FiverrReviews 1,140

Yes we are able to produce targeted leads for your home based business opportunity. That's what the add on fiverr stated i had looked everywhere for targeted leads and came across Cloudcbex on fiverr i was told through emails the only way i could pay was via Transfer wire which seemed legit $180.00 spent via transfer wire who confirmed via fiverr emails the transfer had gone through 2 months no leads. I contacted them and was told there is nothing you can do about it, fiver claim no responsibility for allowing a dodgy business advertise and collect funds and the transfer company blame fiver... Word to the wise give fiver and Cloudcbex a real big birth UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE RIPPED OFF TOO.

Maybe I'm bias because I'm a seller on Fiverr ($4k earned in January 2016). However, most of the user reviews I saw on this site are coming from people who seem to need to be better at reading comprehension. I've never had Fiverr not pay me. I have also purchased many gigs on Fiverr and have had 1 or 2 not go perfectly well, but a simple modification request to the seller was all it took to get them to correct the problem.

FOR SELLERS.
For new users, payment can be delayed 2 weeks (potentially up to a month, it's been awhile since I was a new user). They are VERY transparent about the payment system and you can even see exactly when the money is available for withdraw.

FOR BUYERS.
Use some common sense before bidding on a professional service. Ask for their portfolio (if it's web design, graphics, writing, etc). Ask what specifically is included in your purchase. Fiverr cannot force you to accept a seller's work, so if the work done is not what you were expecting, request a modification and the seller must work with you to make it right. Again, read the terms on the site and utilize the tools available instead of calling it a scam.

Fiverr customer support is terrible. I posted a gig, got a buyer, spent hours on the project, delivered the goods, the buyer left a good rating, but I have yet to receive my funds. I keep getting these useless responses from their customer support. They are scam and I would not use them again or recommend them. If I had the time and it wasn't such a small amount of money for the project, I would definitely push a lawsuit. I wonder how many small jobs they just commandeered the profits for themselves because people don't have the time to chase after them for these small amounts of money. I'm waiting for the class action lawsuit because it is probably coming. If they correct this issue I will post a new comment to let everyone know.

Very very few, if any, artists that are actually talented and do a competent job on this site. Correction: they all absolutely stink. If any "art" provider on fiverr takes exception to what I say, please do, because if you were any good, you wouldn't even be on that site! Don't be mad that you absolutely stink and can't take detailed instructions properly. I took a chance based on an artist's portfolio, past works, 5 star feedback and paid over $100 for the many extras. Didn't make deadline, art was half done, used cheap clip art and fonts, and completely ignored all my detailed by step instructions. Obviously, portfolio was fake and the feedback stars were fake too. Don't bother reconciling on Fiverr to get money back. Open a dispute on PayPal immediately to get everything back... sure Fiverr will ban you for doing so, but that's actually doing you a favor and you get all your money back with no commission taken from you,

I have been both a buyer and a seller on Fiver and I've been disappointed both directions. As a buyer I've had sellers who delivered just horrible quality then got mad when asked to make it right. One even filed a complaint against me when the product he delivered wasn't even close to what he'd promised and I refused to pay. Another did such a low quality job that I think my kid could have done better. I understand I won't get much for $5 but in my case I offered more in exchange for better quality and the quality was still low.

As a seller I find there are very few orders and the site is a bit hard to navigate. Just try to find your own "gig" for example, even from your admin pages, to do edits.

My customers have liked my products and I've gotten "tips" on sales which in many cases doubles my income. The problem is the fees charged eat it up. Let's say I have a $5 item and I get a $5 tip so I made $10 from the sale. But then Fiver charges me $2 in their fees plus an additional $1 to send me my money via PayPal. If I want it sent any other way the fees are higher, in some cases MUCH higher. So Fiver is taking 30% of my gross income on the sale!

If I'd made the $5 sale and NOT gotten a tip they would have taken $3 of the $5 I was paid. Making $2 for an item isn't profitable.

In the "Price-Quality-Service, Pick any two" equation you're getting a very low price, but I'm just not seeing that you're getting either of the other two. When you only get one of the three items it's a bad deal and should be avoided. That's my advice for both buyers and sellers... Avoid it.

I am an ex-Fiverr freelancer, and I say ex- for a few very good reasons, from all perspectives - freelancers selling gigs, customers buying those gigs, and the company itself. Let me enumerate why I left Fiverr.

1. Actual freelance work is generally hard to get in the first place if you're just starting out, unless you are willing to "SELL! SELL! SELL!" your product or service at a rock bottom price. In other words, about $1 USD/hr. The only way around this is to induce your "upsell", or else farm out your work to even lower paying workforces. Note that there is also a good chance that your "client" is in fact just another Fiverr worker, looking to act as a broker, and scouting out new talent. This is what happened to me. They were simply taking my work, making a few tweaks, and upselling to another client at a higher hourly rate.

Also, know up front that Fiverr will take a dollar out of every five dollars (not gigs, actual amount paid - $5 gig you get $4, custom order $500 gig, they get $100 etc.) so that's 20% of your earnings gone right there. Not only that, they will charge you additional money to transfer your money out of your Fiverr account to Paypal (who also might charge you, depending on how you've set your account up.) Fiverr will happily retain your earnings for a full 2 weeks (10 business days) before you are paid for your work. Excellent business practice, guys - nice way to scam your workforce!

2) I've never been an actual buyer on Fiverr, but pretty much all the issues that everyone else has brought up is right on the nose. Low cost equals low quality, in general. Not to mention copyright issues, communication issues, payment issues, and the overarching ethics of doing business this way.

The sweetest part about this? They also have a (imho) fishy payout schemes like Payza and Payoneer which issue you a debit card, on which there's also a fee.

As you can probably tell, I'm not happy with this business in the least.

Tinker M.
Q: I work for a company called Zazzle. At our forum we learned that this company is copying owned art and selling it on their products. A lot of it. And we are just one place. This is a criminal offense and I suggest anyone who sells artwork with Print on demand companies check to see if there art is there. One item is labeled best selling and has sold many times, if yours is one of these get a attorney and send a cease and desist and demand whatever money they earned to be returned to you.

I just wanted to take a couple of seconds to stress a point of view regarding Fiverr. Fiverr is exactly what it promotes itself to be. It is a cheap gigs platform where all incompetent scammers have an opportunity to prey on people looking for cost effective work to be performed. The idea behind providing a free platform for offer and demand exchange is great but it comes with consequences to the users. The winners in Fiverr are the lousy freelancers and Fiverr owners. The big losers are the ones that use them :) so bottom line is you get what you pay for! If you want good quality work, I suggest you use other quality platforms that use quality and evaluated freelancers. NOT the cheap Fiverr! Good luck!