Disappointed with Fiverr and the unprofessional sellers

[thriftyitems]

I have been on Fiverr since May trying to get the same story written. My first writer made me wait 2 months, the duration of the deadline and didn’t deliver then canceled the order. My second writer made me wait 2 weeks (deadline) and didn’t deliver canceled the order. 3rd writer another month and a half, didn’t deliver canceled the order. This last writer, 1 month and canceled the order. Now I paid another writer and they are not responding to the payment or even acknowledging the order. I talked with all the writers before payment was made and all of them said they would be able to deliver (except this last one) I just paid and prayed. Now I’ve spent 6 months on something that should have honestly taken a month. I feel like my story might have been plagiarized. Their is no one to talk to in regards to this, and the money is just floating from unprofessional seller to unprofessional seller. (my story isn’t pornographic, vulgar, racist, prejudice, etc) If you have any advise or know a write that is professional please send them my way.

Thank You
Frustrated Buyer

[yourfavourite]

I have been on Fiverr since May trying to get the same story written. My first writer made me wait 2 months, the duration of the deadline and didn’t deliver then canceled the order. My second writer made me wait 2 weeks (deadline) and didn’t deliver canceled the order. 3rd writer another month and a half, didn’t deliver canceled the order. This last writer, 1 month and canceled the order. Now I paid another writer and they are not responding to the payment or even acknowledging the order. I talked with all the writers before payment was made and all of them said they would be able to deliver (except this last one) I just paid and prayed. Now I’ve spent 6 months on something that should have honestly taken a month. I feel like my story might have been plagiarized. Their is no one to talk to in regards to this, and the money is just floating from unprofessional seller to unprofessional seller. (my story isn’t pornographic, vulgar, racist, prejudice, etc) If you have any advise or know a write that is professional please send them my way.

Thank You

Frustrated Buyer

since May trying to get the same story written. My first writer made me wait 2 months, the duration of the deadline and didn’t deliver then canceled the order. My second writer made me wait 2 weeks (deadline) and didn’t deliver canceled the order. 3rd writer another month and a half, didn’t delive

I think you should try pro services if you afford them

[thriftyitems]

since May trying to get the same story written. My first writer made me wait 2 months, the duration of the deadline and didn’t deliver then canceled the order. My second writer made me wait 2 weeks (deadline) and didn’t deliver canceled the order. 3rd writer another month and a half, didn’t delive

I think you should try pro services if you afford them

I’ve lost money with promo ads in anticipation of the 1st and 2nd writers, I’m not sure I wanna invest anymore money into this until I see some kind of progress. It wouldn’t be wise of me to shell out more money. If anything I think I need to cut my losses, and take my money to Freelancer.com

[eoinfinnegan]

I’ve lost money with promo ads in anticipation of the 1st and 2nd writers, I’m not sure I wanna invest anymore money into this until I see some kind of progress. It wouldn’t be wise of me to shell out more money. If anything I think I need to cut my losses, and take my money to Freelancer.com

This type of situation always makes me wonder what the project and budget/rate was.

I have had over 100 writing orders with around 20 different sellers - I think once I had an issue.

I also love the notion that going to another site and doing the same thing will produce a different result… like there are not incompetent sellers on all the platforms…

[thecreativeguys]

I am so sorry to hear that you had these awful experiences.

If interested, feel free to PM me. I have worked with an amazing writer who carefully crafted the perfect story for us and I’d be happy to recommend her.

Best!

[gina_riley2]

May I ask how you are picking your sellers?

I’ve hired many article writers here, my stats are as follows:

• 2 - delivered pure, unreadable, embarrasing trash (I should have canx, lost a ton of money on these two incompetent writers)

• 25% - delivered average, acceptable work

• Rest delivered top notch work.

I’m rather picky about who I hire. I still get it wrong but all in all I’m batting a good average on good sellers, great average on great sellers and poor average on poor sellers!! 😁

[wpspecialist24]

Sorry to hear 😮

[vickiespencer]

May I ask how you are picking your sellers?

I’ve hired many article writers here, my stats are as follows:

• 2 - delivered pure, unreadable, embarrasing trash (I should have canx, lost a ton of money on these two incompetent writers)

• 25% - delivered average, acceptable work

• Rest delivered top notch work.

I’m rather picky about who I hire. I still get it wrong but all in all I’m batting a good average on good sellers, great average on great sellers and poor average on poor sellers!! 😁

[writer99025]

May I ask how you are picking your sellers?

I’ve hired many article writers here, my stats are as follows:

• 2 - delivered pure, unreadable, embarrasing trash (I should have canx, lost a ton of money on these two incompetent writers)

• 25% - delivered average, acceptable work

• Rest delivered top notch work.

I’m rather picky about who I hire. I still get it wrong but all in all I’m batting a good average on good sellers, great average on great sellers and poor average on poor sellers!! 😁

I don’t know, I operate in my own bubble here, get regular clients, do my work in a relaxed manner, zero cancellations and spend all my time worrying about Indian politics and the stock market. I am completely at peace on Fiverr 🙂 [but I won’t find true peace till I stop worrying about Indian politics. Should cut off myself completely from that, starting today. Now. ]

[wddweeras1]

I don’t know what your budget is and the scope of the task you are assigning. You don’t have to wait for weeks or months because there are plenty of writers who offer fast services.

[andrea_kizinger]

@thriftyitems It’s better to request a sample before placing a large order. More than 70% of my buyers pay $5 and request a sample. (Example- first chapter of their book) I think it’s the best way because it takes less than 4-5 days to check your writer’s performances. 😃

[topaz_muse]

What subject/genre would the story fall under, how many words were you looking for and what was your budget?

[miiila]

I have been on Fiverr since May trying to get the same story written. My first writer made me wait 2 months, the duration of the deadline and didn’t deliver then canceled the order. My second writer made me wait 2 weeks (deadline) and didn’t deliver canceled the order. 3rd writer another month and a half, didn’t deliver canceled the order. This last writer, 1 month and canceled the order. Now I paid another writer and they are not responding to the payment or even acknowledging the order. I talked with all the writers before payment was made and all of them said they would be able to deliver (except this last one) I just paid and prayed. Now I’ve spent 6 months on something that should have honestly taken a month. I feel like my story might have been plagiarized. Their is no one to talk to in regards to this, and the money is just floating from unprofessional seller to unprofessional seller. (my story isn’t pornographic, vulgar, racist, prejudice, etc) If you have any advise or know a write that is professional please send them my way.

Thank You

Frustrated Buyer

Hi there, sorry to read about your bad experience.

My first writer made me wait 2 months, the duration of the deadline

It´s not even allowed to offer services on Fiverr that take more than 30 days, which is the longest duration for the deadline Sellers can choose on the drop-down for delivery time when sending an offer, too.

Their is no one to talk to in regards to this

There is Customer Support, you can send them a ‘ticket’ if you got problems, or even questions. They always try to help, most of the time can help, and are really nice to talk to in my experience.

As to advice on finding a good writer, you got that already, so good luck with your next choice, if here or elsewhere. 🍀

[vickiespencer]

I don’t know, I operate in my own bubble here, get regular clients, do my work in a relaxed manner, zero cancellations and spend all my time worrying about Indian politics and the stock market. I am completely at peace on Fiverr 🙂 [but I won’t find true peace till I stop worrying about Indian politics. Should cut off myself completely from that, starting today. Now. ]

@writer99025 I too worry about politics in my country. I think many concerned people do. However, for this part of your post:

I operate in my own bubble here, get regular clients, do my work in a relaxed manner, zero cancellations

You are my hero! I want to be like you. Someday, someday . . .

[maggiemoss]

This type of situation always makes me wonder what the project and budget/rate was.

I have had over 100 writing orders with around 20 different sellers - I think once I had an issue.

I also love the notion that going to another site and doing the same thing will produce a different result… like there are not incompetent sellers on all the platforms…

I wonder these things too. I saw someone post that they wanted a 20k word story written for $50. Which is completely unreasonable for that amount of words. I imagine an eager seller might take their offer and then realize the work involved and cancel, or other scenarios.

Also many of the same sellers will be present on multiple platforms. So the buyer is likely to find more of the same experiences either from their own lack of knowledge in the process or from encountering, roughly, the same community in other sites. There’s just no winning here unless they truly problem solve what is happening to them.

[ukt998]

I’d recommend you to ask for previous work of that seller. Since I am a seller too. Buyers do ask me for the previous writings I have done. And if they are satisfied then they proceed. 🙂

[akinsolaidnoble]

I’d recommend you to ask for previous work of that seller. Since I am a seller too. Buyers do ask me for the previous writings I have done. And if they are satisfied then they proceed. 🙂

what you should have done is to tell them to start and send you progress of job done before you order, in that case you have nothing to lose.

[Guest offlinehelpers]

what you should have done is to tell them to start and send you progress of job done before you order, in that case you have nothing to lose.

tell them to start and send you progress of job done before you order,

That would be the same as doing work before it had been ordered and paid for - not a good idea to work without an order, 😉

[solow13]

This type of situation always makes me wonder what the project and budget/rate was.

I have had over 100 writing orders with around 20 different sellers - I think once I had an issue.

I also love the notion that going to another site and doing the same thing will produce a different result… like there are not incompetent sellers on all the platforms…

Exactly what I was thinking, few buyers think that they can get a lot of work for just one gig.

[thriftyitems]

What subject/genre would the story fall under, how many words were you looking for and what was your budget?

HIV is the subject 40 thousand words.

[thriftyitems]

Hi there, sorry to read about your bad experience.

My first writer made me wait 2 months, the duration of the deadline

It´s not even allowed to offer services on Fiverr that take more than 30 days, which is the longest duration for the deadline Sellers can choose on the drop-down for delivery time when sending an offer, too.

Their is no one to talk to in regards to this

There is Customer Support, you can send them a ‘ticket’ if you got problems, or even questions. They always try to help, most of the time can help, and are really nice to talk to in my experience.

As to advice on finding a good writer, you got that already, so good luck with your next choice, if here or elsewhere. 🍀

everything you do must be straight and forward with no problems. sounds great but in reality you get asked for extinctions and soon etc. contacting customer support, why didn’t I think of that???

[thriftyitems]

I wonder these things too. I saw someone post that they wanted a 20k word story written for $50. Which is completely unreasonable for that amount of words. I imagine an eager seller might take their offer and then realize the work involved and cancel, or other scenarios.

Also many of the same sellers will be present on multiple platforms. So the buyer is likely to find more of the same experiences either from their own lack of knowledge in the process or from encountering, roughly, the same community in other sites. There’s just no winning here unless they truly problem solve what is happening to them.

Honestly I have seen sellers will to do 50k words for 50$ and there are a lot of them out there. A lot…

[thriftyitems]

I don’t know what your budget is and the scope of the task you are assigning. You don’t have to wait for weeks or months because there are plenty of writers who offer fast services.

I don’t just pay, I have spoken to these people before in regards to the order and all have agreed. would you take an order you couldn’t deliver?

[thriftyitems]

This type of situation always makes me wonder what the project and budget/rate was.

I have had over 100 writing orders with around 20 different sellers - I think once I had an issue.

I also love the notion that going to another site and doing the same thing will produce a different result… like there are not incompetent sellers on all the platforms…

Do most of your customers talk with you before ordering? yes? then you have the option to say yea or nea, right. you know what they are asking of you up front correct? or is it that your buyers just click pay now and thats all? no communication until the project is done? (must be nice) maybe I should start selling on here…

[maggiemoss]

Honestly I have seen sellers will to do 50k words for 50$ and there are a lot of them out there. A lot…

I am a writer with a fair amount of skill and experience. I can write about 2k in a day on a good day. It would easily take me over a month to fulfill a 50k word request. You think any reasonable person would give up an entire month of their lives for $50? I can see some exceptions to this, for example maybe being from a third world country where $50 is more valuable or maybe they get to reuse the project for something else too but ultimately what you’re asking for is not something most reliable writers are going to want to do as proven by your difficulty in hiring someone.