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Extremely unprofessional and disrespectful to architects! I won 3rd place in a competition back in February and still haven’t received my prize money. I’ve emailed them multiple times, and they simply ignore emails to avoid dealing with the problem. Another competition’s results were supposed to be announced on October 8th, and October is almost over with no results or explanation. Ignoring emails is NOT a professional way to run a platform. Architects invest their time, effort, and creativity, and deserve basic respect, transparency, and their rightful payment. This behavior is an insult to the professionals who contribute to your platform.

December 2023, I won a competition and requested a bank wire transfer withdrawal of approximately $1384. On my dashboard, the transaction status was marked as "Accepted" and my balance became zero. However, my bank officially confirmed that the funds were never received or credited to my account. The international wire transfer most likely bounced back to Arcbazar's corporate bank account, but it was never re-credited to my profile. I have sent multiple emails to info, business, and media support with official screenshots proving the issue, but I have received absolute silence and zero responses. I urgently need the finance department to look into this transaction from December 2023, provide the official Swift Copy (MT103), or reissue my hard-earned prize money via an alternative method like Western Union. Please escalate this immediately.

Very disappointing experience with Arcbazar. I participated in several competitions on Arcbazar, including: * 29 Room Guesthouse Renovation / Modernization — Arc 495 * Farm Estate — Arc 610 The most concerning case is 29 Room Guesthouse Renovation / Modernization — Arc 495. More than a year has passed, and there is still no announced result and no clear explanation regarding the status of the competition. As designers, we invest a significant amount of time, effort, creativity, and professional work into these competitions. Waiting for more than a year without a clear result or meaningful communication is completely unacceptable. Arcbazar needs to provide a clear explanation and a specific timeline for announcing the results. Participants should not be left waiting indefinitely after investing their professional time and work. If this situation continues without a satisfactory explanation or resolution, I will consider pursuing the matter through the appropriate formal and legal channels and seeking advice regarding my rights as a participant. I hope Arcbazar takes this matter seriously and provides a clear response to the affected participants. More than a year without results is not an acceptable standard of communication or transparency.

For years, I've been earning money by participating in contests through Arcbazar. However, I've started to think that Arcbazar is unfair. Many customers who ranked 2nd and 3rd in the contests contacted me after the results were announced and said they had chosen me as the 1st place winner. This had happened before, but I didn't speak up because I trusted the site. In fact, once the results were changed and my prize money was increased. My request to customers and colleagues is that if anyone encounters this situation, they should file a complaint. I haven't won a competition in about a year, and when I look at the winning projects, I realize they are projects that don't really deserve to win or are made with artificial intelligence. Furthermore, some designers contact clients by sending their own information. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to prevent this because there is no oversight. The efforts of many architects like me are being disregarded. Moreover, this situation damages the site's reputation, but I've started to think they don't really care. For this reason, I no longer trust this site. Despite being one of the top 20 architects, I have decided not to participate in competitions anymore. Contests are announced late; there should be a rule that even if the customer doesn't cancel, they should be finalized within a maximum of two weeks. Unfortunately, trust cannot be earned any other way. I hope these issues are resolved and my colleagues who are still waiting receive their payments as soon as possible. I hope the site improves and becomes a fairer, more transparent place before my colleagues suffer further wear and tear. Best regards.

ArcBazar doesn't respond to emails, the competition results aren't announced, they keep us waiting for months, and when it comes to the payment part, we wait for months too. There's no one we can contact; they ignore the architects.

Hello ArcBazaar Team, This is my second follow-up regarding my withdrawal request for the prize payment. Competition: *Restaurant Design* Result: *1st Place* Status: The prize was already credited in *My Bank, and I have **submitted the Withdraw request*. (Previous follow-up email sent on: jan8 Could you please confirm the current payout status and the expected payment date? If anything is missing on my side (verification, payment details, etc.), please let me know and I’ll provide it immediately. Thank you, Zeynab Farghadan

I participated in the "Remodel Kitchen" and "Interiors for New Construction" competitions on the Arcbazar platform. Months have passed since the competition results were announced, but no results have been released. Moreover, despite sending emails to the platform many times, I never received any response. I've also read on local complaint platforms that other contestants are experiencing the same issue for different competitions. Since the company isn't based in Turkey, I can't reach them through any other communication channels. I request that they inform me about the current status of the competition process and why the results haven't been released.

Let me share my experience from the designer point of view. I signed up as a designer and won 2nd prize on July 6 2023, the total project prize is $1000, for second prize i got $291, I followed their steps for withdrawing the money, but it never got to my account. I tried contacting them via email but never got any reply. I’m starting to think that this is a scam for the designers that signed up, we won the prize but never get the prize. As for the client, they were asked to pay in front first to them as organizer, but the money that should have been distribute as a prize for the designers that already submit design products for the client, never got distributed to the designers that actually won the contest. So its no problem for the client because they got the product, but not for the designers who actually submit their ideas and won the contest but never got paid. I hope my experience can help designers who is signing up in arcbazar to be more careful. Thanks.