RE: NOW you can buy STEEM with Visa or Mastercard credit/debit card
I have very rarely utilised my downvote option during my time on Steemit, but I shall be making use of it in this case for the dishonest nature of the post.
It should not say "Buy STEEM or SBD @ Changelly.com," it should say "Buy STEEM or SBD @ https://changelly.com/exchange?ref_id=74a35c13ac23."
This hidden referral link is an obvious attempt to dupe your followers, whom you owe your success on Steemit to.
You are trying to influence them to make purchases considerably over market value while you hide the fact that you are lining your pockets with a portion of their over-payments.
This was a risky move, and potentially a stupid one. You underestimate the intelligence of the Steemit community by expecting this to go unnoticed, and in doing so you also risk losing a number of followers when there is a good chance no one will be silly enough to purchase from this link anyway.
That would equate to a loss with no gain. I have watched a few of your videos in the past and offered you my upvotes, and it is clear to me that you're not a stupid man.
Perhaps you should be using your intelligence to assist your followers as a reward for their loyalty to you, rather than attempting to exploit them for selfish purposes.
I do not take pleasure from this, and should you edit your post to one which exhibits honesty in regards to your motives, I will reverse my downvote and delete this comment.
I have also downvoted this post. For 3 reasons:
This site is suspicious in that they ask for credit card numbers, but do not any corporate info on their site, or on their whois registration.
Hidden referral link.
Unreasonable markup, without an explicit warning.
The intention is clear -- you want to make a profit by directing people to a ripoff site. That may or may not be on the level.
EDIT:
I would also like to make it clear that the OP flagged this post, without comment or explanation, and others in an attempt to hide information from potential site users.
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They are not bots, they are my accounts, under my direct, manual control. There are about 9800 more where that came from too.
I was more than content to downvote just with my main account ,until you flagged my entirely legitimate concerns to invisibility. Then, i decided to downvote with the entirety of my steempower, including the 90 or 100k i have in accounts that i purchased used, because i felt that it was very likely that you and this changelly individual were trying to deceive readers.
NOw that my concerns are again visible, i have stopped. If i can figure out how to un-downvote the post in piston with my secondary accounts, i will do so.
Oh my God, man. Lol, man. This is comedy gold! You made me crack up so hard just now. Along with probably taking the record for the most amount of downvotes ever on a post ever, Craig posts a long list of hundreds and hundreds of accounts to which you respond funnily and elaborately explain your planned flagging strike of utter dislike simply because Craig put one flag on you, and every single one of these accounts turn out to be yours! One be severely damned should one mess with you, dog! Haha! So funny. You're so cool!
Dude, just out of curiosity, how did you go about creating all these accounts?
Thanks for making my Steemit day, sigmajin! =D
these accounts were created by an individual called steemit follow. His intention was to use them to spam, and he was selling likes and follows.
He ended up in a war with cheetah, and the steemit abuse people, and found that his accounts were getting killed as soon as he posted with them.
I swooped in and bought them up at 5 cents on the dollar (which turned out to be a so so deal, siunce steem was actually worth around a dollar at the time)
I considered it just cheap steem power. the problem is its actually somewhat difficult to corrall all of these little accounts. Ive never made the time to find an efficient way to do so.
I tested some of them out before, and set the all time flagging record here:
https://steemit.com/news/@whitemike313/dog-ate-cookies-with-marijuana-and-caught-a-bad-trip
You be e-thugging ... blockchain for LIFE :)
I don't think anyone with common sense would suspect changelly of nefarious intentions. I guess this issue of buying steem with credit cards instead of using bitcoin is an emotional juggernaut. The only emotion I know is JOY, so I can handle it, and so can anyone with common sense.
I think you mean too fly.
If you're going to put that much effort into being a smart arse, it's best to be smart about it.
I don't know about the site itself. I cannot be certain of its lack of credibility. The OP's fraudulent and dishonest nature is beyond evident however, so I am glad someone else took the liberty of raising awareness of his despicable attempt to con his own followers.
I see you with a gun to my head, I have never flagged a post on steemit because I don't want to get flagged and ruin my reputation score. Your actions will backfire when others flag you for flagging me. So go ahead, you already shot me in the head, and this message is being typed by my ghost.
What are you talking about...?
I care not who flags me for warning others of a dishonest scheme to swindle them out of their money. I have enough faith in the community to know that I won't get flagged by anyone other than your sycophants for doing a good service for the site.
I had hoped that you might show some remorse for your devious actions or at least desist with the attempted scam, but unfortunately you are clearly just a cunt.
Shame on you.
so now me and followers are sycophants, WOW, put that shovel down, I think the hole is deep enough
I did not refer to you as a sycophant. I did not refer to your followers as sycophants. I referred to your sycophants--that may or may not exist--as sycophants.
My point, which I believe you understood, was that only someone whose head is up your arse, or perhaps paid by you, would be willing to flag my comment that brings to light the deceptive nature of your post.
The 6 upvotes on my comment compared to the one flag that you gave me is testimony to this.
Now, I have better things to do with my time than engage in a petty argument with a fraudster. If you are to reply, then you must do so with the knowledge that I shall not be reading your predictably immature response.
Good day--
mute me.. please :)
Is it ethical for a capitalist to make money through referrals without announcing it?
I have been promoting affiliate programs for 16 years, and earned millions doing it. I have never seen this idea of announcing affiliate links until I saw it on reddit in the cryptocurrency subreddits. To me its like pretending to be on some high moral ground.. mortality on the internet.. c'mon that's crazy.. it's crazier for me to even respond to someone who thinks there are rules to earning money online, there are no rules, just earn money, that's it, if the internet was not paying me to be on it, then there would be no internet
I don't see anything wrong with it.
If the product or service is good and the referral gets someone to order, why shouldn't they get a cut? I have never done this on Steemit, but we know that most people here are hoping to earn money from their blogs, so it's no different.