Ask HN: Have you ever found a capable freelancer on Fiverr?

I have been trying to find freelancers for various tasks on fiverr for a few days now and it seems hopeless. I wonder if the whole platform is just fake.

The profiles and gigs all look like they are done by skilled people with hilariously bad English. Ok, maybe that is a thing. Virtual assistants, programmers etc who have expertise in their area but are not well versed in English? Maybe.

But as soon as I start communicating with them, everything breaks down. When I send them a long job description with details and questions, I get back a one-liner like:

"Yes sir, can do!"

And when I reply:

"So how do we go about it? Have you looked through the documents? How would we start?".

I get something like:

"I can do for $10!".

:)

What is going on?

How do you find real freelancers on the web?