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This is absolutely not true and the Fiverr Forum admins have confirmed it. Please stop spreading misinformation. Please read: Topic/Question 1. What are common Fiverr myths and bad advice that should be ignored?

Being active doesn't help getting orders. You're giving someone advice on getting orders by being active meanwhile you don't have a single order yet.

2 hours active on fiber? That's a lot of carbs bro

Of course, why bother with skills when you can make a fortune on Fiverr by offering services like 'Master of Awkward Conversations' or 'Certified Pro in Lacking Skills'? Your lack of skills might just be your secret weapon! Goodluck!

Like others have mentioned, fix your gig photos, description, pricing and keywords to optimize it and make it more visually appealing. This will help, just be patient.

Hey miiila, thanks so much for the kind words and advice. Really appreciate it 🙂 I will surely take note and follow them!

I can see 1 rating.

Yeah it's pretty unfortunate that the sellers can do nothing but hope they won't get buyers like this again. My completion rate dropped from 100 to 88%, it's gonna take me a much longer time to level up to level 1 now, even though the rest of the requirements are complete.

FINAL UPDATE: I cancelled the order, and took $70 loss, and Customer Support finally responded to my request of adjusting my completion rate, with a semi automated reply which felt like they didn't even read my message and just said "We can't adjust the rate due to buyer not being satisfied". I responded again, explained everything again, with screenshots proving that we agreed beforehand what was included and what was not included, and the buyer asked for exactly the things we had decided were not included, completely out of scope and impossible stuff. But they still didn't accept my request to adjust completion rate. At this point, it is what it is, there is nothing I can do, and this just shows that the buyer can cancel any order for asking for revisions which are completely unrelated to the gig offer, out of scope and impossible to do, and Fiverr will support them and cancel and not even adjust your completion rate. Worst experience...

Great advice champ. The message layout you provided is very helpful and makes a lot of sense. I'll be sure to follow it going forward!

UPDATE: I've had my ticket open with Fiverr Customer Support for 29 hours now, no reply. I really don't know what to do or expect. The buyer doesn't reply and doesn't give all the requirements he expects from me to, just keeps saying new things once I do what he asked. Last few days have been extremely frustrating due to this. At this point I'd be okay with just having the order cancelled and taking the loss, as long as it doesn't affect my completion rate.

Thanks for your reply. Noted. He's asked for another revision now to do something completely unrelated to the gig offer, which is also impossible to do. The buyer is clueless about lots of things. I let him know that I can't offer anything else as this was not part of the deal, and I've already delivered what I was supposed to. But he's ignoring me. The revision is still open and it shows late delivery, even though my first delivery contained everything and was submitted way before the deadline. Now my only hope is that Fiverr Support team helps me.

Okay, I did both of these and reached out to Fiverr customer support and raised a ticket. Waiting on resolution. Hopefully they do something.

Thanks for your reply @abdheshkjha . As a very experienced seller, what advice would you give me to deal with this and avoid it in future. Because bad reviews and cancellations will drastically impact my gig rankings and conversions, being a new seller. And does Fiverr offer no protection to the seller? This is a bit scary, because being a programmer, it sucks to spend hours coding something for someone and they take advantage of you and cancel it.

Thanks for your reply @abdheshkjha . As a very experienced seller, what advice would you give me to deal with this and avoid it in future. Because bad reviews and cancellations will drastically impact my gig rankings and conversions, being a new seller. And does Fiverr offer no protection to the seller? This is a bit scary, because being a programmer, it sucks to spend hours coding something for someone and they take advantage of you and cancel it.