What is working with Fiverr really like? I thought it was pretty sweet, but apparently the internet at large seems to feel otherwise.

Oh, wow. I didn’t realize… Why does it suck, I wonder? Based on some of the images I was coming across, I think I understand their point of view. We’ll get to that, but I have an issue of my own.

Not with the the service I bought. Well, one of them. We’ll circle back to that. No, the issue I had was tipping. That’s right, you can tip the person you just paid!

“But Rocky!”, you start to say, attempting to interrupt, but are stopped mid-meltdown as I hold a single finger up, indicating that you need to wait calmly. My issue isn’t explicitly with the tip feature. I’m glad it’s an option, I like having that option. And it is optional. Thing is, you’re sort of pressed into it, and will be reminded a few times even if you don’t want to. (This is a feature of the Fiverr interactive website. Literally the seller never mentioned money. They gave me basic information, and I used that to choose a price tier. (Not all sellers have tiered pricing).).

I’m vehemently against mandatory tipping. That hurts everyone. It’s a great option, but just like dining out or taking a dump, you shouldn’t have to pay someone extra for doing their job. Even the bathroom attendant. People like “Oh well they gotta smell your shit all night.” and it’s like bro, you chose to sit in a bathroom. I’m not paying you for your bad decision, no matter how well-dressed and well-mannered you are. Point being, pressuring the consumer into tipping is unfair to both the consumer and the provider, particularly after you JUST AGREED ON A PRICE. Not to mention we just had an on-going dialogue, there was plenty of time to mention a tip.

Matter of fact, I would have happily obliged a 15% tip, if they were like “Okay so for this thing you want, I’ll do XY and Z extra but it’ll take longer but you can leave a tip and we’ll call it good”. Alright, that would be cool. Except that didn’t happen.

So, yeah, if you hate the American style of implied-mandatory tipping, you’ll be annoyed after your purchase.

I don’t know what this guy is so pissed off about. I think when people are like “Sweet, I can pay $5 for someone to do this thing that would take me an hour,” they forget that Fiverr is essentially a social media and payment solution platform. There’s no vetting of people selling services.

There’s bots and scams, for sure. I might be getting scammed right now, we’ll find out in a couple days I guess. It’s whatever, it’s still cheaper than solo ads that don’t convert. Like any other social media website, there’s going to be fake accounts and clone accounts.

Basically, if it’s an Asian person doing “American model talent”, they’re probably ripping you off in some way. Or like, you’ll notice after a while that a lot of profiles all say the same stuff, sometimes word for word, down to the reviews. This doesn’t mean you would be ripped off necessarily, but it’s definitely a red flag….because you’ll definitely probably get ripped off.

Sometimes people make mistakes, too. That is a thing that happens. I suspect if you do your due diligence (this doesn’t count, btw), you will have a much more positive outcome on Fiverr.

Ah, of course. Now we get to the core of the matter.

First off, Fiverr does offer some unique methods of delivering advertisements, but it’s not really not the kind of mass advertising you need with CPA offers.

First off, if you can’t make a sale don’t blame the platform.

Both of those things would have worked, so I just went for the double firsting. For real though, people successfully do affiliate marketing -everywhere-. I don’t, you don’t, but people do it.

And again, it’s not really Fiverr’s main like…. idk, think about it like…. Fiverr is where you go to spend money, specifically on people doing things for you. People going there are very unlikely to be interested in buying products or taking out a new mortgage or really spending money on anything other than what they came for. Their dollars are spoken for.

Pinterest is fairly …idk how to say it, like it’s got its own bubble or set of paradigms and you kind of have to be familiar and sort of tuned in with it. Whereas Facebook and Google ads are just so massive and generalized that what works for one will work for the other.

In conclusion, I had a great experience with Fiverr. I looked for a seller that seemed to be someone I could work with (it’s worth reading the profiles, different people do different stuff), was honest with what I wanted, and they delivered. Price wasn’t even discussed, I was just given sets of data which I used to decide how much I wanted to spend.

Hey now, before you get on about the illusion of choice, the illusion is self-induced. Because it makes me feel safe to make my own pretend choices. But for real, either one would have worked.

Yes, I did go with the more expensive option. My thing with that is more about the percentage difference in tier, compared with what my initial budget and expected expenses were, and….

WHAT? YOU DON’T SET AN EXPENSE BUDGET?! GTFO, GTFO RIGHT NOW BANNED GTFO