E-mail removed from all \"Close bidding\" pages, WHY???!

On 2002-03-01 13:37, bochkor wrote:

Until now the \"Close bidding\" pages of a posted job were the only ones that provided an e-mail identification of the job posters. As I see now, it has been removed. Therefore I strongly urge Henry and Jason to REINSTATE it and all translators to ask them to do the same!



This is outrageous, because for a long time our requests for identification have been ignored, but at least we could get an e-mail address this way. Now really all the bogus posters are invited this way and we\'ll never know for sure



- which country they\'re in

- whether they have a website (or just a free web e-mail address)

- what their real (not what they\'re telling us) address, phone number, full name is (if they have a website, you can search netsol.com\'s WHOIS database)



Basically, we won\'t have any clue any more, who they are and IF they will ever pay for the work done, so we\'re totally vulnerable! This can\'t go on! Henry and Jason need to listen! After all, most of us are paying members!



And I also know exactly why it has been removed: so people from poorer countries (for whom even $1 is a lot > in the Ukraine, for example, $20 is a monthly salary!!!) won\'t have a chance to circumvent the $1 bidding price, so if they didn\'t have the chance to accumulate 100 brownies per the bids they\'d like to make, then they simply shouldn\'t stand a chance, because ProZ wants to make sure that NOOOBODY slips away and EEEVERYBODY pays! So because of that $1 that ProZ desperately wants to have control over, our last source of security should be gone??? Is that fair?



As far as I\'m concerned, I don\'t care how they do it, but I\'m sure they know, how to do it, because paying members already have parts of a page on the site that only they see, so let\'s get the E-MAIL IDENTIFICATION BACK and if this is not a website \"by translators for translators\" any more (remember their old slogan?), then at least show the posters\' e-mail addresses to us paying members! At least! And once and for all, let\'s solve this identification problem at last and do require certain data from every poster routinely! It\'s about time, we\'ve all been crying for it! We\'re not paying for being ignored, so let\'s get some changes rolling!



Opinions invited. Thanks for listening!





Fully agree with you: ProZ has \"finally\" removed the last bit of security we have had so far. From now on, it will be impossible to verify the poster\'s identity (and I don\'t trust ProZ\'s ability to do so, because they have failed miserably on that front so far: there is one agency, in particular, that everyone knows about, but ProZ still allows them post their job ads, thus assisting them in targeting new victims).



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On 2002-03-01 15:42, bochkor wrote:

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You have been sent a message via your ProZ.com page.

Author: good father

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We have removed the close bid option because up to now you were getting the e- mail and quoting separately and Proz was getting nothing. You want to be clever and earn money at the cost of Proz.com/?

Regards,

Good father



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The above e-mail came from [email protected] and my first question is: why are you hiding and did you want to hide this e-mail message from the public? What kind of joke is \"Good father\"?! We all know you, Henry or Jason, so name yourself!!! Step up to the plate and don\'t play a coward!!!







No, not Jason nor Henry are are sending those mails. It\'s someone else using that e-mail address.





Anyway, Henry: it\'s very important for us to verify the identity of the one that is posting a job. Please, return us that feature.



Regards,



Clarisa

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