Ban by Fiverr? Here the reason

If you have been banned by any service or company the best thing to do would be to liase with the company that has issued the ban.

Discussing it here would only be speculation and we would only get told half of the story.

Well to be honest it is understandable that they might consider banning you for something like that. It is one thing to potentially take business away from their website, but to also use their website as a means to get your own Fiverr copy set up? Why would they agree with you doing that

They should have give you a warning though, but I can imagine they have some sort of rule that states not to request such work?

Judging by what you did, it looks like it's well deserved lol. I hope you get the money they owe you though, first they don't give you a warning and then they don't return your money. The least you'd expect from ANY service out there is a reply back.

So you read the rules?

Then you would have known not to put scripts in the buyer request box.

You never broke the rules?

You just said you put a script in the buyer requests box.

Am I the only one missing something here????

Long story you read the rules and chose to ignore one of the rules and did something you were not ment to do and you got banned and I am sorry but rightly so.

Ebay have rules also and when they find those who break the rules they get the same response a ban.

You break the road rules and you also get a penalty/ban

Not really something to be unsure of or something to find funny and wear as a badge of honour on the forums

I asked someone to make a banner for my fiverr clone and fiverr gave me a "warning"

sorry for you,it's impressing though how they track all gigs and gigers.they know how to work,have you tried to just open a new account?

It is a little wild west in Fiverr! I guess the good thing is that it only costs five bucks, and most of the time I just do tweets for people, so nothing comes out of pocket. Use it for testing out VA's and other vendors. Do not expect to much out of the service.

Because they had a successful business model, you attempted to create a clone....a direct competitor with the attention to steal their business away.

All speculation aside, I'd have to say that this is a reasonably good guess as to why they banned your account. A warning 'may' have been nice, but, with everyone and their brother wanting to create clone sites, 'banning' may have actually be a lax punishment compared to pursuing legal routes...

Try walking into any shop and talk to a customer offering the same product but from you and see how fast the shop owner will help you out the door.

Instead you should have asked for a php script to be installed.

If you've gotten refunds, I'd say their system works the way it's supposed to.

I'm perplexed why you continue to hold a grudge. With workers all over the world and not much more than a 450-character gig description to go on, wouldn't you expect some unevenness in work product and ethics?

If people don't already know there are folks in the world who've built up fake Facebook profiles, let me inform them: There are people who build up fake Facebook profiles. And open hundreds of YouTube accounts. And have thousands of fake followers on Twitter.

Usually their Fiverr feedback is a tipoff, if they've done more than a few gigs, though that's not always true. Heck, there's a Malaysian guy who is (as far as I can tell) Fiverr's number one seller with over 3,000 positive feedbacks. He got there by creating forum profiles on trashy foreign language .edu sites and convincing people this is valuable SEO. He soundly berates anyone who tries to point out the obvious. He gets lots of positive feedback because people leave it right after the gig is completed -- it's a "hope and a prayer" response rather than a review of the actual gig. If his "SEO" efforts worked, it would take weeks, not hours, but they're ignorant and don't realize that.

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Does it really come as a shock to you that posting on a site that you want to copy or clone their site results in a ban?

Sounds like you've learned your lesson and moving on.

fiverr is super sensitive about the whole 'fiverr clone' thing. Watch your language folks.

Hi fellow brother from the same country.

Well, obviously something like that will not go well. Besides there's a Fiverr-like site targeting Malaysia already, but I don't think things are as smooth sailing as Fiverr. It has the advantage of being the pioneer and it's only natural that it wants to protect its idea.

But thanks for sharing it and warning other people.

So far I've been having good experiences using Fiverr, and making a little money from it too.

Just my opinion, but it would be a surprise if they did NOT ban you for that.
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Bruce

lol, what the hell did you expect? that's like walking into a bar and setting up your own little bar in the corner - of course you're going to get booted!

You can easily set up a new account with a different username, as paypal allow up to eight email addresses with one account, so there wouldn't be a problem in opening a new account with fiverr, as it's not IP related.

Mark

Wow, its really hard to get your account banned on Fiverr. Really. And best thing is, if your account gets banned, and you still have some revenue awaiting clearance or for withdrawal, you can get it back

Im making nice $$ every day selling seo gigs on fiverr but guys,seriously fiverr only bans you if you do some nasty stuff,spam others or sell warez dont do it, it is a good marketplace,just my 2c
Anna

At least you get banned for a reason. I was banned for no reason.

I contact them and they ask me to read their TOS. After reading through I still don't understand how I get banned. I have never received any notification to that effect.

Contact them for a few times and they don't bother to reply.

I buy a few gigs and there were no problem with the sellers. The only things is I do not leave any feedback. One or two months later I try to log-in again but without success and contacted their support which was very unhelpful.

I give up on them as that's not the way to treat your buyer/customer.

1 More Way To Get Banned

"I Will Send A Hooker To Your House For $5"

Has anyone tried it yet? :/

Sooo, TRUE!! Here's a story (WITH SCREEN CAPTURES!!) about what happened to me. (How NOT to Drive Traffic Using Fiverr | Marketing Ideas 101) This scam was for increased traffic to my website for a month, but the seller was supplying junk traffic. I called the gig off early and Fiverr gave the scam artist the out and removed my negative rating and removed my warning to future shoppers. INSIDIOUS!

Then--wouldn' t you know it--I ran across another scam involving Craigslist ad postings. This one couldn't produce any ads that weren't ghosted, but apparently the seller's Fiverr buyers were taking the direct links the seller was providing to the ads as gospel and not realizing their ads weren't indexing or searchable. Junk!

As of today, I have officially been banned for the first time after buying hundreds of dollars of gigs from them over the past year.

My offense? I asked a content writer to work up a blog post about Fiverr scams. No kidding. The gig owner wrote this shortly before my account was restricted:

"Hi there Matt! I'm very sorry but I have to pass this time. I don't feel confident or competent enough with your particular topic or requirements. Requesting for the cancellation of the order and the funds will be refunded back to you. Thanks for understanding!"

When I went to decline the cancellation request and give her a different topic she might better be suited for, I found my account was unable to complete the action. The error message said my account had been restricted and that I could forward any questions to Fiverr support. Here's how THAT went:

Matt, Nov 29 17:21 (IST): Folks, I have a gig seller that is trying to cancel an order because she does not feel qualified to write on the topic (scams on Fiverr). That's fine, but I want to keep the gig and simply give her a different topic. The system is not allowing me. Any thoughts?

Julia - Fiverr's Customer Support Team (Fiverr Customer Support), Nov 30 04:01 (IST): Hi Matt, we are unable to reinstate your account at this time. Users who violate our Terms of Service and get their account permanently restricted will be able to complete any active orders they may have; and will continue to have access to their completed orders. The funds in your shopping balance have been returned to your PayPal account.

Regards,
Julia

To which I responded:

???
How did I violate the Terms of Service???

I still haven't heard back. The only opening for an infraction I can find in Fiverr's Terms of Service (which is heavily slanted toward controlling the gig seller) is the following clause:

"Posting or sending adult, illegal, rude, abusive, improper, copyright protected, promotional, spam, violent, nonsense or any uncool stuff is strictly prohibited. Doing so will get your account blocked permanently."

Sooo... was I "improper", asking for "nonsense" or just being "uncool"? It's hard to say. With terms as vague as these, Fiverr can do whatever they want, really.

Fiverr is well aware of their shady business practices and they work daily to protect the little con empire they are creating for themselves. They are really a great study on how easily we trust a well-established name and how easily that trust can be grossly abused.

Just slimey.

Another thing not to offer on Fiverr--Don't offer to post gigs for people on other gig sites. That went over like a lead balloon for me. My account didn't get banned, but my service was promptly denied.