Freelancing penalty?

Question

Freelance

Are there any ways to offer the customer a guarantee of quality and timely performance in the form of a "forfeit"? For example, the service freezes the amount paid by the contractor, which will be paid to the customer in case of any violations of the contract. Are there such possibilities? The rating system, reviews - all this works for people who have been on the service, the exchange for a long time. What for newcomers without rating and without reviews? In the eyes of the customer, such a performer has nothing to lose. I would gladly guarantee the payment of a penalty to customers, but where is this possible on the Internet?

Answer 1

There is no special meaning.
If the performer is not a fool, then the cost of his work in this scenario will skyrocket.
There is no point in this, because there are very few qualified performers on the market. They are so busy with work. There is a queue for them.
Well, trying something there is guaranteed to snatch from a non-pro who is not able to do the job .... What is the point in general?
And who will finish your project? After payment of the penalty, the performer will leave. A new performer (if he is adequate) will take additional money for entering the middle of an unfinished project. And a lot.
PS
And this is how any more or less developed site of the freelance exchange can do it.

Answer 2

The official contract allows you to do this. If without a contract, then the guarantor-service.

Answer 3

for small projects, this is generally garbage
for large ones, where will you take at least a couple of hundred thousand for a penalty?

Answer 4

The return of the prepayment is a penalty no more, you are not building spaceships when a meteorite flies at us, all the harm from the fact that you abandoned the project is far-fetched. Whatever one may say, the performer is always in a greater loss than the customer, even if you spent 5 minutes on the order and refused, the customer did nothing and therefore did not lose anything.
This is how all exchanges work, if the contractor refuses, the funds are simply unfrozen, and you cannot leave feedback to each other.