Not Worth It! Paid Posting? Bad

Paid Posting is not worth it! Even if you do have money to burn its not worth it!

Reasons Why:

1. The posting will only last for a certian amount of time. After that the users that post will never come back.

2. It makes your forum look bad because the used to be "active" members don't post or come back anymore.

3. Sure its good for a forum startup but when people come and notice all these people posting like exactly 75 and then stoping and droping.. they think the forum has problems or... for people who forum alot.. Paid Posting...

4. If you want to start up your forum I would recomend making a few fake accounts for yourself and get FireFox, IE, and Opera and post on all of them. So the accounts look genuine. And always post on them as much as your real account. But don't make them mods or super mods or admins. Keep them as normal members.

5. Its a Waste of Money

6. Even if you read all these good reviews about them.. they can just make it up.

Just my two Cents

 

here's another reason why it's no good:
http://www.justin-cook.com/wp/2006/08/14/beware-of-wepay-youpost/

 

I agree paided posting is not the best way to go starting a forum. Whenever i start a fourm i just ask some of my friends to post for awhile and I make a few extra accounts and post under them. A active forum takes time to build and there is no easy way around hard work and time.

 

Finally someone who agrees with me in this regard!

In addition to the points you mentioned, my main concern is the salary those posters get. If you take 5 to 10 mins per post, you end up with a salary per hour of around $2. I made a detailed calculation of this once, but I'm too lazy to dig it up right now.
Which sane person would work for these amounts of money? Certainly not me.

 

unfortunately people don't actually put that much thought into it

they'd make more money cutting grass!

 

It worked for me, paid posting I mean ...

oh and I see I am not the only one who had big time problems with Papworth. We made a deal and he never did. It didn't cost a lot of money but I gave him bad trader on AF and you know what .... he gave it back hehe...

He is into other business now and guess he is improving as it is seen in his itrader...

 

I'm awaiting a refund. If I don't get it soon, my bad report will be posted all over AF, DP, and sitepoint

 

Yes the guy is interesting ... every single day he said tomorrow and this was going for a month or so ... When I gave him negative itrader he gave me one back but I got that removed by admins when I provided proof how he was fooling around with me.....He is now into selling domains and stuff .... I think he sold forum posting service ...

 

I found this interesting post by him:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=123784

apparently he's doing just fine...

 

If you believe it

 

I use one forum posting service I think provides quality to my start-up forums - but most others I tend to find have poor standards.

As with many services, don't buy on price alone - get an idea of the quality of the service you're buying first.

And if the quality is poor - don't use it.

 

i actually agree and you have a good point.
Starting up a forum can be extremly difficult when it comes to unique topics which even your friends can't talk about.

and usually writers in paid posting sservices are the same, they don't find the topic very interesting but post for money. It's not the best way but surely can be some help.

 

this user is banned to which replies are made !

 

most of us were just replying to each other, not the thread starter

 

yah, i jus spoted that, so notified immediately,
paid posting mite be worth with high quality posts

 

do you know of any high-quality paid posting services?

 

i can provide, but its limited as i post myself.
chk the link >> http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=124780

 

Last time I paid for posting... They didnt post.

 

who dint post ?
deal with experienced guys, there are many good posters out here

 

I think the service I bought seemed to work fairly well. I only had a couple of active members, but their interest in starting threads was fairly limited and my own knowledge of the subject was fairly limited as well - so I hired so paid posters and they really stimulated conversation. It is just so easy for members to respond to questions and discussions, but to think up some original things to talk about it is normally too much effort for most members, especially new ones.