damilolabolu

It's not dishonesty. It's better seen as omission from fear 🫠. I have the feature as well. I am being cautious to use it cause I've had a number of cool buyers who simply just ordered. I already have my orders coming slower than they used to. I have done all the necessary upgrades and even spoken to a success manager. I am hopeful that just being honest and doing a great job will be sufficient to bring the best buyers to me. I agree these techniques could in the long-run help to improve market acceptance. Only a few buyers are looking for absolutely perfect sellers. Thanks for sharing this as well.

Wow! I think Fiverr support should really help Sellers in addressing issues of this nature. I don't think it is beneficial to the system to keep buyers who would hurt even top sellers just because they can. These private reviews shouldn't have so much power over gigs. I suspect that some of my gigs were affected by some private reviews now.

I'm not clear about this part: "When that happened to me, I don't think some sellers could have a contact prior to order setting, so it didn't seem like I would be benefiting other sellers to be truthful at the time, either. " I'm sorry to hear about that experience. I hadn't actually thought about the possibility of retaliation.

Thanks for being the first to respond and I agree with you. I'm starting to think buyers who order without speaking to sellers and who just accept deliveries without communicating could be prompted to improve with a review like this. In my experience, they often give less than a perfect rating which makes you wonder on what basis they are eating when they are not even engaging the process. Sellers should prompt them with detailed feedback.

I have been a Level 2 seller on this platform for a while and I know it's hard to give honest feedback as a seller who has had a bad experience. The fears include: 1. What if I give a bad review to a buyer who was considering using my service again? 2. What if they give me a good review when I have given a bad review. 3. Not being sure what would be a fair "bad" rating. The problem with not doing the right thing when you have met an impatient, badly mannered, unprofessional client, is that other freelancers on the platform will not know to avoid them. We will also see your good recommendations and have a fear of sharing our bad experience. Fiverr cannot do so much to deprioritize bad buyers because this is a profit platform. However, sellers can help each other by eating bad clients badly. Here's the catch, the chances that you will want to have another experience with a bad client is almost zero. And they will often likely rate you badly. Only a few buyers still give a good review after a bad experience but I believe more sellers give a good review after a bad experience. You shouldn't be so unfair to yourself by looking forward to working with a bad client. Rate them badly! If a buyer wants to rate you for a bad experience, they wouldn't go higher than a 2-star so don't worry about giving a bad client the same. You can see the rating as 1 = never ever work with this person, 5 = this kind of client is good for Fiverr Sellers like me! I hope this helps and I would like to hear your own experiences.