[DonaldH]

My sole experience with Fiverr was terrible. I paid $35 to their highest-rated logo designer, who promptly delivered the worst logo I had ever seen. I'm not usually one to complain, but I was so unimpressed that I told the seller that I was not happy with the logo. His response was basically "I don't care. See ya!" I will never use Fiverr again. I've had much better luck with Elance.

[majani]

I don't think a site tailored for 5$ errands is where you should have been shopping for something as critical as a logo design.

[MichaelApproved]

In my experience, Fiverr isn't good with creative work. It's a system that values volume and you're likely going to be getting someone who systematized things as much as possible which leads to a lot of canned fulfillment. That tends to be terrible for creative work.

Fiverr is worth trying again but next time use it for non-creative work. Also, don't allow yourself to get up-sold initially, keep things at $5. Toss a few fivers around and experiment. Like any network of people, you'll have some terrible participants and also great ones.

BTW - out of curiosity, would you care to link to the logo?

Edit: reading more about copyright infringement of designers on fivver. This is a huge problem. I would stay away from any creative work from anyone on fivver, regardless of their rating. Especially for something as critical as a logo.

Also note that most stock photo companies specifically say that you can't use their images in logos so you can't even buy the stock photo if you're comfortable with the stock photo as the logo.

[rxdazn]

what kind of logo did you even expect for $35 though?...

[DonaldH]

Nike's logo cost $35. Twitter's logo cost $15.

I honestly didn't expect anything good, despite the satisfaction guarantees and "examples of past work" on the seller's profile. I expected to receive something very mediocre, and I was STILL disappointed.

[fasouto]

Nike logo was designed in 1975, this is ~ $155 considering inflation. It was cheap but non that cheap.

[willcodeforfoo]

In these cases, I think its less about the cost of the initial design but the hundreds of billions of dollars in marketing and advertising spent since building the value of the mark in our collective conscience.

[DonaldH]

I completely agree. I was just making the point that it isn't necessary to spend a lot of money on a logo when bootstrapping. I've had logos created by designers on Elance for around the same cost and been very pleased with the results.

[jongold]

Nike's logo was designed by a graphic design student.