Stupid Fiverr Buyers - I think I quit.

What if Linkedin adapted the possibility of Micro Lancers?
That would be an awesome update.

There will always be a few idiots. Doesn't stop me.

I do a lot of buying and selling of gigs on Fiverr and almost never have problems with anyone there. A small miracle maybe ?

There are people starving for money more than you. There are people that actually do this for 5$, that is why they have such services. If you think you are better than that, start your own service.

Hi,
I order from Fiverr. Just make sure the person understands that you cannot do what he was asking you to do for $5. He has to pay you first, so don't do the gig. If he's that cheap, then he deserves what he gets.
Good luck,
Geri Richmond

From my experience, there are different types of buyers. But yours could be the worse case which I never experienced before and that's ridiculous IMO. Educated buyer knows what they're supposed to get out of the $5 order. Everything was spelled out clearly on the offer page and unless they bother to spend 10 seconds to read, they would be expecting a Ferrari while the fact they are just paying for a mountain bike.

Video translator sounds like a good WSO That would make your gig profitable even at 45 minutes if software is doing the work.

I got ye beat for stupidity... I doubt this can be topped.

I had a gig ages ago, where, I had a video of Time Square in New York, with people walking by a huge billboard.

The gig was that I would superimpose your advertisment, logo, picture on the billboard.

I think the title of the gig confused this 1 guy, "Your Picture, Logo on a Huge Billboard in Time Square"

He wasn't happy when I sent him his video... he was expecting an actual huge billboard advertisment in Time Square, for $5.

Still makes me smile... ye, there's some funny people out there.

Maybe I'm going to change this thread to

"THE STUPIDEST FIVERR ORDERS OF THE CENTURIES"

Let's post yours.

G.

Yea I used to sell in there too and you can get some crazy requests lol. I'll tell you what, I always use to add "Make sure you contact me before we work together" and people would msg me and i'd hit them with a few gigs usually and half the time people would bite so I rarely did $5 gigs.

With this said, the reason I wanted a msg was not to manipulate them into paying more but to try and sell them a better service <--I say this incase the haters decide to chime in.

If you can get someone to msg you and you use some good salesmanship and show them you are the real deal and will provide quality work alot of people will buy for more than the usual measly $5..

On the other hand I had people who would buy with ridiculous requests like this yours as well and I would simply email the fiverr help desk and tell them this gig is out of the range of what I do for this gig, and they would always remove it because I had a good rating and when I delivered people loved it.

bwh1,

I hear what you are saying about not doing it for the money, and actually enjoying creating the gig. From my experience in working with clients in IM is that sometimes when I like the project too much, and I try to be cool with the client and really give them a low ball offer that they can purchase - it turns out not to be such a great experience.

People are demanding, and if you are already going as low as you can possibly go in charging for your services - it can very well backfire. Sometimes is better not to be the most affordable deal around - also, always give clear instructions up front on what you are going to deliver.

As clear as you try to be, you're always going to run into bad experiences with clients. One of these bad experiences for me, was with someone who didn't speak good English in order to communicate well, and that person didn't even know much about computer/internet skills (like how to open a zip file or even a folder file), was never around, and demanded things when I was finally able to get in contact with that person.

Guess what? Dealing with all of this created so much more work that I wasn't expecting. It took much more time and energy.

Anyways, with experience, you learn to calibrate better.

All the best.

sadly it seems the normal I.Q. on the Net...and many of these think thy can create and run million $+ businesses?

.R.O.F.L. only on the net. And he'll "demand" this ad that before calling you scam.

Stop fishing in the sewer. It's insanity.

you simply have no idea who you are dealing with on the Net. Some hobo, junkie, crook, student, never run a business before and no idea,etc...pretending they have an idea/interest in how business works. 95%+ shouldn't even try it!

"i pay you XX $ = you make me rich..." Stupidity.

sadly there's about 5m+ just like him..many on here. He's your average "Joe" To be fair..there's a lot here that fit this description.

The sad point is....you'd be surprised how many people can barely read or write. Never mind understand instructions.

Damm...it makes you very cynical of Joe Public...It's sad as well on our 1st world education "system".

LOL...just LOL.

Obviously depends on the gig you're offering. Tweeting for 5 bucks is fine

Sooner or later Fiverr will up their service and their will be more sanity in the IM world.

Few days ago I learnt they deleted a lot of twitter gigs and the likes especially from the top rated sellers. Good one on that side.

It`s obvious that people want the best for the cheapest price. He`s pushing the limits MAYBE he`s getting what he wants. I don`t really think that he believes that he will get all of that, I think that he`s just pushing the limits.

Fiverr is a great place to earn extra cash but it's also a place where you meet stupid, ignorant and foolish buyers with insane request..

This is one of the FUNNIEST threads I've come across regarding insane and stupid people on the net.

To quote what someone else said..."stop fishing in the sewer' is right, however...I used Fiverr as a mini WSO platform to build a list and get coaching clients.

I also landed some one on one interviews with some heavy hitters that actually paid me to work with them.

Anyone know Perry Marshall?

He paid me, after finding me on fiverr, to review the book he just launched "80/20 Sales and Marketing" and that led to an hour long interview I did with him for an upcoming product I'll be releasing here shortly.

The moral of the story: Fiverr is just another traffic platofrm and for those that use it right, you can build yourself a list of paid buyers aka a buyers list, build up credibility for y9our offerings, and if you play your cards right, you can actually make a full time income doing 3 minute work.

The trick is you can't be offering stuff that takes you time to complete.

You have to offer one and done, set and forget type gigs like
-Teach you how
-show you how
-templates

Nothing custom or that takes time.

The other thing you have to do, which I call the "Ace up your sleeve method" is to always incentivize positive feedback.

One way (of MANY) is to offer "Buy 2 Get One Free" type of incentives, but make it a requirement that you get positive feedback.

The other thing to consider....

Fiverr's "Featured Sellers" listing is actually to benefit fiverr...not the seller.

The featured sellers are the ones that offer all those crazy "I'll sing your business jingle while wearing a banana suit" type gigs that require insane amounts of time, etc.

The folks making the big bucks on fiverr are all offering automated and quick fire gigs.

I interviewed fiverr's top seller, who at the time, was making nearly $20,000 a month of fiverr selling social backlinks.

He was never featured on page one....never been to the warrior forum....

He just figured out that fiverr was a buyers traffic source that he could siphon and he did.

Its quite amazing actually.

I know there are toxic folks looking to pick your bones dry if they can for little or no money, but if you do this right...fiverr, and many other niche sites I've been working with are awesome for lead generation.

There are ways, by the way, to build a list using fiverr without violating their TOS, which is exactly what I did.

Built a list of 300 people, made a 30 day case study of how I made $100 a day and then went on to sell more to the list than I made on the front.

Hope that was helpful and hope it gave you some great ideas.

Sorry for your struggles...and good luck finding your stride.

Regards

Los

Have in you had any success in Fiverr.

What if you were to create entirely separate gigs for the extra work that causes the most confusion?

*Anyone ever notice that Fiverr has a C rating with the Better Business Bureau?

If you think there asking to much just tell them that's what i do, if they want to cancel there order then let it be its up to them if they expect 5000 posts for $5 or like unlimited web hosting for $5 then tell them no simple answer.

Buyers usually send mass messages. That's when I always try to reply fast to any message and show them I'm willing to do everything they want customized.. but they'll need to pay much more than the regular $5 , else they can wait for other buyers to reply, thus slowing down their project. Most people are impatient, so they'll go with me at my price. When the buyer is confused or asks "stupid questions" I think that's an opportunity to charge them a nice fee

People who want the best know that sometimes comes at a premium price, and can usually not be found "cheap."

Difficult customers are everywhere, keep calm and move on.

You have to offer a service that won't take more than five minutes to be completed if you want to be happy with the money you make at Fiverr.

Guys, I am a newbie to IM but I have been an eBay Powerseller for 10 years so I am not that naive to the industry but I think the general impression of fivrr is that it is chock full of people from 3rd world countries to whom $5 is cool with them and more of a payday than they can get in their homeland.

I know better and I have no problems paying someone what they are worth but if you search fivrr for any length of time you will find so many offers that validate the stereotype. I think this causes the confusion for many IM newbies and well IM cheap skates....

I have to chime in here.....had a friend of mine that wanted an adsense site and the description actually said "Adsense sites to your liking" that they would be created for $5 bucks. Now me on the other hand would say heck no....but some people tend to believe small blessings happen. By the time she expressed what she wanted he told her $280 bucks now that is when I got confused.....why would you post adsense sites to your likings for $5 bucks if you did not mean it? Some suppose to think that most have common sense but verbage is verbage.....never assume anything in business....be factual. I have seen this many times. Now, I have to admit....I have used fiver services for clickable ads that convert....common sense to me to pay five bucks rather than ask someone here in warrior for hire and pay them $45 for the same thing? Makes sense to me. But, I have also seen people come on the fiver site to build reputation and then have everyone transfer over to their main site for continued service once they are branded for the work they are known for doing so well at a discount of course. I don't think fiverr is for cheap skates....I think it is for smart business people who look for quality at all levels and you can find some diamonds in fiver especially for social media, ad creations, banner creations, video creations type stuff....even heard some people say that they like certain SEO guys from there. So....it depends on who you reaching out to on fiverr. Just my two cents

Thanks for bumping that thread, maybe someone else having a funny story to share.

By the way, I cancelled all my Video and Testimonial GIG's as they took way to much time to produce.

But is was worth the experience, got me acting more secure in front of a camera.

Sales stopped completely, still have several GIG's there, now mainly Lead and Graphic GIG's but no sales at all.

G.

Basically, you get $3.92 per gig. Those take several hours so you are making a lot less than minimum wage. Try approx 50 cents an hour and that is if you are lucky because customers keep wanting more changes and you must give it to em. Also, FIVERR holds on to my money 20 days and I have been with them two years. Paypal only hold me money three days and that is too long as it should be three seconds in our digital age. Well, on the plus side, I can say that FIVERR has allowed me to meet lots of people and is great to gain exposure.

Some people want the world for $5 on Fiverr but you should stick to you guns in what you have to offer.

Most people who pay $1 expect the same if they pay you $1000, just realize that.

LOL.. this is the reason why I left fiverr without looking back. It's damn too stressful to work with lots of idiots who think they're buyers =p

If you want to enjoy free traffic to your offers, Fiverr is one hell of a place for that. You can make a lot of money from fiverr in no time as you can get thousands of impressions for free on fiverr. Noobs should start with fiverr. That was what my sister did.

If you want to enjoy free traffic to your offers, Fiverr is one hell of a place for that. You can make a lot of money from fiverr in no time as you can get thousands of impressions for free on fiverr. Noobs should start with fiverr. That was what my sister did.

It's nice of Fiverr had a way to manually accept and decline orders. That would make it easier for people to serve the clients the best.

For every network you will use, you will always find people overrating your jobs.
It happened also to me on Fiverr... I delivered a keyword research with 5 files from 5 different software, and I selected the top 20 keywords. I sold well, but at the end I saw people who wanted keywords study requiring hours and hours of work.

I think there's nothing to do, it's part of the percentage of people coming to purchase the gig you're selling

See you soon,
Alessandro

I have been very lucky so far (knock wood), no problems either way

For every dumb buyer on Fiverr, you can get a few really great and loyal ones that you can upsell more expensive services to. I think it's a goldmine right now.

Some buyers on Fiverr do take the mic. They don't realize that you will make $4 after Fiverr's commission. It's not worth the headache.

I had a buyer ignore 'Instructions to buyer' so I requested the info again but then the questions started coming in. There were 11 emails exchanged for a dam $4 job and 2 hours of wasted time.

What did you expect? What kind of buyers do you think you'll find in a $5 site?

Ordinarily you should know that with 5iverr you got what you wanted and unwanted.

I'm happy with Fiverr, I got some very cheap artwork for my sites. As the gig was only $5 I didn't hassle for the guy to do it quickly. I also didn't ask for any revisions of the work - I just trusted his instinct to make me something cool.

I wonder if I advertised, "For $5 I will fart rainbows" they'd want the pot of gold too ..

Good for you. Start your own site and charge what you're worth.

Let me guess, Fiverr is running special discount offers refunding the $1 dollar they keep from a sale.

So you buy for 25 bucks and get back 5 as credit, 1 Free Fiverr.

It might be that they face some drop in sales to run 20% discount offers?

I'm a dsigner on fiverr, so far in 1 year I made 9 thousand, which is pretty cool in my opinion.

One thing that I have noticed is that $5 customers are the hardest ones to satisfied, not all of them but maybe 40% of the $5 customers are a @&$&@&.

Most of my customers spend $10, $15, $20, $40, and after the deliver they even send another $5 or $10 tip.

Dosen't matter what you sell on fiverr, one day or another you are going to face @&$&@@& customers, my advice is, cancel the order and move on....

Fiver holds my money for twenty days and pay pal three days - wow. Eventually, it gets to my bank account, but it is a pain. Like you wait 23 days to get $3.92 per gig. Glad that I am not getting as many gigs now. Still, this is not the end of the road for me. I pay approx 40% in taxes so I only get to keep $2.35 per gig. Read it and weep.

You have to make it clear in your gig of the details of what you're offering and what WON'T be accepted. I understand you though, but don't quit

You just have to write your gig title the Right Way! so everyone see it will know what exactly you will offer
don't write misleading titles!

I already feel stressed reading your posts. I would actually just go an do freelancing jobs on freelancer.com or odesk.com they will pay you better. The consistency might be a little less but at least they will pay you more than just 5 bucks.

You can earn more with your skills there, bud. Go out and earn more.

There'll always be some idiots - be it Fiverr or any other platform, but that shouldn't stop you. I think it's best to mention "please contact before ordering" in big visible fonts below your gig to avoid such problems.

I had my first "sale" two days ago. The buyer said she couldn't download the PDF I was selling so would I write it all out for her in text. I cancelled the gig. Too much work for $5. Plus she never paid me.