Hello Steemians today i had an issue with BOT @upmyvote. I don't know if it was a bug but to me it looks like a scam !
Hi steemians today this cap happened to me , please do not use high amount of SBD in bots like him, only use small bid's. This case might have been a bug in the bot's code but still i lost 15 SBD which equals around 120 USD and that is a huge loss to a minnow like me.I wrote in some of @upmyvote posts and i got no response i also sended 0.001 sbd to the bot with the memo telling that the vote was not profitable and the bot did only vote half of the value and i recieved nothing so far.
@upmyvote scamed me and is not responding to any comments also the the transfer with memo got no answer so far and i got no refund.
I sended 30 sbd and he voted only half of the value that he was supposed to, here is the proof below:
Here is the bid too with his vote percentage which is supposed to be 42.61% and $87.41 here's the screenshot i made from my phone:
Here you have what he voted on my post check this below:
As you can see he voted only 20% = 41.27 $ here's another proof:
Please share your comment down below : thank you
You didn't get scammed you over bid.
#Upmyvote currently has a $206.83 USD upvote. That breaks down to a $26.14SBD upvote based on a 7.91USD/SBD.
You bid $30 SBD which is more then the total upvote it can give. Also since you can't get a 100% SBD upvote part of it will come in STEEM.
The actual value of the post will differ over the 7 days as the price of Steem fluctuates on the open market and the number of posts that are paying out.
One fact that you failed to give us was the total amount of money bid during the round. Without that value it is impossible for you to prove that you got cheated.
Based off of what you are saying that a 20% vote is $41.27 posting reward that would make the other 80% worth $165.08 which gives a total voting power of $206.35.
According to Steemnow.com @upmyvote has a total voting power of $206.90 which is pretty close to my calculated upvote calc. That means that the likely total amount of SBD that was voted in your round was $50.86SBD.
Which means if you were the last one voting your vote put it over by 24.78SBD. Which means the bidding mechanism is working and you caused everyone else who bid before you to also loose money and @upmyvote was a big time winner.
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This is why you lost money and why #bidbots always win. #Greed.
@healthbasics you gave me the best answer and all informations i needed thank you very much i really do appreciate your help but for a minnow like me this is a huge loss unfortunatelly, i guess i just have to stop crying and move forward since @upmyvote seems like it is not going to refund anything since i took no answer yet.
I see that i was greedy but i did not know how that bot system works since i'm new in steemit.
Any advice ?
Readup on the bidbot's blogs on how they operate. You shouldn't be sending your hard earned crypto to something that you don't understand.
join minnow support program and ask plenty of questions.
Understood , Thank you.
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Did you check that nobody voted after you in the round? The weight shown in your screen-shot would be only based on bids to that point. The final vote weight is based on all of the bids in the round.
It sounds like you had a bad round, which is always a risk of using upvoting bots. Before calling something a scam, please make sure you have all your facts!
how come you think this is not a scam when i sended a bid of 30 SBD which it should have been 87.41$ upvote and i recieved 41.27 $ vote with 20% vote power
you can see it clearly from my wallet transfers too and you can check everything yourself. @josephsavage
But did you check their wallet transfers? Your upvote is based on all of the transfers the bot received in the round, not just the transfers made before yours. By my reckoning you had at most 25% of the total, but there may have been more transfers I missed.
And I can see from your wallet history that you are bidding against yourself in the same round. Since bidding twice in the same round increases the chance of getting a bad result, it seems pretty clear to me that it's an error on your side, not scam on their side.
I have used bidding bots on over 100 posts and comments and only lost money on 12 posts. (And not lost money on any of the last 40 posts I have promoted.) So I think I know a little bit about how they actually work.
So it was a bug it seems , also the title of this blog which you can read says: Hello Steemians today i had an issue with BOT @upmyvote. I don't know if it was a bug but to me it looks like a scam !.
i already mentioned it because i did not know where the problem was.
Is there any way for me to get refunded since it was a bug ? how do i find who runs the bot to contact him @josephsavage ?
It wasn't a bug, it was an overbid. It would be like bidding too much on ebay and then expecting a refund for the extra amount. It is your own fault that you sent too much and didn't consider how that would influence the total round and the other users.
Understood
There definitely legit bots out there like @randowhale or @minnowbooster but always be careful with scams to. They're always around in everything.
No one scammed he, he overbid in a busy window.
Then be fair and refund half of the value.
I did not know everything i made a mistake by overbid.
It was my lack of knowledge