melanielm

There's a badge! Maybe I'll have to try harder. Food looks delicious.

So... This means we now have to have the last word no matter what even when it makes no sense to do so?

Well, I'm not a web developer. Maybe I should become one if it involves time travel! (You wrote 2014 twice. Next year is 2024.)

I'm 49. No one cares how old you are and, unless they visit this thread, they won't know. Why would a buyer care about your age? They want quality service, good communication, and a successful order process.

Emojis are unprofessional. Period. With the new system, someone (like me) who has a lot of five stars will suddenly start getting 4ish stars. It will look like our quality or service skills have dropped. Buyers will think "Well, they must be slacking off these days. I'll go with someone else!" This is damaging to our business (and Fiverr's!) The "value for your money" bit makes it almost impossible to raise our prices. Repeat buyer may now mark us down for that because they used to get the service for less. I was planning to raise my prices in the new year again. Not any more! Instead of getting rid of poor quality and scam sellers, Fiverr is pushing away established ones. How is that good for business?

I'm not from Fiverr, of course, but I would guess it works much like search engines. Fiverr probably displays things that get as close as possible (without the word 'black') If you search for the whole phrase in quotes (exact match), you get more accurate results. This has nothing to do with ethnicity. It has to do with how search engines work. For example, searching for finance industry blog post writing with and without quotation marks gives different results... the latter more specific to finance.

Hey! I get to play degenerate guitar. (I'm qualified because I once stole a long-ago boyfriend's acoustic and taught myself the chords to 'American Pie.' (I'm not *that* old. It was vintage!)) I end the year with gratitude that I don't have to rely on Fiverr for all my income. (But yes, still grateful for Fiverr none-the-less.) It's just plain weird how corporate shenanigans involve changing the exact angles of deck chairs instead of shifting the ship to the ocean instead of a swamp. Mosquitos are itchy, and redheads are statistically more likely to get bit. (This isn't pertinent here, though.) The future needs more whammy bar.

Yes. It seems to claim AI-generation if you use big words or complex sentence structure, which is ridiculous. The most aggravating thing about this whole change is that most people don't understand it. Buyers can't recognize issues on their own without relying on highly faulty tools

Definitely increased. It's been more than 10 years. Prices on everything have increased! This is for quality sellers, of course. There are probably just as many new sellers who lack professional skills that still offer things for $5.00. In the very beginning, I believe you HAD to offer services for $5.00 only. It was a long time ago, and I don't quite remember.

My most fervent wish is that Fiverr *finally* blocks the ability to purchase multiple basic gigs without increasing delivery time (i.e., Buy 20 500-word articles with a delivery of 3 days, the time limit for one article). People have been asking for this for YEARS and it remains a problem. A per-unit price calculation would be amazing, but I doubt you'll ever do that. (Buyer enters their desired word count (or other unit) and the cost and time is calculated based on seller settings.)

I'm beginning to feel old. Fiverr commercials with people jumping around and yelling in silly voices and now emoji ratings on a professional platform? There seems to be a huge number of things buyers have to do to rate sellers. At what point does the annoyance of the rating system start tainting their ratings?

I've been here since a few months after Fiverr opened its doors. It was quite different back then... as was the world of internet content creation, marketing, website building, etc. I can't specifically say that it was easier to get orders at a specific point. All that depends on individual business growth and a seller's efforts. Is it more challenging these days? Yes, for certain industries especially (i.e., ones that people believe AI can replace) and because there are so many more people trying to work from home and freelance than there ever were before. Ultimately, it has very little to do with Fiverr itself. It's our responsibility to grow our businesses.

Is there an answer for this? I've blocked buyers in the past who have been horrible to work for. It's not spam as some never messaged me. How can we solve this problem now?

To be honest, if a potential buyer said only "Yes. Samples please." I might very well avoid them, too. That isn't a professional message about a project and it could indicate someone a seller wouldn't want to work with.

It doesn't matter which gig the order comes from. They all have due dates. Organize by that and how much work each order needs. I'm not sure how else anyone would do it. It's the same for any job or task.

Use the saved reply feature, too. You can create a message that says "I can't help you" or "This is spam," click one button, then report as spam or ignore anything else from them.

The only way to do this is through the three packages and gig extras. You can't make gig extras mandatory, however. You can create custom gig extras added to the order after it is placed, but you would have to make it really, really! clear that those would happen with every order. An option is to put something in the required order information like "Each order will have custom services and charges added unique to your needs. If you understand and agree to this, type 'I understand and agree' (or some such). It's a way to 'try' to enforce their understanding of the billing process. I'm not sure if this would work with what you do, but you could also set up a consulting type package where the project is discussed -- IF you can give them sufficient value outside of just figuring out what they need and what they will pay.

There is a short list of approved URLs / platforms that you can use to create a shareable portfolio in the Help files. It does NOT include your own business website. That is against TOS.

This really depends on your efforts. It may never recover if you don't do anything to improve and bring in more business. It could recover very quickly if you take action.

“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.” Terry Pratchett

The benefit is that Fiverr won't disable your account for non-verification. Your business is up to you.

Do you have a portfolio option on your profile as well as the gig page? I'm not sure if everyone has access to that now or not. Another option is to create an off-site portfolio and share a link. This page in the Help documentation lists the allowed URLs (https://help.fiverr.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011421218-Gig-policies). Just make sure you never share off-site contact information (Read the TOS carefully).

It happens to everyone, unfortunately. Mark them as spam and move on.

This is a great failure of the Fiverr system for writers. I'd suggest not allowing extra word additions automatically. Instead, the buyer would have to contact you, and you could create a custom order for the total. The only other option is to send a 'request for more time' from the resolution center after the order is already placed. I'd suggest putting a sentence in your gig description that clearly states all orders above X number of words need a custom order or longer delivery time. Some people won't read it, but you have something to point to when you send the request for more time. We have been asking Fiverr to fix this problem for literally YEARS (automatically adding more time when a buyer orders more words), but they just don't listen.

IF you used content/graphics from your own outside website, this could be a false positive on copyright infringement. The domain-based email address isn't enough to prove ownership, most likely. I'd keep trying with customer service with actual proof that you own the content. If you can't prove that, however, you're out of luck.