/biz/ - Business & Finance

Hi,

This is a story how freelancing/working online for someone can fuck you up. Even if the person is a millionare and your "friend".

A guy (who I considered a friend), the same person who scammed me, who after all failed attempts to find a job offered me one to freelance for him (work on the website as "analyst/tester" and work on filling up the inventory with Excel. I accepted the job and did my absolute best to learn everything in which he generously aided me. It took me a couple of days to figure how everything about website csv inventory worked before I was assigned projects to complete. Once again, I did my absolute best in period of two weeks to complete all projects on time. I hadn't slept one period for a couple of days as I was rushing to help him release his website earlier than scheduled. Besides all other website testing and tips to improve it I gave him, the initial projects were about filling up the website inventory. I was promised 0.10$ per item. I finished several documents of 27k lines(items) (Means he had 27k items ready to be added to website) . This equals to a bit more than 2700 USD. Everything went smooth, he loved the work and which you'll see in screenshots, said everything was fine. Immediately me offered another document that's double the lines (this would mean another ~5000 USD) but I insisted that we settled the payment first. He suggested Paypal. After several weeks of reading his excuses (such as, his wife forgot to plug in the power in his office, his accountant does it on specific days of the month, "he forgot me", his Paypal is broken...and so on and on...) it came to a point where he ran out of excuses, so he's simply ignoring my messages. I haven't slept properly for a week now knowing my future changed in a blink.There is a lot more to it but I'll let you judge on this.

https://imgur.com/a/ZTBw3kp