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It sounds fishy because as far as I know, Fiverr doesn't have any EU subsidiary. So it might be a scam site posing as Fiverr. Ideally, you want to do a chargeback if possible. Fiverr support might also help, but they could say it's not Fiverr who charged you, which might very well be the case.

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To keep the review system fair, Fiverr requires you to rate the buyer before you can see their reply. Obviously, if you can see the reply, you would automatically give them a bad rating. So they want you to say exactly what you feel when rating a buyer, not base your rating on their own rating.

Fiverr won't sacrifice anything. If they would do this, we would encounter something to counterract the "sacrifice" like high withdrawal fees or something. I don't see the benefit for Fiverr. If anything, buyers would create a new account all the time since there are also various deals for first time buyers.

Testing is one of the worst and most cumbersome way to earn via playing games. Testing means playing the same thing over and over and over to find bugs. It's meant to be a job, not something fun you do to enjoy yourself. In general, the best ways to make money by playing games are not something you would do on Fiverr.

Well 2023 was already pretty bad for Fiverr writers, hopefully people realize that AI content is garbage. But yeah, I don't see the content writing industry growing. OP is a writer so obviously he is biased.

It depends on the video. If it's low quality, it can hamper your results instead of making you stand out. So it can definitely be a double-edged sword.

There is, if you check above I attached screenshots. You just have to disable it from the accessibility options. I am pretty sure Fiverr is forced to add some accessibility options to the site and as we work within Chrome, we can end up activating them by mistake. But it's a very easy fix, as you can see from the steps I've shown above.

Most likely people trying to order ahead of time.

Your text @emmaki's text Not sure what tool you used but I used one of the top tier ones in the industry. Obviously there will be some false positives and stuff, but I think the results are pretty obvious. Regarding the topic.. as it was posted above, Fiverr operates normally regardless of the war. Since they are an international company, in the worst case scenario I am sure they can move their HQ to another country and restructure. They won't close or anything like that, they already have offices in other regions so.. if you were worried about Fiverr closing, that won't happen. However, I don't see why you were attacking other forum users like @emmaki, she was just sharing her opinion. This is a forum, so obviously not eveyrone will think or act the way you do. Some people will have different ideas and approaces to a topic, so you should respect that, even if it's not how you view things. Regardless, good luck. What matters is that Fiverr won't close, and while they did admit the war is taking place, they clearly said the company and platform will function as usual.

Come on.. it clearly says FIVERR right above your post. Where on Earth do people learn to call this platform FIBER?

If you buy a forbidden drug via a platform and the platform doesn't allow that, but the seller sells it without their consent, it's the seller at fault, not the platform. They should ban him if he was selling something illegally. Regardless, I don't understand why you would buy a subscription through Fiverr, clearly that seller was using a shady method to acquire cheaper prices. So I don't get it.. Most likely the subscription provider doesn't allow reselling like this, so it's a very shady thing to do. Whenever something seems too good to be true.. it most likely is. Hope you will get your $$ back, and the lesson learned here is that you should stick to a service provider and not a third party for any subscription. If I understood your situation correctly, that is.

A massage in December sounds nice, especially with how much pressure we had this year. Leaving jokes aside, this is vacation season so obviously people aren't as interested in buying services for their business, they spend more on presents. There are still active buyers on the platform.

Browse the forum, there are already a TON of topics on this. Asking people to waste their time and elaborate things for free is not that appealing, especially when the information is already here. If you can't bother searching, you can't expect someone to spend their time writing everything for you.

Subscribing to a service via Fiverr most likely means the seller offering such a service is manipulating the system in some way to get that subscription cheaper, so they might be breaking the rules of that platform. So it certainly sounds shady, if you want a service you can easily subscribe to it. Using a third party to get a better deal is... let's say less than ideal. So I agree with the sentiment.

Even then, you can't possibly know if a vetted buyer might enjoy the result or leave your expected number of stars. But I will agree, request to order does sound very good, but it depends on the niche. For writers in particular, it's not alwasy a great option. It does go well for those that take fewer, yet larger orders. I have request to order, but I only used it on one gig and it did scare off a lot of bad buyers, but also pretty much everyone else as well. So at least from my experience, it depends on the niche and what you offer. Because in some cases, request to order might do more harm than good. Yet as it was said, you need to find a way to stop those unwanted buyers and this might help.

They are very bad. That's why if someone wants an AI check, I ask them what tool they trust and use that one. The reality is that I had the same text seen as both human and AI by different tools, so it's not something you can trust. And since it's AI searching for AI patterns, it's not like you can trust it.

1 in 20 is a lot, should be 0 out of 20. There shouldn't be any mistakes. But again, to my point, people randomly leave reviews. It's been an issue on Fiverr for a very long time. It's not something new and I don't attribute this to the new system. The fact that this new system shows even more so how random some people leave reviews doesn't surprise me. It's been like that for a long time and it will continue in that vein. Fiverr can't force people to pay attention to what review they leave. And they won't change reviews if they were left by mistake either, my point with that 1 star review I mentioned. It is what it is, as far as I am concerned the new review system can be improved by removing the emojis and maybe redoing the 1-5 scale from very bad to very good, excellent does make people think twice and that might be the reason why some reviews are 4 or 4.5 stars with excellent text about the seller. Or again, people just rate randomly. Again, buyers can see the review score so.. I don't understand where is a mistake being made, since they willingly pressed Publish for their review and saw their score before pressing that button.

Well, one of my bad reviews is a person who clearly wrote good job and told me the work was great, yet he left 1 star. It was not a $5 order, it was a $50 order. Doesn't matter, he randomly left stars, which supports what I said above. Multiple 4 star reviews are from people that did the same mistake you and others are saying regarding this new system, they thought they gave 5 and everything was fine. Again, randomly pressing buttons. Multiple 3 star reviews saying: it's fine, he already published it, but he was expecting $100 worth of work in a $5-$10 article and stuff that was never included in the gig anyway. In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, but it's very frustrating to encounter these issues nonetheless. Having the same issues happen with this new system doesn't surprise me, because it was already happening in the past. I think what buyers misunderstand are those options under the emoji. But as I said, how can you say it was a mistake when you clearly see the review score at the end.. That's what I don't understand. It's either negligence or people willingly rate sellers like that. I get it one or two people might make a mistake, but so many cases.. come on. I am not saying this system is perfect, I am not a fan of emojis on a professional platform. But disregarding that, a buyer still gets to see the review score before publishing. So I just don't understand these "seemingly" mistakes. Because as a buyer, you see the exact review score before you press Publish for your review.

There's no way to get fast work. Also, the type of service you offer has a ton of competition, and it's not really unique. A lot of people offer the same thing you do, and some have a ton of reviews.

Not in your case. I tend to deal with a lot of volume work, and I can tell you for a fact buyers tend to rate randomly. It might not always be the case, but they definitely do in a lot of situations. I mean, they just have to press 2 emoticons. The stuff under those emoticons doesn't influence their rating. But I assume some buyers are confused and they think that also affects the rating, which Kesha said it clearly doesn't. And again, you can see the review score at the end before you publish it. So willingly or unwillingly, buyers agree with the review they are sharing, and they see the score. That's why I think people randomly place stars, and the emoticons maybe started confusing them even more. If a person is careful when rating, they would see the review score they are publishing, right? It goes back to what I said, from my personal experience I know a lot of people rate randomly. They just get the work and move on. Some buyers take the review process very seriously, but there are many others that don't.. again I know that for a fact from my personal experience. And I had $5, I had $200 orders, so pricing doesn't factor in as much.

I think the problem here is a lot of buyers just randomly press buttons. I know from my experience they do, and this new system most likely caught people offguard, they didn't understand or care, didn't study anything, didn't see the 4 stars at the end, as you saw Fiverr automatically shows the review score before you post. So buyers definitely know what they are rating you. Whether they care or not, that's another thing. Obviously if you ask any buyer, they say it's Fiverr's fault. But again, as I said, how can you state that when Fiverr clearly shows you the review score before you press Post Review.... It's not like they change it once you post it. You can clearly see what review score you are posting as a buyer and by writing the review and pressing Post, you agree to it.

I am in that 10k+ review club with one of my gigs. Since all those reviews were accumulated due to lots of blood, sweat and tears, they are valid reviews. You can't just dismiss them because others chose to either go for a lower price, less orders approach. I respect that, but you can't ignore either side of the coin. That's why I think it's tough for Fiverr to try and equate those older reviews to the new system. But hey, they went from up/down to 5 stars, that was a huge leap. Although people are barking at the wrong tree here. Fiverr buyers can actually see what the review score is before they press Publish. So there are 3 things here: They don't care and randomly press emoticons They rush to press stars, see the review score and press publish. They knowingly choose to write that review and score you like that. I get it there can be mistakes but come on... if they show the review score BEFORE PRESSING PUBLISH, how can people say buyers are misguided to press stars and 4 star reviews are a mistake, when they clearly chose that. Even if they made a mistake, they can revert and not press publish so... I think the problem stems from buyers rushing or not caring. If they wouldn't show the review score before publishing the review I would understand, but a buyer can see that so.. I still believe a lot of buyers randomly rate people, speaking from my own experience here.

Well once the testing is over, most likely the new system becomes the norm, with a few changes that they noticed they should do after seeing any testing results. So.. I wouldn't rush. It's the end of the year now so.. most likely the new system will be used starting with January. I don't see developers rushing to finish stuff during the holidays when most people are free anyway.

What's interesting is that people can see the number of stars before they press Publish. So most likely what happened is your client placed stars by mistake and didn't realize it, as it does happen sometimes. But as far as I saw, they show you the final rating before you publish it (as a buyer). That's sad to hear.. but I can understand. There are lots of new metrics, things like reviews for canceled orders, etc. All of that is very stressful to deal with, and I didn't even talk about private reviews where we have no idea what buyers say, nor do we receive any feedback, we just see orders and messages slowing down..