I've seen a number of services offering so many hits for $20, etc. It's hard for me to imagine this being quality traffic, but I just wanted to get your feedback on what most of these people are selling, and if there are any benefits to buying from such a service.
I can answer this one its just random people they trap into going to your site most will probaly close the browser as all pop upshappen your best on a emailing list for $25 email 2.5 mill people
They are sending people to your site by redirecting people who come to their sites. This is what traffic broker do. The quality of this kind of traffic is usually very low for conversion purposes (some using fake traffic generator), but if you intend to increase the statistic or banner-exchange exposure of your site, this kind of traffic will do the job. Sometimes buy traffic is also referred to buy link from sites with high PR for speed inclusion in search engine or to increase ur site PR.
These sites may not give you the conversion you want.Most of the page impressions are fake; generated by bots.Where you could count on some few streaks of traffic, they would come from untargeted sources. If you are running affiliates, it is recommended that you check with your affiliate TOS as many of them as against their regulations.
Buy traffic means buy traffic from other websites like advertising on other websites. but there is some paid commission programs for buying traffic like Autosurf or PPC programs ... that kind of traffic is useless, I think.
would there be any application for is @ all? It doesn't sound like it would benefit anyone other than the person selling the traffic!!