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  1. Nice to be with you all. I'm Dane, a voiceover artist and voice coach, and have enjoyed working here on Fiverr since 2018. Looking forward to meeting and swapping info and ideas with you guys. Dane
  2. I like your thinking on this. In situations where a review-time extension is requested, it is almost certainly going to be for one of three reasons: 1. The buyer is working for, or working with, a larger company where the chain of command makes it difficult to quickly get approval. It's a case of "approval by team" or committee. That means they have money, and can certainly afford to pay a small surcharge when they request a time extension. 2. The buyer is working with a smaller, difficult client of their own. While I can sympathize, the buyer needs to find their own way forward in that situation. A review-time surcharge will motivate them to get their act together and put necessary pressure on their client to get things wrapped up. 3. The buyer is the cause of the problem. They have trouble making their minds up about things, or are just stalling and hoping to get out of paying. In all three of those cases, it makes sense to charge for review-time extensions. In the first two cases, it's just a matter of fairness. In the third case, it keeps them from using it as a stalling tactic.
  3. It's an earnestly conceived idea, but not a good one in my opinion. Based on my experience, it's a solution in search of a problem. I've handled thousands of orders on Fiverr, and it is not common that anyone requests a revision just to bide time while they get approval from a client, for example. But when they do so, I just write back graciously and give them a few days. If more than a day or two goes by, I politely prod them. If it stretches into many days, I re-deliver. Very seldom, if ever, has a client re-requested revision to stall further. Seems to me the only way to make this equitable would be to provide an identical button for sellers. If buyers can extend approval time without the seller's permission, the same courtesy should be extended to sellers who want to extend order delivery time. Or, flip that over: For sellers, there's an option to appeal to the buyer for a time extension before delivering, but that is contingent on the buyer's ok. The buyer can refuse. If buyers want more time to approve a delivery, shouldn't they be subject to the same conditions? Here's one other interesting possibility. Now don't laugh, but what about making it an extra? Standard approval time is three days. Let the seller set a value on additional approval days: $5 per additional day for time extension, for example. Let's say that 10% of buyers feel they may need more than three days for approval. And let's say that's $10 added to the order. It would mean a little bit more income for the seller (who should be compensated for their inconvenience), and it would mean a pretty enormous sum for Fiverr, with its hundreds of thousands of buyers.
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