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helloscoopz

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  1. It is not helpful at all if the seller's other performance parameters are crap. The only benefit I see being online is you can get filtered in when a buyer search with online seller filter on. but that doesn't guarantee you sales in any means as I said if other standards are not met.

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  2. 1 hour ago, mohasinkabir said:

    i said it my client but he send me zoom meeting link . Although i refuesd it .At that situation, is affect my account?

    No, It might effect on the buyer's account not yours.

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  3. Having more revisions usually does not impact on your rankings, revisions are meant to happen in orders because no seller will be 100% perfect to deliver exactly what buyer asking for in the first glance. That aside, your problem might be a different thing. I myself have also experienced such rank reduction with nothing bad happening on my account so I assume that's all because how search algorithm works.

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  4. Yes I had a bad customer again (!!) too Got a warning and demoted to Level 1.

    I don’t think someone is checking it manually I just think now it’s just a bot that pop TOS if he catches some keywords. If someone would read my conversations I don’t think he would get me a warning and demotion because clearly you can see the customer is really a scammer and they still canceled the order. Lost the money. Demoted to level 1 and this is my second warning. I’m just pissed about them they don’t protect the sellers at all!!

    I just think now it’s just a bot that pop TOS if he catches some keywords

    Contact support and explain your situation. Usually warnings are sent by a support or trust and safety agent, but if you feel that isn’t the case, and the warning is system generated, go ahead and ask help from support. It might be a mistake.

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  5. Why would you report someone just because they asked for a higher price?

    Because it is against Fiverr’s TOS to do bait-and-switch marketing, as stated in @imagination7413’s post. As someone who has bought a lot on Fiverr, this is something that I have found that sellers do a lot, and it’s incredibly annoying. I agree with the OP on that.

    That being said, the problem can be mitigated by not contacting sellers who offer services at prices that are too good to be true. They often turn out to be exactly that.

    the problem can be mitigated by not contacting sellers who offer services at prices that are too good to be true. They often turn out to be exactly that.

    I agree with this. but don’t forget the feature of creating custom offers is there for sellers to create offers tailored for the requirement of the buyer, If everything can be done as the price showed in the gig packages Fiverr would’ve not added such a feature.

    That’s why I said:

    Sellers can’t package everything they can do into only 3 packages. what they do is common packages for common requirements. Was your requirement common enough to fall into a package that the seller offered? If so you may think of reporting.

    If the requirement belongs to the package, yes seller should not ask for more. If the requirement is too simple or too complex, the price can be low or high than displayed in the gig package. that wouldn’t be a ToS violation and that’s what I talked about. Just because the seller asked more doesn’t mean it’s a ToS violation. There are other facts to be added in according for it to be a ToS violation.

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    which report option would you recommend?

    which report option would you recommend?

    Why would you report someone just because they asked for a higher price? It’s a right of the seller to ask whatever they wants, and it’s your right to find someone else if you don’t find a good rate from a seller. sellers can’t package everything they can do into only 3 packages. what they do is common packages for common requirements. Was your requirement common enough to fall into a package that the seller offered? If so you may think of reporting.

    me contacting 20 sellers to find one thats honest is a waste of my time

    If you think this platform is that terrible, and sellers are that terrible, and it wastes your time., why would you waste more of your time posting on the forum and stuff? you could move on to another platform where you have good prices.

    This is what I find, people come here expecting to get their work done for the cheapest possible. (I mean most of the buyers) that’s how Fiverr became famous. Like, get your work done for $5. but now things are different here. so when buyers don’t get the price they’re expecting they get mad. but what they don’t realize is that they’re already getting a massive discount compared to other freelance platforms.

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  7. Sometimes I ask for 2x or even 3x the price from my highest package since I do software developments and I can’t be done packaging what I could offer, the packages I have is are for most common tasks. So If you’re trying to do a custom offer it all depends on the complexity of the project. If the seller’s quote does not align within your budget you may ask for a negotiation if the seller doesn’t seems to go low, you have total freedom to find some other seller who offers the same service. 🙂

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  8. Sounds like a common Idiot.

    In Hebrew we have a quote saying: “He thinks the sun is rising from his ass” :rofl:

    I had amazing customers lately but my last customer oh man he was awful

    He tried to scam me clicked on revision like a 100 times then ask for a cancellation saying I’m a scammer, Giving fake creative like I sent it as evidence and for last accusing me that I’m a hacker saying I hacked his computer 😆 Say Whaaaaaat???

    I tried opening a cs ticket through my phone but I got messages in between so I wrote for a lot of time (and English is not my native) writing writing… than suddenly a call I accidentally clicked the back button and all my long post disappeared.

    I am still smiling… Silly Me… Good old Murphy’s Law.

    Sounds like a common Idiot.

    It really is, some of these people think that they can do everything with their “Money”. They think like people they hire from developing countries should serve them like slaves. Maybe they’re thinking like just because we work within a comparatively low budget, we are worthless. I was very angry when he was saying like they’re the best people and we’re trash. (he didn’t say this exactly, but that was the sound) If you’re from a good wealthy country, you must be proud of it. and should not use that as a tool to take down other people who’re not. We all have the same rights as people.

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  9. I’m sorry you had this experience.I would have blocked and reported him as soon as he persisted with contacting me off the platform and I would have blocked him from my social media accounts too. Apart from anything else, it’s an invasion of privacy. Consider this a hard lesson learned and be careful with this in future. It’s against TOS to communicate outside of the platform unless it’s absolutely necessary for the order to be carried out, don’t risk your entire profile being deleted.

    Yeah I know its absolutely against the ToS to communicate off of the platform. but again I shared no contact info on the platform too. They found me on Instagram and they’re the one who contacted me. so its basically an outside-of-fiverr work I just make the order on Fiverr to keep my payments in a good way. (which was a fault of mine which I will never do again for an outside-of-fiverr work.) I could’ve use PayPal for services or something like that, but I didn’t thought too much. anyways Thanks for your reply @leannelrivers 😇

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  10. Today I had this bad experience I just thought of posting here. A guy came in and messaged me asking me to contact him over telegram.

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    So as usual I did use my saved response. and then onwards he was asking to do it few times. I kept saying no. I saw him as a legit buyer so I didn’t block him. I thought well could have an order from him. a while later I got a message from Instagram. obviously, he found my social profiles on google searching for my Fiverr username, (that’s the username I’ve used in almost all of my social profiles) so at that point, I chat him on Instagram and he took me to their telegram group. It was a huge project there were like 6 people in that group which I was assigned to. but one guy was the one I was talking to. after getting the entire requirement we wanted to order so I asked him to contact me on Fiverr and sent my gig link. because the first guy who contacted me on Fiverr is not this guy.

    Then he placed the order and everything went well. I asked 2 days to deliver that task. so within the first day (yesterday), I did almost everything. and I demo it to them and they were very happy. however there were things left to do, but the basic structure of logic was all in place. so I went to sleep that day. however, they tested it at midnight and found a bug while I’m sleeping. (it’s a no brainer understanding that bugs can happen on any software development especially in test phases) when I woke up I had like 5 msgs on Fiverr and 30 msgs on Telegram yelling at me. I tried to point out that bugs can happen and their obviousness.

    And then he wants me to have a call and I jumped in. and he started to be ruder and to yell at me. he even said in our countries we don’t do like this. asked did you ever work with people from the UK USA Australia (well of course I did lmao) and said we’re not like people in India and form your country (Sri Laka) and stuff. basically, his point was due to us being a 3rd world country, we have to be like slaves and work for them and beg for them.

    Well at that very moment I pissed off and I wanted to cancel this s*** order and refund him. I’m not saying I was nice to him. I wasn’t. why would I still be nice to him while he’s yelling at me for a bug in a test phase? so I yelled back and said I want this order to be canceled and refund him. and I hang up the call and I removed all the access from the things I did.

    then he said this,
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    lmao, he suddenly became the nicest person on the planet. because he knew that if I cancel this order no one will be able to do this entire thing within his deadline.

    And he kept asking to take his apology and to finish the thing so we can be done. I was convinced. because if I cancel this order it will kill my completion rate as well. so I did and delivered. then he accepted the order and this was his review:

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    wait, what? I canceled the order? how In the world did you write a review on a canceled order? :rofl: well anyways I responded with this:
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    That was the story.

    My learnings: If someone contacts you off of the platform doesn’t matter they contacted you on Fiverr first, do that order off of the platform in a way whatever you feel safe about your payments. So they can’t mess with your reviews, completion rates, and stuff regardless the order goes all good or not. Probably he reported me too. maybe he might open a support ticket asking to kill me too :rofl: just kidding. but possible :sweat_smile:

    Conclusion: This guy was the problem. It was a crypto project and they seem like they’re on a busy schedule they might be in a hard time. but I don’t deserve to get yelled at or blamed because of their stress and neither my mother country. I know I’m not the nicest person. but I still manage to be nice to the people who treat me nice no matter how wrong they’re. Anyways at least I got my payment cleared for what I worked for a whole day. so it’s not that bad. 🙂

    What do you think? Add your comments below, I would like to correct myself for the future If I was wrong at any point here.

    Thank you everyone!

    UPDATE:

    Today (3 days later) I suddenly got this on fiverr.

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    And this:

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    Got my order completion rate reduced.
    That person got my work for free.
    Wasted a full working day for nothing.
    Got a 1-star review on my new gig which ruined its overall rating.
    That gig went down in the search due to the cancellation.
    More importantly, got a warning on my account.

    Wow, what an achievement. Good job myself, good job. 😂

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  11. Indeed! Love the suggestion. In the meantime, you might try the Google Chrome addon for PC to force a dark mode on Fiverr and other websites. It works well with some websites, but not all, so you just have to test. Here it is:

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    Dark Mode

    A global dark theme for the web

    I don’t really recommend this extension for anyone, it seems really innocent but it has all the access to read and change the data on the site you’re currently on or at least the site you’re visiting as it clearly mentions. I know that to enable dark mode feature that developer should have both the read and write permission but they don’t state that they use that particular access ONLY to enable that dark mode feature. 😉

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    Not only this one, but most of the extensions which are there under unknown brand names or unknown developers are doing this stuff while showcasing their non-profit work.

    I highly recommend not to use this kind of an extension (or any extension) on a market place like Fiverr if you wish to keep your stuff safe. 🙂

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  12. I strongly disagree with this, no one SHOULD NOT spam people to place orders on gigs which will end up by those people put reports on your profile.

    And you’d be right to disagree. 🙂

    Freaky was being a little sarcastic. That’s why at the end of his post he said we should invert his advice.

    That’s why at the end of his post he said we should invert his advice.

    Oh yeah, I didn’t see that actually was bit hurry to put the comment. anyways I took down my comment. 🙂

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  13. I think fiverr itself is already doing a good job in marketing to drive traffic to the platform so I don’t see any necessity of promoting gigs on different sites, If you really want to do so, you may share your gigs on some social media group where you think potential clients are. I’m not sure that way you gain any boost because that way we’re showing our gigs to people who has no need of that service on that particular time probably, so they will come to your gig and just go away. I think that’s not good for your gig too, because what fiverr system sees is that your gigs are getting views but having no orders which may affect on your gig ranking too.

    In addition to that, you may read fiverr terms of service to aware about the platforms they ask sellers not promote gigs on for an example google adsense.

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  14. Actually, Fiverr takes a 20% fee from the seller, buyers, as stated in the terms of service, pay US$2 for orders of up to US$40 and 5% for orders from US$40 up, so yes, they do as they must and it wouldn’t be fair to charge the sellers even more, seeing that 20% vs 5%.

    In case buyers wouldn’t be charged that 5% but sellers 25% instead, sellers would need to catch that in their pricing anyway, so it wouldn’t really make a difference for buyers.

    You don’t have to leave a tip, I left one for my last 2 orders because I was really happy with the delivery and the price the seller asked was very fair, so I don’t remember what exactly to click to not leave one because it’s quite a while that I didn’t leave a tip but I have also ordered before without leaving a tip, so it’s definitely possible, the site won’t force anyone to leave a tip …

    I agree with not charging a fee for tipping, however, we know that’s due to some sellers/buyers abusing the tipping function else to partly evade the fee for the actual service, but I really wish Fiverr could find a better way to handle that than to charge a fee on tips indeed.

    I agree with not charging a fee for tipping, however, we know that’s due to some sellers/buyers abusing the tipping function else to partly evade the fee for the actual service

    This is the exact reason why they apply fees on tips. It’s quite understandable.

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  15. Hello Dear Friends,

    This is Noor Ahmad Fazli, an Afghan resident. Since I am new on Fiverr, I need to know how and where to find and see relevant projects to my Gigs?

    my link: https://www.fiverr.com/fazliafghan?up_rollout=true

    Thanks

    I need to know how and where to find and see relevant projects to my Gigs?

    In Fiverr platform, sellers do not seek for projects (unless in buyer requests). Instead the buyer will seek the seller and give them the project. That’s why the seller has to create a gig where people can see the listed offers when they search what they want on Fiverr’s search box. So here, you don’t need to do anything in according to get orders other than creating a nice eye catching gig while offering a quality service for a better budget. 🙂

    Welcome to the Fiverr community. Happy Selling! 🥳

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