The risk of putting "$5" in your gig description or title

[capitalquality]

It’s very tempting to let potential buyers know just how much they will get from you and how reasonable your prices are with phrases in your gig descriptions, FAQs, or titles:

"For just $5"
"For the low price of $5"
“I will give you the world for $5”

Don’t. Find a different phrase but don’t mention “$5”. Or at least proofread when you change your prices. But do something, because I’ve been reviewing my gigs slowly over the last week and in doing so I’ve looked at a lot of other gigs to get ideas & compare, both in my category and in completely unrelated categories. The number of gigs that you can’t order for a $5 starter price that have what you can get for “$5” in their title or description somewhere is surprisingly high across all seller levels, even TRSs. Yes, you know who you are.

[emmaki]

Good advice, some of mine took quite a while to cleanup because I neglected to fully go through the gig description and I didn’t notice until later when I went to check something (that’s when it jumps out at you with a clown face). Probably still have some contradictory price points! Ugh, maybe tomorrow.

That said, I don’t think you could ever put $5 in the gig title. I’m pretty sure the $ would count as an ‘illegal character’ and it was automated so that you wrote between the ‘I will’ and ‘for $5’. It’s been a while since I made a new gig so I don’t know how it is now and I don’t feel like poking around the back office today!

[capitalquality]

I haven’t created a new gig in a while so I’m not sure about titles but I came across a couple with $5 so it must let you I suppose.

p.s. I know you don’t want to know this today but you may recognize this if it helps: “For the low price of just $5 I will write a sizzling-hot service description”

[emmaki]

See? Thanks for the heads-up… oddly enough, I find very few people seem to notice. Goes hand-in-hand with the “I don’t read the full gig description” problem anyway I guess!

[djgodknows]

Shouldn’t it actually be:
“I will give you the world for $4” lol

I am despising the sellers devaluating the market (on my sector) for the services being offered at the LOWLY price of 5 $Dollar menu Items.

The kind of buyer requests I am seeing is a directl effect of such behavior.

“I want a complete mobile responsive website, shopping cart, 5-8 pages, SEO, graphics, content with UNLIMITED revisions. And yeah I want you to show me your portfolio” Budget: $10

GO throw YOURSELF off your roof after wrapping your neck with your pc power cord! :o

[capitalquality]

Dude… tell me about it!

[ahsan9911]

What I think is; Title of Gig gives better look if we add a quality centric word. Buyers look for quality rather than low rate.