Check out our latest communities fighting
AI scams on Reddit and Facebook

business logo of Fiverr

Fiverr

1.5

On SmartCustomer, businesses may not offer incentives or pay to remove reviews. Learn more about our Review Guidelines.

How would you rate Fiverr?
grey stargrey stargrey stargrey stargrey star

Fiverr Reviews Summary

The company has garnered a mixed reputation, with some customers appreciating the affordability and variety of services available, as well as the potential for building long-term relationships with freelancers. However, significant concerns dominate the feedback, particularly regarding delayed payments, unresponsive customer support, and a perceived lack of accountability for both sellers and buyers. Many users express frustration over unresolved disputes and the platform's failure to ensure transparency and quality among its freelancers. This highlights a critical need for improved customer service and stricter oversight to enhance user trust and satisfaction.

This summary is generated by AI, based on text from customer reviews

service
286
value
275
shipping
182
returns
213
quality
261
This company does not typically respond to reviews

We monitor reviews for authenticity

India
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow Devin B.
Unfollow Devin B.
Share Review
Report Review

Been working as a freelancer for over 11 years and working thru fiverr since 2013. The just cancelled a completed order from the work of a customer even without intimating. When questioned raised racist comments about my identity and integrity based on my country of origin.
The answer is "if a customer complained about a seller, even without inquiring, they will cancel the order invariable of it is a worthy complaint" and wont consult will a seller as they see sellers are always wrong!

Date of experience: December 14, 2020
Singapore
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Nur S.
Unfollow Nur S.
Share Review
Report Review

Becareful when you send data for work to be done. Some seller ask to see your data before agreeing to take up the gig. They will come back and inform you they can do the job. All they wanted is to collect confidential data.

Date of experience: November 24, 2020
Australia
3 reviews
15 helpful votes
Follow Zana Z.
Unfollow Zana Z.
Share Review
Report Review

If you get a service done with Fiverr and the seller doesn't deliver on the service, Fiverr won't refund your money, even if you don't have anything delivered from them.

Now if you get no satisfaction from Fiverr support, who are so slack that they don't get back to you for over a week after you post a support query and try your payment provider, Fiverr threatens to suspend your account. They won't give you back your money and threaten you not to try other ways to get it back.

So basically, if you have an issue:

- Fiverr does not resolve it
- Fiverr keeps your money
- you get nothing for your money, basically you're giving Fiverr money for no reason

In the regular world, if you ordered something and didn't get it, you get your money back. Fiverr seems to think that if you don't get something, you get your money back. Fiverr won't do that.

Don't use Fiverr.

Fiver is:
- unethical
- dishonest
- fraudulent
- unprofessional
- disreputable

Date of experience: November 17, 2020
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Lauren E.
Unfollow Lauren E.
Share Review
Report Review

This service is a scam
November 16, 2020

I ended up trying two different people to create a white board animation. I had a budget of $200 and gave them the exact script and exact drawing images that I wanted. They took the job, told me 2 days and came back a week later and said they couldn't do it. Hired a second person with same outcome, now I wasted two weeks of time and have a credit in my Fiverr account that does me no good if these people can't do the work. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS COMPANY TO ANYONE.

Date of experience: November 16, 2020
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow Carl S.
Unfollow Carl S.
Share Review
Report Review

I actually made it 5 days on Fiverr! On Day 4, I submitted my video created through Adobe to try and drum up business. 24 hours later it was denied and I was told that it was not my video! Even though, I had just ran it on an add the day before and it was accepted. Ok, so I figured it was just some bonehead screening gigs (as they call them) and trying to catch up on screening, or just didn't know what he was doing. Most likely the latter, as my soon to be "Really bad experiences" started. Not only was I attempting to provide a service, but I was already actively buying services. 1 out of 5 turned out to be legit. Then comes the bombardment of spam. I hate Spam! Then... I have a seller asking to pay him through Bitcoin for a service that I was interested in, which is against TOS. So, I promptly mark his request as a TOS violation, 4 hours later after I have submitted all my information as a "Verified Professional", and taken several of their cheesy test for competency, which I might ad, some of them I knew nothing of the subject and still passed. I get banned for supposedly asking for payments outside of Fiverr! Now remember, I was the one that reported it! Now, it gets even worse. I had funds in my account. I was told in an email with no way to reply that my funds would sit there for 90 days and after 90 days, I will get an email with directions on how to get my money back. 90 days! WTF! Now, if that's not some shady SH^t? Nothing that can't get handled with a charge back. Do yourself a favor and use reputable sites, NOT Fiverr!

Date of experience: November 8, 2020
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow Michelle B.
Unfollow Michelle B.
Share Review
Report Review

Mortified
October 31, 2020

I initially went to Fiverr because Wix support was atrocious. I paid around 3
$360 Australian dollars e-commerce and redesign of pages. He did a beautiful job of the redesign but lied about the e-commerce - he could not execute that part of the job - he was in a hurry for me to sign off and give a review. I gave 5 stars because of the design only. Next because my e-commerce issue was not resolved I went back to Wix who again sent me instructions that could already be found on their website. I received a call from the Project Manager who didn't know the e-commerce part of Wix and slugged I contact Wix - I paid the Premium which they were supposed to charge me monthly but took all of my money for the annual fee instead. So I went back to freaking Fiverr and picked out a seller who portrayed herself as having excellent e-commerce knowledge. The lying you know what charged me $180 Australian dollars (1/3 more than the agreed amount). So 6 days later which is today and guess what she created a form that does nothing and completely ignored the examples and directives of what I wanted. I am not signing off - I told her I will seek my money back if the job does not get done as requested. I quite calm. So we will see what happens. I cannot ever use Wix or Fiverr ever again after my experiences.

Date of experience: October 31, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Gail J.
Unfollow Gail J.
Share Review
Report Review

Scamming Marketer
October 31, 2020

I hired someone to do one simple logo upgrade (3D style, see 2nd picture below), and the girl I paid upfront (to let you know) didn't send my work. I let it go about a week, and she still didn't send me anything. She states 1-day delivery. I filed a complaint with Fiverr and never heard anything from them until today, 10/30/20, when I left a review on their site about the so-called logo builder. I complained to the resolution team on Fiverr about the girl who never delivered what I paid for last week. Well, she finally sent back a logo, and it was NOTHING LIKE THE PICTURE SHE HAD ON HER SITE TO PROMOTE HER BUSINESS on Fiverr. It looks like a shadow that you can make with an iPhone. Fast forward to today, Fiverr said they were going to hide my review on their site until November 8,2020. Are they SERIOUS? They are going to hide the negative review. There are a few reputable people on that site, but the rest is trash. Fiverr won't help you with getting a refund, so therefore they could care less about customers. I hired someone on Fiverr to add a 3D style to my logo because I didn't have the time, due to my business demand right now. If you want to hire Kimberly_Mcbray, keep going. She doesn't look like she knows what she is doing based on the picture she sent after two weeks (see below -1st picture) and one threat to Fiverr. After looking over the Fiverr site, I notice they hide the negative comments and show only positive ones. Do not use this company. Get professionals locally or look up reputable ones on google.

Date of experience: October 30, 2020
Hawaii
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow green h.
Unfollow green h.
Share Review
Report Review

Some of the sellers are SCAM and Fiver won't help you to refund!
Like, this company is the only platform if there is a problem with a seller, Fiverr will NOT help you at all.

Date of experience: October 15, 2020
Oregon
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow Maidison T.
Unfollow Maidison T.
Share Review
Report Review

We paid 1.2K to an India company/provider for marketing service. They didn't do $#*! and marked as completed. I contacted fiverr, they told me talk to the seller. Seller sold his account to an other Indian company/person. Fiverr said they can't help with that. I was like WTF.

Date of experience: October 14, 2020
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Mike P.
Unfollow Mike P.
Share Review
Report Review

He hacked me through Facebook with a fake account thencextorted me for 700$ Fiverr. Kicked. Me. Off. Me

Date of experience: October 2, 2020
GB
1 review
17 helpful votes
Follow Justin T.
Unfollow Justin T.
Share Review
Report Review

Crooks & Scam Artists
September 23, 2020

I've just been scammed on Fiverr. Turns out the 'original and bespoke' logo's I was paying significantly more than $5 for, were just being copied from the websites of other companies around the globe. If you have bought anything on Fiverr, do a few very detailed image searches now, before it's too late and your company gets sued for copyright breaches.

Date of experience: September 23, 2020
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
Follow Fiverrisawful Y.
Unfollow Fiverrisawful Y.
Share Review
Report Review

No one has money and time to waste but for fiverr they love wasting everyone's time and money especially because they're thieves. They only care about stealing your money and not give you any service, let the lying thieves get away with all glory man what type of website is that can you tell me, they pride on preying for people who don't want slave away their lives and do something for themselves not others. How can you have a company who preys on people that need certain things for their business. They shouldn't have a reputable company if they can't take care of the scamming and flawd service

Date of experience: September 22, 2020
Pakistan
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
Follow waqar a.
Unfollow waqar a.
Share Review
Report Review

Off-page
September 19, 2020

I want you see its this i want impression on its////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Date of experience: September 18, 2020
Israel
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Omer V.
Unfollow Omer V.
Share Review
Report Review

I ordered a service on Fiverr and I paid $1,200 even though the seller received only $800. Why does Fiverr charge 50%? You would think it's for the customer service but their response waiting time is at least 3 days.

Date of experience: September 18, 2020
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow jane d.
Unfollow jane d.
Share Review
Report Review

Worst Experience EVER!
September 5, 2020

I decided that I wanted to creae a website and utilized Fiverrs services to do so. I contacted the seller attached, and he promised the stars, the moon and the sky. He promised he was able to deliver on everything I requested and promised that I will be happy with the end result. Based on his reviews, I felt that he understood my vision and was able to deliver. Well he didn't. I was completely unstatisfied with the website he provided, and when I requested changes to make it the way I requested, he told me that it would cost additional money, even though he agreed to everthing I requested from the begining. Don't let these reviews fool you. Some of these sellers have been around long enough and know how to play the system and are extremely manipulative. BEWARE of the seller below.

Date of experience: September 4, 2020
Lithuania
1 review
4 helpful votes
Follow Vilius K.
Unfollow Vilius K.
Share Review
Report Review

First, I'd like to start out by saying that I have used Fiverr for a long time. It has given freelancers around the world a platform to find customers quickly. I love the idea behind Fiverr, I like its platform, and sometimes even the customer support.

Recently, I started selling through Fiverr's "Logo Maker" feature which is in the beta. However, after receiving two warnings in quite a quick succession, my account was temporarily disabled while they perform an account review. Both of the warnings were for essentially "pliagiarism". Here's the thing, we have professional designers, who have worked with some of the biggest companies around the world. Not only do we create original work, we check our work for copies via reverse image searches before uploading anything for sale to Fiverr.

Each time we received a warning from Fiverr, we were not given any additional information on what other design exists that is similar or the same. As a designer, you can easily come up with a similar or sometimes even nearly identical design as someone else. As a great designer, you'll have your logo stolen and sold by other designers. There are many different scenarios. However, without knowing what the other design is, it's impossible to tell.

After reviewing our account, Fiverr disabled it permanently citing us as having violated their terms of service.

We are a professional team of designers with a combined experience of 100 years in design. It is possible that someone stole our work and had posted it somewhere and it could've been explained or resolved quickly by letting us know where the work appears.

Additionally, the design was flagged by their automated system. The two warnings were automatic. The system could have made an error as well. Maybe at least 1 of the warnings was not accurate, and thus, our account would have not been closed permanently.

At a time where we relied on income from Fiverr to get us through this rough time we are all going through, we found very little compassion or even effort to try to resolve anything.

We'd love for Fiverr to take a few minutes to discuss how to reenable our account. We want to continue to bring value to the platform and its customers.

Date of experience: September 3, 2020
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
Follow Esther G.
Unfollow Esther G.
Share Review
Report Review

Hello friends, I know there have many gigs on Fiverr. But I have found the best facebook marketing expert on Fiverr. Who boost my sales within 60 days. I love his service (www.fiverr.com/samdotdesign)

Date of experience: August 31, 2020
Illinois
1 review
5 helpful votes
Follow Johnny H.
Unfollow Johnny H.
Share Review
Report Review

Pretty evil site
August 30, 2020

First of all if you're looking to hire someone for something lewd to write, don't say anything in the chat to your hiree about details because they'll flag your account as inappropriately talking in chat. Plus a lot of the buyers seem to just be desperate people trying to make a quick buck while not listening to you and writing their own thing. Do not use this site.

Date of experience: August 30, 2020
Sweden
1 review
3 helpful votes
Follow Edith R.
Unfollow Edith R.
Share Review
Report Review

I have a very bad experience of Fiverr as a buyer. On Fiverr you are gambling. You will win or you will lose.
Here is what I have learned as a buyer on Fiverr.

1) You cannot trust the seller even if he has brilliant reviews.
2) Fiverr is just a money making machine and this company does not at all care about its customers.
3) Customer service has no phone number! So you cannot speak to a real person but just write.
4) Customer service is using templates(!) when answering your messages and nobody cares or nobody reads what you are writing and what problems you have. You get the same "predesigned template" responses all the time.
5) Though it says on Fiverr's website that they have Customer Support 24/7, it's not true. To my 1st email for help I got a response after 4 days!
6) You as a buyer will never get a refund if something goes wrong with your order.
7) The seller will NEVER CANCEL your order (as per my experience) as the seller's ranking will be negatively affected.
8) If you will not be happy with your order revisions, you will be told all the time by the seller and Customer Service that "the seller has delivered everything which has been associated with the original scope of work"! So you will never be able to convince them that the things you are requesting to be done are related to your original order.
9) The seller, the buyer and Customer Service have 3 days to reply to messages. In case you as a buyer will forget to reply to the seller within 3 days, your order will be automatically marked as completed and your funds will be transferred to the seller.
10) If your order will be cancelled you will not get your funds back(!) but they will be refunded to your shopping balance on Fiverr!
11) Your dispute on Fiverr can go on and on and on for weeks without any results.

Finally, if you are a gambler and do have time and can afford losing money you might want to try Fiverr. As for me, I cannot afford losing my time, my patience and my money twice. So I will stay away from Fiverr.

Date of experience: August 28, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
Follow Nina S.
Unfollow Nina S.
Share Review
Report Review

Cannot Cancel orders once submitted - strange software. In Help and Support - in my Orders there is Cancellations - but since there are no cancellations in my account it does not open that up. Irrespective - once submitted an order it cannot be cancelled. Sometimes turn around time is less than 16 hrs - when you need item clearly within the next few hrs - I just submitted an order and now cannot cancel it

Date of experience: August 21, 2020

From the business

Fiverr is the world’s largest marketplace for creative and digital services, including graphic design, copywriting, voice overs, and music and film editing.
Fiverr is changing the way the world works together by giving entrepreneurs, freelancers, small businesses and even enterprises the resources they need to get things done.


+164
See all photos