Do they get thrown on upwork?

Question

Freelance

Have you ever had a job done but not paid? I have not completed any order yet and it is important for me to contact customers who have not spent anything yet (less than $100) and their payment method is not confirmed (payment unverified). In general, is it worth contacting new customers? Does it make sense to respond to the suggestions of the "oldies" of the upwork? It implies a fixed price of course.

Answer 1

It used to.
The most important thing is to strictly follow the rules of the site.
For fixed-price - work only through escrow, no payments after the fact.
No work until the money is in escrow, and if you have worked, then do not send anything to the customer until the money is there. I don’t know how it is now on Upwork, I only work by the hour now, it was like this on Elance - and as far as I know, they copied the work with Escrow.
So if the customer suddenly disappears, you will receive the money.
The second, no less important, is psychology. Don't work with shady clients.
If the customer does not want to pay, he will find a way. Chargeback will do, the dispute will open, it will shit in the reviews.
Most often, it is easier to score on lost money or even return what you received than to get a negative reputation.

Answer 2

I have been working for Upwork for more than three years and there was no case. Worked both with unconfirmed statuses and with just new clients. Everything is fair. Feedback received positive. Basically fixed price.
My upwork profile

Answer 3

The more difficult the job and the higher your qualifications, the less likely it is to be kicked.
This applies to UpWork with its escrow and any other ways of interacting with customers.
It consoles - that the lower the qualification and the easier the work and the higher the probability of a kidk - the less the duration of the work and the less their cost and less loss.
For all the time I've been working (since 1998), they just threw it once or twice. There were more times - then there I myself did not work flawlessly.
That is, they throw - extremely rarely.

Answer 4

If you want to be thrown, then you will be thrown