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Well, that's great. I want to turn away those clients. Given the way the system works, the mentality of "I want to get as many clients as possible" is extremely dangerous. You only want the good, patient, right ones. If a client goes away because I don't reply in an hour, that's a client I don't want to have. That's a client that is shopping around, looking for the bargain, or is entitled and needs attention now. I don't want those.

I don't feel this. I have 24 hours to answer messages.

You don't need to. You can just refuse to work with them. I've been turning down buyers left and right lately.

Yes - refuse clients. Which is what these new rules will force people to do more and more. Any minuscule red flag? Refuse. Client is not incredibly impressed with your work and your prices? Refuse. Client doesn't understand the platform? Refuse. Client is in any way less than 100% nice? Refuse. It is the only way.

That's an extremely long way to say "yes".

Maybe so. The company (and its people) is clearly turkish though, which makes an account representing them state location as USA at least misleading imo.

That's not what your website says - it claims to be in two places at once.

UW seems to be great for established sellers with regular clients and long term projects. The successful people there don't have to bid at all, therefore they don't need to pay for connects, and get 10% commission on ongoing work (which is something that doesn't even exist on Fiverr, retainers and hourly billing). Sounds like a dream to me. It's absolute garbage to start from scratch though.

You'd be surprised. Unless you're in a low value vertical (in which case, what's the point? Do something else), there's buyers for every price point. There are people who won't buy from someone too cheap. Those are the clients you want.

Stop doing that, that's part of the problem. Not only you're being underpaid, you're actively devaluing your entire vertical.

This doesn't work, and can't be implemented. If I know an order impacted the score negatively, I know which buyer impacted the score negatively. Not sure what you're trying to say here. Hell, I have a "strong negative impact" on customer satisfaction in one of my gigs (still at 9 score, somehow), and I know exactly which client is responsible for that lol.

Same thing happened to us. Luckily the buyer noticed his mistake and went to CS to correct the rating. Our Success Manager told us a massive number of buyers were opening tickets with CS to correct their ratings ever since this new system was implemented.

Well, you already knew this was going to happen... and already know what the outcome will be

That is true, but it's not a nice look when there's a clear cherry picking of what to answer. I've asked several questions, in several threads, over a long time period, and I never get a reply. In the meanwhile, the softballs lobbed by meksells get replies right away. That's not cool. I understand if they don't have an answer - but then say just that. "Hey, sorry, but I don't know the answers to that, I'll try to see if I can find them". That's the bare minimum.

That won't matter. Price has dropped over 90% from the top, nothing changed. Stock price only matters in a very long timeframe, specially for the kind of business Fiverr is - these new "tech" startups are expected to burn cash for a long time, just look at uber, etc. Personally I hope it goes up a bit in the short term, so I can exit my position at break even, at least.

Relatively is pulling a ton of weight there.

Quality troll. Also, that must be one of the most unique profiles I've ever seen.

Request to order on. I've been doing this for a long time - I only send an offer once I have ALL requirements. I don't accept any files after an order starts, and make that abundantly clear prior to sending the offer. This means I never have any disputes, or cancelations due to requirements missing, etc. Seems to have paid off in my score.

Ok, that's bizarre. Fiverr's choice gigs should be selected based on buyer satisfaction. It makes no sense to promote a gig that is internally scored at 4. @Kesha, how can something like this happen?

Do you mean a gig that is showing a success score of 4 is tagged as Fiverr's choice? That would be... very weird.

Fiverr Neo is devoid of personality to a scary degree, even by chatbot standards. Even neutered chat gpt has more edge.

@eduardoquiles Man, you realize this gig breaks terms of service, right? Before worrying about success score, if I were you I would be worrying about getting an account ban.

@emmaki, a Fiverr agent? Thanks for the laugh!

This is not true, if anything I feel the opposite. I'm in video editing, which has much more moving parts than nearly any other vertical, including graphics design. I have a 10, and I feel it's easier to get and maintain that, since we can show the client what we've done, and sound impressive doing so - because we can go over a ton of details. Something like a voice over artist can just say "We recorded your script, and did it in a certain tone..." and that's it. The more steps your activity has (in the case of video we have sound design, color, editing, footage selection, titling, motion graphics, keying and compositing, etc. etc.), the more you can justify your work, and potentially look better value to the client.

Only if they have a ton of gigs. I can have up to 30, have 9 at the moment, and honestly I could do with fewer. Since you can't have different gigs offering the same service, to offer 20 gigs you need to be able to do 20 different services. I always suspect anyone who claims to be able to do 20 different things professionally. I've seen a lot of profiles offering the same thing 10 times, with slight title variations. I've seen people offering every service under the sun - I'll do logo design, websites, translations, horoscopes, video, music, nutrition plans. Makes your profile look like a flea market.