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The older Fiverr Select profiles are more prone to the attitude of “I used to pay $5 for this, why is this $100 out of sudden?” Like people left both their brains and their wallets in 2013 despite completing dozens of orders over the years. I don’t have these issues with newer Fiverr Select buyers, though. Fiverr’s Choice buyers, on the other hand... But that’s a separate can of worms to dig into.

I can’t believe I’ve made it to the point in my life to see people enthusiastically faking being Ukrainian.

We'll have to see about that. Everyone's keep talking about how bizzarre and unusual this war is. How literally "no one" wants it, yet there it is. Maybe we'll get surprised with how things unfold. In a non-nuclear way.

Yes. It's very easy for me. I am homeless spending day and night begging my family to gather their courage (and get over their stubbornness in some cases) to flee Kyiv and volunteering in a refugee center while trying to work to gather the money for them. We're having this "fight" because I haven't slept for more than 3 hours during these weeks and I am now terrified of darkness. So I'm waiting for the sun to come up. And I don't have a couch. We sleep on the floor. Old internet retorts don't really apply to this new reality, do they. The couch, lol. Of all the things.

Running into the night with a backpack is quite unpleasant, I can give you that. But I've done it with a pretty serious limp. Plus, Russia still has the roads and the airports. So that's a plus. As for people "being forced to join in", I hold no illusions. They will join in when they are told regardless of the financial situation. I hope it stops with the *professional troops* but let's be real. Russia is running out of those and Kyiv still stands. So I'd rather those who could leave would be pushed to while it's still possible. The alternative is mutual destruction. Not in Minecraft, for real. I don't know if the masses understand that. I don't know if people crying over Ikea leaving the market get where this is going. I hope they do.

If financial pressure makes Russian men hop the planes to Georgia or Estonia while they still can instead of joining the "brotherly liberation" of my people and holding nuclear powerplants hostage, I'm 200% behind the idea.

Oh, the whataboutism. Like I said, I'm sorry that it came to this. I am horrified. But if economical pressure stops something moral or political pressure cannot, why not. We're quite possibly days away from Russia announcing full mobilization. It'll be a very different world if it happens. Freelance platforms would be the least of everyone's worries.

We're way past the point of "oh I don't support this, it's fine. #lovepeaceunderstanding" I'm sorry that we are but somehow it got to this.

If you directly participate in the economy that pays for the war crimes, you get sanctioned, I'd imagine. If you don't or it can't be proven (by living and paying taxes elsewhere), you absolutely shouldn't be. PS every Russian acquaintance I have has suddenly become "25% ethnically Ukrainian". I don't know what to make of it.

I didn't know Fiverr had an office in Kyiv. They held the first Ukrainian social event on Dec 2nd right down my street. I was sick and couldn't attend, unfortunately. Kyiv is my home. We had 2 historical streets remaining after WW2 because of how heavily it was bombed by Germans. They leveled it to the ground. It's incredibly ironic that now it's getting destroyed with the same viciousness by the *fascist fighters" or whatever they choose to call themselves. I hope the city stands. It's been through so much historically, century after century, and every time it was rebuilt from the ground up. I appreciate this post so much. ❤️ I'm in Prague, I am safe. A friend of a friend of a friend let us stay in his apartment for a month until we get registered and figure things out.

lol, no, correction: it did.

It would be very helpful if fiverr didn't suddenly develop a new bug of allowing buyers to accept long-expired custom offers. At the worst possible moment. (the cancellation didn't affect my completion rate, though, as far as I can tell).

Ouch. I needed to hunt down Horizon Zero Dawn art book recently as a birthday gift. It has just came out in Ukrainian and immediately sold out. One online store employee was just yelling at me through the phone: “DO NOT put more than 1 in your cart, PLEASE. Yes, we have 4 copies available on the site BUT there is a queue. The availability loads directly from the database, I CANNOT turn it OFF”. 🙂 "I CANNOT turn it OFF, help me” sounds like a good gig description disclaimer at this point.

Yes, absolutely. I’d remove the option altogether, tbh. Buyers have no issues with placing multiple orders when they need to or with asking for a custom offer. But I’m assuming in some context multiples might be more convenient (?) I struggle to see such context but it's probably there (?) It just looks to me like trying to larp as an online store way too much. Except we’re not selling goods, we’re selling custom services.

I made all of mine work. Either by just going with it or by extending the delivery time. So the only frustrated party ended up being myself in the end. I wouldn’t recommend trying that at home but the money was good. Can't deny that. The lack of control of what you sell and who you sell it to is fiverr’s staple, though. At the same time, I had a call with the success manager and to my surprise, he enthusiastically agreed that contacting the seller before a purchase is a good thing. It gives the gig a face, an assurance that there is a human-being on the other end, and it inspires some confidence. A few years ago they were still saying that gig being a faceless product you just throw into the basket was the main idea. So maybe there are some changes underway in the way fiverr looks at things now. Not enough complaints, then. I've seen 1-3 active threads about the issue before this one. It's not a problem in the way the completion rate or the gig ranking is a problem. Until it happens randomly a few times a year and you have no idea what to do.

Fiverr probably doesn’t get enough complaints about it so it’s not a priority. Plus, profit. Yes, you’ll be running around with your hair on fire trying to extend the delivery time and figure out what prompted the buyer to do this BUT you’ll get a bigger sale out of it. Multiples is one of the main reasons I don’t do extra fast deliveries. I got an urgent job for 5 pieces once, it was unforgettable. 🙂

It is so misleading. It’s fiverr stating - on my behalf - that I can deliver 1 OR 20 posters in 4 days, no biggie. While I made no such commitments and never once advertised it even as a remote possibility.

Yes, please. Once-twice a year someone enthusiastically purchases 4-5 items at once and every time I’m just blown away that the option to buy multiples is still there, active by default. And the buyers will tell you: “Well, it was there so I assumed it was fine”. It is fine in the context of a $5 gig that takes 15 minutes to complete, I guess, but fiverr is no longer exclusively that. It hasn't been exclusively that for years and years.

Yeah, I’ll probably end up doing it. At least the concept is somewhat interesting and they are not asking for a variation of the Bored Ape for a change.

“Would you create an image that you know for sure is being commissioned to be turned into/actioned or sold as an NFT collectible (successfully or not)?” sounded like an awfully long topic post. There is a separate design category for NFTs on fiverr as well. Brings the point across.

I draw the line at resellers of all sorts, tbh. On Fiverr at least, when I can help it. Resellers claiming authorship versus ownership especially. As to a logical why, don’t know. You can call it a trauma from my ad agency unpaid intern days. 🙂

Oh, absolutely. But imagine stumbling across the news of your work being sold for thousands. I’d punch a wall a couple of times for sure. 🙂 Didn’t NFT become a thing right before covid (or right after)? At some point, I started getting calls with people ranting and raving about how we should get into this thing and become unimaginably rich. Then it just stopped. I figured it was a fad that died already but it seems to be still going and only picking up speed. I think I have a problem with the culture surrounding NFTs more than NFTs as a concept. It has this child entrepreneur vibe startup culture used to have. Astronomical budgets getting thrown around until they run out while people who are doing most of the work remain ridiculously underpaid. That kind of thing. I didn’t enjoy partaking then and I doubt I’d enjoy it now. Can you imagine adding a $400 NFT extra to all the gigs? That'd be the move. 🙂 PS Turns out, fiverr has separate NFT design/art category.

I have a brief for a potential new project in my inbox. It looks like it’s for a set of NFTs. I don’t have a strong “political” opinion about them one way or the other. But if a piece I’ve designed for $100 sells for $1000 somewhere, I’d prefer not to know it, probably. That'd be heartbreaking.

Flickr is such a bizarre choice for an “official” portfolio host. I remember it being all the rage around 2010-ish. Then yahoo! acquired it and killed it immediately. I wonder if Fiverr has made a deal with them back in the day because Fiverr/Flickr sounded similar. I agree that it’s not a good platform for a design portfolio. It was made specifically to exhibit photography. You can write to customer support and make suggestions. Sometimes they listen if they accumulate enough requests.

I always find these so yucky and unprofessional. I’m not here to play find the word with you. Not to mention, this stipulation is never present if a project is interesting/worth working on. I’ve been dabbling in buyer requests a little bit. My favourite part about them is you can filter them by price (which doesn’t always work for me for some reason) but not by other parameters. So you’ll see a $300 project, look into it and it’s for 50 unique items. $4.8/per item. Days of work. Pure insanity. More expensive ones turn out to be more offensive when you take a closer look.