r/fiverrguide

Before you hate me, I am a full time seller on fiverr since last 6 years with over 500 five star reviews and even more orders.

I have been through all the tough times, highs and lows of the platform as well just like the rest of you.

And I think fiverr team is trying to fix their platform too through making slight changes to the website etc where they can.

Success score is weird, has been weird, but maybe it will get transparent and better someday.

Currently, I think the biggest issue of the platform is that a lot of new sellers come with expectations of getting rich quick with minimal effort.

Leading them to doing few things.

1. Lying and delivering AI stuff cause they don't know what else to do. (Lack of skill and expertise)

2. Trying to overcharge. Part of it continues in point 3.

3. Being middleman. (Especially Nigeria profiles). They try to sound confident, agree to everything, act as if they understand everything. Get buyers for $80-$100 and then do the work through other sellers for $15. They just copy and send messages without replacing anything in them. Leading to long delivery time and misunderstandings between all the random texts.

So when buyers end up checking final files and seeing it was either AI, low skilled work for high amount or not what they asked for.

Why would they try again?

In my 6 years, I have placed about 5 or 6 orders for personal reasons. And only once, I was completely satisfied. The rest I felt cheated and my objectives weren't fulfilled.

Not all sellers are like that.

I am not like that. I am surviving with repeat buyers who have been working with me for years continuously.

But majority sellers are like that and that is causing buyers to leave the platform.