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This is so disturbing. It is immoral to conspire with another seller to breach the confidentiality of a buyer. Nothing makes this acceptable and there is no way Fiverr would tolerate it. And you musn’t use the Fiverr chat for anything but sales, yet you are using it to get dirt on a buyer. It’s deeply concerning that you don’t see that this is a problem. How dare you talk about a buyer to another seller! Why don’t you see why that is wrong? If you don’t want warnings, be professional and ethical. You should be doing that, anyway. In any case, you accomplish nothing by talking to sellers about their buyers. Nothing. Accept the rating and move on. Stop trying to justify breaching your buyer’s confidentiality. It’s irrelevant. You don’t talk about buyers to anyone for any reason. It’s a breach of confidentiality and highly unprofessional and pointless.

You should not be surprised you got scammed. First, you should never work with someone who doesn’t understand the ToS and pressures you to break them Second, you’re asking the wrong question. Ask yourself why you’re attracting unethical people who want to use Fiverr to divert business from Fiverr.

I know that. I’m asking you how a Fiverr seller got into your gmail account.

How did a Fiverr seller access your gmail account?

It’s not my job to research for you. You can do it yourself. Take initiative.

Never going to happen. When an order is created it is a contract. There is no such thing as retroactively changing the terms of a contract because that defeats the purpose of a contract. Fiverr isn’t treating you like a slave by doing what is legally and logistically best for their company. Honestly… Would Amazon give partial refunds? Never. Because that isn’t how marketplaces work.

I encourage you to read the Terms of Service to learn how this works. You should never register for a service before you know and understand the terms of payment. Yes, you will be paid.

That isn’t what it is for. You don’t invoice Fiverr clients. Fiverr does that when they make an order, just like any other marketplace.

I know it takes longer to see SEO success but there are so many factors outside of sellers’ work that play a role in your site’s ranking. It’s wrong to assume you achieved or lost a certain ranking solely because of that project a seller did for you because there are so many factors involved. And if a seller is doing work whose efficacy can’t be determined at all for months than it’s not appropriate for Fiverr.

If a buyer can’t evaluate what they purchased within 10 days of buying it, they’re actually buying it way too early and making a very poor investment. If anything if you wait longer than that the seller won’t remember the experience and have to look up the order and history in order to respond to the review. Reviews become less likely over time, not more likely. You’re assuming that the length of time is why people don’t get reviews but that is faulty logic. No seller wants to wait that long for a review, anyway.

Unfortunately this is a risk of using Fiverr for gigs that don’t involve handing in files and are instead service related. I’m not justifying it but the risk is inherent to doing that kind of work here. Fiverr can’t verify anything you’re saying because they can’t log into your buyer’s computer to check (and they wouldn’t do that anyway). So things become a matter of your word against his and you generally won’t win that.

Yes you could never scale Fiverr work high at all and you’d spend a ton of time on administration and communication, which you don’t get paid for. I agree we shouldn’t be penalized for buyers ordering the wrong things, but I think the solution is to change how those ones affect our ratings. Another option could be a proper (automated) intake form and then if the buyer doesn’t go through it or meet all the criteria that cancellation wouldn’t count in our ratings. That way it wouldn’t impact scaling or add extra work. Also, on Fiverr’s end I can see why they dont have a decline feature. This is a marketplace and buyers would leave if they were vetted this way. People have deadlines and they just want to buy and get going. An automated form with established criteria for vetting would mean they are vetted without having to wait for you to personally screen them.

From Payoneer: “any other promotion of a Referral Link in a manner that would constitute or appear to constitute unsolicited commercial email or “spam” in Payoneer’s sole discretion is expressly prohibited and may be grounds for immediate termination of the Referrer’s participation in the Program, the Referrer’s Payoneer account and Referrer’s eligibility for Payoneer Payment Services, including deactivation of the Referral Link.” Using a forum to try to get affiliate sales IS spam. From the forum community guidelines post: And from the forum community standards: https://www.fiverr.com/community/standards/integrity-authenticity “We do not allow the Infringement of third parties terms of service on Fiverr.” – You did. Payoneer doesn’t allow this. "We define spam on Fiverr as messaging activity that is unwanted, repeatedly occurring and disruptive to the experience of recipients. Spam can take many forms ranging from unwanted offers to commercially-motivated solicitations that aim to drive traffic or attention to websites, products, and services outside of Fiverr." It’s there in black and white. You say you read it but you evidently didn’t read closely enough, did you? In any case, you don’t use a forum to try to sell things. It’s absurd that you think that the forum owes it to you to allow that and that you’re oblivious to how unethical that is.

Well, you should know. It’s common sense that you don’t put an affiliate link in a forum because it’s extremely unethical. Why would you be able to use the forum to make money? And why would we allow you to post something that you’re biased about? (If you’re making money, what you’re sharing isn’t objective). You’re also not allowed to breach the terms of third-party services on Fiverr or in the forum. And this is a breach of your affiliate. No affiliate marketing program anywhere allows you to post your affiliate links in forums because it’s spam and if they allowed than then people would post them everywhere and be dishonest about their affiliate relationship as you have done. It’s also a bias issue. You can’t be objective about a link you’re sharing if you make money off it. I also noticed that you didn’t disclose that you were an affiliate in that original message. I shouldn’t need to explain to you why that is also a breach of your affiliate. It’s extremely unethical to post an affiliate link without disclosing that that is what it is is. It’s dishonest. As an affiliate marketer you sign an agreement with your affiliate. Read it. It’s disturbing that you need to be told why it’s unethical to post an affiliate marketing link in a forum. It’s spam on top of being dishonest. You aren’t allowed to spam the forum. That’s in the community standards. It’s even more disturbing that you didn’t think to disclose that it was an affiliate link and are oblivious to the breach of ethics involved in failing to disclose. ALL affiliate programs require you to disclose that you make money off of sales made after clicks. That’s common sense. Sorry. Read your affiliate’s ToS. Don’t agree to a company’s ToS without reading and understanding it…

If you’re concerned about this bug confusing you in the event that you actually do have a return buyer, when that notice is on legitimately there is a link to the previous orders and there you can see them. So you can always confirm if it is real or a bug.

It isn’t your gig that is the issue. It is the fact that you’re selling something that has dozens of thousands of sellers selling the exact same thing. That makes it almost impossible to sell and no amount of tweaking or greatness of quality changes the impact of supply and demand. I don’t understand why people don’t read other gig advice before asking for some. Why do I have to keep giving the same advice over and over? I don’t understand why sellers don’t research their competition and then wonder why they aren’t successful. Stop thinking your gig is what determines your sales. It is also other people’s gigs and the demand in general. Research.

I am pretty sure people can order up to 20 gig multiples. In my case, the most I had was an order with 10 gig multiples. With the standard deadline… This issue is very serious and Fiverr needs to address it right now. Thanks for letting me know. It’s a major, bizarre flaw! Do you get this a lot?

Wow it’s disturbing that ordering that many multiples is even possible! We can set how many orders we can have our queue, so why can’t we set how many multiples in our queue? It’s weird to me. I also think there should be conditional logic, in other words, options for orders-in-process would vary depending on what we ordered/programmed into our gig. Like if 3 multiples were selected, the “Express Delivery” option would be blurred out – or whatever we’d programmed. There are plenty of circumstances that make this necessary.

Whoa! That’s incredible. And it’s so interesting that the demand for something is so spread out. Most of my orders are from the U.S., I think because the U.S. is most engaged with the types of goals I support people with.

Great idea. It is intense on the eyes and we shouldn’t have to rely on external apps to address this.

And this is why several sites do not allow Fiverr links at all Yep. I really wish Twitter would ban Fiverr links.

That’s a great point. If a seller is selling something people truly want and doesn’t have a massive competition, they don’t need to market themselves. People use marketing to try to compensate for supply exceeding demand and it isn’t going to work. Notice that every single seller who asks me for a gig marketing trick or complains about not getting a sale is superfluous in their market. They’re trying to sell something that has like 60K gigs selling the same thing.

Haha I have all the secrets you know? This is people’s problem. Instead of doing the work to learn and implement actual marketing, they want a magic formula that will put a sale in their lap. They want validation for this idea they have that posting their gig is marketing. It isn’t.

Stop looking for tricks. Start researching how marketing works. I’ve shared many, many times how to do this and there are loads of resources. I’m not going to keep repeating myself if people can’t be bothered to read. People would perform a lot better if they learned how marketing works instead of trying to find an easy shortcut. There isn’t one.

There is no best site for organic traffic.