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A client refusing to pay the full amount and Proz.com deletes my Blueboard review
Thread poster: Tuncay Kurt
Phoenix III United States Local time: 09:05 Spanish to English + ...
"A client refusing to pay the full amount and Proz.com deletes my Blueboard review"
Oct 22, 2018
Jean Dimitriadis wrote:
Hello,
I understand you are still in contact with the ProZ staff about this matter, so I guess you'll have to wait and see with them regarding your BlueBoard entry and outsourcer issue. Was the ticket closed? If so, I would still create a new one.
As for further actions, I hope other colleagues chime in, as I have had no non-payment issues so far.
Jean
Hi,
I had a similar experience with a client. After I gave a very honest review of their business practices to protect other colleagues (I thought that was the purpose of BB) I started getting emails from other employees (not the project manager I had worked with) of the company asking me to change my BB comments. The check finally arrived and I updated my BB but I for honesty's sake I left the comment regarding late payment and such. Mysteriously, positive comments started appearing and BB changed my comments. On another such client, BB would not allow me to post a negative comment about receiving payment after 3+ months. BB is not a reliable source for prospective customers since Proz will not allow the truth to come out and agencies post fake comments from unreliable sources.
Álvaro Espantaleón Moreno
Tom in London
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Tom in London United Kingdom Local time: 13:05 Member (2008) Italian to English
That's why---
Oct 23, 2018
Robert Forstag wrote:
I think that the more accurate view is that if BB ratings for a given agency are numerous and positive, then you can *probably* rest assured that you will receive timely payment.
Such an approach has been advocated numerous times in these forums.
Yes, I used to think that too.
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Lian Pang Netherlands Local time: 14:05 Member (2018) English to Chinese + ...
Be sure to read into the reviews
Oct 23, 2018
Tom in London wrote:
From past experience, I don't trust any BlueBoard reviews, no matter what. The BB doesn't work. Something should be done about it. But probably won't be.
Just recently I was contacted by an agency that had good BB ratings and being in the middle of other work, I didn't reflect and said OK to them. Sure enough when the time came for payment, they didn't pay and I had to resort to....let's call them "other measures" to make them pay me.
To slightly distort a common Italian saying: "It's good to trust the BB. It's even better not to".
[Edited at 2018-10-22 12:01 GMT]
There are certainly ways to "manually" get very high BB rating. Just like those badly-made games on app store with insanely high scores.
I agree with Tom, partially. BB has been working okay for me. But be sure to ALWAYS, AAALLLWAYS look into the reviews. If they are flooded with 5 star ratings but no comment, or all left by new users/unverified users, better check out the lowest rating and what they have to say.
A credit check service can come in handy too.
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