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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.

I can't speak for everyone, I'm sure there are better and worse sellers in Pro, as everywhere else, but Pro is a vetted category, needing manual approval by Fiverr, so the general level of professionalism is much much higher than the general platform. So, while being Pro means you will certainly be more skilled than the average seller, that doesn't mean there aren't level 1 or 2 sellers that are better professionals than some Pro sellers. The same logic applies to Top Rated Seller, btw.

You will always run into this kind of thing when you have a platform that allows you to make money with no barrier to entry. It did get worse during the pandemic though, when there was a ton of pressure on people to start working remote.

Yes, and Picasso is not just "better than most", Picasso is the go-to for "genius painter". You don't need to be Picasso to do very well for yourself. Hell, nobody can be Picasso, that's why he's Picasso lol

Then you'll be ahead of almost everybody. Just knowing if its good or bad is already enough for "most" lol

Any technical aspect can be learned. But that's not what matters most. The most important thing you can have, by far, is taste. And that can't really be taught effectively, imo. You either have the eye or not. Anyone can learn how software works. Anyone can learn and follow a set of rules. But good taste? That's priceless. And that's what will be hard to replicate with just computers. AI can do anything, but how can it decide what thing to do, or what to pick from the infinity of things it has done? That's where the value is. If you can look at anything and know "this looks good" and "this looks bad", and be right, you're already ahead of most. You don't even need to know anything design wise.

Lol what I mean, chatgpt actually exists, so there's that...

Yes, I don't. I know what copyright free means. Also you missed my point. I never said names can't start with Pro. It was a joke, because you're called pro_services000. Which is a dumb name. But has the advantage of, when you get banned, you can just move on to pro_services001, 002, etc. Again, it's a joke.

Using a fake photo is against terms of service. On the other hand, it was pretty smart of you to name yourself "pro_services000", that way when you get the inevitable ban that's coming to you, you can move to pro_services001, pro_services002, and so on.

I wouldn't worry about the Gecko losing its tail too much - I heard he has insurance!

Awesome, thanks!

I activated the request to order feature on all my gigs, and now I see a grey "request to order" button, but it's not clickable. However, that may be because I'm using my profile to look at my gig. Can anyone go to my gigs and see if they can press the button to request an order, and what happens if you can? For example, https://www.fiverr.com/visualstudios/edit-your-youtube-talking-head-video If you can't, then this is surely a bug? The request to order feature will result in a huge drop in contacts if it works like this.

How much does a polar bear weigh? Just enough to break the ice! Wanna get a drink?

Extra analytics and success manager are it for me. I already had fast clearance due to levels, the coupons are meh (I can always send custom offers at a lower price, I always quote per project, so a coupon doesn't make a lot of sense), I don't use the instant withdrawal, and promoted gigs seem to be very hit and miss.

I'd say it took me around a full day of editing to get the video done, starting with just the script and the v/o. For mine, definitely more than this, depending on the video. If it's just a collection of past work, it's pretty quick. If it's a custom made ad for that gig (as I have in several of mine), it can take several days to nail it down. But I'm a video editor, I don't expect everyone to do the same, obviously. At a certain point we're talking diminishing returns, and nobody can know everything. Just like with a graphic artist not being the best at writing gig copy, and hiring a copywriter to do that, it's the same thing with video. So I would expect videos from sellers in other categories to be weaker, or for those who want something professional to hire it out. Now, if we're talking about videos of sellers in the video editing category... then yeah. If those are bad, they better up their game quick.

It will show up as late, but it's not marked by the system as late. No you won't. Orders that become late in a revision do not harm your stats.

No they are not. Nobody said in this thread that briefs are the best thing ever. They are not, briefs are garbage. Just like buyer requests are garbage. Again - I get a TON of briefs. I don't want them. So I deactivated the feature, because it's just a time waster. Repeat after me - good clients and good deals do not come from buyer requests or briefs. Good clients will contact good sellers directly, you don't need to apply to anything.

I'm one of those TRS that gets sent a ton of briefs. Do you want them? I'll gladly give them to you, I had to deactivate them because they were always trash and were cluttering my notifications. Didn't get a single order from them.

Here you go:

I'm not Pro enough to solve this one, I'm afraid.