[Welcome to "Fiverr 3.0"!]

Thanks for giving us your thoughts. It made me reflect on everything around Fiverr’s engine and what i must do as a beginner seller. When you said “If everyone is 5-stars, then no one is 5-stars” just blew my mind.

[The $5 composers! Really?]

You have consider everything to analise something, for example, but reality still…
I am from a third world country, and $5 is kind a good money here.
A new seller have to low your offer, because a buyer will not buy something from a non rating new seller, if the seller has a 5.0 rating at least. Of course, some buyer will buy something from a new seller, i am not generalizing that, but you must have a good reputation after all.
So then, not always a composer is charging $5 because he is does not know the time which takes to compose something and his hard work.

[The $5 composers! Really?]

On Fiverr you’re competing with sellers from third world countries, hobbyists or beginning freelancers who don’t know how to value themselves.

Some deliberately undersell themselves in order to get gigs and reviews, knowing full well that $5 is unsustainable.

I’d stick to your own pricing. There are buyers looking for quality and who are willing to pay normal prices.

I disagree, because i am new on fiverr, i compose orchestra for somebodys music, i dont charge $5 but $10 in the basic package, and i will not charge $50 in the basic package because i do not have ratings yet and somebody will not order a service from me, cause that, freelancers must be constantly improving their gigs and profiles.

You can imagine along with me that, some buyers will not buy something cheap from a new seller, unless you have at least one 5.0 star rating to be considered a trustful seller by buyers.