danno1950 Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 (edited) I just got another brief that didn't fit for the services I provide. I think I'm going to turn off the feature for a while, and continue to monitor on the forum, to see if any improvements are introduced which make this feature worth using. So far, it has just wasted my time. Just out of curiosity, has anyone received a brief that led to an actual work opportunity? Edited April 14, 2022 by danno1950 add info 13 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filipdevaere Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 At this moment, I have canceled all the briefs that I received. So it has given me no extra work. For me, it is no problem, because I have orders until the end of July. 10 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miiila Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 I just got 7x the very same brief by the very same person in a row, with 2 x "PosingAsBuyer123 decided it was not the right time and decided to cancel their brief" sprinkled in between... I did reject it with "other" instead of "no service I offer", to ask Fiverr to check in the text field... Apart from that, it wasn't for a service I offer, as in probably 98% of all briefs I got so far, and I'm 100% sure it's a scam attempt; it had exactly the pattern of many BRs I'm seeing in BR lately, one of which I had replied to, to maybe learn more about what kind of scam it was and to confirm my suspicions to be correct, although I had zero doubt. They were correct. The pattern person insisted on me contacting them off-platform, so I didn't learn what kind of scam they are trying to pull off, but they aren't just in BRs but also in briefs. Tiring. Résumé of the day: "Briefs" managed to be more annoying even than the usual seller inbox spam. A real pity, it's such a good idea, I hope it gets better; today was the absolute lowlight in my "brief experience" so far. 16 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamzid44 Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 What is get "BRIEFS" and how does it work? 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filipdevaere Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 This can be easily found in the Fiverr help Files and on the Fiverr Forum. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeus777 Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 I think I got 3 or 4 more, in the past 2 weeks but I deleted the email without reading the contents. The first three was completely unrelated to what I offer so I stopped caring. Even if the ones I've deleted were actually something I can work on, I guess I'm OK. Not missing anything really. 14 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miiila Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 Woke up to 3 more "briefs" that not only were not for a service I offered, but also, again, scams after the same pattern as the 9 from yesterday, and as are so rampant in BR lately, that I almost want to call it SR. As the forum topic by a seller who fell for it, shows, that leads to sellers working for that person or those people (the "BR"s/"briefs" are so similar that it probably is either the same scammer or a scammer team or ring or franchise or whatever shadiness) off-Fiverr, without getting paid. One can only hope that at least the work they are doing is "just" normal jobs that those outsourcing scammers want done for free, and nothing that's then being used for more deceptive or illegal or otherwise questionable schemes. I really hope Fiverr will stop this soon. Waking up to even more notifications about briefs that turn out to be even more of those scam attempts, and only to such briefs, is no nice way to start one's day. 13 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miiila Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 2 more brief notifications and accompanying mails urging me to reply quickly to stay ahead of the competition later... 💤. Same sender, same scam attempt, different countries. I suppose, I'll have ... how many countries/languages are there these days ... a whole collection, eventually. Maybe they plan an "I scammed a person from every existing country" YT video. Is it bad for some secret rating if I stop rejecting them and waste a little less time by just checking for long enough to know it's them again...? 12 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miiila Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 (edited) Yesss! The much needed rejection reason "Suspected spam / Buyer not credible" got added! Now, just "Suspected ToS violation" is missing. Edited April 18, 2022 by miiila 15 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danno1950 Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 10 minutes ago, miiila said: The much needed rejection reason "Suspected spam / Buyer not credible" got added! Outstanding! 8 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tme2012 Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Today's "brief" really takes the cake. I am not really looking for anyone, even though donators would be super helpful not often, once in a while I would really appreciate it to grow my small business. 10 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proconsultn2035 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Well it's simple. Don't accept a brief if you're not comfortable with the PRICE, REQUIREMENTS and DURATION. 9 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miiila Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 That isn't really the problem, though, the problem with briefs so far isn't that I'm not comfortable with any of that, but that 99% of the briefs I got, were either telegram scam attempts, or not at all for anything related to my Gigs. The system needs some major improvement. The telegram scam ones can be tricky, as sometimes, they only get out with what's actually up in your reply to their brief/BR, but it must be possible to code the thing in a way that, for example, a seller who only offers translation into Chinese, won't get briefs about translation into all the other languages, as such Gigs, at creation, have drop-downs to choose "from" and "into". It's only been a time sink for me so far, and not because I'd not have been comfortable with any of the terms, but it was either scams, or I literally couldn't have accepted the order, because I don't provide the requested service. Plus, in many cases, unfortunately, it's been both the telegram scam and for a service I don't provide, too. Okay, technically, you could say, the issue were the REQUIREMENTS, because I don't want to take part in a telegram scam, or deliver something I don't offer and can't provide, but, you know. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_d Posted April 30, 2022 Author Share Posted April 30, 2022 I've made a personal game out of it, where I take time out of my day to reject each and every one of the briefs I receive that have their budget set to "flexible". Just for shits and giggles I sent a custom offer to two briefs that were a potentially great fit, and in both cases the budget was $40 when my "briefs" rate is set to $1,000. The sooner Fiverr understands that they need to work on that, the better. 10 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williambryan392 Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 My latest favourite. Has anyone had a brief that's actually led to a purchase? 10 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filipdevaere Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 51 minutes ago, williambryan392 said: Has anyone had a brief that's actually led to a purchase? No. I am even getting more and more briefs for services that I do not offer on Fiverr. 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yannisenglish Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 On 5/8/2022 at 5:09 AM, williambryan392 said: My latest favourite. Has anyone had a brief that's actually led to a purchase? Come on, someone is trolling with that one 😄 And nope, I have not. At some point the briefs started being almost exclusively Writing & Translation but none even remotely related to the topic I cover. So, I have turned the feature off for now. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tme2012 Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 On 5/7/2022 at 11:09 PM, williambryan392 said: My latest favourite. Has anyone had a brief that's actually led to a purchase? Shockingly, I've had a brief turn into a job that is now into its third round of writing video scripts for a guy. At every step of the process I thought it was a scam, but he paid and approved and we've done 2 more rounds of work. Have another potential one that I'm speaking to next week. So my rate so far is 1 real job, 1 possible job, 795 briefs related to gigs I don't offer, and 45,305 briefs asking if I can give people work. 6 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_d Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, tme2012 said: Shockingly, I've had a brief turn into a job that is now into its third round of writing video scripts for a guy. At every step of the process I thought it was a scam, but he paid and approved and we've done 2 more rounds of work. Have another potential one that I'm speaking to next week. So my rate so far is 1 real job, 1 possible job, 795 briefs related to gigs I don't offer, and 45,305 briefs asking if I can give people work. I think yours is truly a case study if you managed to land a job via briefs. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrygrantvo Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Is anyone else getting constant phantom notifications on the mobile app, due to Briefs? Every time I get an unrelated notification somewhere else, I also get a couple over at the bell icon, in relation to whatever briefs I had received lately. Currently, the last brief I received was about a week ago, and I'm still getting phantom notifications for it and the one before it, every time. Tried turning briefs off, tried deleting and reinstalling the app, even tried resetting carrier settings (which can't possibly be the problem) and nothing fixes it. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronological99 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 (edited) From the title, this person is using the "Buyer Request" feature as a way to advertise himself and sell his "editing" ability to sellers. The icing on top is that he claimed it's cheap, so he's actively saying he's selling something. Fiverr Staffs has to fix this loophole that people sometimes use! Is there any way to atleast report something like this? Edited June 18, 2022 by chronological99 Had to add the clear question 5 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
design_geniee Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Its not a big deal. The buyer request is sent to sellers , not to the buyers. So, a seller is never going to give work to another seller. Haha 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imagination7413 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 15 hours ago, chronological99 said: Is there any way to atleast report something like this? Based on the context in this post (https://community.fiverr.com/forums/topic/276560-i-just-received-my-first-“brief”/?do=findComment&comment=1764308) you have to reject the brief to access the 'spam' option/reason. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razak_dahpro Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 The buyers requests are just like Questions, which need to be solved/answered by the Sellers So, buyer requests are meant for the sellers to solved through offer been sent 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billoxley Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Seems to only be a haven for the cheap-seeking folks. I've turned it off entirely. Waste of my time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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