williambryan392

No. If you are the buyer then there is no penalisation for cancelling. It will not impact your seller account.

I hate to admit it, but I'm a coward on this front. Typically though my buyers have been pretty darn good, maybe a 4* here or there but nothing drastic. My concern is always that after they see a less than 5* review they will either email CS to revise their review down, or burn me with the private review if they didn't submit it when first asked and are reminded to do so later.

A guy hired me to comedy roast him. Apparently he had lost a bet to his friends and this was the price- hire someone to mock him in front of his friends. I got on a zoom call for 30 minutes and just tore into his career choice and some other things. They'd all been drinking and I got 5* so I guess it went well!

@donnovan86 I blame you completely. I've lost 30 hours since Sunday to no mans sky. I got into it! I was being so good, bed by 11, up at 7, and it's all ruined 🤣. I don't remember experiencing anything that made it a bad experience. It was also pretty cheap I think, about 10 or 15 dollar. great idea! I use PS4 though...

This is a beautiful game, I lost days of my life to it, don't even need to follow the story, just spend the day riding around taking in the world. Very chilled. Yep, love this genre!

My latest favourite. Has anyone had a brief that's actually led to a purchase?

You should probably also thank the stock image provider you took your profile picture from.

Stranded Deep. You crash land on a deserted island, have to survive and ultimately escape. Really enjoyed this. Still trying to find the time to fully get into / learn this game. If I only play every couple of weeks when I can carve out some time I find I've forgotten most of what I learned last time. I'm still on my starting planet (I think!).

Say you could no longer do the job/freelancing you currently do, what would you do instead? It can be realistic or unrealistic! For me, if money wasn't an issue, I think I'd like to be a restaurant critic. Or someone that fosters animals. Actually, I'd be both!

I've unintentionally ended up with a mullet once or twice - I forget to get it cut and then bam, someone calls me 'mullet boy'.

Ooooh really? That is exciting. You know we all want to know more @frank_d! Half the time I'm referring my buyers to other sellers to help them with something they need, videos, copywriting, websites etc.

Tell a lie @johnbouquets, I do have the badge! I have also noticed that today my response time has slipped to 2 hours lol.

Oh interesting! Haven't seen that before. My response time is under an hour but still not quick enough to qualify I guess, or I don't have the feature yet.

Huh?

I noticed the 'recommended' element got added to promoted gigs recently. The obvious insight is that you are more likely to be successful by promoting these gigs. Currently 4 of my gigs have recommended and 2 don't. So what I'm also taking from it is that I need to do better on the 2 that don't.

Does anyone need a bloxburg house!? 😆 I'm kinda over the annoyance of briefs, it is what it is, but people trying to solicit business is particularly annoying.

Moving in the right direction! I actually started making a crazy big offer to briefs (great suggestion @frank_d, even if only joking) which then enabled me to message the buyer. I'm now thinking, if briefs are still targeting the category level I'm guessing they go to a lot of sellers, so buyers will potentially now be receiving a lot of messages to their inbox. So, I'm wondering... a) If you're a buyer that puts out a brief but also sell on fiverr will this impact your response rate? b) I can see buyers marking messages as spam if they suddenly get a lot of messages?

I met a regular buyer of mine for dinner last week. They had just arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia having managed to get out of Ukraine. I now consider that buyer a colleague and a friend. That's the only fiverr person I've met in real life. Like others I use the follow to bookmark credible sellers that give great information/insights.

Search the forum @mrsazzad14. Frank and others have shared lots of helpful posts already. This could be a good place to start:

I think you pretty much nailed the issues @frank_d. These are some ideas that are probably stating the obvious and are rehashing some of what you've previously suggested... Perhaps a word count minimum on the description would help, although it would be easy to get around. Re your idea of a form I think that makes sense, but one where sellers can clearly describe what's included, set the price and the delivery time frame. Re relevancy, it seems to be stuck at the category level, could it go down to the gig level. Now this might be a crazy idea (and I know it's ill thought out on my part)... but offer a zoom call to the buyer at a flat cost after the form you suggest has been returned. Not sure what it should cost, maybe $30 for 30 minutes. No rating involved. Buyer can choose which sellers they choose to have a call with to then discuss their requirements. Like I say I haven't thought it fully through! If the goal of briefs is to look after more premium buyers and get away from the BR cesspit vibe this could maybe achieve that.

Had a long day and couldn't help but reject and hit the 'other' option so I could share my frustrated reason: Everything was too vague. Does the buyer want leads, a pitch, a strategy or someone to actually hire her, is she trying to sell a service? Could this buyer be confused about what a brief is for? I've not been able engage with any brief yet because I cannot understand what the buyer wants and therefore cannot quote effectively. I really don't see how this feature is different to a buyer request. Why does fiver think 'I'm a great choice'? Because I have a gig in the Business category? Is that it? Maybe I should have done a massive offer. $10K. But then I'd have to go through the inevitable cancellation dance, or have my offer rejected, both of which I fear hitting my stats/standing. Sorry to deprive you of more entertainment for you and your popcorn @frank_d 😆😉

I don't want to turn the feature off in case they actually prove useful, but this is a bit of a joke. Does the buyer want leads, a pitch, a strategy or someone to hire her? Could this buyer be confused about what a brief is for.

Nice work adding the banner fiverr! 👏 Nice

I have no doubt that's made your day @mandyzines 🤣🤮

I am not certain but I think for unavailable you pick a certain period, e.g. 2 weeks. When you pause a gig it is paused until you stop pausing it.