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NY “Microentrepreneurs” Giving Fiverr a Go

February 7, 2012 at 9:36 am
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NY freelancers are using NY-based Fiverr to offer their services, $5 at a time, a New York Post article said. For example, Chris Ferretti does a great impression of Christopher Walken so he offered his voice on the micro-gig site. Soon he was making $800 to $900 a month recording 5-minute messages mimicking Walken. Other NYers are making money on the site as well.  Howard Beach graphics designer Mary Ingrassia joined last year to offer quirky stunts like speed coloring a logo.

Micha Kaufman launched Fiverr.com in 2010 as a way for freelancers and micro entrepreneurs to offer small time services. No body gets rich on the site, but they do get to make significant part-time income. Last month the site debuted a tiered system with seller “levels” that lets trusted sellers  charge more money for additional services.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/philip.torchinsky Philip Torchinsky

    Unfortunately, Fiverr has an important hidden problem: it bans you permanently if you wish to promote the service which Fiverr Support thinks competes with Fiverr itself. Fiverr seems to be good for small businesses, and I bought a few gigs there helping me to promote my freelance jobs aggregation service. 
    The service I wanted to promote actually does not compete with Fiverr at all, but the Fiverr support decides it does, and decline to listen to me. I excited fiverr at the time I saw it first time, now I am very dissatisfied. Terms of Service there is incomplete or unfair, unforunately.
    My account was blocked permanently, and contacting support did not help: they failed to explain which part of Terms of Service I violated, and did not unblock the account anyway.
    Also, support people on Fiverr behaves rude, demonstrating no respect to customers. If you ask for an account block/unblock rules clarification, the request can be closed by them without any answer and explanation.