Fiverr

Using Fiverr to develop a website I came across one 'developer' and I use that term loosely, who looked to have all the credentials you would expect. After too-ing and fro-ing we settled on a price of $260 and so he went to work (elsewhere I presume). 2 months passed before I received a very poorly modified $65 template that had broken links and links that took anyone who clicked them back to his servers. I can't leave feedback for the seller as it was too long ago and that works very nicely for him because he doesn't get bad feedback.
My advice - stay well clear of Fiverr.

Would strongly advise any freelancer/contractor to pursue other channels for sales. They can restrict your account at any time and will not give you an exact reason for up to 60 days. We have a perfect score across their metrics and over 10 five-star reviews. Happy to comply with any requests, but they do not provide details. They also take 20%, which is a lot.
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Update: They expedited their review process - only because I left a review on Trustpilot. Good to know they really care... They ultimately decided to ban me for offering a similar service to other freelancers, which is AI vocal cloning.

If you want to waste you time, contact Fiverr Helpless Center and wait forever for automated pre-written answer that do nothing to your issue.

If you want to encounter horrible clients who would harass you for free work or unreasonable work, because they can threaten you with "1 star review" if you don´t deliver or complete their ridiculous "favors", try register with Fiverr.

If you are being a freelancer for fun, this is your place as you will get 1 order in every 5-6 months if you are lucky.

No seller or buyer takes their business to this horrible place because
- Outdated web design. Ugly.
- Impractical gig and pricing plan system.
- Pre-made review. Automated reply from the staff
- Helpless support team.

Good luck

Wish I had read your reviews first! I paid for an IT service (which ended up costing me about $9, not $5 as expected). Had it for about 2 weeks and then the seller withdrew my access (even though I'd paid for an entire year). His profile has disappeared off the site. I emailed a complaint, and this is the response I got: "Thank you for contacting us. I am sorry for your bad experience. I can say that your seller is being viewed by our Trust and Safety team and because of our policy I am unable to share any more information."
Very helpful indeed. Don't waste your money!

Apparently i infringed on the "third party's terms of service". When i look up these rules they just say "its how it is"... i was banned for no reason.

They're now holding my earnings and theres nothing i can do about it

After you deliver your work, a buyer can state that they are "unsatisfied" and keep whatever work you did for them. When this happened to me, I reached out to support, showed them the hours of work I'd done and the final product which had already exceeded requirements for the gig & they did nothing. I've brought in thousands $$ from the site (meaning they've made a bunch of money off that), and have only ever received 5-star reviews prior to this buyer, yet Fiverr still sided with the con artist. Super disappointed & no longer selling on the site.

Avoid at all costs, they are greedy and money hungry, charging buyers and sellers 20% fees, how do they expect anyone to make any money at that rate and pay 15% self employment tax? 35% of income goes to fees, then tack on biz. Expenses. With this concept they will go out of business and so will sellers. Everything is over priced and they have way too many sellers with no skills. Those they label fiverr pro want $500+ for a basic gig, better off hiring someone on Craigslist. Greedy money hungry company not built to last. Just read the forum of all the complaints from buyers and sellers. Listen to the feedback and make the changes or people will do business elsewhere. Seems like they got real greedy after they finally reached a profit. The micro managing, fees, and abudance of unqualified sellers is a big turn off.

Ive used the website on two purchases, one was a business plan in which u can tell it's been ported from some where, it's was very very basic not what I had expected according to the gig explain action.
Someone else did a nice resume for me, I added extra 10.00 to him so he can release me the soft editable copy, until today I'm still waiting it's been months, I stopped asking him. I'll use them for quick fix but not my favourite.

Fiverr.com is loaded with scammers who claim abilities that are often far beyond their true capabilities. Once you've paid $5 -- and often more -- you cannot obtain a refund. The website simply refers you back to the seller when there's a problem.

I had someone to design a wordpress page for me. For $60 USD after 10 days of NO communication they failed to deliver. Luckily the money was refunded into my fiverr account. They later begged me to take down the bad review because it would affect their service and said reason why they did not complete the website was because they were taking part in religious festivals. After searching for another person to develop my site both of us made an agreement of what they would provide. From the first glance the site looked nice but later when researched more into it I noticed that it was actually a poor job seemed as if they slapped it together in 2 mins. Later when I asked them to adjust the design they said they would do it by the end of the day. That was 3 weeks ago... So I basically just gave away my money. Fiverr is saying it's too late to get my money back and I cannot even make a review to warn others. I will never trust fiverr again, Its ROBBERY!

We are a nonprofit that paid a designer to do a logo for us. He sent over terrible quality designs that were completely different from what we asked for while our manager was coming back from vacation.

The designer didn't respond to our requests and then deleted his account. Since it was out of the "3-day window" Fiverr washed their hands of the matter - actual response from their customer service representative "Alex":

"Your order got completed automatically, 3 days after delivery since you didn't reject the order or asked for a revision in that time period. Unfortunately, your seller is no longer a member of our Fiverr community so we cannot reach him to get back to you with the Logo design."

He then goes on to literally give us tips:

"The next time you're browsing Fiverr, here are a few suggestions to help you on your next purchase:"

What a terrible, condescending, unfriendly company. It's been 3 months and we still have zero content we paid because Fiverr doesn't care.