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I joined fiverr in 2018 and soon after i started earning good, i quit my job and became a full time freelancer. First 5 years were great. Here are my stats for first 5 years 

$24,000/year sales per year on average, 170+ orders completed on an average per year, till this date i maintained 4.9 rating. 100 unique clients on an average every year. 98%-100& response rate on an average per year. 

And then came March, 2024 when fiverr announced the new level system. The day they introduced it, i instantly became a Level 1 seller, all my gigs started degrading from first page to now 2,3 and soo on, now it's not even on the last page. 

I struggled for entire year, here are my stats for 2024 year 

$7500K/in entire 2024 in earnings, only made 60 sales, 30 unique clients, 100% response rate, still 4.9 rating. 

Today on December 26, it's been 3 weeks since i got any order at all. All my gigs are at a score of 8 and yet my success score is at a level 6, fiverr don't even promote me to a Level 2 (asked them multiple times in emails). 

No conversions in promoted gigs at all, none of my gigs appear even in first 20 pages of the search.
 
Fiverr is now officially DEAD for me, i have started looking for a job once again, i have a family to feed, a wife and a kid & my parents. All are dependent upon me. I am not saying that my experience on fiverr wasn't good at all. It was good while it lasted. 

I learned that nothing is permanent, no matter how good you are at doing something. 

I was so demotivated for this entire year, i struggled a lot. 

Thank you fiverr for everything, thank you for teaching me so many things in life. 

If any moderators are reading this out there, please take this as a piece of advice from me : The moment you started the new level system many good sellers were doomed on this platform, i know a few sellers who began with me and became TRS just like me and even for them now fiverr is officially dead. 

Also i hate your new level system, no matter how many supporting answers or whatever you wanna reply with, i don't know why i suffered because of your new level system, but i gave it my fall. This entire year even when i was depressed i gave it my 100% and completed every single order on time and with 5 star reviews from all clients. 

To those sellers for whom this new level system worked out great, i am happy for you. Cheers to you! 

But for those old sellers who were on this platform for a very long time and they ended up same as me, it's okay.....this is life and it happens, it's not your fault. 

At the end fiverr is just another platform to get clients, try other platforms. Try something else, good luck to you guys. 

Thank you fiverr for those glorious 5 years, i am taking happy memories and some bad ones from the last year on my fiverr, i hope you guys do something about this new level system. You guys just made this already competitive marketplace even more highly competitive market pro max level. You shouldn't have started comparing freelancers to other freelancers in the same category, this marketplace was already very crowded and highly competitive, now you have taken it Ultra Pro max level where only a few can compete. 

I have seen sellers on front page having 1-2 orders in queue and some sellers with 50+ orders in queue. Don't do that, fix your algorithm, let everyone make some money here. Don't give all the bread to one person. It should be a healthy competition, not focused on sellers who make you the most money in less time. 

That's all i wanted to say, thanks everyone who read it this far. Thank you for hearing me out. I have attached screenshots of my profile for those who wanna see it. 

After 6 years given to fiverr, $132K in earnings, Been a Top Rated Seller for straight 5 years, Fiverr is officially dead for me as a seller since they launched the new level system

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