RE: I have been through rehab and doing okay now!
I agree 100 percent with one exception
@smartsteem and @smartmarket they give you a fair return.
Once I used the yappahatt bot tracker and patiently waited until I could buy a vote for my son. Then I bought a vote from minnow-no-helper and it took 4 hours and lo and behold I got ripped off the bot was also owned by the bottracker owner. I tired to reason with them I had even saved the results of the bid in a screen shot. They tried to act like I was fool and didn't know what I was doing.
I wrote a post about it and was attacked by the vote bot and another account ruined my rep and then they even stole the less than half bid they gave me.
You can go back in my history and see the post that was attacked. I deleted and when things cooled over I put the entire post back in the comments. I even noticed that some others on the bid got higher results that the bid results showed.
I was pissed I spent my last sbd to upvote my sons post. They completely stole my sbd!
Until I found smartsteem I never used a bid bot again.
I think most of the big players just prey on the rest of us just like in life. They have their charities just like the criminals in our world. But they just use that to make themselves look good when in reality they are Not good.
Thank you for the positive feedback @iamstan!
I had a bad experience with your bot with a $10 bid, so I guess like all of them, it is "swings and roundabouts".
There is a difference between using smartsteem's bidbot - @smartsteem or @smartmarket. The question is: what did you use?
So what should be the return on $9.50 bid? " deliberator transfer 9.500 SBD to smartsteem https://steemit.com/busy/@deliberator/found-my-mojo-and-time-to-steem-on 26 days ago" $13.50 like it was?
smartsteem.
Wow they always refund me if they don't give me the bid I placed. I dont see how you could have come out bad? When did you do that I would like to look at the post and the bid?
I have never actually bid on @smartsteem in reality that's too high to bid for me being a plankton. I just guessed that it would be fair like @smartmarket since the same people own it?
I noticed recently that they have a -10% loss allowed on that how much did you lose?
You are making me work at this aren't you deliberator transfer 9.500 SBD to smartsteem https://steemit.com/busy/@deliberator/found-my-mojo-and-time-to-steem-on 26 days ago
Yes I don't think you got a good deal after curation. You might have lost a little on that but I don't think you lost 20%.
What is hard to calculate is what the rewards actually are. Every time I try to figure it out the SBD, Steem price fluctuates so much the numbers never match up.
Out of that 13.50 what do you think your actual return was? It always seems way off to me? Also many of the tools don't work properly so its a crapshoot to figure something out here.
Try using @smartmarket its is very nice. The only problem is they have such a great demand that many times you have to keep trying because they just return your SBD. Any way @therealwolf is a standup guy and I think he is trying to be fair unlike many of the others who don't even care. It has to be hell to keep up with it and make everyone happy.
But over all I wish we didn't need bots to get some recognition for our hard work here. I also wish there was a way to make things honest and fair.
But it seems the way of the world is the way of Steemit. The bankers have all the power and we have all the work.
it was marked as -20% at the time , here is the post https://steemit.com/busy/@deliberator/found-my-mojo-and-time-to-steem-on