Well, freelancer are quite obviously scammers, but I am not sure about this scenario here, where I am not sure the term scam would apply at this point, even though it seems very shady.
However.
When they bought vworker.com my account migrated to freelancer where I obviously did the procedure of connecting my PayPal to get it certified for future possible payments.
I got an e-mail about getting their Basic Membership for free for the next month due to the vworker->freelancer thing and whatever.
One month later I get an e-mail telling me that the Basic Membership ended and in order to renew it I will have to pay the fee, obviously I didn't, not having used the side as I didn't really like it too much.
6 hours later I get another e-mail saying that they just booked the amount from my PayPal, which I gave them the right to when connecting my PayPal to my freelancer account.
The support didn't want to give me my money back until I made it clear that they're not acting on legal grounds as they never stated anywhere that the 1 month free Basic Membership will renew automatically afterwards and that I would have to change it in order to have the free membership (at least I know it's not legal in my country, but after 1 week of waiting they finally replied that they're going to give me my money back).
I wonder how much money they've made by scamming hundreds and possibly thousands former vworker users who then didn't claim their money back.
However. When they bought vworker.com my account migrated to freelancer where I obviously did the procedure of connecting my PayPal to get it certified for future possible payments. I got an e-mail about getting their Basic Membership for free for the next month due to the vworker->freelancer thing and whatever. One month later I get an e-mail telling me that the Basic Membership ended and in order to renew it I will have to pay the fee, obviously I didn't, not having used the side as I didn't really like it too much. 6 hours later I get another e-mail saying that they just booked the amount from my PayPal, which I gave them the right to when connecting my PayPal to my freelancer account.
The support didn't want to give me my money back until I made it clear that they're not acting on legal grounds as they never stated anywhere that the 1 month free Basic Membership will renew automatically afterwards and that I would have to change it in order to have the free membership (at least I know it's not legal in my country, but after 1 week of waiting they finally replied that they're going to give me my money back). I wonder how much money they've made by scamming hundreds and possibly thousands former vworker users who then didn't claim their money back.