I guess I have been lucky. In reading some of the above posts I see that my experiences have been different. I have placed several ads on Craigslist over the years (SF, NY, Portland, and Seattle) and never received any spam. I used the CL generated email address instead of my own in the ads.
As for my private clients, I never have strict deadlines or any deadlines. They all asked me when I could get the articles to them. For me the whole point of being a freelancer is having control over my time. I am grateful I never had to deal with the stress of meeting clients’ deadlines.
While I agree that private clients probably expect more for the money, only 1 client ever asked for rewrites and he was in Germany. His English wasn't perfect and that was probably why I couldn't give him what he wanted. But he paid me anyway. Meanwhile at DS I have gotten many silly rewrite requests for a $5 Fact Sheet.
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