Resellers buy gig work for as cheap as $5 to resell for profit
YouTube and TikTok videos often frame drop servicing as a get-rich-quick life hack, but Ng says being the middle manager isn’t easy. If a Fiverr worker ghosts her, she must scramble to find a replacement. If a freelancer’s turnaround time is three days, she’ll quote the client five. She says people often misunderstand the skills needed to deliver projects effectively, and just want a low-effort way to make money.
Other creators have chimed in with what they see as the dangers of rebranding outsourcing as drop servicing. “This space has become so diluted and confusing for many, and that’s kind of sad,” one YouTuberComment sections are often divided on the ethics of drop servicing, at least in the way creators frame what they’re doing. Ng believes she’s adding value to the transaction and reducing the amount of work for clients if they tried to hire a contractor themselves.
Under Fiverr’s terms of service, the buyer owns the rights to the delivered product, meaning they can resell it to another client. Sellers aren’t allowed to misrepresent non-original work as their own, says Brent Messenger, VP of public policy and community engagement at Fiverr, but freelancers can purchase additional assets — like voice-over for a video they’re editing — as long as they’re transparent.
Dawn adds a disclaimer on gigs specifying that she prefers to work with small business owners directly in an effort to ward off resellers and scammers. Though she has a select few regular buyers she knows are delivering her work to another client, resellers can create unnecessary headaches for her. With no communication line between the writer and the business, having a person in the middle amounts to a game of telephone.
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