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Fiverr has a rating of 1.3 stars from 1,128 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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This review began as a 1 star, and I changed it to a 5 star. There is a deficiency in the Fiverr software that made me have to rewrite my complaint every time the seller responded. I thought that the seller had figured out the perfect system to make sure the review never reached Support. However, it did reach support, and support resolved the issue within a few hours after I made the complaint.
If I could leave minus100 starts I would. When you first sign up you are attacked by hundreds of scammers. Then when you do get a gig you discover this is the most horrendous freelancer site ever. The withhold your earnings for 2 weeks, then when you have to verify to release payment, there is a glitch and you didn't receive a verification code, you cannot wait a few minutes and do it again, instead they withhold the payment another 24 hours? They also deduct over 20 percent of your earnings, so if your payment is 130, you get 100 USD. They still have my payment and I cannot get it out. This site should be taken down.
I would like to be purely honest with you on this. I hate fiverr for:
1. Seller Protection - next to none.
2. Low quality sellers.
I have recently tried an alternative to them called SEOClerks and I have been liking them a lot. I made more money with them in 1 month as compared to what i earned from fiverr in 3 months.
Date of experience: June 9, 2013
Fiverr stole 2 book manuscripts I wrote.
Sold them to clients on their site for $660.
Did not pay me one cent and disabled my account.
Took another $70 out of my account for services they didn't deliver.
If you would like to file a class action lawsuit with me, please email me at *******@gmail.com
I am mother of an infant disabled child.
If they can hurt someone like me, trust me, they will hurt you too.
Tip for consumers:
Please file class action lawsuit against them.
Date of experience: March 17, 2015
Very easy to use platform, however it has terrible security protocols. They closed my account due to there lapse in responding to support issues as a seller. Then told me I violated there terms because I found a solution to being paid outside of there platform
Date of experience: November 30, 2021
Thank god i read these reviews,,, even though i made a purchase of 15 dollars,, and paid by PayPal... after reading the nightmares about this company... i called PayPal immediately and requested a claim against them and a refund... next time i will do more research
Date of experience: January 2, 2016
I am totally disappointed about fiverr service. My accounts is disable because a buyer complain to Trust & Safety team. I have sold 24 gigs and there is only one buyer complain about my gigs and then the Trust & Safety team disable my account. My accounts review ratings is 4.9. Dont understand about Fiverr how its works? I am using fiverr on Feb 8,2015. But a buyer how join this oct 2015. Fiverr totally take action on me without warning and dispute with me. That was horrible.
Date of experience: October 28, 2015
Used to be level 2 seller there for 8 years. I had an outstanding record and one morning Fiverr decided to disable my account and all sellers within my niche the gigs were removed. Sent numerous questions to ask why did they shut me down the only answer I got is "breaking TOS". The so-called "TOS" are made in a way to punish always the seller. Nevertheless, no TOS was broken.
Date of experience: May 25, 2018
I love fiverr.com.
Are you looking for writing help? Editing, proofing, help? Do you need a snappy, creative, funny, personal ecard? This is what I use this site for. You can even get one of the actors on this site to call and pretend they are Santa Clause, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy to surprise (and freak out) your kids.
This site has song writers, artists, story writers, editing/proofing help, you name it. There are just too many categories to list. Check it out!
Date of experience: August 11, 2014
AVOID.
Communication and understanding of the english language made it difficult to work with the freelancer as they didnt understand requests well at all.
A small change would take about 3 revisions to get it right.
Once you as a buyer leave feedback, the buyer can see it and rate you according to the feedback.
At least on other sites both parties leave reviews prior to seeing the others review.
Customer Support was less than helpful about removing a bad review I got after giving a 2 start review on communication.
Date of experience: March 11, 2018
One the most dishonest company on planet, do not believe any words they say, I had issue with my website development order, they said there is 14 days grace period, my $#*!! They wasted my two weeks on issue and in the end ripped me off with $16USD. They are absolutely dishonest and there to make their fee not to look after customers. Stay away and use a better platform then Fiver!
Date of experience: September 30, 2021
Never before have I had such a terrible experience with a site. In 7 orders I have managed to have only one delivered without being cancelled by the seller at the last minute.
There is some form of scam happening here, but I am not clear on what it is just yet. Is it run by Fiverr themselves in order to hold money in an account because as a buyer you cannot get you rmoney back that is already spent and in this way Fiverr is hoping that people will walk away from their $5 or more... I can only assume that is what Fiverr is doing and apparently making a fortune from it.
Or can someone else tell me what the true scam here is and the interest for sellers to take orders and cancel them at the last minute? - I can only see that Fiverr is doing this to line their pockets.
Date of experience: October 2, 2016
As a seller you risk not getting paid. No matter how much effort you put in, the buyer can cancel their credit card or Paypal charge and Fiverr will not file an appeal to the credit card company. Instead they say "we didn't get paid either" even though as if that makes it alright that you wasted hours. Then as a buyer if you get subpar work there is no way to force the seller to fix it. Seems like it is all about Fiverr maximizing their money and providing little in terms of customer service.
Date of experience: April 15, 2017
Honestly I don't know what's wrong with sellers on fiverr.
I needed a website in short terms, contacted seller, he gave me custom order and I have agreed to pay whatever he requested. Timeline 2 days for 1 page website, 5 days later its not ready. Seller tells me to cancel the order and order again so it will give him more time to finish and not get into a trouble for late delivery. That's what I did, and guess what he tells me he doesn't to do it anymore. Customer support cancelled second order for him. When I reached to support they explained that seller cannot deliver. What a waste of 5 days. Totally useless service with poor support. Do they screen sellers beforehand? Why would sellers post gigs if they are not capable to deliver? Should they be able to sell gigs at all
Date of experience: December 16, 2015
Poor service.No access to telephone or realtime interaction with customer service.
Attempts to pay are convoluted and result in double billing or incorrect (overcharge) billing.
Probably a scam.If not... the Bozo Brigade.
Date of experience: January 4, 2015
I was a successful seller on Fiverr with the name "ammarishot" until they disabled my account and promised they would give funds to my account within 365 days (I had earned around 100 USD in my account). It's been over 2 years and I still haven't gotten the money that I worked so hard for. This is terrible business practice and I don't know how they're still up.
Tip for consumers:
Never pay money to a company that does theft.
Products used:
None, I'm still looking for better options,
Date of experience: May 30, 2020
NOT INTUITIVE- I originally set up my account to hire a web developer but now I'm trying to set up offering of my business services but it's impossible to figure out how to do that on the platform. Extremely frustrating experience I've been on here 20 minutes and have gotten nowhere - it is very unclear how to even upload my photo
Date of experience: May 10, 2023
I think some of the buyers have found an old trick not to pay and make the sellers do some samples for them and they just flee from the scene. They never come back and ever give their request to you to get it done. I am a translator and I found myself alone in this field when I did a part of their project for two of the buyers on Upwork and Fiverr. She/he just requested my FB and TW?! To verify my profile!. I had a plan to make some money for my children guys!
Date of experience: May 26, 2017
I completed a gig and was paid for it on February 9, and will not get the money from Fiverr until March 9. I am absolutely outraged. Not only that, but Fiverr extracted a fee of $4 for their exceptionally awful services.
Basically, Fiverr is taking advantage of a job market that encourages employers to pay freelancers peanuts without the employer having to pay any taxes to the federal government. Fiverr takes a cut from the freelancer and the employer gets away without having to pay any fees. Shame on you, Fiverr!
The website itself is almost impossible to navigate.
Date of experience: March 3, 2015
Remember the following: You would never ever get your money back.
No refund process whatsoever. Say goodbye to your money.
I sent over five emails to the refund department and over a month's waiting period, and still no action.
Date of experience: June 4, 2022
I use fiver 3 times, my first experience was very positive, I was super happy!
I order two services on the same day, one of the sellers did the best to try to deliver what I was expecting, the second one, didn't response, I tried to contact Fiver but they do not have a contact number support, I tried to send an email, it didn't work neither.
The idea is a great but no every seller has the experience or the same care for the customers. The experience will depend 100% of how lucky you are on finding someone who is there to provide the service that you paid for. Because it's no customer service to complain
Date of experience: October 1, 2015
I was so happy for using fiverr because i was earning good money but it doesn't stay for so long. Fiverr blocked my account with the total money of $418.5 (available and pending clearance that was about to clear in couple of days) and also 281.5 as upcoming earnings extra. I submit a ticket about this and they reply me that i have made "fraudulent purchase" (i never purchased anything from fiverr). I reply them and asked to provide me the prove about it and they never reply me back and the most worst thing they blocked my IP address so i can not access my account from my laptop or mobile but i can login from other computer which i never used for fiverr.
Please do not use fiverr.
Tip for consumers:
Please Do Not use this website
Date of experience: September 1, 2015
Cannot Cancel orders once submitted - strange software. In Help and Support - in my Orders there is Cancellations - but since there are no cancellations in my account it does not open that up. Irrespective - once submitted an order it cannot be cancelled. Sometimes turn around time is less than 16 hrs - when you need item clearly within the next few hrs - I just submitted an order and now cannot cancel it
Date of experience: August 21, 2020
Several years back I started using fiverr because I live in a rural area and finding local creative talent was difficult. This week I went online and ordered a service. I paid the asking price, they added a huge fee. $2.75 on a $50. Next came the absolute chaos. There is an inbox, a task box, a messenger box, and 27 other places where messages between buyers and sellers can go and NONE OF THEM ARE CONNECTED - NONE OF THEM. I almost lost my mind. Sometimes communication was in one place then another then on my phone but not on the site. My Doer did a great job so I tipped $10, another fee $2.55 - on a $10 charge is ridiculous. I won't be back fivver.
Tip for consumers:
the fees and site complication are not worth the small amount I saved. go somewhere else.
Products used:
youtube graphics
Date of experience: January 8, 2022
I offered a translation gig on fiverr, 800 words for $5, in 2 days max. A buyer picked up on it and ordered several gigs at once, several times. Since they always ordered several gigs I ended up being late on most of the orders, which led to a bad score. The buyer told me they didn't care and they were satisfied with my work, never left a positive review though. At one point I ended up in hospital for a few days and wasn't able to respond to another order the buyer had placed. They cancelled the order and left a bad review and now my gig's score is so low, that no one will order it ever again. Also fiverr keeps $1 for every gig you sell, which is basically 20% and far too much, and it takes at least 2 weeks until you get your money. Never again.
Date of experience: August 5, 2015
Beware of sellers and customer support on Fiverr. More than 80% of the sellers on Fiverr are conmen, scamsters, liars. They have a habit of marking the order as delivered without the exact delivery of product &/services.The sellers will manipulate you to give them 5 star feedback, force suspicious, fraudulent terms and sometimes abuse you. Customer support just sits pretty over all this scam and blunder. Instead they give account closure warnings to unsuspecting buyers from time to time.
Date of experience: December 28, 2015
I have been using Fiverr to get voiceovers and such and then I got a job where I needed some 3D work done. I found a seller with a job profile that matched the style I wanted, we talked he said he can do it then he gave me the complete opposite of what I asked. I asked for a refund and unfortunately Fiverr took his side, even if it is blatant that the work did not match what I wanted, plus when I wrote a bad review on the seller, Fiverr deleted it. Watch out
Ps. you can see the job description below and the items he gave me, you be the judge.
Date of experience: August 8, 2021
Fiverr is the world’s largest marketplace for creative and digital services, including graphic design, copywriting, voice overs, and music and film editing.
Fiverr is changing the way the world works together by giving entrepreneurs, freelancers, small businesses and even enterprises the resources they need to get things done.
