Freelancers to hire: Coinlancer.net. Anyone?

[henrys]

Their project manager Luke contacted me - after completing the brief - to ask about the details of the project. Additionally, he offered me a logo for $50, so I decided to go for it. After discussions, we agreed that they would present the logo concept and the first website design within 7 days. At this stage I have not paid anything. So far so good.

In this website special offer i see that i will pay only after milestones are delivered. I will check is it true or false.

You are not going to pay 100% of the money after the work is done, you are going to pay 30% of whatever they charge you after they create an initial graphic design for your project. Take note that since you said you want to start a new project, and from the prices i can see on their website for this, it is ~ $690 for Branding pack and ~ $850 for a modern website design.

Actually in special offer website will be for $450 + $50 for logo. I can pay that if the results will be satisfying. You can say both sides are risking time and money  I will wait for the outcome and then make a decision.

In this website special offer i see that i will pay only after milestones are delivered. I will check is it true or false.
I filled out the form and waiting for contact from them. If there will be anything suspicious i will demand escrow.

With the prices above, you can get a design from professionals, for cheaper amounts, and with an escrow. You can pay with PayPal or debit cards, where you know more information about the designer, and you can close his account if the designer tries to scam you.

Can you give me examples? In my opinion $450 it's quite good price if the website will be professional. I see they have positive review on Clutch. But it looks that they are fresh team, so can't be so sure what they will deliver.

[Z-tight]

Actually in special offer website will be for $450 + $50 for logo. I can pay that if the results will be satisfying. You can say both sides are risking time and money  I will wait for the outcome and then make a decision.

Goodluck, i can see you are really interested in using this service, so i hope everything goes well for your sake. If i understood you correctly they are going to present you with the logo concept for $50 and they will design the website for you for $450, at which point are you going to pay them something? I don't mean all of the money, but whatever percent of it.

[buwaytress]

henrys, not sure why you started a project with these guys when hugeblack pointed out the most obvious red flag (template sites pics for their team page or AI generated even). That's at best, as hugeblack says, which means they're amateur and don't have the right principles a creative should have. At worst, these are fake profiles created to scam people.

My suspicion is they'll deliver templates, stolen or tweaked, and you'll pay something. Seen several "Teams" do this now in crypto. They claim social media management, especially, but it's all bots and AI doing the work and since most people can't tell chatgpt content, they get by very well.

You're better off getting freelancers on this forum (or actually on Upwork, many in tech will take crypto).

I'd rather we don't give these guys more exposure than necessary.

[henrys]

henrys, not sure why you started a project with these guys when hugeblack pointed out the most obvious red flag (template sites pics for their team page or AI generated even). That's at best, as hugeblack says, which means they're amateur and don't have the right principles a creative should have. At worst, these are fake profiles created to scam people.

My suspicion is they'll deliver templates, stolen or tweaked, and you'll pay something. Seen several "Teams" do this now in crypto. They claim social media management, especially, but it's all bots and AI doing the work and since most people can't tell chatgpt content, they get by very well.

You're better off getting freelancers on this forum (or actually on Upwork, many in tech will take crypto).

I'd rather we don't give these guys more exposure than necessary.

I started project with them because:
- They accept few cryptocurrencies, not only BTC.
- Prices seem competitive, like e.g. $450 for website. But I will see it when the project is delivered and I can check its quality.
- I'm gonna pay after delivered milestones, when I see effect of their work. So there is no prepayment. It's a big advantage for me.
- They claim they are a freelancers team. The project manager contacted me and i give him all info. So I don't have to coordinate the work between few freelancers myself. Good for me.

I was thinking about Fiverr or Upwork, but they don't accept cryptos. And again I have to cooperate there with few freelancers like designer, developers etc. After the weekend, they should provide me with some work - logo concepts and a preliminary website design, then I will be able to tell what it looks like.
 
About AI - you are right. AI is now everywhere... Even on this forum some of the posts look like AI generated or AI translated 

[pinggoki]

I have not heard about this service or used it before, from what i read in the website, they offer different services to crypto projects, you have to be certain that they are legitimate and not a scam before you pay them for anything. I just did a quick research and what i found is coinlancer.com, it looks like it is a service built on the Ethereum platform that connects freelancers to job clients in a decentralized way, take note that i have used neither of these services and this is not an endorsement for you to use it.

Knowing the crypto industry, I'm sure that this is a really difficult thing to get on board to because I'm sure that there's going to be people out there that would scam freelancers of their work so I'm not entirely sure about this one, maybe sticking to the legitimate freelancer websites would be the best course of action, just request to your employer that you're open to the option of getting paid in crypto. It's also difficult to hire here since this is a crypto freelancer website, it's most likely that there's going to be scammers on the employee side that would ask for a payment first and then not show up for work so the risk involved is just too much.