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Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Fiverr complete scam
April 25, 2016

I have tried fiverr two times and the simplest orders turned into nightmares. Why is he site called fiverr? Why more than 5 dollars, what a joke.

Date of experience: April 25, 2016
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I would never, ever recommend this company to anyone I knew, liked or loved. Its a pathetic joke, and dealing with their inept, lazy customer service team is beyond infuriating. After providing pages of examples that the seller did not perform or provide us with anything remotely to our order of company name logo, we demanded the order be cancelled and our funds returned to our credit card since the seller failed to produce any product within the 2 day timeframe. We went in circles for 9 days and customer service still refused to cancel the order. This was on top of the seller now refusing to communicate with us through its online internal email platform.
Good new. Even after customer service said it was against its Terms and Service and that you cant dispute the charges with your credit card, this is 100% False. You can do this, and its your right to do this. We did, and we were able to prove we did not get our product as ordered and the charge was refused. Fiverr can kiss my!@#$. In closing, just like the previous review by "Chereka R", the samples of what was provided by th artist was that of a grade 3 student. It was pathetic and a complete joke. I could have copied and pasted something from Google and gotten a better logo design.
FINAL WORD: You have been warned. Be very careful when deciding to use this site. You cannot dispute the charge with your credit card if you "dont like the work". You can however dispute the charge if you never received the 'completed job". Two very distinct differences. My advise, go buy photo shop and teach yourself. Stay away from Fiverr. Its bound to go to hell. Just give it time.

Date of experience: October 12, 2017
GB
1 review
12 helpful votes
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SITE IS FRAUD
July 26, 2015

Do not buy ANYTHING! This site is a fraud, I had 470$ IN MY SHOPPING BALANCE AND I GOT BANNED FOR TOO MANY CANCELLIONS WHICH ISNT TRUE THIS SITE IS A SCAM, I HAVE TAKEN LEGAL SCTION AGAINST THEM AND SUED 15.000$ GUYS LETS SHUT DOWN THIS FRUAD SITE

Date of experience: July 26, 2015
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scamming Marketer
October 30, 2020

I hired someone to do one simple logo upgrade (3D style, see 2nd picture below), and the girl I paid upfront (to let you know) didn't send my work. I let it go about a week, and she still didn't send me anything. She states 1-day delivery. I filed a complaint with Fiverr and never heard anything from them until today, 10/30/20, when I left a review on their site about the so-called logo builder. I complained to the resolution team on Fiverr about the girl who never delivered what I paid for last week. Well, she finally sent back a logo, and it was NOTHING LIKE THE PICTURE SHE HAD ON HER SITE TO PROMOTE HER BUSINESS on Fiverr. It looks like a shadow that you can make with an iPhone. Fast forward to today, Fiverr said they were going to hide my review on their site until November 8,2020. Are they SERIOUS? They are going to hide the negative review. There are a few reputable people on that site, but the rest is trash. Fiverr won't help you with getting a refund, so therefore they could care less about customers. I hired someone on Fiverr to add a 3D style to my logo because I didn't have the time, due to my business demand right now. If you want to hire Kimberly_Mcbray, keep going. She doesn't look like she knows what she is doing based on the picture she sent after two weeks (see below -1st picture) and one threat to Fiverr. After looking over the Fiverr site, I notice they hide the negative comments and show only positive ones. Do not use this company. Get professionals locally or look up reputable ones on google.

Date of experience: October 30, 2020
Nigeria
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Rubbish people
December 4, 2019

The management is really good but the freelancers are fake. Check my site https://eastnaija.com I paid for more than 3 SEO GIG on Fiverr and Up Till Now I See No Changes

Date of experience: December 4, 2019
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have been a Fiverr buyer for 3 years and a seller on Fiverr for 30 days.

Fiverr is a platform where you have independent individuals (not employees) that can be very talented, at the very least saving you a lot of time outsourcing tasks at the cheapest rate. As with any other website where you hire a freelancer, it is up to you to screen candidates before hiring them. Fiverr protects the buyer and seller as much as possible, but you also have a responsibility.

If you buy a Gig, you can cancel if the seller does not deliver in the agreed time. The seller has to mark the job as completed and you have to accept it or reject it. If you don't do anything, the job will auto-close in 3 days as if you agree that it is completed. Never accept jobs that only delivers after the closing date, that does not make any sense to do that.

For Sellers, Fiverr keeps your payment for 2 weeks and takes 20%. Amazon, for example, keeps your money for 6 weeks and keep at least 30% of your payment. They both have a clientele of ready buyers and they provide you free exposure or traffic.

My experience with buying Gigs have been above average value for the money spent.
Yes, there were duds, people who didn't deliver, but that is a tiny percentage. I have never lost money with Fiverr.

Like any other company, Fiverr has terms of service, most of which are common sense, such as, for sellers, no fake accounts, no fake orders and reviews for your own Gig etc. If you ignore these, your account will be suspended. Play by the rules, this protects both buyers and sellers.

If you're concerned that you'll lose $5 by trying Fiverr, then don't use it. But also consider that everything new has a learning curve, you don't stop at the first bad experience, when I cancelled orders, I simply got another Fiverr user to do the job. If you're starting a business, try and get the vision of what Fiverr users can do for you.

If you're not experienced in buying outsourced tasks or not willing to do due diligence and search for the best candidate to do the job, then this is probably not for you. If you're a business person who values your own time, I'd love to know of another service that is available at such a low rate and high value. Thank you Fiverr.

Date of experience: April 3, 2016
Germany
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I bought a service on fiverr but did not receive anything yet. The deadline already passed and the seller does not respond to my messages.

Date of experience: September 30, 2023
Canada
4 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Good experience with the musician, bad experience with the company and PayPal for a particular payment arrangement with the site.

Hours after paying with PayPal (PP) for the initial fee, I had to add a few dollars for an extra service I wanted and clicked a new button on the musician's page. Rather than being directed to PP and having to login to confirm the payment and source of funds, the Fiverr page told me that the funds were successfully transferred. That was the first time a PP payment went through without me logging in and confirming and I didn't even know that was possible. The Fiverr page didn't say anything about it upfront.

The problem is that the PP funds were taken from a bank account that had less than the payment amount so the bank charged me a $35 NSF fee. I brought this to the attention of both Fiverr and PP and it took a few emails and finally PP paid me $25. Yes, a multibillion dollar company couldn't bring itself to a full resolution for an 11-year client. I then told Fiverr that they could be off the hook for only $10 and they refused.

Date of experience: September 21, 2014
Wyoming
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Several months ago I was looking for a memorial tattoo design - and chose someone on Fiverr based on reviews - I'll NEVER trust reviews again. I sent her a couple of artwork designs I found online to help her with what I wanted - very clearly stating they were ONLY to help her get an idea and that I wanted an original design. At first, she said her schedule was full, but then told me she could squeeze me in as a favor. I paid the $50 and eagerly awaited (I don't remember if I paid a deposit).
Well, days later I received the design. Imagine my disappointment when it was the designs I sent her, copied and pasted, and sloppily jammed together. The only difference was that the colors were changed based on my preferences. I Hate confrontations, and so I put off telling her my disappointment. I also did not realize I had a limited time to accept/decline, so the transaction was put thru as purchased. That was on me. I did message her and explain that altho the transaction went thru - I was not happy with the design - calling it for what it was: a copy and paste and basically the theft of someone else's artwork (and hard work). I also messaged Fiverr telling them what happened - and never got a reply at all. I had to just write it off. The photo is what she submitted as her original design - both elements - the swan and the phoenix - can easily be found online and are what I submitted to her to help her with the design.
I would not recommend Fiverr - be prepared for zero customer service and some lazy "artists". But, honestly, the price alone should have been a red flag for me. I now know that authentic artists do charge more. So, keep an eye on the prices.

Date of experience: January 28, 2022
New Zealand
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I have been ordering gigs on Fiverr for almost a year, it is a hit and miss on quality etc, there is NO quality control on this site, I am a developer and I see multiple illegal gigs every time I visit, I went back and forth asking for a refund off a seller in the required time frame where they were saying nothing and submitting resolved messages, the whole time thinking Fiverr would step in, no way, I had to make a formal request for someone to act as a third party and get my refund, even then it took 2 weeks - the resolution center is back to the seller - not to fiverr. - these guys may end up being the next Kim Dot Com regarding the illegal activity that is openly being allowed on the site where the FEDs step in.

Sellers, what they do to stop you submitting poor reviews will either bribe you with "extras" --- "crap extras that may look appealing" or screw you over, most sellers bribe you BUT... I have also had a couple of gigs where I gave an "Honest" review (3-4 stars) and since it was not 5 stars they changed all of their reviews (the gigs were for reviews) to 1 star and screwed us over

Don't get me wrong, there ARE some great gigs on Fiverr from some "Honest" people, but there is a large-larger presence of "SMOKE IN MIRRORS" 1 star gigs that have 5 stars.

Date of experience: August 5, 2014
Romania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Hi,

I want to share quick story and ask for help. Please tell me what to do in this abnormal situation and sh*t fiverr customer support.

I had a customer who asked for an AR app. I delivered the app and he forgot about the order. The order as marked as complete, the money was cleared. He realised his mistake and wanted to open an other order for 5$ just to have something going.

I delivered the project, and he told me its not working, i was trying to fix the bug for weeks, and after he realised that his phone is not compatible with AR, he could not install ARCore because it was restricted in his country. So i was chasing a ghost for weeks in vain. I have sent him a link where to download the ARCore apk to install it.

After 1 month of the first order, which was already crealered and the money was mine, he requested a refund and he got it. I wrote to customer support, which is a pile of sh*t, explaining the situation and could not resolve anything.

Again, he asked for an AR app, i delivered it, he realised his phone is not compatible, and he could ask for a refund. What the hell is this? This is not normal at all, the product is still sellable and working how he wanted, only he doesnt have the necessary hardware for it.

What to do in this situation? Thank you.

Date of experience: April 30, 2020
Canada
4 reviews
1 helpful vote
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This company is a $#*! scam hole. If you are a buyer or seller for many years they BAN you for no reason and take your money and do not pay you out.

AVOID AS BUYER
Bunch of Scam Hole Indians trying to make quick $ for $#*! service
Most use black hat SEO tactics and services that are know to ban you on Google such as AI writing, spam links and other useless $#*!. Either that or you are paying people to LEARN because they do not know what they are doing.

CUSTOMER SERVICE IS NON EXISTENT
The customer service is a joke. You contact them and they simply repeat your question back to you like the infant child they are. They do not help you even if you been on the platform for several years. You get "randomly flagged" for safety but it is all a ploy to collect your data to keep ripping you off and exploit you.

AVOID AS SELLER
Too many people too weed out that are either looking for cheap Indian labour for $5 for 5 hours of work or looking scam you by getting you to do work for free.

Company run by scumbags to exploit free labour

TOP REVIEW ON GOOGLE
"You'll gain skills to kickstart your career but it's unsustainable to stay on Fiverr in the long run. Freelancing on Fiverr me useful skills to kickstart my career. However, it is unsustainable to work on Fiverr in the long run. They take 20% commission for everything you earn, and at some points, is was even unsafe."

Date of experience: April 8, 2022
Hawaii
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Some of the sellers are SCAM and Fiver won't help you to refund!
Like, this company is the only platform if there is a problem with a seller, Fiverr will NOT help you at all.

Date of experience: October 15, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awesome work!
March 6, 2016

Amazing communication. Very understanding, will work with you especially if you are new to Fiverr! Great experience

Date of experience: March 5, 2016
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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FIVEER.COM ARE CRIMINALS
January 29, 2021

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Stay way from SEO gigs on fiveer. They will only damage your website

Date of experience: January 29, 2021
Texas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Never use alliemadison12. She is terrible. Seriously don't waste your money. She basically killed fiver for me and I have used it a bunch.

Date of experience: August 18, 2014
Massachusetts
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Save your $5 dollars and hire professionals for $50. These are the low end boys and girls from Philipine, Bangladesh or Pakistan.

Date of experience: May 9, 2017
Lithuania
1 review
4 helpful votes
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First, I'd like to start out by saying that I have used Fiverr for a long time. It has given freelancers around the world a platform to find customers quickly. I love the idea behind Fiverr, I like its platform, and sometimes even the customer support.

Recently, I started selling through Fiverr's "Logo Maker" feature which is in the beta. However, after receiving two warnings in quite a quick succession, my account was temporarily disabled while they perform an account review. Both of the warnings were for essentially "pliagiarism". Here's the thing, we have professional designers, who have worked with some of the biggest companies around the world. Not only do we create original work, we check our work for copies via reverse image searches before uploading anything for sale to Fiverr.

Each time we received a warning from Fiverr, we were not given any additional information on what other design exists that is similar or the same. As a designer, you can easily come up with a similar or sometimes even nearly identical design as someone else. As a great designer, you'll have your logo stolen and sold by other designers. There are many different scenarios. However, without knowing what the other design is, it's impossible to tell.

After reviewing our account, Fiverr disabled it permanently citing us as having violated their terms of service.

We are a professional team of designers with a combined experience of 100 years in design. It is possible that someone stole our work and had posted it somewhere and it could've been explained or resolved quickly by letting us know where the work appears.

Additionally, the design was flagged by their automated system. The two warnings were automatic. The system could have made an error as well. Maybe at least 1 of the warnings was not accurate, and thus, our account would have not been closed permanently.

At a time where we relied on income from Fiverr to get us through this rough time we are all going through, we found very little compassion or even effort to try to resolve anything.

We'd love for Fiverr to take a few minutes to discuss how to reenable our account. We want to continue to bring value to the platform and its customers.

Date of experience: September 3, 2020
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Freelancer don't waste your time on fiverr they take 20% from you and 20% on top to the client if there

Date of experience: July 13, 2022
Kenya
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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I've had an account for a while that has allowed me to make an extra income as a seller. Unfortunately, I ran into a scammer buyer. After providing agreed upon service, of which they highly approved, I was shocked months later when I received a notice that a refund was to me given for the jobs following a cancellation of the order. Turns out this very common and the seller ends up losing. So I followed up with their customer support. BIG MISTAKE! This people are not only unhelpful, not interested in your problem, but also have a hint of malice in them. Should you send a query and follow up on it, they'll take action - just not the one you expect. They'll find any excuse to find you in violation of their precious "ToS" and close down your account. Yet they had no problem with your services earlier. Awesome! Just like magic. Should you find any review complementing their CS please ignore it. It has been probably written by one of their clearly incompetent CS members. All they ever send are pre-written messages that are general and not specific. Should you push with an issue you run the risk of being shut out of fiverr. For those still on the platform, should you ever run into a problem, find an alternate way of addressing it. Else you'll have your hard earned cash locked with your account - very unfortunate. Sellers receive no protection on the platform. You are supposed to tolerate abusive clients, take orders that no longer interest you among a host of other annoying buyer habits that CS should help you solve.
Secondly, they take a huge chunk of you earnings. 20% of each coin made belongs to the platform. This is abit too much. Buyers too complain when you charge highly to compensate for the fees amount as they too pay high fees as the amount increases.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket on this one.

Date of experience: December 24, 2018

Overview

Fiverr has a rating of 1.6 stars from 1,132 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 107th among Freelancing sites.

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