Started a project with dev, he seems genuine and has explained the reasoning behind negative reviews.
Will update how it goes, have paid 30% upfront.
EDIT.
-REP
Paid for a paste straight off GitHub. He sold me a 1:1 copy of a source from GitHub, showed no proof throughout the entirety of the project and when confronted, kept dodging questions.
Once I got him into a group chat with our other developer who kept asking him realistic questions about his work, he got aggressive and could not provide a shred of evidence that it was his work. He kept denying and dodging the questions and getting angry, he stopped responding after.
I would definitely not recommend this user if you want a real working product that is not pasted. Despite the shitty reviews we gave him a chance. Learn from our mistake.
User also indirectly tried to get a good review by saying he would deliver the rest of the project for free.
All images attached. If you require anymore, I will upload the entire chat log.