[Would you welcome a paid Fiverr membership (as a seller)?]

I agree they have a need to maximize revenue, the point I'm hoping to convey is that adding a fee would not necessarily be a pure revenue win. Democratizing offshoring is consistent with the goal of fiduciary responsibility in that it monetizes a larger consumer base by increasing supply, which lowers prices to allow capturing clients from those who have a lower price tolerance, increasing total revenue rather than simply increasing the average revenue per user.

[Would you welcome a paid Fiverr membership (as a seller)?]

To me, fiverr is democratized offshoring. I don't have the money for North American/Western Europe prices, I'm barely earning above minimum wage at my day job. I'm spending savings, not revenue, to pay the sellers here to help me with my first project. Whether or not I get to try and make a business is basically dictated by my level of access to people with lower living expenses relative to mine where my savings are actually an enticing amount. Membership fees would reduce the number of those people, ones whom are likely similarly trying to start their seller gigs off savings rather than revenue judging by how many 0-queue/0-rating sellers I've used and gone back to with more work and ratings.

[Would you welcome a paid Fiverr membership (as a seller)?]

Taking a quick skim of my inbox, I currently have 23 sellers I'm giving repeat business to. The highest national representation is 6 of those sellers being from Indonesia. According to numbeo, a 1 bedroom apartment in the center of the national capitol (Jakarta) is about 475 USD. The individual seller I've given the highest number of orders is in the Ukraine, where a 1 bedroom apartment in the center of the national capitol (Kyiv) is about 575 USD. The individual seller I've paid the most is in Lithuania, where an apartment of that type in Vilnius is about 625 USD.

If we want an analogy, a similar apartment in Washington DC is $2325. So, it's possible, for those sellers, the impact of asking for 250/mo might be like asking an American for $1,000/mo.

I doubt those sellers would be here for me to work with if that kind of fee was there. It would instead be sellers with higher prices trying to recover the cost of the monthly fee. Likely, this would put prices outside my budget. As a result, I possibly would not be here either.

Personally, I've accepted that there's a lot of sellers which are a waste of money. I spend the money to get them to do the work and verify for sure. The upside of always rolling the dice is that I've also found a lot of excellent sellers who were sitting there at 0 reviews, 0 orders in queue, who were cutting discounts to get growth. Many of them have since gone on to increase their prices and consistently have orders in queue.

The solution to filtering bad and good, for the benefit of buyers as a whole, might be more functions which help buyers like me run this "paid audition" process more easily and cheaply. I got VID recently, and it feel kind of like it could do that, but the coupon seem to want me to make larger single orders instead of place orders with new sellers. Giving me coupons to reduce the risk of trying out new sellers would enable me to manually verify who is good and who isn't.

[Dear madam, please don't call me sir, my dear]

I’m Canadian. I’ve used “bro” in feedback, like “Bro, this is so good!”
But I have yet to do something in the initial contact like “Hello Bro, I’m wondering if you would be willing to do a landscape at the Basic tier inspired by the following text:”

[Stop hiring bad sellers! ?]

On 5/15/2021 at 2:08 PM, gina_riley2 said:

If you are a serious buyer or a small business owner, do yourself a favor, set aside at least $100 to experiment.

That’s basically what I was thinking when I came in. Part of my budget is just “learning Fiverr” where I take losses to run into all the pitfalls without being too disrupted by it.

I essentially pay people to audition (after checking first via Contact Me, I pay for a Basic tier just to see what I get for a Basic tier). I go through 20 people, find 5 people I like and want to continue working with. What actually happens though is those 5 people raise their prices and I’m back where I started needing to pay people to audition. A buyer’s scouting/try-out budget needs to be very high, both in cash and time.

I don’t think there’s going to be a good general rule of thumb though. But probably, the more nitpicky technical the thing is you’re buying, probably the higher ratio the scouting budget will need to be. My “fail” rate on $5 artists is about 25%, but for $25 D&D writers it’s about 80%. For artists, I can easily say “close enough, ship it”, and plop it on a page. For D&D writers, when considering things I don’t want on a page, there’s spelling, grammar, internal consistency, gameplay balance. It’s rare I regret my art orders. It’s common I regret my D&D writing orders.