[I Always Found "Fiverr Selected" Buyers are Very Cheap]

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. 

[For Ukrainian community members navigating Fiverr during the conflict.]

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

[Fiverr Suspends Business in Russia]

46 minutes ago, catwriter said:

Has it ever happened throughout the history, though? Economical pressure stopping something that moral or political pressure couldn't? As far as I know, it didn't. It just prolonged the agony.

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. 
 

[Fiverr Suspends Business in Russia]

35 minutes ago, wrenaker said:

Fighting on the forums from the couch is pretty easy, I can give you that. But I wouldn't wish anyone to be in Ukraine or Russia without money and support right now.

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. 

[Fiverr Suspends Business in Russia]

31 minutes ago, wrenaker said:

That would be great, but it's a little more complicated than that. Just because of such illogical decisions, ticket prices have risen disastrously and continue to rise, banks have restricted withdrawals, and there is no cash in ATMs. 

As a result, a large part of the population cannot leave the country if they want to. And next, men can simply be forced to join this madness, threatening the lives and freedom of them and their families.

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. 

[Fiverr Suspends Business in Russia]

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. 
 

[Fiverr Suspends Business in Russia]

21 minutes ago, kholland65 said:

Ok then Americans, Chinese, French, Saudi's, Iraqi's, Japanse, germans, north koreans, africans, or anyone who comes from a country who has started a war, dropped a bomb, or committed human rights violations should be shunned from global society because that's totally in the spirit of #lovepeaceunderstanding to accuse them all of being evil people just because their governments did something questionable. It's funny how all the people who claim to be the most loving and understanding are the first ones to call for the discrimination of anyone they don't like.

 

There is no excuse for this. It's no different than deciding to ban all Saudi Arabians after 9/11 or putting Japanese people in internment camps just because of the country they came from. I'm not seeing how the discrimination of russians is any different than those situations. 

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. 

[Fiverr Suspends Business in Russia]

41 minutes ago, kholland65 said:

So by paying taxes it means you support every your government does and should be held accountable? what a dumb statement. 

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.
 

[Fiverr Suspends Business in Russia]

1 hour ago, xeni_ya said:

Hello, what should do ethnic ukrainians who live and are registered in Russia? What should russians do who not live in Russia but registered for Fiverr from Russia several years ago?

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.

[Fiverr's Support of Ukraine]

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. 

[For Ukrainian community members navigating Fiverr during the conflict.]

On 2/25/2022 at 8:12 PM, lenasemenkova said:

(the cancellation didn't affect my completion rate, though, as far as I can tell).

lol, no, correction: it did.

[For Ukrainian community members navigating Fiverr during the conflict.]

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).

[Gig Multiples for Packages - option to turn off/limit multiples needed]

18 minutes ago, miiila said:

as he stopped trying at 521x

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.

[Gig Multiples for Packages - option to turn off/limit multiples needed]

12 minutes ago, donnovan86 said:

The lack of such option is severe.

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. 

 

[Gig Multiples for Packages - option to turn off/limit multiples needed]

11 minutes ago, donnovan86 said:

A sale that gets refunded and a frustrated buyer. I hardly call that a win. Plus, it's better for Fiverr if customers are happy, right? That's why sellers need to have more control over how much they sell.

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. 

13 minutes ago, miiila said:

It only means more profit in the cases where sellers just accept to get underpaid or run around with their hair on fire, and else, it means less profit, because sellers don't offer everything they would offer else (extras, 24-hour delivery), and a bad user experience - also not good for profit.

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. 

 

[Gig Multiples for Packages - option to turn off/limit multiples needed]

 

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. 🙂

 

[Gig Multiples for Packages - option to turn off/limit multiples needed]

8 minutes ago, donnovan86 said:

People assume that I agree with it if it's there.

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. 

 

[Gig Multiples for Packages - option to turn off/limit multiples needed]

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. 

[Would you design an NFT?]

14 minutes ago, moikchap said:

I'd take the money and run

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 design an NFT?]

4 hours ago, visualstudios said:

Also, just to add, there's no such thing as "designing an NFT".

“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.

 

 

[Would you design an NFT?]

10 minutes ago, visualstudios said:

Why? I don't get it, that's the entire point behind buying services. All my clients, specially companies, but also youtubers, etc. expect to make more than they pay for my work. That's the idea. Same as with NFTs, some may make it, some may not, they are the ones taking the risk, I'm the one getting a fixed payment that I set and agree with. If they can then make a 10000% profit on that, good for them, bad for me for not setting my price higher in the first place. It's all business.

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. 🙂

[Would you design an NFT?]

11 hours ago, mateusbl said:

where your buyer probably will sell nothing

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. 🙂

9 hours ago, donnovan86 said:

So yeah, it's in high demand.

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. 

11 hours ago, miiila said:

It's all gambling, created for the purpose of gambling. 

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. 

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you could increase your prices if they normally sold for lots more.

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. 

[Would you design an NFT?]

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. 

[Buyer Requests Responses are a problem]

On 1/27/2022 at 12:07 AM, izah_moh said:

"mustard"

 

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.

[Ink, needles, and tattoos oh my.]

I always loved how in attempt to make the lettering look Cyrillic, people would invert the "R". Because they think that "Я" also reads as "R", it's just turned the other way. And it's actually reads "ya" so that "яesist" across your bicep doesn't really work, my dear comrade.