tme2012

Just happened to me for the first time, and I didn't know it was even an option. Client got the extension 9 minutes before the 3 days was up. This is an absolute gut-punch to freelancers who rely on consistency of income by making our bill pay schedule based on the knowledge that clients have 72 hours to review our work. I tell my clients that I will make revisions anytime, not just before the job is marked complete. Fiverr people, you are putting us in position of not getting paid for WEEKS because a client is too busy to be bothered to review our work. This is awful and MUST be at least mutually agreed on.

Shockingly, I've had a brief turn into a job that is now into its third round of writing video scripts for a guy. At every step of the process I thought it was a scam, but he paid and approved and we've done 2 more rounds of work. Have another potential one that I'm speaking to next week. So my rate so far is 1 real job, 1 possible job, 795 briefs related to gigs I don't offer, and 45,305 briefs asking if I can give people work.

Today's "brief" really takes the cake. I am not really looking for anyone, even though donators would be super helpful not often, once in a while I would really appreciate it to grow my small business.

I've had 4 briefs asking me to translate English into Dutch. The word "translate" and the word "Dutch" appear zero times on my profile. I just hate the time wasting and the missed opportunities that are going on. Feels like it should be taken down until they can make it work. How hard is it to make 5-6 things that are mandatory fields that a person MUST fill out before they send the brief. When I get one that says I want an ebook $800 - that doesn't tell me jack squat. If I make an offer and they want a book that's 300,000 words long, now I have to go through Customer Service to explain that I can't do it, even though I made the offer. So frustrating.

I'm just sending an offer with a large amount of money and the phrasing that this is just a dummy offer, please contact me for details. but at the same time I feel like the people will see the high amount and be like "screw this guy." without reading further. I really don't get why this feature was rolled out. The client should be forced to fill out very specific info in order to send the brief.

So to play devil's advocate, what would you do if tomorrow Fiverr said it was shutting down your account because of something your country's government did, and they'd get back to you on when you could use it again?

Let's call a spade a spade. Fiverr cares about Fiverr. Their biggest fear is seeing a headline that reads "FIVERR KEEPS DOING BUSINESS IN RUSSIA" That's it. They think it will hurt their brand to keep contributing to Russian tax dollars. This isn't about supporting the Ukraine. If Fiverr wanted to support Ukraine, it would announce it's taking all of the fees it grabs off our sales and donating them all to Ukraine relief funds That's how you support a country - by giving to them, not by taking away from someone else. Unless Putin is secretly a graphic artist on here, Fiverr is going after the wrong people and it's going to cost good people their homes, their belongings, and their families before it's all over.

These briefs don't make any sense and I'm concerned they're going to keep people from contacting me the normal way and I'll lose business accordingly. How am I supposed to create an offer for something that hasn't been described? I've gotten 15 of these things and not a one of them has enough information to put together an offer, but there is no way to contact the client without making an offer.