I haven't seen any buyer request in years... How and why?

[ahmetdgn]

When I opened my fiverr account in 2015, I created a gig or two, but I didn't follow much at that time and I think the system was a little different. Now a few months ago I became active again on fiverr and created two gigs.

On some platforms you can view buyer requests or job postings (e.g. on twine), but on fiverr, I have never seen a suitable job request in the buyer requests section until now. It's always empty. I'm sure there would at least one request be for my service, but it never shows up. Gigs are active, getting impressions, but I can never display buyer requests for my two different gigs. Am I in the wrong expectation? Is there no way to view opened requests on Fiverr?

I don't want to say that sometimes there is a buyer request and sometimes it doesn't, I say "it never happened, never seen one".

Thanks 

[weareartfull]

Eventhough your account is quite old you are still a new seller and it's tough for a new seller starting up.

There are LOTS of sellers in the platform now a days and good number of them have few reviews behind them with a bunch of completed orders. So its more likely these request may show up to one of those leveled sellers.

Also ever since fiverr has rolled out "Seller Plus", sellers who are part of this will have priory access to new requests which might also slim the chances of a new sellers getting a buyer request.

I have been also taking long breaks ever since I started selling here on fiverr. Everytime I come back my gigs would have dropped to somewhere close to last page with little to no buyer requests. What I do is I'll fine tune my gigs, will make new gigs matching my skills and try bringing in new buyers to fiverr and I sell them my product. Things will eventually start rolling in again for me.

So this is not me advising you, rather my experience me being on a similar state to you and how I overcome that.

[jonbaas]

6 hours ago, ahmetdgn said:

On some platforms you can view buyer requests or job postings (e.g. on twine), but on fiverr

That's because Fiverr does not operate like those other platforms. Fiverr is a capitalist marketplace for freelance services, not a "submit a bid" competition site. Buyers hire you after searching for services, and choosing your gig. 

6 hours ago, ahmetdgn said:

It's always empty. I'm sure there would at least one request be for my service, but it never shows up.

It is likely that you do not qualify to see any buyer requests. You don't need BRs in order to be successful on Fiverr.