roberthazelton

In the voice over world, a cancellation might happen because the quality isn't what was advertised (sound quality I mean). It might be because the client didn't like it and the buyer is a middle man to that. It might be that they slip in something to the script after a revision that you don't want to do (erotica, for example. It has happened). There are any number of reasons well beyond your control. And if reviews didn't determine so much within Fiverr, it wouldn't be such a big deal. And surely for someone with thousands of great orders, one or two won't matter. But smaller sellers have the potential to get smashed by this.

There's no transparency gained by reviewing cancelled orders. No benefit to the community for someone to throw out a negative review about a cancelled order. No trust built. If a seller ignores your policies (limited revisions for example), then a seller is now beholden to them to finish regardless. Fiverr may call it all the things I mentioned in the first paragraph, but ultimately they are pressuring sellers to finish orders regardless of whether they are abused by the buyer. They want their 20% and a cancelled order takes that away. So everyone might as well put down that they do unlimited revisions including closed orders (at least up to 2 weeks after) because if you don't, you'll get a negative review regardless.

My understanding is they have to receive a delivery for a review. So if they order by mistake, the information stated they cannot actually leave a review.

I sent you some interesting examples.

That's a darn good point. I hadn't thought about new sellers playing games like that. Nor that they might not be 'new' but have a different account or something. Very interesting. I like your suggestion.

I had a project requiring some voice acting so I take to Fiverr, looking through talent. Plenty of $5 jobs. But when you look at the commercial/broadcast rights, they are incredible. $90. $150. For 500 words. And while I get that there's a reason to talk about these things, tacking them on like that is akin to eBay sellers posting something for $10 then charging $100 shipping. What else am I going to use a voice over for? And I do have a solution. I think that if you're going to charge for Commercial or Broadcast rights, those should not be option. They should be required. So you no longer have a $5 job. You start at $155 dollars for whatever your word count is. Because honestly, people are here to pay for a service for business related functions. And if you genuinely do NOT need it (like you're doing a training course for your internal support team) then you can negotiate a custom offer. I honestly walked away from some brand new, first time sellers because they were tacking on incredible rates for those things. I'd love to hear some other opinions.

That’s the first I’ve seen that. It must be in the newest IRS rules. Yeah, that’s a confusing statement. It should be easy to hit both criteria but that’s not necessarily true.

I didn’t see that but it has nothing to do with the requirement for the w9. In the US anyone who pays someone is supposed to have them fill out a w9 so they can be sent a 1099 at the end of the year/start of next year. I agree that it doesn’t have anything to do with the requirement. It does have to do with what they’ll do with that W9. Because this sounds like they aren’t going to send it in to the IRS if you don’t meet one of those two criteria. And I’d like to understand better. That’s why I posted :).

I see that there is a place on the W9 to indicate if you are an LLC, sole proprietor, corporation etc. Anyone who earned money on fiverr in the US will get a W9 to fill out. It makes no difference how many orders you have. This is to let the IRS know you earned money on fiverr, regardless of your business entity type. I’m confused about the distinction in the FAQ then. $20,000 AND 200 orders. And I know someone who has made more and done a LOT more and has not been requested to fill out the W9.

When it says 20,000 AND 200 orders, does that mean it won’t be submitted if you didn’t do one or the other? Example: if someone made more than 20,000 but did it in 20 orders, will their information be submitted? Many US sellers that I work with do their work through an LLC. W9s are really for individuals.