Fiverr is without a doubt one of the most
celebrated platforms for online freelancing. It is providing various benefits
to millions of people all over the world. The wide range of skills that people
make money from on Fiverr is surely appreciable. Contradictory to its benefits,
there are a couple of problems many other users and I faced while working on Fiverr.
The list below marks the major 10 of them.
1. Fiverr Tax Deductions
Firstly, the tax
deductions on Fiverr are somewhat huge and you will truly get bothered with
them once you start buying or selling skills on this platform.
There is a 20 percent
deduction from your earnings each time you sell something. Let’s suppose you sold
something for $5 (which is the minimum price for any of your gig), what you
will receive in your account will be $4. Similarly, $8 for sale of $10 and so
on.
The drill doesn’t end
here, just enlisted clients can purchase and sell on Fiverr. All buys are
dependent upon a help charge of $2 on buys up to and including $40, and 5% on the
purchase of above $40.
2. Scam Buyers
If you are unfortunate
enough to meet one of the scam buyers on Fiverr, it is one of the biggest
problems you could have faced. First, they attempting to talk amicable and
complete work. Additionally, they attempt to get all the more additional
administrations for just $5. After that, they will put horrendous surveys for
our administrations and leave. Moreover, we can't change that criticism
everlastingly because Fiverr client care never backing to venders. (I'm
exceptionally discussing Graphic Designing ). From other outsourcing
destinations, we can win sensible assistance for our administration. What's
more, I surmise those outsourcing destinations doesn't have any unpleasant
clients because those purchasers are not scammers.
This might not be the only
way you can get scammed, scam buyers place orders and then cancel it by
providing petty reasons and there is no way Fiverr support will help you with
this.
3. Payoneer issues
Particularly in Pakistan,
Paypal is not available and there is also no other way to transfer or deposit
cash internationally online. The only platform available for cash transfers is
Payoneer and that is what most people link up with their Fiverr account for
transferring their earning.
In Pakistan and many other
third world countries, most of the freelancing websites other than Fiverr too,
do not give an option to their freelancers of direct cash transfer into back
accounts or transfer through Western Union or Wire Transfer. As a result,
Payoneer is the only option to opt for Pakistanis. Payoneer, being the only
platform may collapse at some point in time due to any reason.
Such an issue has been
addressed recently where the cards of more than 2 million Payoneer customers
have been blocked and hence, they are not able to withdraw or transfer any of
their cash. This happened because the main company in Germany that Payoneer is
a product of, got scammed which lead to the user accounts getting sealed to get
protected from the scam. However, the CEO of Payoneer has said that all the
accounts and pending payments will be provided to the customers soon.
4. Buyers above Sellers Phenomenon
They generally support a purchaser.
Fiverr should think about dealers before purchasers. Today they don't
understand that and after Fiverr went down without any venders Fiverr will consider
it yet it's will be the point of no return. Furthermore, this is a platform is
made of the seller’s since they sell their important assistance for only hardly
any dollars.
Whenever you address any
kind of issue as a seller, the one getting priority from Fiverr customer
support is most of the time the Buyers.
5. Contradiction in Reviews and Ratings
Specific section buyers on
Fiverr are also the ones that give you good reviews and a less than five-star
rating for no reason. Once, the review and ratings are done by the Buyer there
is also no way you can get it changed so you need to stay cautious of this
flaw.
Commenting on the ratings
of buyers on Fiverr, it does not matter to a buyer, even if you give them a bad
review or rating, as much it does for a seller.
6. Bugs on Fiverr
Some bugs that may pop up
in any section of your profile. This is not something that happens often but
the sad part is when you do get to see some alter in ratings or anything due to
a bug. There are minimum chances of the Fiverr administration fixing it for
you.
7. Temporary Rankings (Seller/Buyer Levels)
There are three ranks or
levels of a buyer on Fiverr. You get the rank of “Level One” after you complete
a good number of orders and have a good rating overall. The more the orders you
complete with good ratings, the higher the rank. The next one being “Level Two”
which is allotted to a buyer/seller doing better than the one on “Level One”.
The next and the final one is the “Pro-verified Seller” which is for the ones
professional acclaimed for their skills on Fiverr.
Now that you know about
the ranking thing, the one flaw to this ranking system is that the ranks are
temporary. You may get to “Level-Two” and then your rank may drop directly to
no level ( or the Level Zero) on Fiverr if you don’t continue to meet your
previous order completion rate.
8. Not a suitable platform for creative skills
Inventive
(Creative) gigs don't function admirably in this kind of stage. The client
should know precisely what they are getting before they request. It won't work
to utilize the "try it out and check whether I like it." approach.
This isn't Fiverr's
issue. They simply set up the stage. We choose what we are going to offer on
that platform. There are imaginative administrations that people with creative
skills do that are not a solid match for the stage. You should pick the
shrewdly. If the client doesn't have the foggiest idea of what they need and
can't disclose to you what's in their mind. It could be a long inventive
procedure and at long last they despite everything dislike it saying things
similar to "The dress just makes me look fat".
9. Banning Accounts
It is mandatory to read
the Fiverr dos and don’ts before you start your freelancing because if you go
against any of these, your account will get straight banned.
Also, users who just
randomly spam people with messages are immediately banned by Fiverr.
10. Late responses
Fiverr customer help and
support do help you with a couple of things but at times, the response rate is
very slow. You submit a request against the scam you have gone through and you
may get a slow response or the Fiverr support as mentioned earlier may just end
up giving decision in the favor of the buyer.
If you beware of all these cons of this
online platform, it will surely bring you lots of benefits as a freelancer and
help you enhance your skills.
Authored By Nabeeha Zahid
"Nabeeha Zahid is a curious one by nature, and her determinations to fulfill that said curiosity has turned her into a sophisticated writer and an excellent researcher. Her interests usually revolve around how the human brain thinks, perceives, interprets and understands, ergo, she likes digging around and writing on how the twisted human psychology works. You can contact her at znabeeha08@gmail.com"or hire her on Fiverr nabeeha_zahid for Script and Content writing or whiteboard video animations.
