abhiraichura Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Today I just checked the buyer request section and I found that Fiverr updated it and I don’t think this is the Good One. This time, they just hide the Buyer info. I mean that might be an important part for many reasons.Some of them areIf we know that buyer is from which country then we might bid the best price according to their currency. That is the important factor as if we bid on some project from the buyer of Vietnam (just example) and if we bid like $100 then we might loose that client as it costs buyer approx 22 Lac Dongs. Similar we might get more funds from some reach country like Kuwait 😉In many cases when the buyer comes to you by searching your gigs and we have discussed the things with the buyer. And that same buyer put their request and now as we don’t know the name of the buyer so we will bid on that project. And we will just waste our bid in this case as we can directly discuss the stuff with the buyer without even bidding on the request.What do you think on this?Thanks.Abhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angey17 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I concur with you abhi…I think they need to change it again back to as it was.I truly like that old one 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhiraichura Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Agree… 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmaki Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Oh, another Fiverr “upgrade” that dumps a feature people love while making it worse while completely ignoring the common complaint from just about everyone? You could knock me over with a feather! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmaki Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Now that I looked, this is pretty misleading. I have no idea what it was like before, but now you click on send offer and their name is there so you go to google and write “[username] fiverr” and take it from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhiraichura Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Nice idea. 🙂No need to do “[username] fiverr”Just fiverr.com/[username]Still it will just increase our time for bidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmaki Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Yeah, that’s definitely quicker, I just always forget the exact URL (like "maybe it’s fiverr.com/user/[username]?") and it’s quicker to just Google it anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odbtec Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I’m completely agree. The buyer name is important for detect if this was an old buyer yours or it was a buyer that caused you cancellation because is not a good person.Also, the date… Why they have removed the date?? I can’t understand Fiverr in these kind of updates… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychicbunny Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Yes the old update was a bit easier, but whatever suits Fiverr! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graphixsurfer Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 And worst part is that they hid buyer info in request sent category also, i got order from client and i was clueless what his original request was ??? it is still manageable for current buyer requests, but some time client order after 3-4 days, This should be changed back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bisouschouchou Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I am only back on fiverr a few days after not being on for months, so I am not familiar with all the updates, etc.However, I wrote a post, that for some reason disappeared when I tried posting it to the wall, regarding what felt like an arbitrary price sent, during a conversation with someone about editing a theme I’m going to purchase for a membership site. I got submissions from $100 to $1000. The lowest quote came from a person I has a previous conversation with regarding this, where the quote was $600.So, it seems that if your origin is withheld, it makes sense in part.Fiverr is very much hit or miss, in from my personal perspective, as a buyer. Especially given the time you take to filter through, communicate in serious detail, only to have the work be late (as in my current first order on fiverr back on fiverr two days now).If only we could have interactions with well meaning buyers and sellers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seofanatics Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Unfortunately, you might not be able to see username that has more than 9 letters. For example abhiraichura would be truncated as abhiraich…This new year update is not good at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnezan19 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Yes, I too think removing the date was completely unnecessary. As a new seller, bidding is probably the only way we’ll get initial sales. With only 10 requests per day, it doesn’t really make sense to bid on a gig that is weeks or maybe even months old. I really hope Fiverr brings it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhiraichura Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 @emmakiIts fiverr.com/username Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhiraichura Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 @seofanaticsAt first, I found this. But when you double-click on the name and copy that and paste it. It will copy the complete name (I tried and in most cases this works. But sometimes it also gives a wrong name). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhiraichura Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 @odbtecAgree. The name and request date are necessary things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhiraichura Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 @graphixsurferYup. That’s the necessary feature for all of the sellers. They might revert this update soon. As it is not a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamzamunir Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 It is the worst update ever, Now, We will have to bid blindly not knowing of which country the buyer is from. Keeping the trends, fiverr has indeed updated its platform not in favor of sellers. Really disappointed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topaz_muse Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Just paid a visit. Its a horrible update in not just the idea of hiding names but making it difficult to report abuse of the request section. Thought I found a request I could bid on only to discover it was a seller advertising their services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philtabest Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I’ve also had it many times before where you get a message back after submitting a buyer request and you cannot remember how much you’ve offered. So I’ve started copying to a notepad file the amount, the message and username so I can identify later.I know this sounds really silly, but I want to stay consistant in my communications. Otherwise it puts the buyer off going for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philtabest Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 The worst part of this is the fact it doesn’t even show the date/time when each request was posted. I need to know this information so I don’t waste my 10 bids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freelancemm Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I figure the people at the top of the list are still the most recent buyer requests. I don’t think they changed that around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadiwaqar Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I don’t like the new update specially “buyer’s name hidden” because mostly before applying to any offer i first take a look at the buyer’s profile, his country etc. Even date/Time is not showing when the request was posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eoinfinnegan Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 That’s the real problem with this update, you could be bidding on something that has long been completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
congruentgraph Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I have the same problem and messaged support today saying:Hi,Recently I have noticed that the buyer requests sections has some new improvements.One of them is that ow the buyer’s name is hidden.The problem I have now is the fallowing: I send out an offer to a request with a message. Two days later that buyer replies to my message but I have no idea who he/she is, what I told him, what offer (value) I’ve sent him and so on.Before I used to just search trough the “offers send” section and see all the details.Can you bring back this feature of as hiding the user’s name does not bring any privacy to the buyer as us sellers.** As an example today I got a message from a user I never had conversed with before who is asking me to develop on the idea I presented to him. As he could be anyone of the 604 custom offers I’ve sent there is no way of knowing. This makes me look 100% unprofessional now that I seem like I don’t know what I’m talking about. ****Another example is that recently I had a customer accept a custom offer that was 1 month old. When accepting these offers, buyers do not need to go trough the gig questions I have set up and they assume I know all the details from the requests. The problem is that I don’t know which request the order is in reference to. **I’m very sure other sellers have this problem as well.Thank you,Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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