Fiverr has a rating of 1.3 stars from 1,129 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Fiverr most frequently mention customer service, credit card, and low quality problems. Fiverr ranks 106th among Freelancing sites.
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Where do I start? They doubled their processing fee which is extremely high for the amount per gig. They send out specials and then revoke the credit without telling you why and don't refund it back. Be careful of the email promotions they try to suck your money out and don't live up to their agreement. With the new changes, when you review your orders (I order covers) they put the water mark over it and I can barely see the cover well which is extremely important to my business. Also when you order two gigs I have to close out the gig in order to get my cover which closes the entire order! I paid for two gigs and they close out everything if I agree to download my first order! Terrible! Terrible changes to this site! Beware!
Date of experience: September 7, 2016
I have cancelled my order to one of there freelancer and requested to refund my money back to my payment card that I've used upon paying the gig for 80$. On my account transaction shows on there site that the 80$ was refunded back to my mastercard but I've waited for 2 weeks and nothing came. I been contacting the support team but got no response.
I am planning to make a complain to the authority. Does anyone knows how to properly make a pursuit complain to this company?
I will follow up my bank as well
Date of experience: November 5, 2017
I ordered a book cover from someone who claimed that they would make me an awesome book cover. I paid extra for a shutterstock image. When I received the product I was shocked. The design is something that a 8 year-old could do. I just wasted $57.00.
Date of experience: August 23, 2015
If you cancel an order and the money is refunded, it is not refunded to you! It stays in your buyer account and can only be used on Fiverr. How is this even legal? I received nothing and they keep my money!
Date of experience: September 4, 2015
This is the worst site you can ever deal with it, I opened the account and they closed it only after 1 day without any logical reason, the customer support is terrible, My advice not to deal with this site at all
Tip for consumers:
you can login into this site for alternatives
http://www.gigslerr.com
Date of experience: March 31, 2015
A few weeks ago, I told Fiverr that a seller has misrepresentations in his profile.The seller advertises with certificates that do not exist. I have provided evidence to Fiverr.
But Fiverr does nothing!
How can I trust that other profiles are correct?
Date of experience: December 19, 2017
I'm not complaining about the sellers. $5 or $10 is not a lot of money.
But Fiverr, your website is a piece of s*** to use. It's hard to organise the products as they come through, it's hard to contact the seller, and you closed my orders after three days. Yes, I took three days to look over the designs. I'M BUSY. Now you just f***ed everything over and I can't continue my orders.
SIMPLIFY.
Date of experience: October 24, 2015
They ask for a brief and still cant get anything close. A lot of money for rubbish and I am sure the designer is getting very little for their effort. Be wise and use someone local. What a waste of our money.
Tip for consumers:
Tip? Stay away.
Products used:
Logo design
Date of experience: June 1, 2022
My order was canceled by Fiverr, they didn't tell why. They wrote "your order was canceled by customer support for following reason: " blank.
They "refunded" my 5 dollar but kept 50 cents "processing fee"
If you want to get rich, build a platform where people can place orders, take a fee for doing nothing, then cancel all orders and keep the fees. Nice business plan
Worst for me is there is NO contact info to ask "customer support" about this. So have to do it in form of review
First and last order on fiverr. From now on will use http://www.fiverup.com/
Date of experience: March 16, 2016
I recently bought gig on fiverr and got cheated by guy from "INDIA", and there is no effective support given from fiverr team, so, I gave up! There are many good service providers also, but keep yourself ready to for disappointments.
Date of experience: July 23, 2015
The structure of the site makes you to bid at $5, which is good for some dude on Sri-Lanka, but can barely pay for beer plus metro ticket on developed countries. You can indicate that client must select extra options to complete work at low, but somewhat fair price (e.g. Using the fast delivery and extra gig to up the price to $50). But the client cannot be forced to do so, so you end cancelling gis.
The main issue is that cheap, low quality service terms attract cheap, low quality clients. This site may work for poor high school students and citizens of countries such as India, Sri Lanka and Africa.
Date of experience: December 14, 2015
This is a scam site. Beware. You will have no recourse to get your money back. The work I received for my logo was supposed to be original artwork. What I was sent was cut and paste that looked like it was done by a preschooler. I tried to get my money back. Customer service is a joke. Rather than responding, they just marked my request "closed" and wouldn't respond any further. Lesson learned to check reviews before I sign up for something.:-( **Update** after saying I was going to dispute the charge, fiverr disabled my account "to keep my account safe". Ha!
Date of experience: June 2, 2017
I spent a good amount of time setting up my Fiverr account and watching videos they said my selling gig was published no issues and then a little while after i bought a logo for my profile, they decide to not approve my account. I think they do that to make money off of people buying logos for their profile since fiverr gets a cut of the money. Seems like a scam to me- written by BCDailyTarot
Date of experience: November 6, 2023
Had a bad seller, wont edit his poor work. Sent a message to Fiverr support but all they said was work it out with the bum. I tried that and all he did was rant that I was a crummy buyer... all because I wanted what he advertised but didn't deliver
Date of experience: June 21, 2017
Man, I should have read the reviews. Supposedly a program that should have been completed in 29 days, has been dragged on for 3 months and after cornering the seller into giving up a deadline, he finally disappears.
And of course, the service team say it's too late for a refund because it's been passed the 29 days and I never modified the order, even though the seller kept sending me completed orders by attaching stupid word documents to the gig which since he delivered "something" then that automatically completes the deal. The seller was sending me BS documents almost everyday, if you don't reject it within 3 days, buyer assumes acceptance by default.
It's a complete scam. I invested $3000. 00 and no one can help me.
I'm getting my lawyer to look into this and from the lols of it I'm not the only one who has been scammed.
Hmm... I might even have to contact some of you guys here, if we can get enough people against fiverr we can have a strong and solid case.
Date of experience: November 4, 2016
I had used this site for about 6 months, never had any problem. One day I get a message your account is suspended, no reason why. Email says to see why log into your account! I can't log into my account! Had 2 outstanding orders that were cancelled, now I can't get that money back!
Date of experience: February 4, 2017
I had a horrible experience recently where a agency I hired on their website scammed me by deleting everything on my website. Even after providing the proof that agency is Scot free selling on their platform. I don't think buyer satisfaction a priority there.
Date of experience: February 19, 2022
I've used Fiverr to create some promotional videos, backlinks, voice over work among other things (you can view some of the work on my instagram https://www.instagram.com/kr_bash/ and FB (https://business.facebook.com/knrbash1/) pages. Overall, I am satisfied with my purchases because I understand that you get what you pay for. However, some of my orders are more than $5, but I read the seller's reviews and make sure I give future buyers an accurate and honest review (although the sellers do beg for a 5 star review).
Date of experience: October 19, 2016
So we are a class undergoing training for a Virtual Assistance course. We're required to sign up and set up an account at Fiverr. We all made an account that day. The next day we had our accounts disabled. Ok, fine... I email their customer care to explain the situation. I figured they might have suspected us for bots. I explained, provided proof, provided links to government-sponsored programs, and provided pictures of our school, students and trainers. They didn't explain which specifically of the ToS we violated, they didn't suggest ways to help us, and they didn't offer to help us. Instead, they were in a hurry to terminate communication without further input in their end.
Date of experience: August 24, 2018
All of the other terrible reviews are true... Too easy to be real right? Yes, usually if it is too good to be true it is - Graphic designer tasked to make 2 logos for $60 - 7 days later, no logos and the designer/seller quit on me! Lol. I asked them to make some simple changes and they stated it was too much. Don't be fooled - there are some huge language barriers with the artists. Most likely they are just using some premade logos. These are basic designs that elementary school children could design if needed. Had to call my credit card company and dispute the charges, because once they refund you from the seller you CAN NOT refund your money from Fiverr. Thats where they get you! Your money is stuck in your Fiverr acount and you can't get it out! What a Scam!
Date of experience: October 24, 2017
This gig:
https://www.fiverr.com/bolla1996/create-personal-moz-account-valid-for-2-months
Just saved me for over 200$ I receive 1 Month Moz Pro account and Semrush account, I know that both offer 30 and 14 days free trial but I don't want to submit my credit card information,
Thank you Fiverr
Date of experience: April 8, 2016
Bought a gig and did not pay $5, surprise, surprise. The work provided was amateur at a stretch of imagination. The language was weak and grammar was all over the shop. I laughed out loud reading it the first time. Seller took 8 days to complete a simple task and I asked repeatedly for changes to be done and was provided a non existent "revised" version.
Subsequent requests for a cancellation was only met with a refund of a third of the work, reason being that work had already been done. Writing to fiverr, they colluded with the seller saying that work has been already done, and it's the prerogative of the seller to refund or not.
Absolute sham job. Go to upwork.com where the standards are much better.
Date of experience: April 25, 2016
Terrible sellers and Fiverr keeps your money, even if you want a refund!
Got a problem with a purchase? Tough, no refunds. That is Fiverr's policy, any money you have paid can only stay on their ledger and be used for another purchase.
ABSOLUTELY NO REFUNDS are permitted.
Absolute swindlers.
Do not buy any product or service at Fiverr, and do not sell there, either.
Date of experience: March 19, 2016
They don't allow you to talk on the phone with seller. I ordered personal statement, resume and cover letter, the guy wrote it so terrible I didn't want to pay. They hide behind the rules and they do a terrible job
Date of experience: June 16, 2018
If for some reason your order gets cancelled they will give you credits not a refund to your original payment method.
The worst part is that in order to use those credit the next purchase has to be for the same amount of your credit in your account.
Date of experience: March 26, 2017
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