As a level 2 seller on fiverr, i can say the freelance site is one of the best out there.
Customer service is crap, when you have a question you need to click on multiple topics, just make it simple for gods saKE. WILL NEVER USE IT AGAIN
Sellers from the third-world countries can choose fiverr if they want to offer charitable or free services to the people of the US and Israel. Fiverr has been designed to take commissions and scam the sellers of Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Nepal, etc. It is very clear to the fiverr management that there are numerous sellers in the third-world countries to work at very lower prices. They are in so badly need of money and job that if they are allowed to get money of the 30% work done for their clients, they will stick to this platform.
This is why if they complete 10 jobs, they are allowed to receive the money of only 3 jobs. Fiverr is very clear that sellers will get in touch with them due to their needs. On the other hand, scamming opportunity in Fiveer will encourage the buyers to get their job done for free. This is will increase the number of buyers and help fiveer earn more.
This is why buyers profiles do not show reviews. Therefore, the sellers cannot understand the buyers who have already scammed many sellers.
On the contrary, sellers profiles show the reviews (posted by the buyers) to help the buyers easily understand a good seller. Out of fear and blackmail for a negative review, a good seller does not like to involved in a quarrel with a buyer- even if he or she is 100% right. Because, he is very clear that the fiverr team always take a buyers side and never ever helps a seller if he or she is from a third-world country.
In such a situation, the seller has to give the work for free with a negative review. The most interesting thing is that if a work gets cancelled on fiverr and you dont receive any money for it but you will receive a negative review for it.
LegitimateI used a service by expertengr (the contractor providing the service). First this started off with the day that my product was supposed to be delivered, she emailed me to ask for an extension because her mom was sick. Ok, while I do not think that's professional, I just asked for a refund, so that I could find someone else to do the work. At this point, I had not read reviews about Fiverr. The seller tried to cancel my order with the reason being that I did not provide her enough info. This was not true, I was extremely detailed in my work, and she was canceling because of her mom. Later in the day, I checked back in my account and the product was completed. This was odd being that she stated her mom was sick and she needed an extension; however, I was grateful and thought the product look exactly as expected. Wrong! There was one missing word and a spelling error. Easy fix right! Ok, three days later I received my revision. The revision was horrible and it was nothing I asked for. The business is medical based and she put a wine glass in two of the video shot (I DID NOT ASK FOR THIS). Afterwards, I asked for this to be fixed and to simply change the misspelled word in the video and add the other word that was missing. I was very detail, again, about the changes that I wanted. Well, three days later she cancels the order and says that this revision is not in the scope of work I can do. My issue now is, you've wasted almost two weeks of my time to tell me, now, that you can't change a misspelled word and add a word. I was so done. Also, just FYI customer service sucks and is definitely on the sellers side. Their reviews are fabricated and they can opt not to show certain reviews. Well, that's not legit! I am over it and I rather pay more for a legitimate business.
With the follow I sent to Fiverr, evryone will understand:. Here is what happened and what I said they steal when they want, because after this they cancel 1200 dollars more and closed my account taking my money... when I have 5 star in all aspects, nobody made complain for our jobs. But maybe we are the competttion of some of their members and their sales was down, who knows. Here is the messages I sent.
Not understand what mean,
What I know is that Fiver have many months closing account of customers I have, cancelling orders that has been compled with more than 2 month for many dollars, and now disable my accoun,.
Here is what your terms say
" During that time frame, the order may be canceled. After 13 days, the seller is able to withdraw their earnings from that order, and we will no longer be able to cancel it. "
But fiverr has cancelled 5 orders by 800 each one with more than 2 months completed. That is not honest, is too bad,.
YOU not solve the problems of the sellers, the last time they closed a client's account, and after several months that my orders had been completed they canceled the orders as if nothing, when each order had more than 2 or 3 months completed... and nobody fights for that, nobody defends us,.
Now they just do the same, but disabling my account, after having 5 years in Fiverr without any problem,. Never I did something bad, I have only good reference, and I have some customer fans of our service.
HOW DO YOU THINK THAT I CAN RECOMMEND SOMETHING DIABOLIC AND DISASTROUS FOR US. WE ARE HONEST SELLERS,. BUT WE NOT RECEIVE THE HELP AND RESPECT OF FIVERR
I'm both a seller and a buyer on fiverr.com. As a buyer you have to be cautious because there are a lot of scammers on the internet, not just on this site. Most will pull the same scam, offer you an unbelievable deal with a few days completion. They then send you a job completed notice, but in the text say they have started. If you respond without first clicking the button to say you have a problem, you will have accepted that the order is completed. What you need to do it click "Reject Order" if you do not get what you ordered, or you're suspicious of the seller's promise to deliver when he or she says it is done. That way the seller either delivers or you get your money back. Also, if you stick with Level 1 sellers or above, avoid sellers that have sold nothing, and stay clear of sellers with a rating of less than 90% positive ratings, you will be OK.
As a seller, you have to be careful to always produce what you say you will, by the deadline you indicate it will be done. If you don't, you may have your account downgraded to a lower approval rate of suspended completely.
I read a lot of poor reviews sighting customer support communication as a problem. This is my one area of contention with fiverr.com, they're slow to respond sometimes, but do so eventually. Unfortunately, if you are trying to report a con artist abusing their service, this delay can give the cheaters days to victimize more buyers.
Fiverr.com is far better than most micro-job sites though. With one I can not even get them to fix my log in, which is never a problem with fiverr.com. I am told an email was sent with my new password, but it never arrives. Obviously I do not bother with that site, but I wish I could access my account to suspend the gigs. Others my beef is with the delays in payment for gigs I sold. So far all have paid, but whenever they get around to it. Fiverr.com has always paid me instantly once I did request funds be transferred. As well, all monies owed me were refunded money for gigs that I rejected or were not done on time immediately.
I only ranked the site 4 stars out of five only because they really need to improve their communication, and because every few days there seem to be technical glitches. None serious, but with the poor communication, glitches too are enough to cost a star in my opinion... But what I can not do is fault this company for scammers abusing their service. Crooks online are everywhere, and as long as they are suspended once found out the website owner has done all they can. Anything online is a case of. "Buyer Beware".
My review is based on one experience but it was enough for me to see how they work. I choose a seller with almost 7,000 5-star reviews for a 300-word blog article. His profile described how passionate he was about writing and providing interesting content."with so many great online reviews, how bad can he be?"
I provided a clear outline of what should be covered in the article and several websites where they could research the topic and find all the info they needed. Even though the seller had such great reviews, I still didn't have high expectations - I just needed a decent write up.
The article I received was such low quality, though. Poor grammar, lots of repetition, no mention of the key requirements in my outline - high-school level writing - and that is giving it too much credit.
When I complained to the writer, he said it was written by one of his newer writers and he has so many writers he can't look at them all. (What about his profile that implied he writes all the articles and was passionate, etc etc.?) He also said, "I try to only hire American English speaking writers, but since I only correspond with them through email, it is hard to say sometimes." I realize now that he is farming out the work to people anywhere in the world, he has no quality control. I don't know how he has managed to get so many good reviews, but I do know that it was impossible for me to leave a bad review.
AND - this guy was probably one of the good ones, because at least he responded to my criticism and offered me a refund (it's not really a refund, it's a credit since I don't get the money back.)
So, who wins in this situation? Fiverr does - they get to keep my transaction fee and they will get the $5 I was "refunded" because I will never use that credit.
I understand their business model now: Fiverr doesn't care about quality. At all. They make money on every job, no matter what happens. The vendor profiles are complete lies - they make it sound like they are doing the work but they are just farming it out to whomever, with no quality control.
I had low expectations and was willing to lose this small amount of money so I am not really upset, but I feel bad for those who got hurt more severely.
What can be done to stop these scammers?
Fivrr seems to make a promise on which it does not deliver; a contractual agreement with a motivated young artisan to utilize their ingenuity to produce a professional piece of work. I don't want to make the classically unAmerican mistake of the deriding an entity of free enterprise but, Fivrr is a pyramid scheme rolled out in online form, and it's most successful contractors produce its most mediocre services. You do not become featured on fiverr for producing high-quality work for employers who can vouch your commercially safe and tested ability to perform your duties. You become successful and highly featured in the listed results for sellers by producing extremely sub par and sub intelligent, half assed, nearly automated feats of anti-imagination. Taking a piece of clipart and combining it with a font is considered logo creation. Taking a ramshackle resume and throwing it through a word processor is considered resume editing. Taking a useless copy and slapping it onto a premade template is considered resume creation. I have had several experiences with fivrr and can testify that the results' most outstanding and enduring quality has been that they are bad. Merely bad. The "gigs" could be performed by a Low-level computer program; and most likely are, in many cases. The focus for the sellers is on quantity, not quality, and it is very difficult to place who, if not an endless supply of dissatisfied customers, they're for. There are few people I'm sure who lack the ingenuity to use Photoshop who still desperately require and can make any use of a corporate logo generated by its most rudimentary functions. And few prospective employees entering the job market who don't understand where to find basic resume templates in word processing tools who have any success with their low-quality resume. Fivrr is a philosophers stone; it takes the form of whatever you most desire. What it rewards you with is only the illusion of having it. I urge you dear readers to consider that all that I have said is true. Thank you.
Received nasty messages and also mentioned not to contact seller ever again when I asked refund for the crappy work. BIG SCAM!
Im really now just getting word from customer service. Since an inquiry was made 3 days ago.
I really hate to say this. Really burns my heart to say: this company customer service sucks. Here's why. They have a good service. A very nice concept. But i will shy away from this one. I am so pissed at their customer service i think i will need a drink to relax me! I need to make this be known beyond just the sitejabber community. I personally feel as if this and other similar companies feel as if they can make all the millions they do and provide absolutely crappy service to folks here in the Western area.
Well Fiverr you need to do better, maybe for your fans on the Eastern World, Tel Aviv and your surrounding neighbors, that would be acceptable. I don't think i would communicate with this customer service even if you paid me to.
Here is my response to customer service this morning:
I'm very very very displeased with your customer service. I don't think I'm interested in using the service of the website for fear of delay and inconvenience that I might have to wait days before I can get someone from customer service get back to me, and freelancer refuses to start working based on the fact I can't make or process payment. I've dealt with many many tech companies, large and small and I should say this one is the only in a long long time, perhaps in years that let me feel so dissatisfied with the service, I almost felt angry as I ended getting no work done and missing schedule as a lack of time customer service, come on guys, we are living in 2015 here. You're at least the equivalent to a Fortune 500 company. I believe your customer service platform should surely reflect this and this is just a little advice from a guy who probably doesn't matter.
Clive
To which the response was:
Thank you for the reply and for sharing your thoughts, Clive. We're terribly sorry to see you disappointed.
Your request had to be forwarded for a further review by our Technical team and sorry it took longer than expected.
I'm forwarding your request as a feedback and suggestion to our Product Management for their consideration.
To that user Nicky that gave them 5 stars and spoke about the platform. Yup they have a great website but, have an issue with their customer service team and then get back to me. To say it's pathetic would be a grave understatement.
Answer: I used Fiverr for my company logo. The guy lives in Vietnam and speak minimal English. I paid for an upgraded package with an unlimited amount of revisions, 3 original logos, stationary and Facebook as well as Twitter page covers. What does unlimited mean if a revision takes 24 hours and each revision is correcting spelling mistakes or telling him you don't want a green dog in your logo, I want a natural looking dog. His response is "you choose font and gives you a pale old lady stockings colour dog" instead of a white Dalmatian with black dots or a brown German Shepard. In the end I used an online translator to translate my requests from English to Vietnamese. He told me to sketch something and he'd make something. If I could sketch something then I would do my own logo. The one logo that I liked was the one I gave him all my ideas for. All he did was put it together in the right format. I was so frustrated with his other two attempts that I said ok give me the first logo with stationary and everything I've paid for. I got the most basic design, no stationary or headers. Did I go through customer service? OF COURSE! Throughout this whole ordeal. I described every little detail. Each time a different person would reply and say "I can understand your frustration and I will contact him". Only to have him return with the same dog in orange or turquoise and every time customer service would spit out the same line "I can understand your frustration and I will contact him. We see he is responding to you within 24 hours so for us that means you are trying to work things out. I want my money back! Sorry we can't give you your money back. The seller has received his money and its up to him to give you any money back if he so chooses. It was a dreadful experience. I ended up using an online logo maker and I loved it. PLUS it actually cost less. I'm now doing my own website. If you have the patience then try to do it yourself. Do NOT skimp on your website. The way the world is run today you want your website and all social media presence to correctly reflect your quality. If at the end I'm not happy with my website I will go to a professional and pay what it costs. Hope this helped and good luck
Answer: I know I have to wade through a lot of questionable sellers to get a good one. Happy hunting. There are good ones out there though.
Answer: All I can say id Fiverr is the BIGGEST SCAM going. Had to dispute the charges through my bank to get the money back
Answer: Stay far away from fiverr. I paid a guy to do some work and proved with third party techniques they used bots for fake views to my site. Yet this guy had many many great reviews. You cannot trust this site whatsoever. Stick with paypal as you most likely will get nowhere with fiverr.
Answer: If you want a site designed to steal credit card data from hard-working, civilized people, please use Fiverr. It is designed for one thing: to take your credit card data and leave you to deal with a mess. More details, reply or search for my previous posts.
Answer: I can only imagine you got swindled and feel bad about the fact you trusted someone. Don't feel bad, you did nothing wrong. There are sites who take the time to vet their sellers and then there are sites like Fiverr who let's anyone to join with zero check on their credentials. The entry into selling on Fiverr is so easy that it borders on ridiculousness. Anyone can lie about their location, experience, education, and just about any credentials. Some of them are really clever and mask their fake profile pictures and gig descriptions really well. Fiverr is so secretive about their vetting process, which I seriously doubt there is anything in writing, that you can't trust it. The seller's level is a joke - I've gotten cheated by ones with thousands of reviews. How they received literally a thousand or more review is mind boggling. Go back and check again, you'll notice like 99.9% of the million or so sellers all have 5 star reviews. All legitimate businesses have a combination of good and bad reviews, most average around 3/5 or if they are a really great business 4/5 but for a large company with like a million or so freelancers with zero credentials having 5/5 pretty much tells you there is something wrong. Like I said, you did nothing wrong. I hope you didn't lose too much money. Their philosophy is "We don't care how crappy the delivery was as long as the seller delivered you don't get your money back."
Answer: The answer is plain simple NO! You will get your followers, yes! But they are all bots, so you will lose 90% of the followers the same week, might as well throw this 5 bucks in the air.
Answer: There is very little in the world that is unique. You have to trust or spend a lot more $$$ or do it yourself
Answer: I would suggest having nothing whatsoever to do with Fiverr. When things go wrong - and that happens a LOT - there is no customer support line to call. They make it very difficult (in my own case, impossible) to resolve any problems. Read the evaluation reviews- they are extremely negative. My advice: find another site on which to offer your services. DG
Answer: I've had 28 orders and all but two were very satisfactory. Most were PDFform building or business card templates, but I had s few design logos for me then used the one I liked. Buyers: it's cheap. Remember that. When the service is good I tip generously then use the same person. I get great service, often in one day. When I order, I add express service and have yet to be disappointed. It's a business model without customer service. Face it. If you want customer service, go to Nordstroms or Nieman Marcus. Do a better job selecting your service provider; be clear in the order, and overpay.
Fiverr has a rating of 1.4 stars from 1,133 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Fiverr most frequently mention customer service, credit card and low quality. Fiverr ranks 106th among Freelancing sites.