Stupid people
Over on a certain freelancers website I have started to indicate in my bids for work that I will only accept projects where the customer agrees to pay via the escrow service operated by the website owners. The reason for this is sometimes people don’t pay, they take delivery of the completed work and disappear. Using and escrow service should minimise this problem.
So, simple enough you would think right? Bid on job, customer accepts bid, you confirm acceptance of the terms, they post the escrow payment, you complete the work, they release the escrow payment. Simple.
But no, some propel are not too bright, they think escrow is used to pay at the end of a project, like using PayPal or something, so I think I am going to have to write a guide to escrow that I can send people along with the project acceptance email. Seriously people need to get an education these days, it’s not hard to understand how an escrow service is supposed to work.








