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misscrystal

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  1. We have never needed a 1099 from fiverr before. I wonder what changed.
  2. I’m wondering if you see the W-9 when you look at your account setting. Do you have it? I assume you are not in the US so I wonder if everyone has that or only US persons. I see a seller in India has it.
  3. I see you have the W-9 showing on your account even though you are in India. So far it looks like everyone has that. I wonder if everyone will see the W-9 form when it comes out or only U.S. persons. It would be interesting if every seller has that form, no matter what country they are in. Or if they show they are in US when they aren’t then make up an SS number. 😬
  4. ***I looked in my settings and found this:*** fiverr w-91741×368 95 KBMy guess is that this section will also show the 1099 when it becomes available at the start of the new year. Hopefully in January 2021.
  5. So does this mean that fiverr will send out 1099 forms to us at the start of the new year? Or will we see these on the website? We are required to send copies of a 1099 to the IRS with our taxes. Taxpayers are sent copies of the 1099 either in the mail or shown on a website to be copied.
  6. Are you sure the category of your gigs is a category where they have ads?
  7. Unless they have no other way of seeing examples of your work, yes. Hopefully you do have a way to show that. Or in some cases if someone has thousands of positive reviews they probably could judge just from that you are capable. It depends on what type of service you are selling. It’s also possible if you sent samples and didn’t get a response they didn’t like them. About the idea of a partial refund, it’s not going to happen.
  8. You are missing the entire point. I don’t hope to get a $30 tip. I don’t hope to get any tip. I am simply talking about my experience with tips and the motivations behind tipping. I’ve been here a long time, and noticed a distinct change in how people tip when they changed that wording and added the service fee to tips. It’s had the opposite effect they had hoped in my experience although others might have a different experience.
  9. It’s the wording that is the problem. People enjoy giving tips and among Americans at least it’s a custom for lots of things. Yes they are being told it’s customary when that seems like a forced obligation, and it takes away the pleasure in tipping people get. It needs to be given freely. It’s pressuring clients to give a tip which kills the entire experience. I used to get large tips about one third of the time. Now it’s not that common to get any tip and if I do it’s usually only 15%. Maybe that’s just my own experience, but I keep wondering why fiverr does it this way. Imagine going into a restaurant, and on the check before you pay you see the sentence: It’s customary to give a tip. People would be outraged and not tip due to that.
  10. Taking 20% of the tip like anything else we sell is fine but the service fee discourages tipping. It should be treated like the extras. When someone chooses to get an additional extra they don’t pay an additional service fee. the service fee has cut way down on tippinglisting the percentages of tips to choose from, 10%, 15% etc., limits the size of the tips we get.Before if I sold a service for $100 I might get a $30 tip. That is now cut in half when people see the percentages listed for them. While someone might have no problem giving a 30 tip, when they see it's 30% that sounds like it's too much so they tip 15. I kept wondering why I was getting such small tips until I saw that the percentages are now listed for clients. Bad move.
  11. Regarding tipping: I used to get a lot of large tips, sometimes almost as much as the price of the order. By limiting buyers and offering them set tip prices such as 10%, 15%, it also limits the amount of the tips I get. People who would be inclined to leave me a tip of $40 for example now see the range of tip prices pre selected and feel like they should only tip 15%. Before they didn’t think in percentage terms. They are limiting the amount of tips. They need to test saying simply Would you like to leave a tip? How much? Your tip will not have an additional service fee___________ (Extras don’t have an additional service fee so I’m not sure why tips need one.)
  12. I don’t know if this is the reason but you are using Starbucks and Burger King logos as your main images. This is not a good idea as those are owned by those companys for their use exclusively. Do not use other companys logos in your gigs.
  13. Maybe fiverr wants buyers to know that the days of only $5 services are over and they should expect to spend more. The prices here, in 2020, are still only a fraction of what people would normally pay in most cases. Seven dollars is not a lot of money.
  14. You can try f.flux a free app which you can set to come on when you want it to. It dims the screen. It’s been very helpful to me.
  15. For me, it shows on orders that are marked complete or reviewed only. For the other orders it is not available. Most of my orders have it.
  16. Just to make it clear, use a capital I when referring to yourself. For example notice the capital I used here: I just want to let you know I am here to serve your needs and I will do my best to give you a perfect logo.
  17. I’m not coaching people to mislead buyers, I’m trying to make them aware of how important correct spelling is and to encourage them to study. If you look at one of the only 2 examples I gave for spelling issues, it doesn’t tell people what the grammar issue is (but makes them aware that there is one, in case they don’t know, so they hopefully want to find out what, and will learn), but tell them to focus on their spelling first and to then improve their grammar, if they want to do more. Those who don’t want to do more, will still have enough errors in their gigs for buyers to notice that they aren’t perfect in English. And if people do know and learn about the use of upper and lower case, they do know more about it and can apply it; if I learn about a few snares of a language and apply my knowledge, I’m not faking anything, I have improved my skills and can, and probably will, apply my knowledge not just to my gig description but to the jobs I get as well. I see this more as a public service, because if too many buyers take a look at the platform and see all the spelling errors, they might leave before they even see that there are sellers who can spell correctly. Well, anyone who thinks my post contributes to misleading buyers, you are free to flag it, and the mods can take it down if they agree. I promise I won’t even take it personally (anyone who isn’t sure about whether this should say “personal” now, check “adjective/adverb” but reserve more time in your advanced language learning schedule for this 😉 ). @miiila I know you didn’t mean to actually coach people to mislead buyers, it just came out that way. I know you meant to educate sellers. And I think if they do learn how to use the capital i correctly then it will provide them a very valuable lesson as long as they use it consistently. I would never say I thought you were deliberately coaching people to mislead, I just don’t put things correctly sometimes. I’ve actually thought about making the same comment as yours many times about using a capital i. It’s a common mistake I see here a lot. But I still don’t want to see a perfect gig description if it’s totally unlike how the person normally communicates. If they do learn to correctly capitalize i when used as a pronoun and do that not just in the description but all the time that would be an immensely valuable lesson.
  18. I agree. It’s going to be a shock to find out that the polished gig description isn’t really how the seller communicates. For most gigs, some education and skill is required. And good communication is a must. So rather than coach people to in a sense mislead buyers by using correct grammar in their descriptions, let them write them how they usually write everything so buyers can be informed.
  19. @alyonagrapie There are options when someone is searching for the type of gig they want. We call these “filters”. There is a filter to choose those sellers who offer commercial rights as an option.
  20. I used the main words in your title: compose music for animated video It’s important to try to use keywords you think the most people will use when they look for what they want.
  21. Hi, you’re in the top row for your keywords: top row1818×744 326 KBI’m not sure why you aren’t getting orders, unless most people aren’t searching for those keywords. (compose music for animated video)
  22. Just send a message if they don’t include the $5 commercial rights option that you are including it. Or mention that it’s included in the description. It’s just so you show up when someone ticks that filter.
  23. Another option or workaround you could use is to set your commercial rights price at $5. So while your basic price actually includes the commercial rights, you still show up under the filter for commercial rights. I also think it’s an attractive selling point to have your commercial rights extra at only $5.
  24. We already have an active thread about this : So start reading that.
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