Fiverr is a decent gig marketplace suitable for one time work but it is the worst when it comes to work that needs ongoing support or maintenance. Example: Website Development.
Let me give you an example:
Go through this offerings listed on fiverr – https://www.fiverr.com/gigs/adsense
You will see the freelancers are providing a guaranteed google adsense approved website!
Now, here is the weird part where they scam the innocent buyers. Let me give you an exact flow on how the buyers are scammed –
Step 1: Let us assume the buyer is you. You see the fantastic reviews and pay for the website development work that will get adsense approval for sure as guaranteed by the fiverr freelancer.
Step 2: The freelancer delivers the work and you get a deadline of 3 days to complain about the work and leave a review.
Step 3: The freelancer knows that after 3 days you literally have no power on raising a complaint so they can promise whatever they want to and get away with it.
Scenario 1: The freelancer says that the google adsense approval takes time and it will get approved after a month [3 days deadline will be crossed easily, post that whether you gets adsense approval or not, nobody cares]. The freelancer stops responding in a positive manner after 3 days.
Scenario 2: You get a bug on the website or it crashed due to some technical issue. You ask the freelancer to fix it and get no response because the 3 days deadline has already passed.
Step 4: If you have paid via any credit card or paypal, you try to raise a chargeback claim from your financial institution or paypal. Believe me or not, you will never get the money back as fiverr has strong ties with the financial institutions and you can’t win a chargeback from such a biggie.
How to avoid getting scammed on fiverr?
Just avoid it! They are completely aware of this scam and don’t want to take any steps to prevent it.
What can you do now?
Find a reputed company that provides ongoing support and maintenance of the website along with the development.
I am the founder of Sitefy. We provide yearlong website maintenance and support to our website development clients and make sure that they succeed. We provide readymade website of all types – https://sitefy.co/product/readymade-website/
