Awhile back, I got a couple of phone calls from someone at Portfolios.com trying to get me to purchase an account on their site. It was almost always during the day while I was at work and couldn’t talk, but the woman on the phone was very persistent. When I finally asked her over e-mail for some real data on the success rates freelancers had getting work through the site, she left me a condescending 5-minute-long voicemail and treated me like I didn’t know what marketing was instead of actually answering the question. Here’s a recording of that message.

I suspected this site was shady to begin with, but the voicemail sealed it. In browsing the site, I didn’t see listings for anyone I recognized and none of my friends who were designers had ever heard of it. Sorry for the poor sound quality, but I thought it was important to get it out there and warn others.