The Downside of Using other People's Images for your Profile

[miiila]

Hm. Guess most of us humans are easily influenced, and I´ll admit that if I´d see two gigs seeming mainly the same, save for an attractive and unattractive profile pic…, but I´d choose the unattractive person or a person with a letter icon or whatever over Leo di Caprio for instance, I’d just feel bad expecting him to work for me for 5$ 😉 And yeah, pretty sure I saw Leo on here.

[miiila]

Upvoted. And unless I´m too dumb to have found it yet, this forum needs a few other commodities too,
like sorting comments new < > old, or being able to click someone´s profile to see ‘more posts by’?
(goes to search, some things aren´t where I´d been looking for them, might just be me though)
Anyway, I like that there is a forum in the first place, so many interesting things to dig through, or discuss. Fun, too.

[miiila]

Or the buyer always uses fake photos too and is happy to buy from a brother/sister in spirit? 😉

[miiila]

Now that´s really bad. Fake profile photo I personally could forgive someone, but fake examples in a portfolio of course sucks.

[miiila]

Agreed. I think it is best too, but a lot depends on circumstances, like what else does the person do for a living, are they confident enough to have their own real picture up, while not everyone is required to (including buyers), general personality and such, so I’m for anything goes with one exception, if a real person´s photo, it has to be you. Okay and no photos that are off in a TOS sense, obviously.

[miiila]

And kudos to you, kyeh, though I fully agree with ivicamilaric, a photograph of a scenery is all fine. If you ever find that you want to go back to that for some reason, you shouldn´t worry because of this article 🙂

[fastcopywriter]

I’m glad to hear of your positive experiences here. I had an American friend who was very prejudiced against Indian writers because of some bad experiences.

“They don’t speak English!”

Dan, India used to be a British colony, most of them speak and write English.

“No they don’t!”

Whatever, you tell me? I know Bollywood produces a lot of films in Hindi and I have met some Indians who speak English really bad, maybe they’re from small villages? But other Indians I have met speak it perfectly.

Besides, when I went to college I used to write essays for a woman who couldn’t do it, and she’s a native English speaker.

[writer99025]

Well, Indians speak English well, but they speak/write “Indian English”…which is grammatically perfect, but you can make out it’s different from native-American/British English. I studied native American/UK English closely when I got started and began writing like them. That explains my “success” on Fiverr as a content writer.

[Guest nasio2k3]

Oh! you just relieved me of a two-week burden. After I quickly canceled the last order from an Indian, I said I wasn’t going to work for any Indian again. Lol. I use my real pix, Country codes and my best clients have come from all over, and it’s been fun working here on Fiverr.

[writer99025]

I don’t believe in blanket bans…how would you feel if someone says they wouldn’t work with any Africans again? That’s not fair.

[eleonoravaiana]

I totally agree.

[edume]

No real picture, no credibility, no trust, avoid buying from such a person.

[fastcopywriter]

So you studied both? Isn’t it confusing remember when to write “color” or “colour”? I don’t know British grammar, but I know their spelling changes. Whenever I get British or Australian clients, I have to change my spellchecker.

[designer_17]

Agreed
The funniest part is that some have male names with female picture and I was not expecting the other side but in buyer request section there is a spam message from seller with male picture and calling himself as a girl.

[brejay]

Yup, if you get a bad vibe from someone you don’t want to work for them. Because as long as you can do quality work, they should not care who you are or where you come from. If they do… well, then, they are probably going to give you trouble in other areas as well.

[brejay]

I didn’t know that was even an issue! ( I used to have a cartoon avatar that I drew of myself, and it looked pretty good, but even that didn’t seem right for the kind of gig I am doing.) You should never intentionally portray yourself as someone else. If someone is going to choose work based on physical appearance, well then, I’m not sure they are good people to work with.

[ivicamilaric]

Completely agree. Sometimes, you shouldn’t even get your foot in the door, especially if the door is openly or latently prejudiced. 🙂

[umerkhayam128]

I don’t think the nationality matters at all, interestingly enough i have noticed that lack of English understanding is not an issue either, I know someone who is a level 2 seller and i can’t see them phrasing a proper English sentence. Personally speaking, I feel buyers respect the work you put in regardless of the nationality, race or religion.

[ivicamilaric]

Now, if only some sellers would get that as well 😉