Hey,
I was wondering…
- What gets your boilers whistling when it comes to doing a project? Give an example.
- How did you manage the situation?
Thanks… let’s learn from each other’s stories 
You start!
My biggest pet peeve is idiots. People that don’t specify any kind of project brief, people who order my ebook formatting gig thinking that I will now drop everything and write them a novel…
In fact, sometimes I get people like a customer who recently asked me to turn their pet project childs colouring book into an ebook and I just sit back and think, “really?”
As long as I don’t actually have to watch, though, as they try to use a knife and fork to eat their cheerios, I’m quite happy to cash in on people’s base stupidity. It really is a pain though, when you have to cancel orders because of it.
- Clients who change their mind on what they want right after I’ve delivered a project that was done based on their original expectations… If it’s manageable in about 5 minutes, I just go ahead and make it… but if it means remaking the whole thing, I tell them they need to make another order as that is different from the original agreement.
- CLIENTS WHO DO NOT READ THE GIG DESCRIPTION before ordering. I just… Oh God. What’s worse is that I repeat the same instructions in the order page yet they still fail to read it and they just go ahead and make the order.
How I managed it? I have this “Quick Response” message that I use when the client does that… if I don’t hear from the back in 24 hours, I request a cancellation… What pisses me further are those who don’t make it a mutual cancellation, gahhhh. If only these kind of people on Fiverr would just READ… I swear Fiverr will be a better place.