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Just now, levinewman said:

Prove they weren't vetted and I'll retract my statement. Proof matters.

He said it himself.

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Just now, levinewman said:

Are you saying that I expect you to do due diligence before hiring someone and take responsibility for your purchase?

I think the problem at hand is that Fiverr Pro is marketed as "vetted professionals". The person that got Pro in this thread did not get vetted at all.

It devalues the badge for everyone.

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1 minute ago, visualstudios said:

That guy claims to also speak French, and Spanish, and Italian. Wanna bet he doesn't? 

Also, presentation is very important. This is a global marketplace. Images should be good. Videos should be good. Copy should be good. Everything should be good on a Pro gig - or it shouldn't be there. Regardless of vertical.

Otherwise, it makes the "Pro" gigs look less appealing, makes the platform look less professional, etc.

If you go down the profile there are actually around 20 languages listed. Probably trying to game the algorithm.

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1 minute ago, bethanyvo said:

Currently- I don’t think any gig under $100 has the actual pro badge on the gig. Only that the seller is pro verified in their profile.

Yes, that seems to be the case. I used Fiverr Business to check and the profiles there look totally different. It's hard to tell if the Gig itself is Pro when you just get shown the Pro profile front and center.

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Just now, visualstudios said:

This is the @danno1950 @newsmike this is the gig in question, clearly a Pro gig:

https://www.fiverr.com/lalitsdmittal/do-monthly-seo-for-your-website-for-google-1st-page-ranking?context_referrer=user_page&ref_ctx_id=22da758fcb982fd85c44ad4e367ceef4&pckg_id=1&pos=1&imp_id=d62dac68-ad4c-4922-bd50-243394113a35

Just look at the title, at the package descriptions, at the top clients, etc. This doesn't look very Pro to me.

He also speaks every language on earth 🙂

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1 minute ago, bethanyvo said:

Maybe they have decided to have some sellers that meet their criteria be “pro” verified and have the choice to have $100 price points on gigs with the badge that focus on Fiverr Business and if they want to have a lower starting price gig with no badge in the same subcategory they can?
 

That would still keep the integrity of the pro prices and badges while also letting lower package shoppers know that this seller is verified.

But the sellers are not verified it seems. For my Pro application I had to send a lot of documents related to my work, as well as my university degree diploma and all my professional certifications. People are now automatically getting the same badge. 

Also, I just had a look around my category and there a few new Pro sellers with 40-50$ gigs. Seems weird to me to dilute the Pro category so much when they had such a hard stance on only letting 1% of applications through. 

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2 minutes ago, donnovan86 said:

I am not sure how things are in the other categories. But as far as writing goes, there are few Pro gigs with actual orders in queue. Most of them rarely receive any orders, and I guess that's the reason why they are bringing some of the TRS into the PRO program. 

As for what changes they will make, I am not entirely sure. The fact that Pro sellers will receive more exposure tells me that either they will have even MORE exposure in the regular gig search, or they might actually feature Pro sellers more on the Fiverr Business platform. Then again, we live in very tough times financially, and AI is taking A LOT of sales from Fiverr, so I expected them to do something that benefits all sellers. But apparently Pro gigs make the most money, so I can see why they are doing that.

We will see what will happen. What I saw is that at least in my category a lot of sellers dropped their prices, so at least for writers things are going pretty bad. 

They are already featuring the Pro sellers first on the Fiverr Business page. At least for translations, the first few gigs are Pro and are in a different box saying those were hand vetted by Fiverr. After that you get the normal results.