Buyer Request - Allow attachment

[francis920176]

I been doing computer graphics editing for perhaps about 16 years but still there are lots of job within my scope that I cannot handle. Perhaps it will help buyers if he will be allowed to attach an image so the seller can check if he can handle the image attached so that the buyer will not be spammed with seller inputs.

[nirob_19]

Buyer will able to see your profile and associated gig which you will attach with request… so i think there no need image attachment option

[francis920176]

@nirob_19 Hi, thanks for the reply. I wanna give an example and see if it make sense. For example you do drawing, though you can be a great artist, when I buyer want his photo to be drawn, first you have to check how big is the project. Is it head-shot, whole body or family portrait, so it would be best that he immediately attach his photo so you can check if it is doable or at least you can quote properly because for sure five bucks won’t be enough to draw a family portrait. Well that is only one example and yet I see hundreds more possibilities. My point is, unless there is no harm having the attachment option there, then why not put it there.

[nirob_19]

Reply to @francis920176: As a web developer i did not face the necessity of attachment option… But now i think it would be helpful for artists and graphic designers

[francis920176]

@nirob_19 Hi. Yeah thanks for your input. I really believe this option will be helpful unless there’s a reason for fiverr why its not advisable to be there and we will respect that 🙂

[fastcopywriter]

Believe me, you don’t want that. Don’t turn this site into others where you have to write a proposal or attach stuff to send a bid. It’s boring, it’s a pain, and when you don’t get the order, you’re angry because your precious time was wasted.

[francis920176]

@fastcopywriter Hi. No you don’t get it right. The attachment I wanted is on the buyer’s side only and not on the seller side therefore, the buyer will not get any of those attached stuff you are saying. My point is for the buyer to have an attachment option to support the scope of job he is requesting and in return he will get a proper quotation. I have stated an example, please scroll up. Thanks for the input.

[sincere18]

Reply to @francis920176: yes, that is understood. But what you are suggesting leads to much more of “proposal” needing to be done on the sellers side. A buyer may not send you 1 thing, but many. And think about all other types of gigs, where a buyer would want to send ALL of their materials and then say, can you send me a quote. I think that is what @fastcopywriter meant, because once you give buyers the access to send stuff before they order, you will have to sift through all of their materials and read/look them over to determine a price. Think beyond graphics as an example, think manuscript editing, and things like that.



I also think one potential risk in all of this, I know I would not send my materials to a buyer before I ordered, because I do not want some stranger having my work. And then if buyers send it to a few people to get quotes, tons of people have their work. Not a safe thing to do in general.

[francis920176]

@sincere18 Hi. Well if I’m a buyer, why would I post stuff that will not be safe fore me or expose a thing that somebody might steal. There’s a lot of job that is not so confidential and just need to be seen by seller to have it priced accordingly. I believe this will only be unsafe for those buyer that don’t think of what they are doing. Can you give me a particular sample scenario. Sorry, I just wanna learn and understand so don’t get me wrong. If this is really a bad Idea, I my self will not support it but I want to know first. Thanks.

[fastcopywriter]

Reply to @francis920176: All I need to know from the buyer is what he wants, I don’t need any attachments. If the guy writes “I need a name for my flower shop.” I will click “send offer” and choose the appropriate gig.



I don’t need to see a picture of his flower shop, I don’t need to know nothing else. If the guy likes my gig, he’ll make an order, or pester me with questions.



Folks, Fiverr is popular because it’s super simple, if we start complicating it, it won’t be so popular. Let’s not turn Fiverr into Elance, that’s all I’m saying.

[francis920176]

@fastcopywriter I don’t think adding the attachment button on buyer request side will make fiverr complicated. If we think that any improvement will complicate fiverr, then it implies that all suggestions will makes fiverr unhealthy. Let us not take this as part of the issue. Our main concern is whether the attachment button will be beneficial to fiverr user or not. Upon reading your sample scenario “I need a name for my flower shop” it sinks to my head how to give the guy a nice name considering I’m a good namer and suddenly when you mentioned “I don’t need to see the picture of his flowershop”, I said to myself wow if I can see a picture of his flowershop, perhaps I can give him a nice name and by sending a message to the buyer like "You seems to be a guy selling a flowers because the color of your shop uses masculine color and a feminine flowershop name which is common is not appropriate for you so I can give you a name that is masculine yet preserving the flower genre of your shop. What do you think?

[skydesigner]

Great idea!

[sincere18]

Reply to @francis920176: I guess I was thinking about this in two ways…you are talking about some personal jobs that are maybe not so confidential, but what about all the people using it for business. They start sharing some info about their jobs they might want to order, then sellers get ideas and use it with other people. Stuff like that happens all the time.



Also, if you had a button that buyers could upload, it may also prompt sellers to want to see all info/photos/materials before quoting on a job.



And I agree with what someone else said, some of the changes (not necessarily this suggestion only) are starting to turn Fiverr into one of those freelances sites and I agree some of the simplicity of what Fiverr once was is already starting to get lost. Which may be fine and then Fiverr becomes something else.

[francis920176]

Thanks for the inputs. I saw advantages and disadvantages so its now Fiverr’s turn to balance everything and see if its really beneficial or not. Good day to all.