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I don't know about the profit. Many don't even offer extra-fast delivery, or extras, because of how illogically it's set up, or have to cancel often, like donnovan86, or only get 1 x the price of the extra, while a buyer orders 5 multiples but only pays the extra 1 x, where they should have paid, and seller and Fiverr should have gotten the $ for 5 x extras, as it happened for Roxana. I think it's most probably that they set up a template that worked for some category and didn't really think it through for all categories and use cases. I could set up my Gigs much better, and offer things I can't offer because of the way it is, doesn't sound optimized for profit to me. And, again, they did change it for VO, apparently. I don't know if they can turn on/off multiples, or even choose an allowed number of multiples (ideally even per each of the 3 packages), but im any case they fixed it so that the delivery time increases with the multiples, which would already be really helpful. Some sellers may "simply" put in a night shift, but many will have to cancel. The buyer may find a different seller, also order, e.g., 10x the basic package with 24-hour delivery, that seller may also have to cancel, the buyer may finally get the idea that it might be a good plan to ask the seller if it's even humanly possible to provide n x Gig within x hours, or maybe just think, what the heck, and go somewhere else. It only means more profit in the cases where sellers just accept to get underpaid or run around with their hair on fire, and else, it means less profit, because sellers don't offer everything they would offer else (extras, 24-hour delivery), and a bad user experience - also not good for profit.

IMO, we need the option to turn them on/off, and/or, for those who want to turn them on, within each Gig, we need to be able to control if an extra we offer requires proportional increase of price and/or delivery time. Some people sell extras that just need an additional fixed $ amount, but others sell extras that would need an increase in both price and delivery time, proportional to ordered Gig multiples. If I read that right back then, this has already been done for the VO category quite a while ago, so it doesn't seem to be technically impossible, and I'm at a loss as to why something so obviously crucial still hasn't been fixed in Writing & Translation.

Hello Roxana. It's really annoying. I had to "fix" it by deactivating my Gig extras. And it's not just that the price doesn't increase when people order Gig multiples, but also the delivery time doesn't increase. Many sellers are having issues because of this, see only the last one of the long line of requests to fix this here in the forum's "Site Suggestions" category, where, in theory, Fiverr staff will read and maybe suggestions will be implemented:

I really can't understand that this much-requested improvement still has not been tackled. It's a major headache, and keeps many people in the affected categories from not offering shorter delivery times, or some things at all, causes them to limit their queues more than needed, etc., all of which certainly isn't in Fiverr's best interest, and for no good reason at all. Not to speak of unnecessary cancellations caused by it, which buyers probably aren't much happier about than sellers, they'll lose time (different timezones potentially aggravating this), need to find another seller, after they thought, everything was taken care of, maybe get in trouble with their own deadlines,... As far as I recall, in one of these complaint threads, quite long ago, someone from the VO category, I think @annai80, mentioned that this much-needed feature had finally been implemented in that category. Writing & Translation, Proofreading & Editing, and probably some more categories really need this.

Keep an eye on the Fiverr webinars, might give you some useful insights, if you need to be number one. For example, there's one on March 30, "Supercharged Selling Tips & Tricks from a Top Rated Seller".

Probably not even replies by people who have the experience, and are still on Fiverr and the forum, would help you. It'll depend on what exactly they are checking and how much there is to check (if they are already checking an account because they think the account holder has multiple accounts and thus violated one term, I'd say chances are high that they also check other things, like messages, for other potential violations), how flooded or not support is with requests, how high up on their priority list your case is, ... You know Fiverr's terms, certainly, since you accepted them when creating your account, and from that, you can infer that not having gotten a warning before, doesn't mean your account won't be suspended. They do or do not give out warnings first. While chances of suspension logically will increase if you already got warned, depending on what they find in their account review, they may very well suspend the account permanently without warning. If you actually do not have multiple accounts (Did you ponder how they got the idea, any little brother or sister around who may have a Fiverr account without you knowing?), and everything else is in order too, your chances should be good.

My minimalist award winner of the day: Sure, I'm good, at anything, sign me up. That's actually better than many others, though, where you might get into big trouble, trying to find out specifics and getting the job done, or cancelling the potential order, within 24 hours.

Maybe "Fiverr" in Japanese katakana, only that it said "Fiber"? 😉 Dᵢₛ𝒸ₗₐᵢₘₑᵣ: ⱼᵤₛₜ ₐ ⱼₒₖₑ ₐₗₗ ᵢₙ 𝓰ₒₒ𝒹 𝒻ₐᵢₜₕ, ₙₒₜ ₘₐₖᵢₙ𝓰 𝒻ᵤₙ ₒ𝒻 ₚₑₒₚₗₑ 𝓌ₕₒ 𝓰ₑₜ ₜₐₜₜₒₒₛ, ₒᵣ ₜₕₑᵢᵣ ₜₐₜₜₒₒ 𝒸ₕₒᵢ𝒸ₑₛ, ᵢ ₕₐᵥₑ ₛₒₘₑ ₘᵧₛₑₗ𝒻.

It would make a lot of sense to make search smarter that way, for two reasons, I think. For one, you always got heaps of totally irrelevant results, just because they had a word of your search term, only in a totally irrelevant way for you, and also because there will be search phrases that many non-expert users will use, while the gig titles may often only contain concise and precise phrases. In the description, obviously, there's more space for variations and to consider what people who don't know the industry slang will put in. That might be a good use of BRs for the "BRs aren't worth reading" crowd, by the way, depending on your niche, it might give you ideas for additional search phrases that laypeople users use (or even for new gigs). Of course, on the other hand, some won't want to have to do with buyers who'd not input exactly what they wrote in their Gig title, but in any case, might be an idea for some.

Fiverr is a mood.

Alright, for the sake of ranking science... although... I thought we don't do ranking any longer but only relevanting? 😉 Page 1, row 5 (recently installed anonymous browser, no Fiverr cache, not logged in), not too shabby for Day 1! Up, up, and away! ⬆️ ETA: I left out your adjective for the search, probably more realistic 😉

Thank you for the live stream, and thanks to everyone who took part for their questions, too!

"Thanks to" the forum's inexistent notification finetuning, the tagging notification was burrowed below lots of irrelevant things, but I "manually checked" the thread for updates, but thank you for the tagging anyway, I'll be there! 🙂

I've seen this post only now, "posted 18 hours ago", maybe leave it up a little longer than a day. Day of the week doesn't matter much, happy with anything the "majority" can attend. Indeed. But it always seemed to be the way that actually helpful posts are majorly read by those who need the least help, I wonder why (not really).

What a disappointment. But, well, all things have their good side, then I'll use the app, whenever I get the urge to reply to something with just "k".

Dear Fiverr Forum Gods, we need an internationally recognizable deviation road sign emoji, and a drop-down with links to forum categories within the post editor to copy-paste from. There are too many ads in my Casual Conversation topics, that doesn't go well with my maybe last ☕ in a coffeeshop for this year, and depending on a certain mean pandemic, perhaps for much longer.

Incidentally, I happened to reply with "Sure." yesterday, and missed out on the 5 characters fun, but yes, seems a full stop can indeed be used instead, just to encourage anyone who's afraid to try. 😉 Now, if this would end all the "Hi/Hy/Hu" one-liners from spammers and make them say right out what they want, I'm all for it and will consider it Fiverr's end-of-year gift to sellers! 👏

Do we get cookies if we activate Dark Mode? Forum brownie points? Better Gig ranking? More orders? Does it help with levelling? Is it a TRS requirement? 😉

When you withdraw next time, pay attention to the currency, if yours is set to €, could be by default if you're in the EU (one day, after they added the option to withdraw in local currency, it was suddenly set to € for me, so probably it is like that by default), you can change it to $. I always withdraw in $, and get the exact same $ amount to my PayPal. But, if you withdraw from Fiverr to your PayPal in € vs. in $, you'll already see the loss there. I checked a few times, after the option to withdraw in € was available, and it always seemed that it was advantageous to withdraw in $ and have the loss from PP to bank account, so I set my withdrawal currency back to $ then, and it stayed like that, luckily, I didn't have to remember resetting it at every withdrawal. Unfortunately, there seems no way around that, as you'll need € in your bank account to pay your rent, etc. Like visualstudios, I always leave a $ amount in my PayPal and pay anything I can pay in $ directly through PayPal, for example, a monthly Adobe subscription that I have for work. Collecting the $ and exchanging when the $/€ exchange rate would be favourable would make sense too, obviously, that is if you don't need the money immediately, and have the time and energy to watch the exchange rate. The downside is that it might make bookkeeping and tax stuff between $ and € even more annoying than it already is.

[Bhagavad Gita]

No, it's not legal, the police will come and get you. 👮‍♂️👮‍♀️🚓 Jokes aside, welcome on Fiverr and the forum, and feel free to read as well the ToS of the main site (find the link in the main site's footer; most importantly, as you don't want to get a warning or ban, probably, and Fiverr won't let "I didn't know/didn't read the ToS yet" count, since you accepted them when creating your account), as the forum Standards & Rules, your question is answered in §6, but if you check it already, you can read the other §§ too, to avoid the police showing up at your door for some other reason 😉 : https://community.fiverr.com/forums/topic/253722-community-standards-forum-rules-2021/

Maybe Fiverr should, in addition to "You only have 12 hours to deliver, deliver now", should also send notifications like "You were online and active since 20 hours non-stop now, we appreciate it, but we want you to grace our platform a little longer with your existence, time for a short power nap, Doer!" 😉 The forum would get flooded with threads asking how long to sleep for the best gig ranking then for a change, wouldn't that be fun.

Please feel free to do so, I'll "smash the like button and subscribe" too 😉 but that won't be me, I tend to be too nice for my own good too, but I didn't sign up for the forum to become a new Fiverr guru on YT! Maybe if you don't want to do it yourself, a spokesperson seller might feel more inclined, but not sure, wouldn't it undermine their general credibility if they'd have to pretend to agree with the rest ... 🤔 Might have to be someone who uses a separate YT channel and blur, or use one of those, what are they called officially, those anime avatars ... virtual vloggers, in that case.

Can't edit my prior post any longer, but that's what I'm thinking too, plus, it might also inspire more people who have real advice to share to do it more, and write in more detail, if they knew their posts would easily be found by people genuinely looking for advice. Personally, I'm happier with the thought that even one person who really takes something from a post of mine reads it without leaving a like or comment than having a "Hot" thread with dozens of comments and likes and thanks by people who didn't even read it, much less will apply any of it. "Live" interaction is nice and fun and can be helpful too, of course, but when people want to avoid that their thread will be "taken out of discussion" and moved to that "Gems of Tips for Sellers" category, for threads that are more controversial, or call for discussion, they could post in the "Conversations" or "My Fiverr Experience" category, depending.