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Break down any order into multiple orders if you feel the need to do drafts, etc. Never deliver anything that is not a full delivery. That just opens you up to abuse.

Taking that number, the extra $10 is 250k. As I suspected, even over a year, won't make a dent in a 100M purchase.

I never pre-deliver, so I can't compare. Was it always like this, or is it new behaviour?

Idk if this even ties to that in any way, honestly. This is small change, I bet. Are there any public numbers of people subscribing to seller plus? If I had to hazard a guess, I would say the extra 10 bucks will probably be going towards paying for SM's and the like, since that has been a total s*itshow, tons of people on the program can't get calls or even e-mails, they don't have enough people. A lot of backlash because of that, people dropping out of the program, etc. They realized they needed more people, that means more costs, and they're passing the cost on. The extra 10 bucks per user could help to hire a few more support staff, that would make sense. On the other hand, it would also drop the number of subscribers, by making it more expensive, also helping to control the load on the existing staff. This makes sense. But for a $100M purchase... the extra $10 per subscriber is nothing.

It's a buyback for $100 million. If they get even 1/10 of that with these new fees, I'll be VERY surprised.

That's interesting. Well, as a shareholder (more like bagholder) I like this. Give me that sweet exit liquidity pls. On the other hand... they announce they are going to buy back 1/8th of their entire stock (100M when they're valued at 800M) and the stock is totally flat, just 0.10% up in afterhours? That ain't good, this should be an immediate spike.

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Btw, could you share that pdf, maybe?

What. WHAT. No, that is NEVER nice. I don't even believe what I'm seeing lmao

Nah, it's not old enough.

Never do this. Low budget clients are the most demanding, unreasonable, vengeful buyers you can get. It seems counter intuitive, but a buyer buying the same exact thing for 100 times the price will 99% of the time be much more understanding of issues, will readily accept to pay extra on top for things out of scope, etc. If they're paying pennies, they'll work you to the bone and never be satisfied. Just say no.

This does sound like an amazing opportunity - if it is what it seems. Namely, a way to be hired on retainer, or hourly, where the client pays us directly (not through a "gig"), so no reviews, no wait 7 days to clear, no commission, etc. That's basically what everything I've read on their documentation points to - this is not like Fiverr in any way, it's a directory to hire freelance talent directly, like if we were getting hired by clients outside the platform. If this is indeed the case, and if there is demand (if they can get enough clients)... this can be the best thing that has ever happened to Pro sellers. But as always, transparency is lacking.

But that doesn't make any sense, since clients can pick an option that says "hire now". That presumes there are rates set.

Also got the e-mail, but I have no idea what to do about it. I can't see my profile, I don't think I have an account in that platform (where are my log-in details?). I don't know what my rates are on there. This is all very confusing.

Nah, they don't really listen to us either.

Who knows. This was what they were predicting in 1899 for 100 years in the future. It's impossible to predict the future of technology past a certain point, and the rhythm with AI will be exponentially accelerated. Anything we predict here is highly likely to sound totally ridiculous in 20 years.

... so far In any case, AI is a different beast. We can make decisions about weapons, because weapons are not sentient. We can't make decisions about an intelligence that is higher than ours, that's nonsense - that intelligence will make better decisions than us.

Easier said than done. The same logic applies to nuclear weapons - we need them, because if we stop ourselves from making them, we will be at the mercy of those who don't. AI is the exact same thing. It's not enough to stop some from doing it, as long as someone does (and you can't stop everyone), it's smarter do have it for ourselves as well.

In that case, I wouldn't worry too much about it. I worry only because I have no idea what the future holds. And by future I mean into eternity.

Yes, that's a possibility. Transhumanism, just like we replaced the ancestral apes. Next step in evolution. Another is that we live free from work, watched over by machines of ever loving grace. Another is just straight up extinction.

It's not about being "awesome". It's about being unavoidable once we cross the singularity. If something is faster and cheaper, it will displace what isn't - doesn't matter if that is "good" or "bad", "moral" or "imoral". It just is what it is. AI can, potentially, kill billions. Doesn't matter. Nothing matters, really. Just efficiency.

Pretty much, yes. But that's the good ending, and for a minority. For the majority, the outcome can be far, far worse.

That's a very hard question to answer, and indeed it can be an existential threat to Fiverr, yes. I think they can survive by focusing on verticals / services that can't be replaced by AI, or that need a human touch. They can also try to pivot into an AI company themselves, I suppose, and offer the AI services directly, but i'm not very confident in their capability to do so (specially compared to AI juggernauts like openAI, etc.). But I bet that they are as scared of it as sellers are. But they can't just ignore it - if they chose to do that, and go with "human services only", if AI really takes off, nobody would ever want to buy what they can get for basically free from a machine. They would go under regardless.

It's like when we used to see gigs selling "I'll remove a background from your image for $5". Then it became "I'll remove the background from 100 images for $5". And now is... any phone will do it, natively, and instantaneously at the click of a button, using AI. So those gigs are irrelevant, and dead.