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Yeah, I've seen plenty of people who claim to speak Portuguese and let's just say I'm very suspicious.

I'm not a fish (literally, this time), so I'm not gonna take the bait. I've nothing else to add to that discussion, @charlsmcfarlane is right.

I didn't call any individual a cockroach. I called getting way too many people advertising things they can't offer, tricking buyers, etc. regardless of the opportunities they did have or did not have, a cockroach situation. Which it is. It's a figure of speech. Symbolism.

That says more about you than about me, I didn't refer to any of that. Regardless of where they're from, and any other factors, someone who says they can do X and can't, and says they can speak X and can't, is a negative for the platform. If there are millions of such people, it's indeed like a mess we don't need.

This is yet another thing. I've seen a very reputable video editor, that claims to be this and that, TRS, on editors forums looking to outsource the work for pennies on the dollar to desperate editors. That's not what their selling their clients. Their delivery quality is incredibly inconsistent due to that - because of course it is. But hey, they sell a lot.

Fiverr with the new success score:

It's a fact that there are a lot of people who are selling things they are unqualified for. There are a lot of people who lie about their skills, and their language and location. That's not a "private remark", it's a fact. As for the cockroaches, that's a commonly used expression to refer to something that reproduces quickly, and is hard to get rid off. I could have gone with rabbits, I suppose, but those are easier to eliminate. I'm obviously not literally calling any individual a cockroach.

There are entire verticals on the website that are straight up scams. There are sellers on the website that claim to speak english and can't string together a coherent sentence. Is saying this an insult? Is saying this "hate"? These people actively harm the platform. I've had buyers complain to me about them, and how their experience made them distrust Fiverr.

Facts are not insults.

It says promoted by their name.

It's not about being elitist - it's just because Pro and TRS are the only manually vetted groups. If every seller on the platform was manually vetted, then this system I proposed should apply to everyone. But it's prohibitively expensive to vet everyone, there's just too many people. And this system, to work properly, should only apply to vetted sellers, as the quantity of scammers and non serious sellers is too damn high.

That's not the point. The point is that you can't justify spending money on vetting a $5 order. It makes no financial sense. Those orders are worthless. It makes sense for Fiverr to spend human resources on a $2500 order - they're making $500+ fees on it, they can pay for it and still be in profit. They can't spend any human resources on a $5 order - they'd run at a loss.

Because it's a numbers game. This will cost money. Can't have this apply to millions of sellers, it's just impossible. It makes sense to have this apply to people who have already been vetted as serious. I suppose this could apply to order value instead, only for orders above $1000, for example. But obviously you can't have mediators on $5 orders, that makes no sense.

But seriously - not even a week ago, I simply said no to a $2500 order, because I wasn't 100% confident it would have 0 hiccups. They were pressed on time, they didn't go with anyone else. Fiverr lost $500 + fees. On one order.

I'm suggesting giving power back to serious sellers. Pro sellers should be able to contest reviews, when they're patently false. There should be a mediation service, where a third party who actually understands the vertical, looks into the order, and sees if it was delivered according to what was agreed or not. If it was, remove any review aimed simply at screwing the seller over. If buyer asks for X, and I deliver X, and the buyer leaves a 1 star review, that should be removed. It's misleading. The buyer is wrong. End of.

True. I said no to a lot of money plenty of times. The risk is not worth it. I lose, Fiverr loses. Oh well - if they wanted to make more money with my commissions, make it less risky for me. I'm willing to take almost anyone as a client if I'm dealing with them directly - they pay upfront, I do the work, if they don't like it, that's their problem. It's how businesses work in real life - sometimes you pay for something and you don't like it - and you don't get to destroy the business over it. But here? No, thanks.

It means you will be out of the levels system. No level.

It's very hard to be customer friendly if the platform is not seller friendly. The entire idea here is sell x for y. Fixed project, fixed cost. So it has to be fixed - anything that goes over what's initially agreed, no matter how small, is eating into your bottom line.

You don't even know how to count lmao

"Thank you for your interest, but that's not the way we work. We need all assets and information prior to starting the order, any new information is a change of scope, and not covered by a revision. Best of luck with the project". The moment Fiverr allows me to charge by the hour, and changes the revision system completely, I'll be willing to change my strategy. As things stand, on fixed priced projects, you can't allow that.

The category where sellers should have known about all these new features beforehand, yet they're all surprised by them.

Are you looking to marry 40 people?

I've worked for Fiverr itself several times. They asked for revisions. But hey, another factor that we've basically predicted. We have been offering a single revision for the longest time, and try as much as possible to avoid revisions (that ties into demanding all the information upfront, not accepting new instructions once the order is open, etc.). That has also worked well for us, apparently. I find it very funny that we've basically predicted all this, and we work in video editing. Maybe we should work in the psychic category, we seem to be quite better than them at their own game.

Can you provide proof of this? That's very big if true. Btw, your gig is breaking terms of service. You have a link to your website, which has your contact on it. You can't have that.