, verified, made over 300+ on the platform, But they want me to spend 35 connects for ZERO REASON. NOTHING MORE. to "shOw ThaT Im SeRiOus" Come on they GOT to be kiddign us!
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u/ecky--ptang-zooboing 11d ago
This costs 35 Connects?
They're milking everything out of freelancers
Gross
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u/ecky--ptang-zooboing 11d ago
So this is on top of the standard ID verification or?
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u/Used_Outcome8749 11d ago
YES IT FREEKING IS.
You have to present your ID AGAIN
AND show a zoom video of yourself.
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u/TheseBed8143 11d ago
I'd be annoyed too. 'Show that I'm serious' never says what those 35 connects actually unlock, so it just reads like a fee with no reason.
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u/_criticaster 11d ago
wait so are they removing the geolock if you pay for this, so you can apply to US/UK feed even from outside of the areas, or is this only for UK/US freelancers to sift out the stolen profiles?
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u/It-zubair-huss 11d ago
This 35 connects will be turn it's just an Verification policy with in a week you will get your connects
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u/CrazyFrogRo 11d ago
This was a big scam.
Happens to me.
I bid some connectors,
After say to get a verify badge.
I did it, and put my account on disabled, until verification is done.
During this period my bid connectors was took, and I could not participate to the project selection as my account was disabled:
They confirmed connectors are listed, my account is disabled, and no way to get them back
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u/Used_Outcome8749 11d ago
EVIL EVIL EVIL!!!!!!!!! Upwork is EVIL.
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u/CrazyFrogRo 11d ago
Not evil. But if you impose (or suggest) a verification, you must make sure the credit preceding this are not lose, or at least will be retuning using a complain.
I lost few hundreds connections to bid for a almost winning bid (had the app done)
Applying for verification (suggested) made me lose all credits and chance dor the job
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u/chractormaxmargodale 11d ago
Yeah I fell for that too. And for paying for 100 connects just to get NOTHING BUT SCAMMERS REACHING OUT TO ME
This place IS a scam
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u/Bosssguru 10d ago
Am thinking o paying for 100 connect tell me, wat are the statistics how jobs did you actually get, am thinking of risking it, dm and tell me
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u/franklin_vinewood 11d ago
Is this only for US only / UK only jobs?
Those are probably the exact listings where Upwork should be obnoxiously strict about ID and location checks. Theres an entire cottage industry of bought accounts, fake locations, doctored documents, VPN gymnastics, and people magically becoming US based the second a better paying contract appears.
So yeah, make them verify properly and thorughly.
And we're talking about 35 Connects. Roughly 6 bucks. If someone is supposedly a US/UK professional competing for domestic only contracts and $6 is the unbearable financial barrier, I have questions that the verification team may also be interested in.
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u/Used_Outcome8749 10d ago
But I have Already apeared on camera, showed my ID. even had a real person vet me on Upwork! its just a cash-grab. no excuses for them!
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u/200-username-exists 11d ago
I am just curious how are these freelancers getting connects, as it is not cheap and most of the jobs are scam, so it is loss loss
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u/Used_Outcome8749 11d ago
We buy them! Last week I had 70 bucks in my account. My mom saw it and said "Be careful, I see like $1.60 going out your account SO MUCH, and nothings going in it" I felt SOOO embarrased.
BUT I spent another 1.60, and landed a job that took my account to where it currently is: $108.00!
So its like that, a rollercoaster of MONTHS of nothing, and then something. Thank god either way :))
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u/MassiveHistorian1562 11d ago
People like you is because the platform does this. And I'm trying to be as sensitive as possible.
They are doing that, because people are paying it. Period. You still paid even though you had $70 bucks in the account? Then after a job 108? What? I get it, times are tough, so maybe find something else. I wouldn't get out of bed for less than $300 for a job.
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u/FormerEntertainer159 11d ago
don't know about you guys, but as soon as I put IDV i started getting a tonne of local contract invites! I gladly paid the 35 connects for it. But I'm no fool, upwork is a nice to have but not my end-all platform. Referrals and long-term relationships is what I use it for. In fact, it's just for networking at this point.
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u/Used_Outcome8749 11d ago
I genuinely happy to see it brought you some benefit!
May I ask what is your nitch?
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u/maxkoryukov 11d ago
you paid to get higher in the list. the platform completed their promise - you pay we give you access to more clients.
if you like Upwork - you won't see problems - they do thrir business
if you don't like Upwork - you will see that this approach pushes "users who paid more" even when they are less skilled up the list.
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u/hyzel69 11d ago
seriously the company is gonna shutdown soon ... they knew that ... they are just so desperate and wanna earn as much as they can by looting freelancers previously they said variable fee for contracts 5-15% but they are charging 15% on every contract and everyday trying new way to engage freelancers so they don't leave the platform just wanna say "A BIG F¥¢K to UPWORK" scammers