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Really? You'll hire someone and give them access to your Fiverr account? No way I would ever do that. I'm not even sure that's allowed according to TOS, but even if it is, nobody is getting my login.

I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm saying they are not in the "right". It's not their "right". It's a freelancer's "right" to be paid for work done. That doesn't mean it will always happen - It's just that any system can be abused.

After they accepted the delivery? No, it's not.

That will depend on your vertical, the assets you have, the skills you have, how you want to position yourself, etc. There's no simple answer.

this is the type of thing that makes users not trust the platform. Either it will be or it won't - this is a career for many people, so they need absolutes, not maybes. I never activated that feature, and I still won't, there's no reason to risk it. Even if they claimed "it won't", I don't know if it can be trusted or not. We need transparent systems, with transparent metrics, otherwise we can't know what affects us and what doesn't, regardless of what's said. When I want to take some time off, I just need to keep replying to messages once a day, with request to order on.

It's a funnel, all the steps lead to a sale. The point is, I think, a good gig image is something that the seller has control over and can easily change to improve one step of the funnel, therefore increasing sales. Other things that increase sales (BSR, actually having marketable skills, etc.) can't be improved with a "tip" lol. Of course it won't work by itself, if all the other steps are not well implemented.

Will depend on the profile of course, but can be one of the biggest (that a seller has any control over). Depending on the vertical, converting impressions into clicks can be the bottleneck. There is no "biggest factor", it will always depend. The greatest gig in the world with no impressions will get no sales, doesn't matter how good the seller is. A gig with a ton of impressions but no clicks, idem. A gig with clicks but that doesn't convert them, same. So the biggest factor for a certain gig/seller can be at different points, depending on what the issue is, on where he loses them. The gig image can help improve one of those points substantially.

Focusing on gig appearance is far from bad advice. Gig images (and videos) are very important in converting impressions to clicks (probably the key factor actually), so yes, having attractive gig images is a major factor in getting orders (of course then the gig has to convert after it's clicked, but if you don't get clicks you won't get any sales either way). That user is far from qualified to be giving advice if they have no sales in over a year, but at least they're not giving wrong or harmful advice (like the online 24/7 crowd, spamming the forums, etc.).

The founders and CEO / investors. No one became a billionaire for being a seller on Fiverr.

It's worse than that. The private feedback has a field for "value for money". If you are working with someone that accepts your price but isn't happy with it, you're running a huge risk. I want my clients to be enthusiastic about the value for money, otherwise it's just harming my business. It shouldn't be this way, to be honest - negotiation has a place in business, and sometimes a client can feel like the value for money was just "ok", and that should be "ok", but the way the private feedback is implemented is extremely punishing, so you can't take risks. Client accepts the price but you feel they think it's too high? Better to refuse to work with them anyway - otherwise you're running the risk of lower BSR, and that will impact your future sales. This is particularly relevant if you're on the higher end in terms of pricing. Some people charge $10 per hour for the same thing others charge $20 or $100, and the final result can be very subjective in terms of the ever elusive "quality" - it's just that different people value their time differently. That's ok.

.pages are legitimate documents, made with Apple Pages. I have the opposite issue (I'm on a Mac and use Pages, and while it can open word documents, they can be improperly formatted), so what I do (and request from my clients) is to always use .pdf for documents, as that's the proper way to exchange them and be system and application agnostic. The reason why there was a 3kb file included as well probably has to do with you seeing it under a different OS (I'm assuming you're on windows). There are files that are invisible in windows, and on Mac OS (they store information like icons, viewing preferences for the folder, etc.), and when you transfer a folder to the other OS they become visible. They are not harmful in any way, and can be deleted.

Wow, worse than I thought. I can do so much better than this. And they're in video editing, just to rub salt in the wound.

Who's that? Is there a link? I'm starting to think I should create an Udemy course on Fiverr myself. If those people can sell, I should be a millionaire.

And where exactly did you read that? I report every single one of those messages as spam. Absolutely tired of people begging me for work. Newsflash - if I need to offload work, I'll look for sellers and contact them to hire them. I don't need beggars contacting me.

LOL, WHAT.

If you're a serious seller, why would you work 10 hours for free? If you did what was agreed, it's the client's problem, not yours. You worked, you should get paid. Your "solution" is no solution - it's totally buyer centric and doesn't protect a serious seller in any way.

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.