misscrystal

I have an outstanding gig with the negative aspect saying it was due to cancellations but in the last year there was one cancellation which happened right after the client ordered, and then said "sorry I ordered by mistake." Also my already low rate of impressions is now basically almost none since I slightly modified my oldest gig. Now nothing, no sales. I miss my work here! Funny, I thought I was very successful, what a surprise.

Thank you emmaki my humorous friend! I see one factor that hurt my gig was a buyer who swore that every one of my thousands of 5 star reviews were written by me, and told me that she reported that to CS. I found out by accident that they do have a very clever way to check for fake reviews. I thought it was a new feature, until it disappeared, along with her account suddenly.

Where do we see what is impacting our success score? I've looked all over and see nothing that shows that.

Yesterday I added two more gigs to the three I have. Silly me, that would drag my success score down from 6 to 3! I just paused them.

The gig dragging down my success score is this one. Click throughs are outperforming 96% of sellers and the conversion rate is outperforming 71% of sellers, at a starting price of $125. Repeat clients currently are at 60%. I have only had three gigs for a few years, so the same clients keep buying this well performing gig over and over. This gig has produced a couple of thousand of delighted clients over eleven years. Should I pause this extremely successful time tested gig to improve my success score? Something seems off to have a gig like this considered a poorly performing gig. This gig has a success score of only 4. It's been my steady earning gig for eleven years.

Hi emmaki and coedelion, good to see you both again! I'm now earning less than I did when I started on fiverr eleven years ago. I do have repeat clients showing up still at least. I've been a total workaholic at fiverr for all this time, putting in seven days a week every month and even answering inquiries from my hospital bed at one time, and feel bad about this crumbling of a once successful business. While it seems reasonable that fiverr wants an automated system to weed out the bad sellers, my successful track record here is being treated like a dismal failure. There unfortunately is such a thing as bad buyers on fiverr and I had two in the past year. Of course an automated system isn't interested in the times like this when bad buyers come along.

A gig with over 1,200 reviews and only 3 of them are one star shouldn't be low rated. I have to wonder at the private reviews because they don't reflect the succuss of the gig, the messages I get from happy clients, nor the amount of repeat orders I get on that gig.

Here is a screenshot of the metrics for my low success score gig:

I'm not one to complain BUT: My feel good gig for basically happy people is rated a 9 on the success score and my gig that gets some clients who are in a bad place emotionally is the low scoring one. That gig that scores 9 is my worst seller of my gigs. However the low scoring gig is converting better than 71% of others in the category and has a click through rate of 96%. My gigs have a repeat client rate of 60% and it is the LOW SUCCESS SCORE GIG THAT HAS THE REPEAT CLIENTS. All my gigs are high dollar. So to have that gig that is low rated be the big earning gig for the past eleven years be the one that I could pause, to increase my success score, seems to be truly a serious mistake somewhere in the system. I will keep that low success score gig that has for so many years produced the bulk of my earnings It clearly should be rewarded, not thrown into the dustbin, nor moved out of sight of buyers.

Messages from clients and reviews:

Hello friends, that makes sense, thanks. Good to see you here again! I have another thread here btw:

I've been a successful seller on fiverr for over eleven years and have had a good number of repeat clients coming back -- without any suggestions from me they do so I may add -- of around 60%. I was a Top Rated Seller for over six years. I'm now a level one seller. I can't complain. I've done good work here and am proud of my record. I've put in seven days a week and taken off only about three or four times in all these years. Although my sales volume has drastically gone down as a level one seller I intend to continue to provide the level of service to my clients that I always have with very fast and thorough communications and order deliveries.

I see now on gigs that older reviews are shown first and reviews are not in chronological order. Also the highlighted reviews which we could select, to display our best ones under our gig image, are gone. There used to be the option buyers had to click on newer reviews being shown in order of when they were left. Buyers don't get an accurate idea of when the most recent orders were if they see reviews from previous months first. Any explanations for this, or comments on this change, are appreciated.

Minors work, pay taxes, and have social security numbers.

If you are a US person check Yes. Then fill out the very short form. It asks for your name address and social security number and if you will file your taxes as an individual or a corporation.

I had a job at 15 and was able to pay taxes. It’s not only for over 18.

All you have to do is fill out the W9 form. You can do that. It asks if you are a US person. It doesn’t ask your age.

Probably true… however I am in the same situation sometimes when I am at a hotel for instance in a foreign country but I never connect on their wifi or anything like that … for extra safety I prefer to buy a local sim card … Using a wifi connection from a hotel or anywhere else is probably ok ( I don’t know for sure ) but I wouldn’t risk it , I’m obsessed with my account. It’s risky I agree. I will need to find out how to make it more secure. I don’t trust VPN’s either.

I didn’t get any emails. I filled out the form and it said done.

Sorry but I don’t know what you are talking about. What will show when it’s time to show? This seems to be a random comment you directed at me.

If you are in Bangladesh or Pakistan select No. That’s all you need to do. No other steps are needed.

It sounds like something to ask customer support.

To anyone else who is asking what to do, if you are not a US citizen then select No. That is all you need to do.

Maybe they don’t understand what this is for or why they are being asked if they are a U.S. person or not.

I don’t know but it is. That’s why I said they should ask customer support. One person got the answer from them but was still confused.