Auction.ioReviews of outsource.com

Look at the recent reviews, since this company sold to Liquidity Services. We have been working with Auction.io for our auction company since January 2026. Started with a lot of promises from the sales team that the development team cannot or did not deliver on. We had to push them hard to get our site active by March 2026. Then they used data from other sites and launched ours using the wrong information (address, phone #, hours, etc). There have been constant issues since launch including their ASIN search, which was using two tokens to lookup items and costing us a lot of additional money and then blaming us that we were doing something wrong. Customer pickup timeframe issues, can't remove sales tax on items, and many, many other issues. Their thought process behind how things should flow in an auction setting is very flawed. For a company that has built a lot of similar websites, they should NOT have these issues. They promise a lot and do not deliver. We wish we had never had them build our website- learn from our mistakes and DO NOT USE THEM! Now we are stuck using them for a year.

Worst company ever put our house on auction then ecery week we were preassururised into bringing the price down every week even though it was valued a lot more than we had it up for at auction.. very rude staff with no empathy what so ever...would never recommend this firm again

I was six weeks in on a project with a "experienced" developer. My project involved the creation of a complex web app that could not vary from the supplied flow and detailed slides. Here is where it went wrong as the freelancer thought instead of following laid out direction. The freelancer thought I was going to be his debugger. Talk about not doing his job. In addition, the freelancer over proclaimed his skills. When I reached out to Vanessa at Outsource regarding the problems, I was contacted by Norma (Manager). Norma understood and agreed to the refund, but Vanessa thought she was someone. I abhor using fine French, but it happened. Then when I go to post again as I am six weeks further behind, I get my third attempt at posting denied with Vanessa stating: "At this time we are unable to approve your new job posting. We do our best to match you with a freelancer for your project and we spent a lot of time assisting you and tried to make sure you were satisfied with your freelancer." Oh boo hoo is what this company is about. This company is living in winter wonderland thinking that just because someone selects that it's going to be perfect fit. OMG, nothing is perfect. Always remember that when you don't receive what you are paying for, you contact your credit card company and dispute. Moreover, there is no dispute that Outsource is not what it claims.

There's a reason they offer several months credit if you don't get any jobs, and that's because you probably won't get any. My experience with this "company" was the people that go there just want you to do free samples to "prove" that you can do their work. Then you never hear from them again. Any honestly? People that go there to look for help repost their stuff on free sites anyway. Go to a free site rather than this obvious ripoff. The help is a joke. You call or email and get a response to 'call this number' even if you're specifically emailing for help. Probably because they don't want a paper record of anything they say. I would have literally rather thrown my money in a toilet than give it to these people. In fact, it's kind of an insult that I have to give them one star.

I signed up to have monthly deductions for credits to send quotes to jobs. I've sent numerous quotes, but have not gotten a single response. Some of the job requests lack enough information to accurately bid a job. Some will contact you after you've bid to explain they actually won't pay you, it will be commission only. It is not worth the money they demand.

Don't waste your time or money on this site. On top of the monthly subscription fee to use the site, you receive credits to use for job postings. Once the credits dwindle, you have to purchase more even though you're paying a monthly fee. This company is a joke and many "employers" don't respond; Who knows if they're real. I'm reporting this company. Look into other sites who won't take advantage of people looking for work. Rebuttal to Outsource: Your reviews are mostly fake. There are no jobs on your site and am convinced you have plants to post jobs just to milk people for more money for credits. To anyone else reading this, trust the bad reviews over the good ones and go elsewhere. There are other sites that won't rip you off and promise work they can't deliver on.

90% jobs will be less than $500 98% jobs will be less than $1000 Most clients will not accept an hourly fee Quality of clients is generally less Takes out money from your account without confirmation. Will not refund money. Update: After weeks of back and forth about the refund; now they say it cannot be refunded and I need to pay a cancellation fee as well! Update 2: Now I think they are making fake profiles (see just 1 review from all of them) with 5 Starts so that my review becomes further down. I'm not sure if they are fake; so take it the way you want. To get better reviews, stop scamming. :)

In comparison to the other freelance sites out there, Outsource's platform is shady at best. Subscription fees are FAR and away higher than any of the others, and the value is negligible; Outsource offers the lowest number of credits/bids per month while requiring significantly more (3-9 credits!) to bid on any given project. They tout that they are the better deal, since they do not take a cut of project payments; however, the quantity and quality of projects on their site have severely dropped off over the past 6 months and do NOT warrant the hefty subscription fees. At least other sites ONLY take a cut of work you actually get! Outsource 'guarantees' that your proposals will be read; however, 80% of the projects applied to are abandoned or not awarded, even if mysteriously 'viewed'. Outsource offers ZERO transparency as to an employer's stats, ratings and whether or not a project is actually being awarded and completed through their site. After 13+ years as a freelancer on all of the various sites, I have NEVER experienced such a low response/return rate. To date, over the past 1.5 years testing the Outsource waters, I have paid upwards of $400-$600 in fees (subscriptions+having to purchase additional credits since professionals are offered precious few), to get around $1200 in work. Did I mention that Outsource forces you to sign a 1 year contract guaranteeing that you pay them $60+ a month? All the while they do not guarantee that you will find any work to justify the cost. Since they have unreasonable subscription costs instead of taking a cut of actual projects paid through their site, they clearly have no incentive to push for quality clients and postings. Comparatively, on Upwork, I pay a monthly subscription fee of $10 and receive 100+ bids to use (2 each) on a high volume of quality projects - there are so many high-budget projects, I can completely pass on anything under $300! I can only assume Upwork has managed to deplete both Outsource and Guru of anything worthwhile - on the other sites, I feel fortunate just to get a response to the $199 bids I have to place to stay competitive with the overseas lowballers. Over approx. 4 months on Upwork, I have paid $40 in subscription fees and received $5731.50 in projects! With such a high rate of return, I would happily pay a cut of ACTUAL jobs over a set fee any day! My Outsource subscription ended a few months ago, and I elected not to renew it. I visit the job listings every once in a while to see if there is anything worth returning for. There isn't. There just isn't. I understand Outsource is one of the newer freelance sites, but they need to wake the F up with some major reform if they want to last through the year.