visualstudios

As always, Bukowski said it best: "Almost competition the higher you climbthe greater the pressure.those who manage toendurelearnthat the distancebetween thetop and thebottomisobscenelygreat.and those whosucceedknowthis secret:there isn'tone."

What a great way of saying fake it till you make it. And after you make it, you better keep faking it. Everything can me unmade. For real though - fake it till you make it works. It's the only thing that works. But you need to fake it well. It's a skill like any other. The fake must be indistinguishable from the real, that is the only true secret - there is no real. Only better and worse fakes.

By the way, not only will you not be TRS, you will be banned for using a fake profile picture.

Who have you mailed? Saying what? That doesn't make any sense. I became TRS pretty fast, and didn't need to e-mail anyone about it.

The automatic message? I disabled that. I found that most people just stopped responding after it. I'd rather message them myself depending on what they say.

I have several quick messages set up, and I use the one appropriate to what the buyer opens with. Alternatively, I write an appropriate response if none of them fit.

This is demonstrably false.

On a $35 order, you'll make $28.

So will you now understand staying online makes no difference? Or will you insist on something that clearly doesn't work?

That's a great use case for chat gpt, actually. Not that it would help you or people like you, but that you wouldn't bore people with your inane drivel. The machine can't get bored.

Neither. The best way is to set up a good gig and wait.

Design and art are different - what I said applies to design, art is another animal entirely. Not to mention the art world is highly speculative in terms of valuation. Perfect money laundry vehicle, since value is inherently subjective!

A client can always choose someone else with briefs or buyer requests anyway. Moot point. If you want to pitch, there are a lot of better platforms for that. The good thing about Fiverr is precisely not having to pitch.

Hmm, that's not a good look. I've seen this happen quite a bit, actually. Some TRS blatantly lying about top clients, portfolio, with bad gig images/videos/copy... It diminishes the badge.

Love it! Bauhaus for the win!

They haven't, just like buyer requests were never the primary way of connecting buyers and sellers. The primary way was, is, and will be buyers clicking on your gigs and contacting you.

You don't. "Gig ranks" don't exist.

It's a matter of framing. They wouldn't be "punished". They are paying 20% now, and would pay 20% then. They would lose nothing. That's not a punishment, that's staying as they are. The high ticket seller would be rewarded. It's different. But again, I'd be ok with a sliding scale on monthly revenue as well, doesn't have to be per order.

It applies to value, doesn't have to be a returning client. If I charge $5000 for a first time client, I would automatically fall under the lower commission. Doesn't matter if it's a one time thing. What matters is the total order value. It is the norm for high ticket sales. That's the thing, all my clients spend many hundreds or thousands, even if it's one time only. So it is the norm, not a specific use case.

Disagree. High price people deserve to make more, because they are more high value. That's the point. It costs the same, for Fiverr, to get a client to spend $5 or $5000, in terms of server costs, order support, marketing, etc. Yet the one selling for $5000 is paying $1000 in Fiverr costs, and the $5 seller is paying $1. 1000 orders means more server costs, more customer support, more marketing, etc. Yet they pay the same as the guy who makes the same in 1 order, which means way less expenses for Fiverr. Let's say both need to go to CS in 1 out of every 10 orders. Both make $5000 a month. The $5000 seller will occupy CS time once every 10 months. The $5 seller will occupy CS 100 times a month. CS costs money. The $5 seller is spending 1000 times more in server costs (chat, file transfers from clients, deliveries, etc.). Fiverr is making more money on the higher ticket sellers, assuming overall sales are the same, after you deduct their expenses with both. Not to mention the number of issues is WAY higher on low ticket sellers than high ticket sellers. You should want to actively disincentivize low prices, as a platform. Hell, one of the metrics Fiverr always highlights on their quarterly reports is spend per buyer. Clearly they want that number to be as high as possible. Therefore, they'd rather have higher priced gigs than lower priced gigs. It's better for them. That should be rewarded. There's a reason other services (upwo...) use a sliding scale commission. The more you make, the less % you pay.

1 - You don't need to be a cog to reply within 24 hours. You can reply anything, it takes 10 seconds - go into the conversation, say "I'll get back to you soon", done. This is not a big deal. 2- Agreed, should be on a sliding scale like other marketplaces. 20% on $5 is alright, on $5000 is way too much. Fiverr is spending the same on both, in effect high price sellers are subsidising low value sellers. This is unfair. 3 - Sure, there's no good reason for such long waiting periods. 4 - This makes no sense, worldwide market means different timezones. No way to make that work. 5 - There could be an option for open ended orders, yes. Better yet, options for hourly rates instead of fixed price projects. 6 - Agreed. 7 - Depends on the reason. You can't allow a seller to cancel for any reason, that's highly abusable. An order is a contract, buyers have deadlines, they need to know they can trust the system to deliver what they ordered. If anyone could cancel with no consequence, buyers would be way more hesitant to buy important things. That would be bad for the marketplace. 8 - You can take a vacation whenever you want, just stop accepting orders. Don't need a specific mode for that.

The client pays the moment they place the order, not after delivery, not when the order is complete. When the client pays is one thing, when you get the money is another.

Your problem is that you don't speak English properly. And that's the problem with the majority of sellers who claim to have communication issues.

I think it was a month or two after hitting the stats, although I'm not certain.

Yeah, I call that being smart.