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GetAFreelancer.com Offers Debit Card for Withdrawals!
GetAFreelancer (GAF) is what I would call a small freelancer marketplace site compared with major players like elance or guru. Personally I have never used GAF in the past because of their limited payment options (as I will not work on some projects and loose half of the money on site commission, and transfer commissions - like Western Union that was the only viable option for my country).
Anyway, today I have just received this notice from GAF that they are releasing their own Debit Card that can be used online as any MasterCard® card, and also to withdraw cash in local currency at ATMs around the world. Wow! This sounds great and I would love to use this option on my elance/guru account.
Even though I can’t see any of the commissions charges (if any) for the withdrawal, this looks like a great addition for any GAF provider. For me the projects found there still look very small and not interesting at this time, but with this change maybe more buyers/sellers will join the site.
Official GetAFreelancer announcement:
http://www.getafreelancer.com/news/global-payments-49.html
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11th September 2007, 05:06
Hi there,
Sounds like you’ve had mixed experiences with online marketplace sites. Have you tried oDesk (http://www.odesk.com). oDesk’s average project size is $3,000 and the hourly payment feature has allowed many providers to work on long-term projects with different clients (particularly appealing to providers who work on systems admin). Many of oDesk’s providers are now full-time freelancers through oDesk. In terms of payment options, oDesk offers the oDesk MasterCard, which is accepted everywhere the major credit card is received (we launched this in May). oDesk also offers the ability to deposit your paycheck directly into a U.S. bank account (for free!), making it like a regular weekly paycheck. It’s free to post a profile and you won’t pay a single membership fee.
~Michelle, oDesk
11th September 2007, 22:32
Hey, posting same news same day.:) And getting same SPAMish reply. Looks like they monitor blogosphere for posts about their competitors.
13th September 2007, 21:05
rusty_angel: you are so right! Probably one of Michelle’s tasks is to monitor ‘interesting’ posts for them to promote their services.
13th September 2007, 21:19
Michelle: just for fun, I will answer to your spam:
- “Sounds like you’ve had mixed experiences with online marketplace sites” - how did you reach to that conclusion? I just said I never used GAF and for what reason. I have checked out several freelance marketplace sites and some i have tried, some (including your own) I have eliminated from the start. Still I never had a bad experience with your site, I just never used it
- actually I am one of the top elance users you have spamed at least 2 times in the past months (as I am sure you gathered my email from elance) - “Subj - Have a few min. to talk with oDesk, the global marketplace for remote work?”. Do you think that it is a good way of doing business like that? Or you don’t consider this spam and you call it direct marketing?
- about your site? good luck with it… personally I don’t care where I get my clients from. I am not a “fan” of elance or guru, it is just business. If you bring me a 3k/mo client let me know… still i am not interested by your site for many reasons that are not worth mentioned here…
Maybe I will hear some more from you on my future posts about elance and then you can tell me how good odesk is, ok?
8th February 2008, 08:10
Hello,
This is fahad from Pakistan, can you tell me that its working in pakistan also and if yes so whats the process of get money by other country clients.
please tell me in details.
Thanks
Fahad
8th February 2008, 08:20
Fahad: you should direct such questions to GAF…. here is a link that might help you:
http://www.getafreelancer.com/report/contact.php