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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.

Hey guys, I am a new seller and quickly trying to grow as a seller by offering gigs at lower price than others and offering great service. So far it's been going great but right now I'm dealing with a very annoying buyer who just wants free work. We discussed what the gig will include and I sent him a custom offer and delivered on that day, but he kept asking for other things which are out of scope and not marking my order as delivered, I was still helping him with those things because I want to be a nice seller but he kept taking advantage and asking for more things and today he put a revision request with no requirements, only said "You didn't help me to the job" meanwhile he was clearly happy with the job and just kept asking for other things. I made the mistake of not selecting revisions, I thought it'd mean 0 revisions allowed, but apparently it means unlimited. I clearly explained to him that I have done what was asked and what exactly is it he wants me to do now? And he replied again with things way out of the scope, one of them being impossible. I had clearly told him what the gig would include and he accepted, now he's not even communicating properly, messages once or twice a day only, completely disregarding my messages and explanation and says some random stuff that he wants me to do as part of it, some being impossible. It's very clear he just wants free work and doesn't want to pay. I really don't know what to do now. I stayed up at night doing this work for him and he's taking advantage of me. I feel very vulnerable and helpless now. I got taken advantage of and I'm stressed out. I will probably not get paid for my hard work and he will probably leave a very bad review too for no reason, because now Fiverr allows buyers to leave reviews on cancelled orders too. Lesson learned: Set a limit on revisions, otherwise it's considered unlimited. If anyone has any advice for me, please let me know. Thank you.