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We can of course infer, but correlation does not mean causation. It may be likely, but there's no way to know.

We don't know if they do or not. We also don't really know if it's a "manual process", or quite automated by now. That's the point, we can't know, because it's not public. It's all speculation.

No, because it shouldn't be trivialised. If everyone who hits those metrics becomes TRS, everyone will eventually be TRS, since they are very easy to hit (the $ made is just a matter of time, not even quality). And if everyone is TRS, it will be meaningless. It should be more transparent, with clear metrics, however. At the moment I can't know if it's indeed manual, or some kind of arcane AI system, I can't know how it's decided, etc. For all I know there may be a number of "slots" per vertical, for example, probably % based - we can't know that. If that's the case, if all slots are filled, you'll never get it, until there are more sellers in your vertical, or demotions. This should be made explicit. As a TRS, I've seen many level 2 sellers that would, in my view, qualify (good portfolios, good gig videos and images, good copy, good communication, skilled at what they do, etc.) and yet don't get it. At the same time, I've seen plenty of TRS (and even some Pro's) that have questionable images, gigs, portfolios, videos, copy, etc. It's weird when a system should (imo) be both more strict and less strict at the same time, and that should change.

That's a nonsensical question. There's no "most popular color", it will always depend on purpose and application. The most popular color for a car will not be the most popular color for a house, or the more popular color for a dress or a pair of pants.

Someone asking "which is better, illustrator or photoshop" clearly shows they understand very little about either.

Very unlikely - if they are a normal person, that is. If they are absolutely horrible, then why are you working with them? You need to vet the clients before the first order, not after.

Send them an offer for the new work.

If you have request to order on, the order isn't even started, so it's not in purgatory, it isn't there. Buyers can't place orders at all, you send the custom offer once you have all needed info. If you allow buyers to order from your page without contacting you, then yes, if they place an order and don't supply any info, there's nothing you can do.

Yes, what I'm saying is that if you have request to order active, you can simply not start any order until you have all the needed instructions/assets, and thereby never run into that problem again. A buyer who has an history of not responding to sellers and poor reviews is a buyer you should choose not to work with, the risk isn't worth it.

Request to order, solves all those problems.

Yes, and I don't want to go to, or work at, Burger King. Very valuable, not for me.

The app already has a dark mode. On the web, you can always use an extension.

Exactly. That's called a food court, and it's a great invention. Caters to more public. That's part of my point, actually - I don't want Fiverr to be (just) a burger joint. Way too low value. More options = options at different values.

Options = good. You don't want it, great. It should still be an option. Certain tasks work much better as retainers our hourly (these two aren't even the same thing). I want the option to tell a client - hire me for x amount of time for y. That would be great for me, personally. As for the person who is good getting paid less for doing it faster... Not at all. That's why my hourly rate is much higher than the hourly rate of someone who's slower than me.

No way to efficiently do that on Fiverr, unfortunately. The platform desperately needs hourly/retainer deals, but they simply do not implement them.

A lot of people don't seem to understand what impressions and clicks even mean.

Lots of impressions and no clicks = your gig is not appealing. People see it, and are not interested in your service.

Sure, that also applies to me for video, I don't quote for duration. But that's irrelevant to the point being made about charging x for y seconds. Fiverr wants to push that, but that pricing strategy doesn't apply to all gigs, so I just have request to order on everything, and every order I make is a custom offer. I have to set the gig to display x for y, but the price will be discussed with the client according to the project details, the display prices are just ballpark values for typical projects. There's no downside for you in that case. The buyer can either look at the gig, read everything, and purchase what makes sense and is the best deal for them, or they can overpay because they didn't even take the time to understand what they were buying. If, as a buyer, I go to a gig that sells 30 seconds for $100 as the basic package, and 3 minutes for $300 as the premium, if I purchase 6 basic packages for a 3 minute song instead of 1 premium package for the exact same thing, that's entirely my fault and responsibility. I'm just paying the tax for not reading things properly (which is quite fair, since buyers that don't read things are way more risky in several ways, so they should indeed pay more). This also doesn't apply if you have request to order on and sell through custom offers. Buyer checks your gig, sends you a message saying "I want a 3 minute song", and you send them a $300 custom offer.

Not necessarily, since you can charge $100 for 30 seconds, but $300 for 3 minutes. The increase in price usually isn't linear with time, the more minutes you buy the less each minute should cost.

Of course, that's not what a strong following is. I don't know anyone who has 100k family and friends lol

The one in which you have a strong following. If you don't have that, any of them will be useless.

There isn't an easy answer. It's a combination of a lot of factors, many of which aren't public. Buyer satisfaction score is a big one, relevancy for the buyer, etc. There are also incentives for new gigs, with next to no reviews, to temporarily up their placement to get them started, etc. The point is - there is nothing you can do to "appear on the top page" other than offering the best gig you can, and work towards it. A "top page" doesn't even exist - the gigs that appear first are rotating, and will depend on the user who is doing the search. It's not a static page with always the same gigs on top. If Fiverr considers your gig the best match for what a certain buyer is searching for, it will appear on the first page. If it doesn't, it won't. It's not about any tricks, any "seo", etc. If it were, everyone would be doing it anyway and it wouldn't work either.

Ah yes, buyers looking for "TRANSITION". Sounds legit.

That's an issue Fiverr has by design for certain types of work - the inability to charge upfront for certain services, in a way that can't be charged back, is a major problem. I'd suggest you move away from offering any service where you need to pay for things on your end, specially before an order completes and the funds clear (even though that isn't even enough to guarantee anything, as we see here), or you'll always be taking all the risk.

There are none.