Fiverr

Great way to make a quick $5 as long as you have something of value to offer and it's in demand. The worst thing about this site though, is that when you do successfully make a sale, they place your payment on hold for 2 weeks! After that you can then withdraw through paypal, but keep in mind Fiverr does keep $1 so you really only get $4

If you want to waste you time, contact Fiverr Helpless Center and wait forever for automated pre-written answer that do nothing to your issue.

If you want to encounter horrible clients who would harass you for free work or unreasonable work, because they can threaten you with "1 star review" if you don´t deliver or complete their ridiculous "favors", try register with Fiverr.

If you are being a freelancer for fun, this is your place as you will get 1 order in every 5-6 months if you are lucky.

No seller or buyer takes their business to this horrible place because
- Outdated web design. Ugly.
- Impractical gig and pricing plan system.
- Pre-made review. Automated reply from the staff
- Helpless support team.

Good luck

Wish I had read your reviews first! I paid for an IT service (which ended up costing me about $9, not $5 as expected). Had it for about 2 weeks and then the seller withdrew my access (even though I'd paid for an entire year). His profile has disappeared off the site. I emailed a complaint, and this is the response I got: "Thank you for contacting us. I am sorry for your bad experience. I can say that your seller is being viewed by our Trust and Safety team and because of our policy I am unable to share any more information."
Very helpful indeed. Don't waste your money!

An insulting attempt to drive wages in general (and especially for Professionals) way below the minimum. The basic price of their "gig" is forcibly set to $5 (that's five dollars!), and even with several revisions it is maximized at $25. You are not allowed to set your own prices, except maybe using some cunning ways that may or may not be available later in the setup process.

As per my title I've experienced many dodgy freelancers and found the review system to be dodgy. Both of these have been raised with Fiverr with no outcome. The credit systems for refunds is flawed also.

The crazy hoops you have to jump through just to delete an account says it all. Buyers don't give enough detail on jobs and you get punished for that. You can't turn down jobs that are kinda shady to begin with. The client that I made from my first job has given me tons of work now after we broke out of their interface.

Waste of time and bandwidth.

After you deliver your work, a buyer can state that they are "unsatisfied" and keep whatever work you did for them. When this happened to me, I reached out to support, showed them the hours of work I'd done and the final product which had already exceeded requirements for the gig & they did nothing. I've brought in thousands $$ from the site (meaning they've made a bunch of money off that), and have only ever received 5-star reviews prior to this buyer, yet Fiverr still sided with the con artist. Super disappointed & no longer selling on the site.

Ive used the website on two purchases, one was a business plan in which u can tell it's been ported from some where, it's was very very basic not what I had expected according to the gig explain action.
Someone else did a nice resume for me, I added extra 10.00 to him so he can release me the soft editable copy, until today I'm still waiting it's been months, I stopped asking him. I'll use them for quick fix but not my favourite.

Avoid at all costs, they are greedy and money hungry, charging buyers and sellers 20% fees, how do they expect anyone to make any money at that rate and pay 15% self employment tax? 35% of income goes to fees, then tack on biz. Expenses. With this concept they will go out of business and so will sellers. Everything is over priced and they have way too many sellers with no skills. Those they label fiverr pro want $500+ for a basic gig, better off hiring someone on Craigslist. Greedy money hungry company not built to last. Just read the forum of all the complaints from buyers and sellers. Listen to the feedback and make the changes or people will do business elsewhere. Seems like they got real greedy after they finally reached a profit. The micro managing, fees, and abudance of unqualified sellers is a big turn off.

Waste of time! If you are in the US and need any letter writing, editing, resume writing, etc., MOVE ON! The sellers are either located in a foreign country where their English is a second language e.g. "she did never bothered to ask" or the seller is not skilled and sends the work overseas where you get back an Asian or Indian sounding monstrosity. They refunded my $50 but I had to fight for it.

Apparently i infringed on the "third party's terms of service". When i look up these rules they just say "its how it is"... i was banned for no reason.

They're now holding my earnings and theres nothing i can do about it

Website is a complete scam. They allow sellers to offer followers on facebook and twitter using fake accounts but the follows disappear once money has changed hands. Reviews are also manipulated, with negative reviews not showing and fake positive reviews allowed. They also keep one dollar, so sellers only get four dollars. Doesn't seem worth it for the buyer or the seller.

Fiverr.com is loaded with scammers who claim abilities that are often far beyond their true capabilities. Once you've paid $5 -- and often more -- you cannot obtain a refund. The website simply refers you back to the seller when there's a problem.

Guys, this company will suspend your account just so they can keep your available funds to them.
Their bull$#*! is 45 days wait period.
I work at a very big real estate firm and this company is in the list one of the stay away SCAM.

I had someone to design a wordpress page for me. For $60 USD after 10 days of NO communication they failed to deliver. Luckily the money was refunded into my fiverr account. They later begged me to take down the bad review because it would affect their service and said reason why they did not complete the website was because they were taking part in religious festivals. After searching for another person to develop my site both of us made an agreement of what they would provide. From the first glance the site looked nice but later when researched more into it I noticed that it was actually a poor job seemed as if they slapped it together in 2 mins. Later when I asked them to adjust the design they said they would do it by the end of the day. That was 3 weeks ago... So I basically just gave away my money. Fiverr is saying it's too late to get my money back and I cannot even make a review to warn others. I will never trust fiverr again, Its ROBBERY!

It's a very good site. Helps you to earn money using your skills. You can either provide a service or request for a service. Although it is quite challenging to get first order as a new member in the divert community.

We are a nonprofit that paid a designer to do a logo for us. He sent over terrible quality designs that were completely different from what we asked for while our manager was coming back from vacation.

The designer didn't respond to our requests and then deleted his account. Since it was out of the "3-day window" Fiverr washed their hands of the matter - actual response from their customer service representative "Alex":

"Your order got completed automatically, 3 days after delivery since you didn't reject the order or asked for a revision in that time period. Unfortunately, your seller is no longer a member of our Fiverr community so we cannot reach him to get back to you with the Logo design."

He then goes on to literally give us tips:

"The next time you're browsing Fiverr, here are a few suggestions to help you on your next purchase:"

What a terrible, condescending, unfriendly company. It's been 3 months and we still have zero content we paid because Fiverr doesn't care.

I tried to do 3 jobs on fiver only one of them was done ok (not amazing) but the other 2 was a scam and it is very hard to get the money back because support is complicated. They mark a job completed if you don't review in 2 days. Just a bad experience

Stay away from seller Sasha_devine - she promised to create a unique cartoon logo for my business but instead sold me a direct copy of someone else's design that is readily available on a Google search. Very shady. Charged me 50% up front and I am having a hard time getting this back from Fiverr. Instead they are offering me a "credit" for future use but I will never use Fiverr again... Sasha said it took her 5 days to "draw" the "Jacked" logo, when it is a copy of the American Bully logo avail online...

I signed up by mistake. I was trying to really just get more information about it. Now it's been charging me for months with no way out. I cancelled the service months ago and it still keeps charging me. There is no reliable customer service. I have already emailed several times. Now I have to resort to cancelling my credit card because they keep charging me for a service I never ever used, not even once. Such a horrible business and horrible business practices. I am a single mom of two kids struggling in the pandemic. I need each and every $24.00 that they have charged me every single month to feed my kids.

8 of 9 gigs not delivered as agreed, Fiverr forum is a biased seller forum rather against its buyers than to work with them. Their cancellation system is a huge problem as it's just too easy to cancel a gig (seller & buyer) one-sided. Many sellers want to avoid a bad rating by refunding you. Well, the high share of gigs starting at $5 - so don't expect too much. Not my place to buy services and actually I do not recommend to buy anything there.

I ordered a service on Fiverr and I paid $1,200 even though the seller received only $800. Why does Fiverr charge 50%? You would think it's for the customer service but their response waiting time is at least 3 days.

As a seller, I find it frustrating providing quality critiques and edits for immature buyers who get a good product and rate down because of their errors. They do no understand that they are getting a bargain plus quality from my gigs. I will not sell any products on Fiverr as of 2-2015. I am sick of doing all this work for 4 dollars. It's ridiculous.