Freelancers from all over the world have created a black list of defaulters
In addition to all the obvious and not obvious advantages of a free work schedule, freelancers always face the risk of encountering a careless client who, after work, refuses to pay.
Because of this, finding that the customers' debt to members of the International Freelancers Union, whose office is located in New York ( Freelance Union ) and the number of complaints about freelance-stock exchanges clients only grows from year to year, the informal organization financed the creation of the “ Longest accounts in the world "(World's Longest Invoice) - a specialized site where each of the participants can leave a complaint to a particular client who refused to pay for the exhibited requirements.
At the moment, the total debt to freelancers who consider it necessary to state this is $ 12,696,750; Moreover, the range of sums is very different - someone Brandon T. for $ 100 did design work and did not receive payment. On the other hand, someone named Matt did the job of building a site on Rails and was also left without a fee of $ 20,000. In general, according to the creators, 77% of freelancers from around the world somehow faced the problem of paying for their services and, on average, each of them lost about $ 5,000 a year. In addition, an important problem is also called the fact that the customer is not able to adequately assess the efforts to perform this or that work and, if he does not refuse to pay according to the demand, he is often inclined to part with a much smaller amount.
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Because of this, finding that the customers' debt to members of the International Freelancers Union, whose office is located in New York ( Freelance Union ) and the number of complaints about freelance-stock exchanges clients only grows from year to year, the informal organization financed the creation of the “ Longest accounts in the world "(World's Longest Invoice) - a specialized site where each of the participants can leave a complaint to a particular client who refused to pay for the exhibited requirements.
At the moment, the total debt to freelancers who consider it necessary to state this is $ 12,696,750; Moreover, the range of sums is very different - someone Brandon T. for $ 100 did design work and did not receive payment. On the other hand, someone named Matt did the job of building a site on Rails and was also left without a fee of $ 20,000. In general, according to the creators, 77% of freelancers from around the world somehow faced the problem of paying for their services and, on average, each of them lost about $ 5,000 a year. In addition, an important problem is also called the fact that the customer is not able to adequately assess the efforts to perform this or that work and, if he does not refuse to pay according to the demand, he is often inclined to part with a much smaller amount.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/143070/
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