desmond_aubery

Thank you for a review of your client vetting process. Brilliant. I learned something today. Your prices are entirely reasonable, and should not be the subject of bargaining.

Perhaps to clarify this further using my own case. I'm active in the Engineering field. Here, we engage on a particular technical project - considering the technical aspects only - as professionals, where personal preferences are purposely kept out the the picture. I care less about the personal side of the client. If a client suddenly began injecting personal preferences that I may find offensive into the discussion, I would consider this to be unprofessional behavior - raising one or more red flags for me. Depending on the level of red flags, I may respectfully decline to continue further. I would not engage in providing personal preferences, as this is unprofessional.

@transpainter - a thought - taking your idea to the extreme - let's request Fiverr to create a few filters, while they're at it: Sellers Who like animals Who like the colour green Who live outside the US Who are under forty Who like chocolate cake Who have an IQ of greater than 85 ... Practical solution for you to think about: You state your requirements/preferences when you first approach a seller Seller can decline if they so desire - for any reason whatsoever, at 'no prejudice'...

In a free market, we have 'willing buyer', 'willing seller'. If either party is no longer 'willing', then that is their free will and they should not be forced to accept a project. It reminds me of a case in the US where a baker turned down a certain client. It went all the way to the US Supreme Court, where the baker ultimately won the case. Some buyer-seller combinations just don't fit. Such is life. A marketplace should remain apolitical.

My serious enquiries began rolling down around 2 months ago. I initially tied this to the Northern Hemisphere Summer slowdown in the Engineering field. Recent waves of enquiries seem to be, in the main, time wasters. Anecdotal evidence is beginning to emerge of a US slowdown. (The EU is not doing any better). Food prices in some categories are decreasing, credit card debt appears to be rising, folks appear to be starting to tighten their belts. Not quite sure of how this trend affects freelancers and us on Fiverr..

😢 So incredibly sad to hear of this young man's passing. May he rest in peace. Condolences to his family and friends.

I've been in the Thermal Engineering field for over 40 years. At times I worked for companies on long projects, but generally worked as a freelance Executive Consulting Engineer. This adventure took me through over 36 countries and traveled over 1 million miles by airplane. In my early 40's I decided to change direction and operated as a part-time consulting engineer and PhD student in Thailand. Loved it. Life eventually found me migrating to Vientiane, Laos. Covid19 struck and I ended up with severe long-covid and Guillane-Barre syndrome - with severe leg and arm paralysis. Nearly died 3 times. What a life-changing event that put paid to my international travels. The paralysis receded gradually over a period of 12-15 months. I had to teach myself to walk again So, I decided to convert to online Freelance work. I selected Fiverr due to its ability to pay to Payoneer, since Paypal does not work here. Eventually, Fiverr's platform efficiency and payment integrity allowed me to settle here. I have tried a few other platforms, in parallel, but, frankly, found them extremely manipulative, and inappropriate for my operation and skill-set. Fiverr has its challenges, to be sure - it needs to be more aggressive in marketing our skills - rather than waiting for clients to wander in the Fiverr front door. But, on the whole, I like it here. 🙏☺️

An interesting observation. My updates went fine on two machines. While I was updating my main workstation, I decided to run Fiverr on my other laptop. Everything worked well. Everything was also fine on the updated main machine. So, it looks like Fiverr may not be MAC-specific, but rather tied to Google (or other) browser verification mechanism, and possibly router location (I use my tablet as my router for all communications).

Thank you very much. Very much appreciated. 🙏😊

I run the Linux Mint OS on my main workstation. This is the machine I always access Fiverr from. I'd like to upgrade to the latest version of Linux Mint on the same machine. Could this cause issues with my present Fiverr connections and verifications?

A sad intrusion into academic publications is Taylor & Francis selling access to their journal content as feed-stock for the AI vacuums - without author permission. Remember, authors pay for their academic papers to be published in these exclusive journals. I wonder if the AI vacuums have begun hoovering website content via scraping methods, or going as far as to pay hackers to intrude into proprietary information? Where will it end?

If you have multi-level directories in your RAR, or even ZIP delivery and are compressing using Linux, some WinBlow$ unzippers struggle with multi-level directories. It's then best to send in simpler zipped batches, instead of one large RAR/ZIP file.

A further security step would require Google Authenticator for each login.

Feedback on my post: Eventually the young man replied. What had happened was that he had lost a family member very suddenly (his brother) and this froze everything in his life for a while. He has handed over continuity for the project to a team mate - should he decide to continue. I shared the young man's sorrow and comforted him - wishing him the very best going forward. I also offered to be a sounding board should he ever need someone to talk to. Grief can be a tremendous life event.

As stated above, Fiverr take 20% of your project fee. Then, when you draw to your bank, you may see another fee of around $3. Then, depending on your bank transfer, you may end up losing another few $ to transfer to your home bank ($15 for transfers under $750 - depends on the transferring bank), then a further $1-3 from your final bank. Final amount in your pocket = 40 - 8 - 3 - 15 - 1 = $13 (-67.5%) Moral of the story: The overseers and banks get rich.