Should I make all Delivery Time 90 days?

[boldandbusted]

Howdy. I haven't been a Fiverr Buyer, so I'm finding out the Buyer experience in a kind of sad game of telephone. While Sellers get pretty nasty punishment for missing Delivery Dates, Buyers don't get very much prodding to respond in a timely manner to Sellers requests and project dependencies. So, given this understanding, should I just max out all Delivery Times everywhere I can? Of course, I don't expect every gig to take 3 months, but I can explain this to my buyers easier than I can appeal to Fiverr Support when I miss a deadline due to a client that went on a week or month's vacation in the middle of a gig... 😞

Thanks for the thoughtful replies and comments. Cheers.

Edited November 5 by boldandbusted
Capitalization typo

[visualstudios]

I never have a late delivery, and I have delivery dates all the way down to one day. The trick is simple - I demand to have everything I need before I start working on an order. It's the only way.

Vet buyers extensively, ensure you have all the assets and instructions, and only then send an offer. Anything else, given the way the platform works, is unnacceptable risk.

[boldandbusted]

On 11/4/2024 at 9:43 PM, visualstudios said:

I never have a late delivery, and I have delivery dates all the way down to one day. The trick is simple - I demand to have everything I need before I start working on an order. It's the only way.

Vet buyers extensively, ensure you have all the assets and instructions, and only then send an offer. Anything else, given the way the platform works, is unnacceptable risk.

Thanks for your considered response. I'm having a bit of a round peg square hole problem with Fiverr generally, as my Gigs have several requirements that seem out of bounds for more prototypical Fiverr Gigs.

Some of this process is just the work I need to do to shape my skills around software development and infrastructure to prepare them for sale on Fiverr. I understand that ideally a Fiverr gig is often "get the request for a thing from the client, create the thing, deliver completed thing." I'm just having difficulty breaking up a flow that usually requires ongoing, iterative communication into that model.