I don’t like this
With this change in place, any misunderstanding or miscommunication can be blamed entirely on the seller, regardless of the situation. There could be a language barrier, the buyer could have placed an order without fully reading or understanding the description, or they might just change their mind or start asking for things that were never agreed upon. Ask anyone, it happens.
Sometimes sellers spend hours working on a job and for a variety of reasons, it just doesn’t work out. At least when this happened and an order was cancelled, a seller could swallow the lost time and money and rest assured that their rating wouldn’t get hammered too. Now, if the order is cancelled, the seller loses the time and money and they’re subject to a one-sided review process.
I personally have a very high review rating and a very low cancellation rate, so I don’t expect this to hurt me too much, but I am generally struggling to see the value in this change.
I guess it might weed out some poor quality sellers but the problem is, poor quality buyers can continue as they were, without even the chance of getting a negative review. It is already a pretty unfair system where sellers can not review a buyer if the buyer doesn’t review the seller first. This just further weighs the review process in favour of the buyer, at the expense of the seller.
Fiverr…
• Please pay attention to the countless replies to this.
• Please listen to your seller community, who are the core of your business.
• Please show you care about buyers and sellers equally and reverse this decision (or, at the very least, show that you’re interested in the process being fair and allow sellers to rate their experience too.)
Thank you