rudyabel

In PTCs like this. They only can only go so cheap until somebody swoops in and buys them. Microsoft? Google? Some big whale will come along eventually. This might have been all a half baked scheme to prevent it. Nope.

LOL, the one certainty.

Ok, I just got rid of all of my temp paused gigs. Now I have no paused gigs. Now...what?

That's corporate culture for you. Everything is genius on a whiteboard. Then the quagmire ensues. The stock is already at a pre-pandemic level with no gains to show for it. It should have retained some of it's gains. But it has cratered. All it needs is a few bad quarters and someone will buy it out. And then it's "all hail to our new overlords." I can't see how killing business makes them money. They will feel the shortfall. Then people start "resigning".

Look, people are going to go get theirs where they can. If Fiverr doesn't choose them as one of the blessed few, they go elsewhere. It's a simple fact. Most only see Fiverr as just one spoke on their wheel. The only reason people persist here is that they do see others prosper on the site. They see that it's possible. The thing is, and few realize in time, that this is only 20% up to you. You of course have to be set up right, however after that, it's up to whatever powers that be to LET you get up in the rankings, regardless of talent or situation. If indeed the machine is the only mover, then we are truly pooched. The machine can't yet make aesthetic choices. Ai or not, it still can't see the nuisance of cancelling one order to correct something, vs. a bad outcome.

The people who are busy are still busy. But even they feel a slow down. And even if some section is blessed, it was always so. They had them AND the rest of us. They will feel it. A little guy here, a little guy there, chop them all down, what's left?

This platform is about to learn a harsh lesson. One as old as time. "Don't push people to the point that they just stop caring." Think about it. Can you afford to kill this amount of business?

Fiverr thinks destroying business will somehow make them more money. It would be a first.

The so called AI does nothing it's not asked to do. If 5r thinks destroying business is going to make them more money, good luck with your new robot overlord. Nobody believes it was "just the algorithm", and they don't believe "it all the AI" either. It still can't really make esthetic choices. That part doesn't fool anyone.

LOL, A good way to make me shut up and go away is to put me back to work.

New seller - $5 Level 1 - $15 Level 2 - $35 Level 3(TRS) - $50 And Pro, as you know, is already at $100 This seems equitable to me. It's a fair spread. A truly even playing field. Reachable goals. Fair Pro/demotions by actual full statistics. Not piecemeal.

One last one for today. I swear. It's amazing that no one in your ranks has pointed out how utterly futile this minutia is. The whole point of the client both giving AND receiving a review is basically a handshake between client and seller, a meme. The client wants to keep the seller happy to return later for more work. The seller basically praises the buyer with the mandatory 5 star review by default as to keep the client happy and not anger the private review demons. (Private reviews with no recourse are a breach of trust) All this useless machining of the system is doing nothing more than causing friction between potential clients and sellers. Just more sand in the gears. What motivation would any seller have for working with a client that is dinging them left and right?! Sellers are going to cancel and block their way to a stream of clients that works for them. One that gets THEM the best results. Buyers will complain they are getting blocked by way too many people. It's human nature, you have absolutely no control over this. People tend to avoid pain. Eventually, all buyers will reflexively give the best review to keep the peace, as they do now. You need more floodlight thinking and less flashlight thinking.

Here's a thought for you. How about you require levels to charge a base minimum like in Pro. It's awesome for a new seller to charge 5 dollars for a 30 second local commercial. But you have TRS, on the front page selling a 30 commercial for close to that. That's an abuse of the system. No wonder they are on the front page. No kidding, they are treading into sweatshop territory. Sorry, no, I'm not going to be a sweatshop for you. If Fiverr really wants to break out of it's shell, then it has to start being more price conscious.

And maybe we take our ball and go home. Fiverr needs to know one thing. As far as the VO section is concerned you are already the outlier. This industry would like nothing more than to see you collapse. And for every talent that goes on and seeks their clients without you. For every one that goes on to earn 6 figures. Which many pros do. YOU miss out on 20k a year. That adds up. Wake up. Whatever you're making now on VO, is peanuts. I don't care if RH is making 300k on VO. That's a 3 man operation sweat shop of VO. No, I'm talking about talent after talent not getting traction on this site. I know the pro and business side is slowly maturing. But still, it's a day late and a dollar short for many. So, deal with it, don't deal with it. Sleep in the bed you made.

Ok, this water is muddy as heck. Can somebody spell out what the actual current situation is? Is there a private review, is it going away? Are scores global? Or time delimited? Are public scores completely ignored and irrelevant? Any link will do, thank you.

Ok, so now I'm a 9 all of a sudden instead of an 8. Was that it? Did I get reviewed? Did anyone actually get a GOOD look at my account? Nothing else has changed. The one bad BSR I got last OCT is still clogging my account to a total stand still. If the BSR is going away, then I should be an 11(sarcasm). I don't have any public reviews under 4 at all. 99% of which are 5s. Does none of that matter? It was one thing when fiverr was an underdog discounter for those willing to work cheaply for a leg up, it's another to grow into a giant company mismanaging professional talent. You are losing millions. Forgive the bellyaching. I'm know I'm just a lowly merchant who should suffer in silence.

Thanks... Bye

Is anyone on this thread a fiverr representative participating in this discussion? I don't see much of any interaction with corporate. Or is that a SP feature too. Am I missing a name? Please advise. Otherwise, this is fun... ..."the wheels on the bus go round and round."

It is a billion dollar business. And we are but the poor serfs that tend their fields. LOL! They really do have a poor opinion about sellers. We serve them, we're not their clients. Or at least that's what it feels like sometimes. They have next to no quality control. And then gripe about the poor quality. Making policy with that mind set. The markets corrects that by people choosing the better players. But only some of those players see the benefit. I've heard the same story a thousand times. "Why did you kill my business, Fiverr? I thought we were friends."

Squeaky wheel gets the oil. Threads in a forum fade away with every post. If people want something, they have to keep those topics of discussion on the top of the thread. And that means keeping the discussion going, on topic, until it's nauseating enough for people to act.

LOL!, I don't have permission to see the secret squirrel handshake level post.

Or, I could just ignore you completely. Bye.

I can't find it fast enough. Your little tantrum basically set up a false dichotomy. One where you are either "bellyaching" about the scourges you're suffering to your business, from what are sometimes absolutely small issues, and should be ignored. Or, you take absolutely everything that's coming to you with a smile and hardy "yes, sir!" The real world is grey. People have grievances. People's businesses are suffering. If the role of any service like this thread is simple placation, instead of action, then it is a giant distracting waste of time.

Oh good god, My dear, you need more than just better company.

Is there a block feature? Banter is one thing, spam is another. If we can't have professional comportment and discourse, then this whole thing is just lip service and busy work. A distraction. Let me know now so I can move on to the adult room somewhere else.