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I have received some work through Guru. Like almost any freelance site, there are buyers who want perfect quality for $0.01 per word. I just don't bid on those projects and think to myself that the buyer is going to get exactly what they deserve for that kind of payment. Crap.

Guru is a sham and devalues the industry of professional designers.

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My main complaint, however, centers on the large number of bottom feeding "employers" as they are called. Most are unwilling to pay appropriate fees for quality writing. They're frustratingly cheap, and I'm sure get substandard work from the "pros" who drop their drawers for these folks.

This site is a scam. Seriously. I paid for the dumb membership and got NO WORK. Considering that I bid on dozens and dozens of projects at a lower than normal rate and got NOTHING? This site makes me furious and I would give quite a lot to get back all the time and money I wasted on it.

Don't freelance on Guru if you are outside the US! I worked as a freelancer for 2 years and they did not pay me the money I earned!

You cannot bid on any projects unless you become a paid member !! Their Basic free membership is a harsh joke on people looking for work.

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Good clean site. A buddy of mine has gotten a lot of work through this site. Fantastic means of self promotion.

Guru.com took my money and ran. I invested my time and money with them over 6 years, and had one of the highest client review ratings on the entire site. The employers themselves hate the complicated way Guru arranges things. Most want a more free and easy mode of direct communication.

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Mind blowing website with everything which makes it stand different in this domain. Those who say that the bids by others is not visible, I must tell them that when bids by others is visible people make idiotic bids as they do in Rent A Coder. Bid for the amount which you feel is fair enough for that project.

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I felt like i was bidding for projects that may/may not exist, ie people looking to just see how much professionals charge can post projects here. They need a better way to seperate the jokers from the serious clients.

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GURU.COM is a good place to get projects if you are savvy. You can get burned pretty bad because they currently lack good fund escroll and deliverables confirmation/verification procedures once a a project has been completed.

The site is expensive and yes...few gigs for a few people out of the masses. I speak as a freelancer who got burned buy a project buyer... Consumer fraud that goes on at guru and other sites needs to be stopped.

There are just so many hilarious project proposals, it's hard to choose the best, but one of my favorite kinds is when the employer claims to have a complete spec in hand and will release it to the winning bidder. How does one bid without a spec, unless you want to work for free? Catch-22! You have to be broke and desperate to bid on guru.com and if you aren't already you soon will be.

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Guru locked me out of the site so I could not post honest feedback about the programmer and protect others It was a total nightmare, and the Guru people, including Stacy Norman, Customer Service Manager, are some of the rudest and most dishonest people I have ever encountered. they claim SafePay with their escrow offers the "HIGHEST" level of safety for paying for work, but it does not.

Guru.com was a complete waste of money. This site is of no use to anyone is a first class country as people in 3rd world countries will bid unbelievably low. So unless you're willing to work for about 50 cents an hour or less it is a waste of time.

I would expect Guru to offer similar protections that one would associate with Ebay. In my personal opinion (and those of other members who I have spoken to), you are better off trying a website such as AIIP where you can find information professionals for research.

One time I offered the work for free in the description field and emphasized the fact that I would do it for free and still NO responses! Also an issue is the going rate bids by the astronomical amount of designers is very very close to $10 per hour or less!

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I didn't like this one. Too much going on!

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I've used all the project sites and Guru is great. Reputable buyers with well paying projects use this site. So, if you're looking for steady freelance work with good companies, this is a great site.

I am wondering who is doing that and that was my biggest fear when I got a paid membership, wondering how valid a free job posting could be on a paid service. The numbers fooled me, don't let them fool you. Not only that, there are also so many postings from webmasters posting jobs at insane amounts. No offence, but unless you work in the India (where the founder has roots) and can do devepment work for below minimal wage, stay way from these clowns. The website is well built and works well, even though it is a failed system.

Guru.com used to be good. Now it is turning into a complete cash grab. they have implemented 'Premium Proposals', which means that you can get your bid seen faster if you - guess what - pay more. And, surprise, surprise - the lower your ranking, the more you pay. They are turning into a money-sucking machine - and ripping off the very people who keep their business going in the first place!

So many rules, you can't track all of them. Do one little mistake, and they close your project. There are no providers there to bid on your projects anyway. Such a mess.

Scam. I've had a free account with them for 3 months. Have never bid on a job because of what I've seen so for. The biggest putoff for me though is that employers are bottom fishing, ie $3000/month (full-time!) for a six month project. $18.75 per hour?

This site may have been good a few years ago, but now it is a total waste of time. Wish I could get my money back for my useless membership. Many of the freelance jobs posted are just that, people wanting work done for free or next to nothing.

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I didn't buy the membership but did the basic with no money down. Received 3 invites and got nothing.

Totally frustrated with Guru.com, but still trying to get work on there, wasting hours writing bids

you really start to get a feel for Guru, though, when you spend time writing questions to employers trying to get enough info about a project to submit something more than a generic cookie-cutter proposal and almost never get any kind of response. If employers can't be bothered answering questions about their projects, the projects can't be all that important to them.

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They have an escrow service now. And it works fine. I've used it. And they paid me quickly. Not only that, but I could divert the funds to my Paypal account for free. I like that.

I have been working with guru.com with last few yrs and i wouldnt say they are scam. But yes i agree their support system sucs big time they are rude and cold. I would rather use elance they are far better than guru.

Stay away from Guru-Period. My small non-profit was doing a simple website...the first guy took 8 months to do a website and guru released escrowed funds to him without our permission! We never did get a website, nor the money back. I can't even get him to respond to any of my phone calls or e-mails. Again, I am out of money and patience with no results.

I am a paid member on the site and I earned some money on guru.com but when time came to withdraw that money they just wont reply. I think its a big scam they are just using money for themselves.

Guru is a slave-labor operation that is very pro-client and downright hostile to their contractors, the people who pay them. Also, they were one of the first contract work sites to allow competition from overseas, so I guess you can say that started outsourcing American jobs almost 10 years ago. Avoid.

Guru.com doesn't follow ethical practices. It is against the law to practice coercive product selling under the banking and finance laws. Guru forces you to use their useless payment/rating system after you already pay them a membership fee to bid. They force you to use a second product to obtain the first, which is outright against the law. They also disregard employer law.

GURU is a waste of time for any serious professional. Surf it as a hobby only, and see what you can milk for free...since that's what they'll end up doing to you. (By the way, after a year's membership and 2 million proposals, I got ZERO jobs.)

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I am a buyer. Cannot say all my transactions have been perfect. However I will give a very good rating overall. It is difficult to get the attention and service of freelancers these days - so the competition among freelancers on this website makes it easy for the buyer.

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Is it the best paid work I've ever done? No, but it's hardly an embarrassing rate, and the work is fun and interesting, and will yield me good clips that could easily lead to higher paid work elsewhere.

Any project you bring up, is unbiddable.. and i mean any. Call me opinionated, but a website that wants you to plonk cash on the table for nothing delivered is a scam and a con game. Freelance pros be damned, guru needs DA MONEY. i also noticed how a bad review gets prompt attention from a paid grunt about helpfulness

The job descriptions are too vague to make an honest price evaluation. Too much time wasted in trying to figure out what to charge. Don't waste your time.

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There is no real way to classify services using this site, so definitely not recommended for generalists like me. I was disappointed by the low, low rates that employers seemed to be willing to pay

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This site is very nearly a complete waste of time. The only benefit I can see to Guru is it could be a way to get new business connections, if you're very patient and willing to work for nothing at first.

Guru pretty much SUCKS! I didn't pay for the "UPGRADED" membership because I wanted to see how credible this place was first. And also if you're an employee of Guru.com. I swear, Guru.com is so bad it fatigues me to talk about them anymore.

But as I began posting projects, they issued ridiculous reasons why I could not post them. Their customer service was rude (dare I say "stuck up"?) and they banned my account. Upon making another account and posting non-related projects, the same rude customer support person notified me I was not allowed to post there and banned my second account! VERY unprofessional

Scam. I've had a free account with them for 3 months. Have never bid on a job because of what I've seen so for. The biggest putoff for me though is that employers are bottom fishing, ie $3000/month (full-time!) for a six month project. $18.75 per hour? Not in Boston (or the USA for that matter!), I could clean toilets for better. The only benefit to me is to get a feeling for what skills are in demand.

Hi

I have been working with guru.com with last few yrs and i wouldnt say they are scam. But yes i agree their support system sucs big time they are rude and cold. I would rather use elance they are far better than guru.

Regards

Sandy

The site is expensive and yes...few gigs for a few people out of the masses. I speak as a freelancer who got burned buy a project buyer... Consumer fraud that goes on at guru and other sites needs to be stopped.

The job descriptions are too vague to make an honest price evaluation. Too much time wasted in trying to figure out what to charge. Don't waste your time.

Guru.com used to be good. Now it is turning into a complete cash grab.

They've started using several new methods; one is how they calculate your ranking. I had a pretty good ranking due to the number of good projects that I was awarded and landed (based on professional rates). In January, they are going to change the ranking method so that providers that get the most jobs (and by extension, charge slave rates) will be ranked FIRST.



That is a complete ripoff.



Second, they have implemented 'Premium Proposals', which means that you can get your bid seen faster if you - guess what - pay more. And, surprise, surprise - the lower your ranking, the more you pay.



They are turning into a money-sucking machine - and ripping off the very people who keep their business going in the first place!

They are turning into an Elance-type operation, and I would NEVER work with Elance in a million years. Unless you want to give away your services for basically free, stay away.

You cannot bid on any projects unless you become a paid member !! Their Basic free membership is a harsh joke on people looking for work.

Guru is a slave-labor operation that is very pro-client and downright hostile to their contractors, the people who pay them. Also, they were one of the first contract work sites to allow competition from overseas, so I guess you can say that started outsourcing American jobs almost 10 years ago. Avoid.

Guru employers rush with fake credit cards for work, leave the contractor hanging when it's time to get paid. The Guru.com process allows employers to take work before releasing funds. About 80% of Guru work is fraudulently hired or will be unpaid by the time the credit card processes catch up to them.

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I have been on the site for four days and got two well paying projects (completion this afternoon) and one that I am still in negotiations with. These three projects total $2350. Not bad for a weeks worth of work and only eight bids. Both projects that have been awarded to me were paid up (in the escrow) and I've had no worries.

I hired NGBM Solutions through them and got royally ripped off. I paid ngbm.net through Guru.com after they showed me great work on their test server. However, when it came time to deliver the project the developer, whose name is Rajan Kumar Upadhyay, became suspiciously hard to get in touch with. To make a long story short the developer used his superior knowledge of the Guru.com system to not only steal my money but also to steal my concept.