I am sure that vote selling is more profitable than vote buying which I just stopped. Actually I just stopped both selling and buying votes, I believe that in this way I won't support anymore this system which empowers only the whales and not minnows who do not benefit of curation and lose visibility.
Anyway, the tutorials are great for the people who want to try vote selling.
hey @mejustandrew,
vote-buying is actually a system which supports minnows - by giving them the chance to gain visibility.
When I started and vote-buying wasn't as popular as it is now - it was a complete ****-fest to gain any viewers. Even if the content was good. Because it doesn't matter if no-one is seeing the post because in the same minute - 100 other posts are created.
I agree with you @therealwolf. I am a minnow and I bought votes from smartsteem. Still waiting to get whitelisted though. But even without the whitelist, it is still the most profitable upvote service I bought. I like it for the following reasons:
Very few (perhaps none) of the other paid bid bots can match all 4 reasons. All these 4 reasons are verified by me exactly 20 times so far. Perfect every single times.
It votes from multiple accounts, making the votes look organic. These accounts are users like you and I.
Yes, I know. I have been using them for a couple of weeks. No complains so far
Yes, I have experienced this in my short time on here too. I'm so glad that the first people I followed bought upvotes so that I could know to do it from the start. I think I've gotten good post visibility on here in a short while and a big part of that is that I knew from the beginning that I needed to invest in advertising, which is what the bots are.
Hey @indigoocean, I've seen you too many times in a matter of days and for all the good reasons. Following you, speedster. Keep doing great work here.
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I understand your sentiment. I did a detailed review of my voting habits last week and made a clear plan. It's linked in this post as well. I designed my voting pattern such that the maximum votes go to Steemians mamually or through an autovoting service. Selling happens only when I am inactive or sleeping (if the VP recovers to a certain point).
It is profitable from an investment point of view. Buying votes hasn't been profitable for me either but it has enabled some good promotion in past.