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Hi everyone, I would like to talk about Fiverr platform and changes on this platform which made this almost impossible for sellers to be successful, experienced and especially new ones. Maybe some of you won't agree, but let me continue. 

Here are some changes that made this platform worse: 

This option was THE ONLY option for new sellers to get some orders and reviews. I got 80% of job from this option and I know a lot of sellers who also got nice jobs by sending offers in Buyer request field. Why was this removed? Because of scammers who copy/paste their offers without reading buyer's request? If buyer thinks seller didnt read his request, then simply they could not answer them. 

The worst decision ever. Also, whole algorithm depends on this, so this makes this decision even worse. 

The thing is, you can see private feedback which your buyer left you, so you actually cant see what bothers your buyer and what you did wrong in that order. Also, there are lot of people who will simply leave you bad private feedback, just for fun, even dough you did everything perfect and you got nice public review from the same people. 

Anyway, I am thankful for 2 years of experience which I got on Fiverr, but after you made all those changes, this became one very bad platform, where you compete with others, fight algorithm, deliver high quality work, give buyers more revisions then agreed, deliver finished work before delivery date, and all that for some very low price. 

I am very disappointed of what this platform became, but whatever, I know I will find some other places where they treat sellers better. But for all sellers on this platform, Fiverr should consider removing useless private feedback, bring back buyer request, stop making changes which put sellers in very bad positions, and generally, treat their sellers better. 

And for all buyers reading this, these are all the reasons why you will get cheap, and not high quality product. Because all prices are similar, cheap, and you cant easily find good sellers, because of algorithm. 

Why was Fiverr better few years ago than now?

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