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, from South America (brazil, colombia, etc.). None of them are interested in buying at all, and it just started recently. They want to either ask for work, beg for money. 

I did not get, in over a month, a single serious lead through promoted gigs.

I asked one of them how did they find us, and they just said "I googled how to make money editing video" (in portuguese), and that lead them to our fiverr profile (through promoted gigs). 

Fiverr is actively advertising for us to appear in these types of 

, and considering it as "promoted gigs", costing us money and time. 

This is totally unacceptable marketing on Fiverr's part. 

I don't want my profile to be out there for people to contact me when searching for ways to make money video editing. 

I want to be contacted by people who want to pay me to edit their video.

And I don't want to advertise to South America 

. I should be able to select the target markets for my promoted gigs, like I can with ads on any other platform.

I just deactivated promoted gigs, and I suggest everyone does the same. If Fiverr doesn't learn how to properly advertise, for qualified leads, they'll stay deactivated. It's Fiverr's loss. 

This is inadmissible

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