Fiverr

I think it's a great new business model. I've bought some gigs and, although the quality of services is not consistent, I repute this website to be a great source of cheap freelance work. Its diversity is impressive and, if I may say, one great point to improve would be ensuring the quality and trustworthiness of users and their gigs. Obviously I don't know which technical solution would be able to handle this, but Fiverr could grow into THE reference for freelance buyers and sellers if they could guarantee quality and reliability with 99.9% certainty.

After a year on fiverr as both seller and buyer, I have to conclude that fiverr is just cheating both buyers and sellers.
As a buyer, refunds are not being made to credit card or PayPal - unless you raise it with your bank or PayPal. A process which might take another four weeks.
As a seller, fiverr might block your funds even after customers gave you a 5* review and marked the order as compete.
Taking 20 % commission and having to wait for 2 weeks (+3 days if order is not marked as complete) to be paid should make competent customer support affordable.

I have been on Fiverr seeking employment as a virtual assistant. I continue to get messages from people overseas with broken English who just want to waste my time! I will take my expertise elsewhere.

It took me many months before I could start making sales and just when I did; fiverr had to request for my ID which I presented. They said I was not the owner despite seeing the name on my id card and profile. I guess i don't have to look same in a pic i took 2-3 years ago. Finally i was signed out and lost my earnings. Requirements sucks.

Fiverr is a buyer facing platform that treats freelancers with complete contempt. I rarely leave reviews but in this case I feel the reality is not being reported enough, and feel like I should. From bad customer support through to sellers being open to blackmail from buyers.

Sellers are unable to stop buyers from placing an order and if an order is unrealistic or the buyer has misunderstood, it is always the seller that is penalised by the stats system which awards 'Levels'

Impossible to get support from the website staff, generic responses and most of the time completely ignored.

It's fair to say through a 20% cut the website takes, I have made this company a fair amount of money and can honestly say have never been treated worse.

I contracted a freelancer to promote a YouTube video. He stated he would get it viral over a 5 day exposure to over ******* people.
The first day it got about 3500 views. The second day 1200 of those had been removed by YouTube, probably because of the use of bots instead of real accounts. The third day it dropped another 800 views! And it stayed there for the remainder.
He then had the gull to say the job was completed and collected the payment.
2000 vies is hardly what I would call viral.
I complained to customer service at Fiverr and got a "that's between you and the seller" response and that they did not guarantee in any way customer satisfaction.
I have since cancelled my account and will never use them again.

System is rigged to take and hold onto your money. Both buyers and sellers pay high fees. Buyers cannot withdraw money if a job gets cancelled and refunded. Sellers have to wait two weeks to receive payments for completed work. It's 2020, this is not a technical limitation. It's a very poor ethics decision. Would leave a zero star rating if I could.

Fiverr does not respond to customer complaints before 5 days the least. There is no phone number listed either for customer service.

Fiverr does not control quality of the IT (illustrators) freelancers it allows to open up accounts. In my case where an illustrator posed to know 2 and 3D illustration and promoted it on his profile there, was highly unqualified to do the work and could not deliver after making 3 attempts for over 9 days.

I am not satisfied with Fiverr and the freelancers it has on it website and after complaining on time and numerous times, it has decided not to return my 157 dollars and the company suggests that I give the freelancer "more time" when it's not a matter of time, rather performance!

Fiverr customer service officers do not support sellers in any ways at all! Never waste your time and degrade yourself as a seller there. They believe the buyer without concerning themselves with the actual truth. Please think thrice if you are planning to sell your service there.

Buyer can walk away with the free copy of your work when the order is cancelled which is exactly what happened to me. Buyers can ask for extra work or change to a brand new piece of work without paying extra fees, and when you refuse, the buyer either leaves a bad review or request the resolution Centre to cancel the order, quoting that you are not qualified to do his work and the officer will just go ahead and cancel the order on his behalf.

The customer client don`t care about the buyers. I had one trouble with one order and they told me to sort it out with the seller, but seller had block me on the Fiverr, and the person from the customer support is like an robot asking same question and giving the same answers. So be careful before accepting a delivery from any buys you make. You might have a nasty surprise after...

While I like the fact that people can get low budget professional services, I think $5 is an insulting amount to pay someone in today's marketplace.

At that rate, if the project takes 2 hours you are paying the person $2.5 an hour. That's slave wages. The site takes 20% of earnings, so a seller is really earning just $4, or $2 an hour.

I believe that, even if it takes an hour or less, it takes advantage of hardworking people.

I believe people working on the site should get at least $10. Five dollars is an insult.

It is virtually impossible to contact support if (and when) you have a problem with a seller, and from I can tell a seller can then block you from contacting them, once you realise they are not delivering what you have paid for. May only be $5 bucks, but its a total waste of $5! You are left with the fiverr website that goes around in "contact us circles" and nothing else…. Total waste of money.

So I contacted Fiverr to get favorites on my Etsy store. Pay them and almost automatically get an email response stating " they could not fulfill my order because they were out of town" what? Really? I was told I would be refunded. Ha ha not refunded but credited back to my Fiverr account. And of course no customer service, no email reply. Stupid me. Never again. Check out the fiverr reviews, I wish I had

I am a graphic designer Photoshop artist. I came to this site last year to freelance. Little did I know disappointment was waiting for me. Fiverr has too many graphic designers and you wont make anything on it because many are doing the same thing at low, average or high price (that's if you are a graphic designer). Further more people would only look for gigs with higher ratings and reviews.

If you are a designer, I advise you not to try this site you wont make money. Also the buyers request is totally useless. They won't even remove the request if the buyers had their request already taken.

I have actually had a very good experience with this site. It is a buyers beware but peer reviews can help you weed out the bad ones. I just wouldn't spend a lot of money with anyone until they have proven they can do the work... for $5 that's not so bad.

I have used fiverr for video greeting, birthday video, logo modification and business copy. All experiences were executed efficiently and the product delivered was excellent in all but one situation - where the service provider was easy to work with resolving the issue. I would definitely consider for future needs.

Keep your money. I have dealt with quite a few (about 10) different sellers on this platform over the years. I was always thinking to save money, and help some less fortunate people out at the same time. I had faith and kept looking for a seller with an ounce of decency. They are no where to be found. The sellers will try to rip you off at the drop of a hat.

The very worst scenario is a project with payment milestones. Once a seller has received some payment, they now own you. They will try to get you off the platform, ask to send money directly to their bank... Stop working, delay after delay... have you believe they will continue,... etc... etc... Finally they will need more money to continue... "ALL" the sellers will act as though they care, and they are good people... DON'T BUY IT. Every seller I have had the displeasure of dealing with, are scammers.

The company (Fiverr) have told me that sellers will get banned for violations etc... Total B.S... Sellers can open new accounts so easily in other peoples names, emails, addresses, bank accounts etc...

Now with all of this being said, my projects have been copywriting and web related projects. So I can not comment other industry participants. But regarding my projects, I found Bangladesh and Pakistan sellers to be the worst, and Indian and African sellers not far behind... People from these countries prey on western people.

Hire local... Know who you are dealing with! In the long run you will save money and be much safer.

Good Luck!

Website was poor for a new user. Spent over an hour looking for the "create a gig option" obviously I started by clicking on the start selling option but was only directed to "how to sell" page with a YouTube video of how their users are happy with the services. Not one option from that page to begin selling just a search bar to buy from their marketplace. Rough.

I tried fiverr twice the first time the product created was so bad that my 10 year old could have done something that looked more professional. The second time the seller was late and than asked for twenty more dollars before I even saw any demo of the product. The customer service said they are not allowed to do that but that they had no way of enforcing their policies. The customer service for Fiverr is not good and they have no clue about customer retention. I will be trying one of their competitors to see if they can get the job done.

I recently used Fiverr to have a logo produced. Paid for a package to receive two designs and submitted notes about the concept of my logo design. I received two designs - one which had absolutely nothing at all to do with my company and the other design was in complete contrast to my notes. I brought this to Fiverr's attention and they responded by closing the project meaning I lost my money and the designer got paid for producing complete sh! T. I will fight the charges with my credit card company but Fiverr just PERMANENTLY lost a customer and if you are reading this review ad considering Fiverr... go somewhere else.

Fiverr is a special place for those of us that understand how to clearly communicate our concepts. If you understand how to select people and hold them accountable, while being nice and compensating them properly, then you will have an excellent experience. I find that all the sellers will do as asked, but you have to be patient and nice. Good luck!

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There is literally NO customer service. I had a problem where the seller did not deliver the product, so I wanted to cancel and receive a refund. There is no phone number. They redirect you in an endless circle where it is counter productive, in hopes that you will simply give up. The rating system is a joke. You're not allowed to give a bad review if you are dissatisfied, and everything is the buyer's fault. DO NOT USE this site!