59 -> 60. Boosting the reputation (test results) + Some thoughts on my first bidding experience

The bid-bots have coped with the task perfectly and the reputation score of 60 is reached.
I missed the time for updating my previous post, in which this experiment was actually run, therefore the "results and costs" stats will be published below. So...

Some input data

For those who have missed the beginning of my experiment or do not want to reread that post,

the goal of my experiment was to find out how much it costs to buy yourself a piece of reputation with the help of bid-bots.

I started the experiment with having my reputation score at - 59,867.
Created a post
1 day was given for human curators to vote and I moved up to - 59.89 (+0.013)
And then I called the bots.
To that time, I had something about $4.5 reward under my post.

The bid-bots turn

I did not have any bias towards certain bots, I just opened https://steembottracker.com and chose a few of those that promised at least at 5% positive ROI for 10-20 minutes before closing of the biding window. The one thing I thought was that only bots with a reputation higher than my one can influence my reputation score, so I chose those who was more than 59.

It turned out to be much easier than I expected...
See yourself:

Bid-bot	SBD sent	Reputation gained	Rep. score After
rocky1	5	+0.03	59.92
smartsteem	5	+0.03	59.95
?smartsteem trail?	X	+0.009	59.959
booster	8	+0.033	59. 992
upmewhale	7	+0.033	60.025
brupvoter	1.35	0.01	60.035
TOTAL	26.35	+0.145

26.35 SBD for this little piece of reputation. It's not much. Besides, this is the easiest and the fastest way. People love easy ways, right?

Some easy calculations

I wonder how much would it cost me to jump from 59.00 to 60.00 mark?
Now, I will take the liberty of making an approximate calculation based on my data. Let's not take into the count those lines where I went beyond 60, because at the next level everything is different.

It turns out that a jump from 59.00 to 60.00 can be done in just one post, paying about 161 SBD to the bid-bots owners.

Of course, this is a rather approximate amount and it much depends on your luck in bidding. One thing I can say for sure is that

making such a jump is even easier at lower levels of reputation.

There are many articles on the topic of how the reputation is calculated and where it comes from. I liked this post for the fact that it has such a wonderful Reputation Score Table with numbers of raw reputation points needed for each next level.

According to this table the difference between the reputation score of 59 and 60 is:

7,742,636,826,811 - 5,994,842,503,189 = 1,747,794,323,622 raw reputation points

Does this mean that any new account can reach these numbers and get a reputation score of 54 by spending the same amount on their one post (see the table)?

Really? In early days it would take me about six months of active posting to grow so. Things became much easier till that time:)
Do you want yourself a high reputation? JUST BUY IT!

Profit?

I almost forgot about the financial side of the issue. After all, the money sent to bid-bots should return to the wallet in a week as your author reward. Adepts of boosting say that it is profitable. Let's count:

26.35 SBD was spent for boosting
$29.91 received as an author reward (according to the Busy.org info)
If we take away $3 ($ 4.5 minus 10% beneficial reward minus 25% curation reward) that was given to me by the human curators, I will be close to 0 (zero)...
...and it means this small piece of reputation gained from boosters cost me nothing

It was my first bidding experience and most of my bids turned out to have a negative ROI. Yeah, shit happens:( Moreover, I used for posting an application that takes beneficial reward and thus I lost a part of the earned amount.
But I think more experienced gamers know these tricks, and that means

in addition to free pumping your reputation with bid-bots, you can even make profit on this process!

What a cool gift from STINC!
You still think that a high reputation is worth something?