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sandammy:
Same here I don't understand this paid wait (day) in bracket. Is it all the paid wait I have paid since using bolt or just for today alone?
Besides this trip was from Chevron Drive abi the driver changed his location.
I only ordered for my sister, I wasn't with them during the trip

This is how a normal trip should read. Most of these drivers are criminals. I am a driver too but will never cheat a rider to make extra profit.

That's why I keep wondering what these guys making millions a month are doing differently if not beating the system to their advantage and ignorance of the riders.

As a driver, there are times you will end trip without getting any immediately, you will drive to location and rider will cancel, etc. There are a lot of things that will consume your time that when you check it very well, except for bonus, most drivers should be having between 15k to 20k net income legitimately.

This trip below was on a surge and ended 1400 for 17 minutes drive. Another ended the same 17 minutes at 2300.

Atk1nson:
Thank you. My wife recently started using the bolt app. I checked her trips today and realised some had significant waiting charges. I asked her if she has been keeping the drivers waiting and she said no. Unfortunately she hadnt been checking d breakdown of these trips. It seems some drivers actually "arrive" before they get to the pickup point.



No problem though. I have alerted her to be mindful of it. But I feel we should fair to ourselves as Nigerians, it is really unfair

I wanted to complain about this sometime but forgot.

I ordered a ride from my house in Shomolu to MM2.

Trip ended 1700 which shouldn't be because there was no surge and no traffic. I saw the paid waiting and was shocked because as a driver, I know about paid waiting and the odd of keeping the driver waiting so I was basically standing in front of my house waiting for the driver. How the paid waiting got to 400 naira is what I don't understand.

Screenshot below shows what some bolt drivers are doing. You can see the criminal driver started the trip at mobalaji Bank Anthony way which is very close to the airport as against where he picked me from m

When you request for a ride, they will not start the trip until the paid waiting reads so high, they will then start it.

I experienced the same thing the same day when I got to Owerri and ordered bolt to take me to where I would lodge. That one, I caught the driver when we've driven half way without him starting the trip. Attached is the trip at Owerri. A trip of 17 minutes ended 2300.

Nigerians have a way of abusing things.

When bolt remove the paid waiting now, they will complain.

My only advice to you is in regards to meeting your uncle for financial advice.

Know that in this world, people don't want you to be bigger than them. They need you to remain poor so you will continue to respect and worship them.

Money is power and people know this thus the reason they will frustrate every effort you make to come out of needs.

Please, this is not exclusive to uncles so you know. Biological brothers can be worse. I have my own personal experience with mainly biological brothers that I only tell them what I have done and not what I intend to do.

For instance: bro, here's a car I just got. Bro, I am running my masters degree, bro, I have done this or done that. And not, I want to do this, what do you think? Their advice most times comes from a selfish angle and tilts towards ensuring you remain limited.

I will cite only one example. When I got my car, my brother who's the richest in the family advised me to get married that it's the next thing for me.

I looked him in the face and told him that I want to build a house before getting married.

It's not that he doesn't know that's the next thing I should do considering the fact that I am still very young and the last born of the family with three other brothers so there's no rush of only son or first son.

He himself bought his car, finished his house before getting married and he never married at the age that I am.

So, basically he felt I was moving too fast in achievements and wants something to slow me down. You don't need to be told what comes with marriage in terms of responsibility.

This is just one out of many of such encounters even from my brother in law (my sister's husband). Their advice always tend to keep you where you are so you will continue to depend on them and of course remain loyal to them.

To pull through quickly in life, learn to seek for advice from people that do not know you and people that have no vested interest in whatever decision that you take, else, you may be on a long thing. Sometimes, parents are not excluded.

You're just 19, I pray you make independent decisions that will see you at the top later in your life.

franklingud:
Because your in-laws moved into your husband's uncompleted house, that's why you think they are about taking your husband's property?

You really don't know how hard things are becoming in this country everyday.

Insulting you isn't the best but I doubt you read the part where the parents were given money to rent another apartment yet they went ahead to move in to the uncompleted house their son is building.

To be honest with you, if I were in their shoes, I will rent a new apartment for them and let them leave my house.

No emotions here.

Shokoloko:
Its great that you said People like me and not me per se. Go and look at my posts: I have never been left helpless and stranded in my moment of need
Curses do not work if not the President would not be hale and hearty by now.
OP's parents are not in need. I didnt ask OP to abandon his parents. I asked OP to send money for them to rent a good and standard place. What they require is shelter; they do not require OPs personal house.

Proverbs 13:22: “A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.” (NKJV) Not a good man leaves inheritance for his parents.
That house is for OP's children and children's children.

He should honour his parents by providing reasonable shelter, and not by providing an inheritance for his parents.

At last, someone with reason.

People can be too emotional and sentimental in issues that involve family members and will give advice that they will never take.


For the house to remain uncompleted shows how the poster is gradually building it with limited available resources.

So, why will the parents quickly move in without informing him simply because they are his parents.

I don't like people taking advantage of the relationship they have with others either as parents, siblings, friends, etc.

Before the house project, they have lived all their lives paying rent. Now, it is a taboo for them to remain a tenant. The quest to look the landlord in the face and tell him "fuck_you" and the desire to answer landlord and landlady fuels this type of action.

mastermaestro:
I doubt if the same JESUS CHRIST I know whom you claim to be preaching on your signature will endorse this heartless, selfish advice you offered here. You need JESUS more than those you are preaching to.
Such a soulless, loveless line of thinking!

We Africans are too hypocritical. Why would his parents move into his house without discussing with him?

Will you as a child take such critical decision on your parents' property without informing them?

The essence of a house is shelter and OP's parents are not homeless. He sent them money to pay for their accommodation, what difference does it make living in a rented apartment versus living in your own house?

People are advised to build because of the cost of paying rent but where the rental fee isn't an issue, I don't see why the parents should be in a haste to move into an uncompleted building without telling the owner of the house.

It is wrong!

Barbiturate:
I dey ikeja computer village

Ikeja has always been a difficult place to get trips. Especially in the morning. Anytime I take a rider to Ikeja, I must blow empty to somewhere else to get a trip.

That 14000 guaranteed gross earnings is shiit_

How can Bolt expect a driver not to earn up to 14000 after a whole 8 trips.

Now, they've given me 18000 gross earnings target with 10 trips. Even 6 trips can get you the 18000.

If they don't want to give bonus, they should better keep it instead of these.

EGUNSOLA14:
how was this resolved pls?

I have given a feedback on that already. I withdrew my COVER to Hotbit although I lost a chunk percentage of my fund due to gas fee but that's simply because COVER can only be transferred using Ethereum network ERC20.

Olatimide:
Hello House, please I have a level 2 seller account, video editing niche. My gigs have never ranked before, I got all my purchases from buyer's request. Lately, infact close to a year now, I can't even get any orders from the same buyer's request anymore. What do you think happened? I never get any new client this year. I am thinking of cutting the account lose and create another one, what tips do you have for me to ensure my gigs ranked and not get stuck like my current account. Thanks

When I started out on Fiverr, I never knew it was possible to get orders without sending offers in buyers requests. I spent over two years on Fiverr relying solely on buyers request and I was doing well.

That has changed now due to so many factors.

1. Higher competition: it's very difficult to get job on Fiverr now through buyers request due to high competition. It is so now for everybody. Then, for every 10 offers I sent in a day, I must get at least one message.

2. Low quality buyers: it seems 70% offers on buyers request page now are Indians and clown Nigerians like the one someone mentioned above. I don't read those requests pass the starting line. Then, high quality US buyers post offers with befitting pays.

3. Low quality sellers: the competition would have been a meaningful one if you are competing with people who know what they are doing. But no, these guys don't have a clue what the job entails but would send offer nevertheless. What this means is that the buyer may not have the patience to read through all the offers to get to your well crafted offer. They could get pissed off by the first ten offers and either abandon buying the service on Fiverr or look for people ranking in that niche and contact them.

4. Unhonored offers: when a buyer posts a request, Fiverr suggests gigs that could provide the service they are looking for. What this means is that the buyer can contact one of those suggested gigs and never bother going through the offers.

I know this does not solve your problem, but just so you know that it's universal. Getting a job through buyers request page was easy some years back but not anymore.

What to do? Have a plan B. When the going was good for me, I got myself a Toyota corolla. Today, I use the car to drive on bolt every Sunday and earn between 60k to 80k driving just 4 times in a month while I face Fiverr on the other days of the week.

While you can, save the little you made and invest.

Again, this does not solve your problem of how to get sales on Fiverr, but the truth is, no one knows.

We can only do what is in the books but that doesn't guarantee anything, so don't let anyone deceive you.

Binance refused to convert my COVER to USDT as suggested by some people here.

Instead, they left the value for me to withdraw.

Sadly, COVER can only be withdrawn on Ethereum network.

This is how my over $30 has red to $6 in Hotbit aft the withdrawal due to outrageous transfer fee.

COVER is currently priced at $70. Sometimes this year, COVER was over $700.

I am sure smart investors are still "hodling" COVER

bukatyne:
@bold:

You don't see ladies around you doing the above?

Besides, why should the OP who works from home and is an introvert in her words buy a car in Oshogbo?

The keyword here is Oshogbo. I know many freelancers that own a car. People go to church, market, outing, travel, etc.

So, there are a lot of places to go with a car or is the OP not using public transport when commuting?

johnpablo541:
I agree that the Freelance space is saturated, I wished I came earlier though. How una take dey get job for Fiverr self. I have made only about $850 on Fiverr, but for Upwork I have made almost $4K there this year, and about $5K outside Upwork.


Freelancing no easy o, it keeps someone awake sometimes late into the night.

I don't keep late nights anymore. I did that when I started out.

How do you people grind it in this Upwork place. Or is it me that is not paying enough attention to it. I guess it's because I am used to Fiverr system and it works for me.

BabyGhoul:
Everything in this world is saturated but there is always space for newcomers to put their own personal twist on things.
I had the reverse with Fiverr. For some reason, I just can't understand that platform but Upwork has been good to me.


Giveaway ke?
My parents are the ones taking care of their extended families. The meagre sum I insist on giving them is strictly for them to spoil themselves with.
As for tithe, my church has an effective charitable wing so I am assured that it is put to good use.
Per my siblings, they love calling at all times to ask for things with school. So allocating that budget to them frees me from dipping into my savings whenever they call.

Buying a car now won't make sense because I rarely go out. Building a house will mean I have to stay in a place permanently and ion like dat. Renting gives me the freedom to move anywhere. I want to travel around the world one day while working.

Won't mention my tribe but my state has a beach

Sounds funny but I can bet that you are not Igbo. Needless to say that you are not Yoruba either. So, any other tribe can fit the narrative you've given.

Well, I agree with you that you don't need a car as a freelancer simply because you are outside Lagos and you are a lady.

As a guy, hanging out with girls, you need a car.

Being in Lagos, I use my car for Uber driving on Sundays to kill boredom and keep the engine and battery running while earning extra income. This is not what you will consider as a lady.

Can you people cut this Upwork soap give me na?

nonut:
No, it's Busd they convert it to.
His money is not lost.
Check your Busd in spot.
The value as the time it was delisted is currently sitting in BUSD in your account.

My BUSD, USDT are all still zero.

jedisco:
What percentage of your portfolio is in icp?

Please can you make me understand.

Binance delisted COVER? I noticed it's pumping on Hotbit and it was in my favorite coin on Binance only for me to check and it's no longer there and my COVER portfolio reads $0.00000


Please, is this how it works? An exchange platform can just delist any coin and the coin holder will loose all of his money.

No notification from Binance before doing that? Truly, Crypto is not a reliable source of income

Nexttpage:
I was on a trip today with a rider, suddenly I discovered a request also came in, had to decline cos I didn’t know what else to do.
Is there anywhere to stop incoming requests while on a trip?

Nobody has given you a clearer information on what you need to know regarding this.

Declining a request is an odd against you so you know.

Getting a request while on a trip is normal unless you have closed for the day and don't want to take on any more trips.

You got that request because you were already close to the end of your present trip. You can't have 25 minutes left to get to the rider's destination and still get a trip request.

So next time, just accept the request. If the riders (new) calls you, tell him/her/them that you are on a trip and will soon end it.

Most times, taking the rider already in your car to their destination gets you closer to where the new rider is.

So, it's to your advantage as you don't have to wait at all to get another request. Even if the new request says they can't wait, let them cancel and not you that way, it will not affect your activity score.

BabyGhoul:
I am not spending all. I cannot be saving at my age. Investment na the koko. Thanks for reading

I am happy for you. Can I ask the tribe you're from?

Your story sounds similar like mine, but unlike you, I moved to Lagos.

You're a girl so don't care much about heavy investments like owning a car or building a house thus the reason you can split your earnings to have over 70k in giveaway (parents, siblings, tithe).

A man will definitely spend differently.

As for @chatinent trying to sell upwork training tutorial here, tell them the truth that they need to know.

Getting approved upwork account is not a guarantee for anything. Freelance space is already saturated and takes a lot to break through now than it was some years back.

I started freelancing in 2016 and I work mainly on Fiverr. Only managed to get one job on upwork and even after getting a five stars rating from the client, nothing else yet since that time.

Vision101:
@greenie77
Men are more likely to commit crime against their fellow men but continue to scream that women are their own worst enemies!

Keep deceiving yourselves with the type of love men show their fellow men.


@me
Totally agree.

Maybe the title of the thread didn't do justice to the content.

But the point is, it is easier for a man to have sex with his girlfriend's friend than it is for a single guy to sex the same girl.

Girls like unnecessary competition and like going for what other girls have instead of looking for their own.

That's why there are lots of fashion trends among women than men. A woman will buy the same exact skirt and color that her friend bought.

Married men get girls quicker than single guys. It's a fact.

The question is, why do girls prefer a man that's engaged with another woman already? Where did they get this mindset?

FuckEveryday:
I think this driving Vs Salary is stale already.

As much as we all shout there are no jobs in this country...There are indeed alot of jobs. Just not any kind of Job...WELL PAYING JOBS.

But it's just sad it's not as open as the Outside world where you don't need to know someone who knows someone to get those In-House vacancies.

But when you indeed find it, a person who has gone to school, knows something upstairs, and has little Career experience will NEVER sit to argue Uber /Bolt pays better than Corporate organisations (Not talking about those disaster 4bedroom wannabe companies in Lekki)

Uber/Bolt and Co-operate Environments are two entirely different worlds which can and should never be compared by any Sane and educated career driven person.

Let me break it down for those always looking at dashboard.

IF YOUR ORGANISATION PAYS YOU FROM 150K AND ABOVE, HMO SERVICE AND OTHER MINOR BENEFITS, STICK TO IT AND FIND A BETTER HIGHER PAYING JOB

While you're still dere...Instead of resigning to do Uber "For the main time"

But if you feel you can easily make that money in a week or 2 while doing Uber, Please Download the app and welcome to the New Life.

People don't understand that the benefits that come with working in a corporate environment is far more than just the gross salary.


These two hustles are incomparable. Uber/Bolt only has one short term advantage which is the immediate cash it generates.

Working in a corporate organization has medium and long term advantage which will make an ehailing driver droll with awe in few years time assuming two people entered the two different businesses at the same time.

The problem most people have with salary job is impatient. They want to blow working for just one year. Career is built over the years so is the salary.

Citygal:
Two questions for you...

1. would you rather be a dead beat dad and live long than be a responsible father and die early?
2. what kills a responsible father early that cannot kill a dead beat father in the same way?

And the bolded is such a lie. A lie you tell yourself.

When you die early as a responsible father, your responsibility still falls on your wife which is not different from a deadbeat father.

The only difference is knowing that you don't exist rather than you exist without providing.

And yes, most men die struggling everyday to provide for their family.

I am not endorsing deadbeat parents, just that there's no guarantee that the man will live to enjoy the fruit of his labor if he had been responsible.

NoToPile:
The stories are just too common.

An elderly woman once told me that she can't be packing shit and taking care of her (seperated from and trying to do isonu reconciliation ) husband in old age when she never enjoyed his youth.' Let those he was with back then be with him in old age'

The world no balance.

Men that truly worked to take care of their children don't live to reap their fruits in old age. Deadbeat fathers live to suffer the consequences of their actions.

There's possibility that OPs father would have been dead if he had been the good, caring husband and father that we all expect all men to be.

Life is not linear

Ishilove:
What is ODESAN gangan?

Marriage remains one of the best mediums of bonding in traditional African societies. The ancient odesan (inter-cousin) marriage in Okaland and the arokun so omiye (conjugal union between relatives) in Akungba-Akoko played a key role in the strong bond between the different communities that make up the two prominent Akokoland towns. This marriage system has proved helpful in the survival of the traditional political institution and the overall progress of the two towns in the period of the study. Although this marriage system had been practiced as far as the history of the two towns are known, the period of its commencement is not the concern of this paper but the bond of kinship and fraternal ties it has engendered up till the late 1990s in the two towns. Through this marriage system, family members related to the throne of the two towns married close relatives which have produced strong extended bond among the different interest groups. In most cases, daughters of powerful chiefs with potential of creating serious problems for the throne were the ones married to either the king or relatives.

This is what I found on Google from a research work on this Odesan practice in akoko. So, Odesan is an inter-cousin marriage which I think should be abolished by now.

chatinent:
I hope this isn't a kanayo-o-kanayo mathematics.

Moreover, the drinks, smoke, and hardies these celebs do is overexcessive. Most of them are pro-dead...waiting for any bucket to just come by their leg.


By the way, it's sad to lose sb. Death is inevitable after all. What I don't understand is that when sb dies, another person will run and post “He shouldn’t have been Fortune.”

Who should it have been?

You write academic essay for people?

Your signature advertising that has typo error which cannot be easily ignored considering the services you claim to provide.

Please, can you correct the spelling of plagiarism?

investorMK:
I do fiverr, selling of domain names and I also publish book on Amazon....

Making money online is just about knowledge, with the right knowledge u will see how your Bank account will be fat

Bruv, you want to teach me how to make money online

middlemedia:
nigeria and i know alot of peeps getting offers with their real identity, buyer request is shii to me, i dont prefer $5 but guys told me to keep it at the lowest so i might get jobs check my fiverr profile. Digitalx3

I am using my real identity bro. Nigeria as my country with my real photo and name.

I only asked to know how easy it can be for you to start off considering you are in the writing niche.

I started with writing but ran away when the competition became crazy. So, you're basically in the most competitive niche, you've got to brace up.

I will still advise you to continue to try buyer's request page while you get yourself some reviews.

To succeed in the buyer request, I will recommend you refresh the page every 10 minutes. You need to be among the first 10 to send offer consecutively to stand a better chance.

Try and mix your offers. Sometimes, you can have a pre-written long message that you can paste and submit. In another, just read the request and respond personally to it with not more than two sentences.

Remember, the more time you spend writing your offer, the more other people are sending in theirs.

spendoon:
Hello!
You have a lot of messages which means your gig is ranking well.

My gigs have fallen to the lowest and I only get about 1 order per month, please do you have any idea on what I should do?

I tried the buyers request but the competition is to though.

I don't have a lot of messages bro. That thing is a system error and it has been like that for months.

I don't know what caused it but it isn't affecting my response rate and time so I'm not bothered.

middlemedia:
Help i have done everything i can for 2 months now, no orders, i have cool gig image, description, order price $5, yet no order fiverr.com/digitalx3, check it out and tell me whats wrong please?

What niche are you? What country are you using? How often do you send offers in buyer's request? Nobody takes $5 gigs serious on Fiverr including Fiverr.

TheDarkGamer:
I really appreciate your comment. What do you suggest my pricing should be?

Right now, it's 1000 words- $5, 3000 words- $10, and 5000 words- $20. Within, 1, 2 , and 3 days respectively.

Give me a more realistic price range. I understand that I must not use your prices, it will just help to know how to price.

So you can only leave reviews when you buy?

Thanks though.

People have grown past that your price range bro. This is 2021.


500 words for $10, 1000 words for $20 and 3000 words for $50.

Xbee007:
Reduce your bidding rate. I use paid promotion as well and the ROI has been great. I have also had some not so good experience with it especially when clients who used paid promotion to contact me decide to go to another seller because I was 5 minutes late to respond.

Do you mind sharing the breakdown of how much you have spent so far and the amount realized specifically from the messages that came in through the ad.

The benefit of running the ad is that it boosts your organic listing/ranking as well.

I have some good orders but the messages didn't come with the promoted word.

efficiencie:
...if the age of his brother means nothing, then the age his parents too mean nothing...we could equally say the same of the age of anyone older! Yes, the elder brother could be a jerk but as younger one regard and respect him if you want the regard and respect of someone younger...

Age is a just a number.


He should not respect his elder brother because of just age but for the fact that he is the elder brother.

You should respect your parents not because they are older but because they are your parents.

Are you saying that a woman who gave birth at age 35 should be respected more by her child than a woman who gave birth at age 22?

The relationship here is what you should respect and not the age.

Zhirinovsky:
156reviews
Level 2
Mostly only return buyer sales

How does paid promotion work please? Can it take take me out of the last page?

Firstly, paid promotion isn't available to all Fiverr accounts. It's still in the beta phase and only available to some selected sellers.

Secondly, I have been using it for over a month now. There's no much profit from it. I received orders worth $300 with a $30 ad spend. Now, when you remove Fiverr's 20% commission plus the $30 ad spend, I'm probably left with about $210 which may seem not to be bad but I think it benefits Fiverr more than it benefits the sellers.

Another problem I have with it is receiving messages from people that will come and be pricing your gig peanuts when your gig prices were clearly written on your page. When you tell them your price, they will stop responding or respond negatively.

The most annoying part of it is receiving messages from Indians and Pakistanis asking you to give them a job if you have any. Remember, you are paying for every click this time.

I haven't had much success with it but my ad is still running anyway.

When a message comes through the ad, it has the "promoted" word on it.