Beware of GoFreelance.com

If you are a freelancer looking for work through online listings, you've probably run into Web sites that are too good to be true.

This is a warning about a site that, at first, looked really promising: GoFreelance.com. I got a 7-day trial for $7.99, and got access to a small amount of postings. Every day, I also got emails about jobs that sounded really good. They always included a link to apply to the job but, when clicked, they always led to a page to join GoFreelance.

Call me naive, but I assumed that this was just a sampling of what I would be getting after the one-week trial, when my PayPal account would be reduced by $39.99.

Wrong.

I still got several emails a day with great-sounding jobs described, but there was never a way to actually apply for these jobs. If I logged on to the Web site, there was still the small listing of jobs, most of them either old or extremely low-paying. I couldn't find the jobs mentioned in my emails.

Oh, they had a "Support" link where I could report difficulties. What that got me was an automatic email that my problem was being worked on. However, this only led to dead-ends when I couldn't log in to the Help area.

I canceled my membership and will have to chalk up the lost $$ to learning the hard way.

I won't reveal how I obtained the email address of the owner of this site, but it is rob@robpalmer.com. I emailed Mr. Palmer directly, not really expecting any response--so far, nothing.

If you have had similar experiences from this scam site, please let me know if you were able to resolve it successfully.

~~Colleen