Outsourcing to Pakistan NIGHTMARE

Has anybody had success outsourcing to Pakistan?

From all the outsourcing I hear to India and Philippines, I decided to take a chance with Pakistan.

BIG MISTAKE! Will never go with Pakistan ever again!

I found a freelancer from Pakistan on Guru.com. At first they came off as professional and prompt in response promising me the world and everything. They had decent reviews. They wanted an upfront payment which I was hesitant and never do. But they were so convincing that I ended up complying, and paid they a unrefundable upfront half-payment and stored another final payment within SafePay.

The biggest requirement I needed was to see something as work-in-progress within 3 days because the launch has been delayed for month. They promised they will get me something no more than 4 days. A week has passed, I contacted them.

Now they're telling me they needed a storyboard provided, which I became aggravated to them now asking for that and didn't see any work. I told them the script was the storyboard and sufficient.

A couple days later, no response, and asked again where is something tangible I could see...then they went on giving me the lame excuse of needing a storyboard. I wasted so much time with them, I decided to find another provider, and asked for my money back.

They said they refunded my money...

However, I didn't trust them now, so looked under my account and they did refund my SafePay fund, BUT NOT my 1st upfront payment they required.

Now they became very unprofessional. I asked them to give me my upfront payment last week, and they still haven't done so nor responded back.

I reported this to Guru.com, and unfortunately, they don't want to get their hands dirty in these matters to enforce themselves against these dishonest fly-by-night scam freelancers who think they can take advantage of this lackadaisical policy of Guru and steal employers' money and never even start the work.

This is ridiculous how Guru.com doesn't enforce their policy and regulation when comes to these dishonest fraudulent scam artist who think they can get away with it...so these dishonest freelancers do.

Guru.com needs to step up!

I'm attempting to file a chargeback/complain tomorrow.

Advice...stick with Philippines and India.