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That Fiverr proofreader took 2 weeks to fix one 1200 word blog post
I paid a Fiverr freelancer $35 to proofread a 1200 word blog post for a client and she took 14 days to send it back with like 3 comma changes. The client was emailing me every day asking where the draft was because my deadline was shot. Has anyone else had a simple gig turn into a nightmare wait time?
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zaranelson10d ago
Oh man, I once hired a guy on there to just add a single table to a document and it took him a week and he still messed up the alignment.
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dianawilson9d ago
Oh geez, that's brutal. Sounds like she charged you by the calendar day instead of the actual work time. At least she was consistent with the one change per comma ratio, I guess?
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mason_murray89d ago
The "one change per comma ratio" thing is actually kind of genius if you think about it... but that just means she was a master at gaming the system, not at editing. What nobody's talking about is how these platforms basically force editors to work like this if they want to make any money. I saw a breakdown once where an editor on Fiverr would have to process like 2000 words in under an hour just to hit minimum wage after fees and taxes. So either they rush through stuff or they stretch the timeline. That table alignment guy probably had five other jobs going at the same time and just lost track of which document had the table.
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