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Important Update: Some canceled orders now qualify for buyer reviews
donnovan86 replied to Shiran.M's topic in General News
You would be amazed... I constantly have sellers beginning me to send them work, even at 10% or for free and eventually they would get paid with future orders. I never outsource, but I can tell you for a fact there are a lot of desperate sellers here on the platform. And that's the target of unscrupulous buyers.- 310 replies
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Why did Fiverr decided to remove buyer requests?
donnovan86 replied to artamusic's topic in Gig Advice
Buyer requests were a cesspool of "buyers" trying to lowball sellers. I've been here for 10 years and I never got an order via buyer requests, even if I applied to some. They never liked the "REALISTIC" offers, they just wanted low ball prices. -
Fiverr ranks gigs based on the buyer satisfaction rate. You had a very bad review recently, so obviously they pushed you back or even removed from search to allow others the opportunity you had. Deliver great work to clients from now on, and you will recover. It will take months to do that though..
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Important Update: Some canceled orders now qualify for buyer reviews
donnovan86 replied to Shiran.M's topic in General News
You can't limit people to 3 days only, sometimes they need a few more days to review, maybe the gig is complex, etc.- 310 replies
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Fiverr 4.0 - Some thoughts on the current state of things
donnovan86 replied to frank_d's topic in Lounge
You would be amazed what kind of "buyers" are on the platform. I had someone order from me just so .. let's say insult me, I won't write what they said. True, that was in the early days but still. I had other person that wanted me to promote their website where they were selling fake passports and IDs. So yeah, it depends on the niche, but you will find some very shady buyers. Writing gigs will certainly attract that kind of people, but they are not the only ones..- 632 replies
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Fiverr 4.0 - Some thoughts on the current state of things
donnovan86 replied to frank_d's topic in Lounge
Soon that won't be the case.- 632 replies
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Fiverr 4.0 - Some thoughts on the current state of things
donnovan86 replied to frank_d's topic in Lounge
Exactly. What happens here is that legit sellers suffer from bad sellers that overpromise and underdeliver, then they throw buyers under the bus and either cancel and waste their time or even take the money and run. Since there were many forum posts from buyers and maybe even more complains to customer support, I can see why Fiverr did this. I am sure they didn't do this to anger sellers, obviously. Everyone has to gain, but then again there will also be unreasonable buyers that are hard to work with and which take advantage of people. If Fiverr has the seller's back in those situations, then hopefully it's ok.- 632 replies
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Fiverr 4.0 - Some thoughts on the current state of things
donnovan86 replied to frank_d's topic in Lounge
A Fiverr representative said that buyers which also sell here won't be able to leave a review if the order is canceled.- 632 replies
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Well as a professional freelancer you should know that yourself. You vet your buyers, see what they want and what you can offer them. Sometimes it's better to say NO instead of taking every order and dealing with "nutso" buyers.
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Fiverr 4.0 - Some thoughts on the current state of things
donnovan86 replied to frank_d's topic in Lounge
That's the thing, a lot of people either harass buyers to get paid or they offer a cancellation to protect a high rating they have for their gigs. That leads to some buyers missing deadlines and losing way more money. So I am sure many buyers complained to Fiverr, and they are taking action. If you offer great service, there's nothing to worry. Of course there can be times when this might backfire even for the best sellers. But in the end, it will weed out a lot of bad sellers for sure. I am not sure when this new measure starts, most likely Monday or so, which means we are just a few days away from seeing cancellation reviews on the platform. Apparently these cancellations will have their own tag, so people know it's from canceled orders.- 632 replies
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It's a manual process. If your gigs impress Fiverr staff, most likely. But keep in mind that there are people who work on the platform for close to 10 years and never became TRS even if they went way behind that $20k treshold.
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Important Update: Some canceled orders now qualify for buyer reviews
donnovan86 replied to Shiran.M's topic in General News
The main focus I think is to improve buyer experience. Some buyers were left hanging dry, with deadlines and the seller just canceled to stop dealing with the buyer. In that case, I can see this as a good thing since it offers more transparency. Of course everything is prone to abuse. For example, if they stop taking 20% from tips, then buyers would take the smallest offer and promise the remaining stuff as a tip. So yeah, no matter the situation there will be people that abuse every feature. In theory this is a great idea, however it will affect some users. Then again, we will have way less people with a 4.9 and 5.0 score, which I guess is important, because it will differentiate sellers quite a lot more. That also means we need to focus more on quality rather than quantity. I for one focus on raising my prices sooner rather than later.- 310 replies
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Fiverr's system automatically marks them as spam and disables the accounts.
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Don't even get me started on writers.. I had a "writer" that came to me only to insult me because I drag the writing section down. He had tons of grammar mistakes and after insulting me he set up a gig randomly, without meaning, but priced it at $50. That's aside from thousands and thousands of sellers that never wrote anything in their life, but all of a sudden because a random dude on YouTube told them they can earn money via writing on Fiverr, they become experts (and they also copy successful gigs)...
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Important Update: Some canceled orders now qualify for buyer reviews
donnovan86 replied to Shiran.M's topic in General News
It was in the past, I don't think that's the case anymore.- 310 replies
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That text is for sellers "solicit reviews from buyers in exchange for refunds, etc". Some sellers were doing this, and now they won't 🙂
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True. But that also leaves room for unscrupulous buyers to abuse the system. They can threaten sellers with a bad review if they don't agree to a lower price, or many other things. After all, if the order is delivered, a buyer can easily write any review they want and that will be permanently on your account. Which is extremely bad, hence the reason a lot of people are unhappy. Sure, bad sellers will suffer, but along with them good sellers will end up affected too.
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That's IF the buyer cancels themselves. Once there is a delivery on the order, then a buyer (unless they are a first time buyer to Fiverr) will be able to leave a review on the canceled order.
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Fiverr 4.0 - Some thoughts on the current state of things
donnovan86 replied to frank_d's topic in Lounge
Fiverr started focusing more on first time buyer reviews. So if someone is new to Fiverr or they buy from you for the first time, their private review weighs a lot more than a regular review. I am with you on this.. since February I've had the worst year on Fiverr. I am sure AI has a role to play here, but even then there are sellers with a dozen or dozens of orders in queue.- 632 replies
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Important Update: Some canceled orders now qualify for buyer reviews
donnovan86 replied to Shiran.M's topic in General News
Well it does work like that because if you cancel, in 2 months it will be counted out of your stats. Maybe 3 months if we talk about the buyer satisfaction rate. Some sellers prefer to do that instead of getting a bad review that stays there forever. Now they can't escape it. And yes, Fiverr wants to purge this type of people faster. Also, a TON of people have 4.9 reviews on the platform, maybe 4.6+ is the norm. This way Fiverr will actually have much better, more accurate stats..- 310 replies
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