Spent $40 on a Fiverr gig for a logo and got something that looked like clip art from 1998

Was trying to save cash for my side hustle and figured hey how bad could it be lol. The designer used a font I swear came from a WordArt tutorial and the colors were all wrong. Told myself $40 was cheap but I ended up spending another $60 to fix it with someone else. Shoulda just paid $100 upfront for something decent. Anyone else have a low-cost gig that backfired?

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lee.cora17d ago

@zarag17 nailed it, same thing as buying cheap shoes that hurt your feet.

faith2717d ago

Did you try talking to the seller about it first? I had a guy on Fiverr send me a logo that was literally a traced version of a popular brand's icon with my business name slapped on top in Papyrus font. I asked for a revision and he just made the font bigger and called it done. By that point I was already $40 down and had to pay a real designer $75 to start from scratch. It's like the old saying about buying cheap tools - you pay twice.

zarag1717d ago

Used to think I could just negotiate harder or be more specific to avoid that kind of thing. But after getting burned three times on Fiverr logos myself, I finally realized it's not about the seller being a scammer. It's just that you get what you pay for when it comes to creative work. The cheap guy has to rush through jobs to make any money, so he's not going to spend time thinking about your brand or checking if his work is original. Now I just budget properly from the start and skip the whole painful loop of trying to save $20.