Hi dduck, you are absolutely right, my actual observation is when you start earning more than $10 per day, you will be shocked the next day - your status will be downgraded to Copper just like what happened to me, this despite very good download figures, all files have been downloaded more than 20 times, some files more than 50 times, the conversion ratio formula should be made clear. Thank you. Hey ButcherBoy, you just answered your own questions from my previous posts, but still no clear answer on how many bought premium accounts from our links, also i dare you to come out with the formula for your conversion ratio. Thank you.
Hmm.. ButcherBoy, I feel you SHOULD add the feature of leting us know how many premium accounts we sell / day. There is Uploading.com doing that, now RS, except Hotfile. I have been in this uploading business for alot of time now and right now, I feel.. Uploading.com would earn us MORE than HF. Frankly speaking I don't like uploading.com not because it restricts some countries from downloads but it's support sux, it's always getting some bug in either it's stats page, or some of its server don't respond. But we don't have any other option do we? Deposit Files.. it's dead, quebcash... who shaves download + pays only for unique download, sux ... then comes Uploading.com ... already told it's pros n cons.. and lastly.. Hotfile .. I personally knew hotfile would do something like this, JUST LIKE any other file hostign company 1) Mass market with sexy download rates 2) once a service is well known or has gained enough popularity, download rates are changed or some crappy rule is applied but with such a crappy tab on the downloads? No Need. Uploading.com pays for every download. Hotfile pays more attention on the premium accounts sold. This is a weird business. totally weird business. Agreed you had to do this (any uploading business' revenue depends on the premium accounts sold) but atleast give a standard rate of downloads / file / size just like any other file hosting company. Fluctuating the download rates every day has ALREADY de-motivated me from using HotFile. You might not think of just one person leaving but u'll surely see a sharp downfall soon. Maybe that might interest you a bit. Anyhow, tell me when you're done with this crappy rule. I might join back. Enough of promoting Hotfile for now. Peace @ Others - If HotFile is not willing to show the premium accounts purchased through your link 1) it can mean that they are shaving or have started shaving downloads already , so not every premium accounts purchased through your link would count. As a result of that, your status is not affected much and you dont get a higher ranking. That's what I can possibly get out of your posts of all those who are sure that they are able to sell accounts but account status is not affected or still downgrading. I have friends who have made $4k / month (approx) on HotFile for 2 months and now what? they're downgraded to copper .. why? because they must have not got premium accounts OR .. HotFile wanan reduce some 'expenses'. ANyhow, back to Shitloading.com for now.
I'm asking myself, how much the used space does matter. If I have a typical 1400MB file, splitted in: 1. 200MB parts = 7 files. Each downloaded 30 times, with 2 users buying premium. Result: 210 dls, 2 Premium, 1400Mb diskspace used. or 2. 100MB parts = 14 files. Each downloaded 30 times, with 2 users buying premium. Result: 420 dls, 2 Premium, 1400MB diskspace used. In case 1 I have less dls, but the ratio dls/premium would be better. Case 2 means more dls, but the ratio dls/premium would be worse. What would be the best scenario? Also, is it useful if I delete unused files from my account? Less used space, but same amount of dls = better ratio = better status?
If hotfile gets most of the money from the selling of premium accounts than they should reduce the download speed a little, last time i download a file from them i got more than 150kb/s. People with time to spend downloading a large movie or game will never buy a premium. 50 minutes to download a 400Mb file WOW! Why spend my precious money buying a premium when i can have what i want for free. So, reduce it a little, like to a stable 100kb/s and force people to buy premium. Most of the people around knows the download speed that uploading.com gives to free users, it is a shame but this way they force people to buy premium accounts, there i sell some every week with hotfile i don't know if i sold any. With this i don't want to tell you how to run your business but you should think about it. You will gain more and maybe with time you can give more to the ones working 4 hotfile. 1 more thing; when do you start your own forum?
exactly.. i was gonna ask that.. its about time butcher should setup his own forum... be it the default phpbb... where we can discuss such problems more properly than postin on different forums/blogs and getting random answers.
Back to silver. @ ruthless uploading.com is really horrible..one day the stats won't count, one day the site is down..they don't send the payments on time.I had enough of them. I guess i'll stick with hotfile..as long as i get the silver rates.
then please explain y i still havent got a reply from the support. i have sent many emails before and to be frank i just got one reply after i sent some 6 mails. this time i just sent one and no reply
haha, no. When I post some file I'm getting a comments like "hotfile sux, it's so slow, upload it on rapidshare"
Well, i'll be frank here : even at free downloads, my memebrs have told me the at they have got speed upto 2 mbps .. but the average download speed is 128 kb/sec if im not wrong. Anyways, even rapidshare isn't good these days with its servers getting problems + the speed at which RS is deleting the files.
I'm trying to promote my old files rather than uploading new. I haven't really uploaded that many files (1-3 per day) and I did promote every single one of them but I still can't move from 0% copper. I guess no one is buying premium
got 100 % silver here Happy again . I will be platinum i think , iv uploaded files today and some have 400 dl's
Here is my statistics: http://img148.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=41051_MWSnap322_122_198lo.jpg And I have 1200 - 1400 downloads daily. Well and I'm not platinum,not gold,even not silver.I'm only bronze. When my downloads are growing up ,my rank going down. 1 question Butcherboy: Why we don't seeing in our statistics,how many we are sells premium accounts? Now it's the important thing in our statistics.
i was downgraded to copper as well BULL - TOTAL bull they must be running out of money absolute bonkers btw what do you guys upload cause i can BARELY get people to download my stuff its adult stuff though been barely getting downloads but been busy getting around $20 per day form associated content so screw that until i am desperate for some cash
hmm im quiet happy with HotFile at the moment. even since the change i have been platinum for all but 1 day when i was gold! thats good rates for me
Why do you think you have platinum? Can you give us some tips cause I'm trying everything and it won't move from 0% copper lol There's no way I can control who's buying premium so I'm working on upload-download ration. I'm trying to promote my old files rather than uploading new. I deleted some files I don't intent to use anymore. Some of my files have less than 30 downloads but most of them have over 50 and there are some around 1000 so it is pretty well balanced I think. But I'm stuck at 0% copper and it never moved since it dropped from gold in one day.
So today...I wasn't dropping down (too bad...hofile, you desappinted me now. why am I still on bronze level, when there is one more lower level to achive? ) OK, I joined the club of 100% level without advancing to a higher rank. Here are the pictures that are made ~1 minute before update, and second one just after update. Look at them: BEFORE upadate AFTER update Now...every person who is sane enough know that this is quite impossible. Where the hell did they found 19% to add to my current status??!! Why not 18% ... 17% ...16? ... Maybe even 20% (or higher)? BUT nooo, they found just a nice little number: 19 ! So yesterday it was possible for me to drop down from gold level, over the silver and right on bronze level. But for today, I coudn't make it 20% to advance??!! Oh, really? It's so obvious that it stinks so much. There is a script that doing just that. No matter if you even deserve to advance (by those new crazy rules) , it makes you stay on that crappy level for another 24 hours. (I may only hope it's 'just' 24 hours) Since I am not the first one who reported being on 100% without advancing on next level, I can say for sure that there is a script with a purpose to not allow you to advance so fast. (at least for another 24 hours).
hotfile main problem its not supported all country. I think,its hard to popular any site,if it not supported all countries.