Fiverr Scams & Steals Your Money - Stay Away From Fiverr
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:25 pm
When I started using fiverr I immediately knew it was run by a bunch of retards and they scams and steals money from everyone.
For those who doesnt know, it is a website where you can sell any of your services for anything between $5 - $500.
It sounds good but it isn't really. When I started using it, I thought I'll take as much as I can from them before they ban me. I managed to take a good amount but I don't think everyone is as lucky.
When you sell something for $5, $1 goes into their pocket for middleman, and you dont get the remaining $4 immediately, you have to wait 14 days to receive that. So in all for every $5, you get $3. something after their $1 takeaway and paypal fees. If you sell something for $10, they take away $2.
Their terms of service is nothing but bullshit, you will get banned even if you follow them and you might not get banned even if you break them.
Their terms states that you cannot post any info regarding your email or any way by which the buyer will be able to contact you outside fiverr. This is so that seller and buyer does not contact outside, and fiverr doesnt lose their $1 from every sale.
The bunch of retards don't even know what they write, because if that term was really true then there should not be 100,000+ people selling service like "I will give you a small french lesson on SKYPE for $50".. like wtf? Their brains are mushrooms or does Micha Kaufman (CEO of fiverr) only cares about stealing more money? Yes, they do steal money, here's how:
Remember there is 14 day period between your sale and the time you can withdraw your money? They see your sales, the money from your sales stays in your fiverr account for that much time, suppose you sold $500 worth services, and its the day of withdrawl the next day. They will ban your account and take away your $500. I've seem people getting scammed for even $8000. What I did was keep withdrawing little little amounts instead of keeping greater amount in account, so they didn't bother to steal it before. But then they probably noticed and banned me. There were active orders for which some buyers paid, and by chance I had full real name of one of them. I contacted him after I was banned and got told that he never got back the $120 he paid for the work and fiverr tells him that it is buyer's fault. I never got it either. So the person keeping that $120 is fiverr. They stole from seller and the buyer too.
If you contact their customer support, you will get a copy paste answer or just some random blah blah who doesnt even read what you say. They are like monkeys sitting and hitting the keyboard.
This guy has this photo almost everywhere: He is Ryan, from their support. He is famous for being a douche at support. Still Micha Kaufman doesn't bother to look into the matter because he is probably like the head of thiefs who is stealing the most.
Here is how a customer support ticket went with Ryan: When you get an answer, the ticket is set to "Awaiting your Response". But what this Ryan does is, set it to "Awaiting your response" without answering. He just does that whole day sitting at support.
I don't even know how these scammers maintained to stay up this long. Probably because of the same reason cheathappens does, there are retards who get scammed everyday and dont even know it, or doesn't even bother reporting if they do. Fiverr have a selected few "top rated sellers" who are their personally selected people, who stays unscammed from their maybe due to some deal or something. You cant even put a negative rating on them, go try it yourself. Put a negative rating and fiverr removes it in a day or two.
In all, stay away from fiverr. There are much better and perfect alternatives if you really want to sell your services for cheap. The other alternatives like gigbucks are atleast honest and doesn't steal your money.
For those who doesnt know, it is a website where you can sell any of your services for anything between $5 - $500.
It sounds good but it isn't really. When I started using it, I thought I'll take as much as I can from them before they ban me. I managed to take a good amount but I don't think everyone is as lucky.
When you sell something for $5, $1 goes into their pocket for middleman, and you dont get the remaining $4 immediately, you have to wait 14 days to receive that. So in all for every $5, you get $3. something after their $1 takeaway and paypal fees. If you sell something for $10, they take away $2.
Their terms of service is nothing but bullshit, you will get banned even if you follow them and you might not get banned even if you break them.
Their terms states that you cannot post any info regarding your email or any way by which the buyer will be able to contact you outside fiverr. This is so that seller and buyer does not contact outside, and fiverr doesnt lose their $1 from every sale.
The bunch of retards don't even know what they write, because if that term was really true then there should not be 100,000+ people selling service like "I will give you a small french lesson on SKYPE for $50".. like wtf? Their brains are mushrooms or does Micha Kaufman (CEO of fiverr) only cares about stealing more money? Yes, they do steal money, here's how:
Remember there is 14 day period between your sale and the time you can withdraw your money? They see your sales, the money from your sales stays in your fiverr account for that much time, suppose you sold $500 worth services, and its the day of withdrawl the next day. They will ban your account and take away your $500. I've seem people getting scammed for even $8000. What I did was keep withdrawing little little amounts instead of keeping greater amount in account, so they didn't bother to steal it before. But then they probably noticed and banned me. There were active orders for which some buyers paid, and by chance I had full real name of one of them. I contacted him after I was banned and got told that he never got back the $120 he paid for the work and fiverr tells him that it is buyer's fault. I never got it either. So the person keeping that $120 is fiverr. They stole from seller and the buyer too.
If you contact their customer support, you will get a copy paste answer or just some random blah blah who doesnt even read what you say. They are like monkeys sitting and hitting the keyboard.
This guy has this photo almost everywhere: He is Ryan, from their support. He is famous for being a douche at support. Still Micha Kaufman doesn't bother to look into the matter because he is probably like the head of thiefs who is stealing the most.
Here is how a customer support ticket went with Ryan: When you get an answer, the ticket is set to "Awaiting your Response". But what this Ryan does is, set it to "Awaiting your response" without answering. He just does that whole day sitting at support.
I don't even know how these scammers maintained to stay up this long. Probably because of the same reason cheathappens does, there are retards who get scammed everyday and dont even know it, or doesn't even bother reporting if they do. Fiverr have a selected few "top rated sellers" who are their personally selected people, who stays unscammed from their maybe due to some deal or something. You cant even put a negative rating on them, go try it yourself. Put a negative rating and fiverr removes it in a day or two.
In all, stay away from fiverr. There are much better and perfect alternatives if you really want to sell your services for cheap. The other alternatives like gigbucks are atleast honest and doesn't steal your money.