That $50 Fiverr gig for a logo cost me $400 in wasted time

I paid a Fiverr seller $50 for a logo last month and ended up spending 6 hours trying to fix the vector file myself because they gave me a flattened PNG. Then I had to pay another freelancer on Upwork $100 to rebuild it from scratch. Has anyone else lost money by going cheap on design work and regretted it?

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the_felix1d ago

Classic Fiverr tax, right @the_hayden? Cheap now, expensive later.

the_hayden1d agoOG Member

Did you check their portfolio for vector work before paying?

wade_anderson1d ago

Stop acting like portfolios actually mean something on Fiverr. Half those "vector" samples are stolen from Behance anyway. You're just paying for the gig package at that point, not their real skills.