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If the customers rejects the deliverable the freelancer gets 1/3 and the client gets 2/3 back...I'm not in the freelance world, but doesn't that incentive the freelancer not working at their best? If their deliverable is accepted, they got 100% of the money at less work, and if it's rejected, they get paid anyway.

I wonder if one can optimize that balance to abuse this structure.

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What if the freelancer does excellent work and the work is still rejected by the client for whatever reason? The client may have changed their mind about the whole body of work or completely changed spec. Why should the freelancer not get the full amount?

for each milestone, there's a thorough description of what's the end of the deliverable, the 'specs'. It can be changed during the project's lifetime by any party if the other agrees to the change.

A client that rejects the demo has to justify in what regards it doesn't respect these terms, if not, it's a breach (of freelancer protocol rules and of the contract).

Maybe I should make this more explicit on the landing page?

Yeah totally, but that's the least worst system I can think of though.

We could exclude any freelancer that abuses this structure to just get the 'easy third' and any clients that repeatedly reject whatever freelancers do even when it corresponds to their requirements.

I'm always looking for a more fair and less hackable model though.

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