Why I Stopped Selling on Fiverr

Quitting at the height of my earnings.

Half Pint Jules
3 min readSep 29, 2023

Ever since I found Fiverr a few years ago, I’ve not only recommended the platform to other freelancers but businesses big and small that need help in specific areas.

That's what Fiverr is literally made for!

To find the perfect person for the job that you have on hand.

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I've had some really great experiences, (making up to $500 an hour) and some really horrible ones, (almost getting involved in an illegal cheque cashing scam), but when I was pulling together all my different income streams from this past year, I noticed I put zero time into Fiverr.

This hadn't been a conscious decision, I just found myself accepting fewer and fewer jobs. Even when I needed the money.

Here’s why.

The work was more trouble than it was worth.

Photo by Windows on Unsplash

Maybe I wasn’t charging enough or maybe I had too lenient of terms to where I got taken advantage of.

Either way, when broken down to hourly — work for pay, I rarely came out feeling accomplished with my…

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Half Pint Jules

Serial small businesser, total geek for industry talk, strung out most of the time but really, just a SAHWM with a need to talk about it.