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I turn them on and off, but when I have them on I have it always set at $0.02. Honestly, given the lead quality, it's already overpriced at 2 cents.

They can know, it's public information. The fee is stated on purchase, and the TOS outlines the commission - and you should read the TOS when creating an account.

Literally every publicly traded company. Which Fiverr is.

Yes, we all know. It's been a thing for years.

Not gonna be able to do that with $1000, those buyer fees add up quick.

Just call it "proofreading" and remove any mention of academic anything, solved.

The level doesn't matter. If it's just proof reading, should be fine, but it's a dangerous field to be in.

I'm not sure what you mean. You can't offer university research papers either. Anything academic is forbidden, .

That would cover needed voice over work for my video work for a bit, that's the main thing I outsource.

What I value above anything else is reliability. If you deliver exactly what you said you would, exactly when you said you would, I really can't ask more than that - and that will already put you above most.

So, you prefer sellers that can't get it right the first time, you prefer to keep having to go back and forth, or you just don't know what you want / keep changing your mind?

This is 100% not true. 95% of my orders get the "late" thing during revision. My success score is 10, and delivery on time is a positive. What I do is make the first delivery within the deadline, 100% of the time. Not late even once. It's also extremely rare that I ask for time extensions - maybe once or twice a year. That's enough. If revising after the deadline, or getting the order marked as complete after the deadline counted against anything, I would have terrible marks on delivery time, as that's the norm for me. Sellers have 0 control over the revision. Buyers can extend it, ask for infinite revisions, etc. If that impacted delivery on time, it would be impossible to have a positive delivery on time.

@carineb Explained exactly what is wrong with the rating system, and how to make it right. There's no arguing the above posts. If Fiverr wants honest, fair, ratings, they'll implement something like that. If they don't, it literally means Fiverr wants to skew the ratings, on purpose, with no regard for seller or buyer opinions. It's not about transparency, it's straight up dishonest.

I had this activated, and deactivated it because I can't have request to order on it. Given the way the new review system works, and the fact that we are reviewed for consultations, I advise everyone to not offer consultations. What if the buyer doesn't like what I have to say? What if they find my price doesn't match their needs, or that I don't offer what they want (and feel like their consultation expense was "wasted")? It's highly likely they'll leave a less than stellar review on the consultation, dropping down my ratings, and contributing negatively to my success score. Too risky.

That's a 4 point scale, very weak. Low value for money.

The fix is trivial, obvious, and takes 10 seconds to implement. A fair scale is: Very Bad - Bad - Average - Good - Very Good. That's it. Done. Fixed. You can even leave the emojis. This is evident.

What's the solution? Have every delivery message say "Please let me know how I can make this EXCEPTIONAL, I really want your experience to be EXCEPTIONAL, it's very important for me that you feel my work is EXCEPTIONAL, thank you!" to try to prime the buyer for the insane review scale?

Same.

The value for money is a minor issue. The major issue is that the emoji scale is skewed. No scale goes from average to very good, and no scale has very good as 4 stars. This scale is designed to have the buyers rate 4 stars - as a buyer, I never find anything I buy "exceptional", because I know what I'm buying and what to expect. If I get exactly what i expected, that shouldn't be 4 stars. Like my latest review, for example. This was a perfect order - client got exactly what they needed, sooner than the delivery date, and it was perfect the first time around, no revision needed. He left a tip. 4 stars on every field. Why? Because it's the way the system is designed. Half the reviews we got under this new system ended up with the buyer having to go to CS to change them, since they were not what they felt about the work. This is not ok. This system means buyers will need to have extra work and CS will have to spend more resources, and will mean sellers will refuse to work with more buyers - they'll only feel comfortable working with long time clients that get how the system works.

3 and 4 are not mandatory. 5 is not a thing (in europe at least), paypal is free. 7 idem, also free. 6 is a PITA indeed.

You call yourself an "seo expert". Build your website, get traffic there, and sell to clients directly. You don't need Fiverr. Unless, of course, you can't generate traffic. In which case, nobody should hire you.

I don't have 10k reviews though. For low volume sellers, every review matters. In any case, it's clear buyers are leaving ratings by mistake. When that happens, it's a matter of contacting them and they'll fix them - the thing is, some buyers may not care to do so.

I've had 2 4 star reviews that the clients apologised for, and then changed to 5 star reviews. They were "mistakes". Before the new system, I never had "mistake reviews" in over 600 orders. Take that as you will.

This has already been discussed to death in other threads. Besides, if you want to make a poll, make a poll, no need for that emoji reputation farming trick.

Just do the thought experiment I proposed above. Imagine the buyer fee was 10%. 50%. 100%. Wouldn't that make a difference? Would you still say "it makes no difference to me, since that's for the buyer to take care of at the purchase point?" You can argue that 5% is inconsequential because it's a small number, but I don't see how any seller can argue that buyer fees should not be a consideration at all for sellers, in principle.