Ugly truth about fiverr seller

The purpose of giving feedback is to let other buyer's know your experience. That could be me, about to buy that seller's gig. Don't hold back your review, or let yourself be bought for $5. You'd be doing the community a disservice.

As a service provider, I understand how bad reviews CAN really kill our business. Which is why doing our best is THE goal.

But things sometimes don't work out between buyer and seller, this is an unavoidable (though sad) fact in business.

From a seller's POV, I'd communicate with the buyer, rectify the error or misunderstanding, and try to work out a way to satisfy the customer (yes, a free gig and a refund is a good way to do it), until the buyer decides to tone the bad review down.

I'd not egg the buyer to remove the bad feedback, just convince him/her that I can do better and request that the buyer also considers the ramifications (whatta word) of the bad review.

On the other hand, if the seller TRULY deserves to be flogged, stoned and burnt in hell, GO FOR IT, punish the sinner!!! Ask for a refund if you can't use the output at all, after all, why pay for something you can't and WON'T use. And leave that review for the sake of warning other buyers.

I would second that: there is a very ugly side to Fiverr. It hosts dishonest sellers and because the rating system has a massive loophole (sellers can cancel gigs and thereby avoid negative feedback) it passively endorses this kind of behavior.
Why? Because it's a business and it doesn't have a "don't do evil" ethic.

(Looking for negative feedback doesn't work if the seller is dishonest and smart, unfortunately)

I'm sure the vast majority of sellers are honest, but my experience is that there is a sizeable minority who are, at best, misleading people, and at worst are downright crooks, plain and simple.

The only solution I can think of is to go in with eyes wide open: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Anyone from Fiverr reading this care to comment? I'd love to hear your side of the story.

haha.... the crappy fiverr seller that stood the test of time 5 years later, just to one day deliver you a negative buying experience again.... lol

You are right travlinguy. I order a gig with a seller for YouTube views and comments for a Video click. After a few days I receive email from Youtube for that click. Please observe the following:
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Regarding your account: Video Loops Background
This following video was found in Violation of TOU #4 Section H:
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Terms of Service - YouTube
"You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the YouTube servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser. Notwithstanding the foregoing, YouTube grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. YouTube reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases. You agree not to collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service, nor to use the communication systems provided by the Service (e.g., comments, email) for any commercial solicitation purposes. You agree not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of the Service with respect to their Content."
Violation of the policy above has resulted in the removal and reupload of your video(s). Additional account violations of Terms of Use #4 Section H will result in account suspension. Many users trust outside marketers who claim to increase views, subscribers, likes, etc., but each user is ultimately responsible for the activity on his or her account, as well as for knowing and abiding by YouTube’s Terms of Use. This includes understanding the nature of the traffic on his or her channel and making sure any hired service providers comply with YouTube’s Terms of Use.
For more information about how to appeal the video removal(s), visit this page in the Help Center:
https://support.google.com/youtube/c...removal_appeal
Please note that deleting the video(s) will not resolve the Terms of Use violation and it will prevent YouTube from reinstating the video(s), even if the appeal(s) would otherwise have been successful. You may also reupload the removed video(s) providing you do not violate YouTube’s Terms of Use.
As a courtesy, we have reuploaded your video(s) here:
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Please note that the video exists at a new URL. Please also note that all previous views, likes, and comments have been removed.
Sincerely,
The YouTube Team

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You get the picture why seller can't beat my negative review.

GOOGLE OWNS YOUTUBE... HELLO

Sorry to say but why on earth would you expect Real Visitors from $5 gig? (in fact $4 gig after fiverr remove their commission of $1)
As a internet marketer you should know whether you can even buy real visitors for $5.. if people could buy real traffic for $5, then everyone in the internet marketing would be a millionaire.

I knew it. I used to get my money back from seller if things were not go accordingly before leaving neg. comment.

Recently in the last 2 months, Youtube has updated their algorithm twice and a lot of videos have been deleted. They have made a lot of changes in their terms which can even delete videos based on the words used on the title / description.

So if your video had got deleted during this phase, no seller could help you.

However whether to leave feedback or not is your independent call based on the experience with your seller. If the seller is really good, he would give free views on new video and would accept the mistake / challenge.

You can always get refund if you are not happy about the service by just contacting the support.

Well, if you leave the feedback, you essentially paid $5 to leave negative feedback. Leaving a review completes the order and it doesn't leave a way for the seller to refund you.

Did you actually think that you were going to get quality traffic for $5.

Leave it so future buyers are warned.

Just my 2cents

I agree with this statement, their is another issue that can evolve, that is buyers holding sellers ransom in order for not giving negative feedback.

Making them do the gig again or extra work.

Just my 2 cents,


RDS