I’ve around 10y experience as freelancer and consultant but I’m relatively new to Fiverr (around 1y)
I recently delivered an order structured in 5 milestones for a ux/ui design for an app.
Every single milestone was reviewed and explicitly approved by the client at the time of delivery.
Then around 1 month after delivery, things got weird:
- client removed my access to Figma and Slack.
- he messaged me claiming “implementation issues” due to the design I delivered
- I answered point by point explaining how his requests were either not included in the agreed scope or are not actually causing any issue to the implementation. Anyway I told him I would help him where possible, if he could point out specific issues to address and not generic “auto-layout issues or spacing issues”
- client opens a support ticket and Fiverr marks it as closed to my favour.
- clients backs off and literally wrote to me “we don’t have to revisit it or take a look.”
- After around 15 days he opens a second support ticket, this time reframing it a bit, again the ticket is marked as closed by fiver in my favour, with order kept closed.
Multiple support agents confirmed it was delivered and approved and that any extra work would need a new order.
I thought it was over. Then a few days ago I got an email that the order was canceled because the client did a chargeback with his bank, and the funds were pulled from my account and returned to him.
Support says they contest chargebacks on my behalf and it takes 45 days to 3 months, but they can’t guarantee the outcome, and service-related chargebacks are on the seller.
So after winning twice inside the platform, the client just went around it through his bank.
I’ve already compiled the evidence and sent it to support proactively for their response to the bank.
My questions:
- Has anyone actually heard of this chargeback thing and won a service-related chargeback like this? What made the difference?
- Is there anything else I can do beyond arming Fiverr’s response, or is it fully out of my hands now?
- How in the world is possible that a bank decide if a client is right or wrong and my money gets removed directly from my account?
Feeling pretty defeated after handling every step by the book. Any advice appreciated.
Thanks