Elance.com -A place of Getting paid by luck or if you feed elance.
A place for freelancer to invest most of their time, and when it is time to get you paid or get the money from Elance they get dumb, or start creating issues. They have even taught or developed their automatic softwares working to create mess only to make it hard to get money from them either if you want to get paid or you are robbed by another freelancer.
They even made a set up of fraudulent even if you and your freelancer are OK to get paid and pay.
Really a big mess for the start ups and a big challange everyday for the regulars. They can do anything after they have money in your hands, even can make you inactive.
Just a gamble place to earn, No safe place for genuine people to earn or get your work done.
Never choose Elance for any requirements if can't play with your time and money.
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