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Lol, that's pretty funny. Clearly the guy's english is very sus, but that one can be a very common typo, w is right next to e... Could happen to me tbh

Press x to doubt lol

GME yes. AMC is a terrible play. Also human, not an ape.

TRS is not a level like level 1 or level 2, metrics are not enough to be promoted to TRS. In your specific case, I'd look into the branding side. Your service may be great and you may have a lot of happy clients, but presentation is important. Your written english is a bit iffy, I'd probably look into doing something different for the gig videos, thumbnails, etc. Another thing to keep in mind is that it's also dependent on the rest of the marketplace. If there are already hundreds of top rated sellers in your vertical, Fiverr will be less likely to promote new ones.

Oh noes :( Oh well. I can always design a better logo. I can't design a better face!

To stay healthy? This:

This was the mistake. In a case like this, don't block them, leave a line of communication open. If we still wants to place a new order with you, he likely won't leave a bad review, otherwise you wont' want to work with him again. Btw, I checked the profile that left you a review. It's a fake profile, using a fake picture. If you have a success manager, get in touch with them. Otherwise try the support. I'm afraid blocking him may harm your position, but he's breaking Fiverr rules and is dishonest for sure. People like that shouldn't be allowed to leave reviews.

It really depends. Some people are indeed honest - they have $50 to spend, and they have no idea of pricing. All fair. But many know exactly what they're doing. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference, sometimes not so much. Now, I'm not rude to them, since that would be a strategic mistake, but I'll be much nicer to people who are nice to me.

I think there are degrees to this. I've gotten some ridiculous offers. One thing would be if they are asking for something that is not advertised, so they can't have any idea of price. But when a buyer asks for the exact thing you are offering at a 90% discount... I'm not really sure what they deserve to hear. At a certain point it's not a negotiation, it's just trolling and time wasting. If they ask it honestly, because they have no idea of the price, then sure. But a lot of them are not asking honestly. They are low balling aggressively on purpose.

That's just one indicator, it's not the entire thing. To be honest I'm much more inclined to just use this feature to instantly know what to engage and not to engage, than to just up prices. I think it's much more useful to not waste time with people under budget than the other way around. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, the "spent per gig" info is capped at $100+, which gives me no information to "upsell" at all, since all my gigs start above that price. So, even if I wanted to, I really couldn't use it to just match the prices the buyers are spending. However, it's useful information if I can see a buyer bought 10 gigs in my category for the average price of $10 previously. That is highly unlikely to be a client I'd want.

How? A seller can't close an order.

It's always up to the buyer how much they are willing to pay.

And this is why this pricing strategy applies specially for custom, creative work, since the outcome is much more unpredictable, risky and subjective in value. A bottle of water is a bottle of water. The same meal is the same meal at a restaurant, usually. It's mass produced, in a sense. The risk is lower, so insurance is lower.

Yes, but that's not what I mean by time in this context. What I mean is that having a certain task completed, even if you outsource it, costs you time. You need to find the right vendor. If he's not good, you are risking getting something you can't use, waste the time you spent placing that order and communicating your needs, and having to waste more time on top of that to get what you need. So, the higher your time is valued, the bigger risk you are running. So you should be prepared to pay more for risk management. Someone who values their time at $100 an hour, should be prepared to pay quite a bit more for something they want and takes them an hour to outsource (if it's guaranteed to fulfil their needs), than someone who values their time at $10 an hour - even if that "something" is exactly the same. Because even if the price of the service is 0, since they both took an hour of their time to get it done, the first guy is already spending $100, whereas the second is only spending $10. Insurance on $100 is more expensive than insurance on $10.

That can be tricky when pricing for value, though. The same product will provide different value for different people, and one of the factors to take into account when calculating that is how valuable time is for the client, for example. So if I see a buyer paying X for something that I know would take them 1 hour to produce (even if not directly, say they take an hour to find the right vendor), and another paying 2X, it may just be the case that the second buyer's hour is worth twice as much. So yes, in a sense you should charge people more if they spend more, because they've showed you what they price their time / services they're getting at (even if indirectly). It's not an all or nothing thing, of course, but it's great information to have in terms of pricing strategy. In a way it acts like a price anchor of sorts, which is always present in a negotiation in one way or the other. This is not ripping anyone off, by the way - the value of the same product is what changes according to who you are providing it to. So you're charging more because it's actually worth more to them, value is always subjective. To be noted that pricing for value works much better for creative, personalised work - you can easily charge a millionaire 10 times more then a random joe for a portrait of them, for instance, but you would be hard pressed to charge them 10 times more for the same bottle of water, the same book or the same cinema ticket.

You know that's very nice in theory, but doesn't work in practice. If he asked for more money after the 2 revisions and the buyer refused, support would take the buyer's side. The way the revision system is implemented on Fiverr is broken. The button should be greyed out after the included revisions are exhausted, pointing to an option to pay for an extra revision. A client can keep requesting as many revisions as they want. As a seller you can ask for extra payment for them, but the buyer can just refuse. If that happens, in the end you'll either get a canceled order, an order forever stuck in revision, or a bad review.

This can work, but be careful - it's a very thin line between reaching out with a useful service and spamming old clients who are not interested.

What do you mean by this? Shouldn't value be pegged to cost in some way? I think I should offer more value for a higher price, otherwise that's pretty much ripping off those who pay the most, which I think was the opposite of your point.

You can't, since that's not a career. That's a side hustle at best. You shouldn't start at "a stage of learning". You should learn what you need first, and then start. That doesn't mean you stop learning, it just means you need to already know enough to begin with.

That's awesome, what's your hourly rate? Whatever it is, 72 * that a week, you work a couple years and you're golden, retire to some place nice!

Definitely worth it, take the opportunity. They just introduced a new buyer stats feature that is incredibly useful.

I wouldn't waste a call on that first one, tbh.

Only if he left feedback, which a buyer worrying about that won't leave.

Look at what you've just posted. Does that read like it could have been written by a big ticket seller? It really doesn't to me.

YES. This is a fantastic addition. Got them on all my contacts (even previous ones, years before the feature), and it gives me SO much useful information. This will be extremely useful in terms of buyer vetting.