@buildawhale does not control @yabapmatt's bid tool, but we recommend it so users to have better insight.

I have recommended @yabapmatt's bot tracker tool because it gives our users the ability to see if it is a good time to bid for Hive account@buildawhale voting service. It is not a tool we created or have any control of, but it helps our users have a better experience.

It is counter-intuitive as it is not in my best interest to promote or even recommend this tool as it means we get a lot less during our bidding windows. I think it is only fair for users to have information before they place a bid, even if it means we make less. This is sustainable, this is a win/win for both parties.

That being said, we did not make and we do not control the tool. It is a third party that provides the service to inform users before making a bid. It has caused a lot of complications with our service, but I think it is still a good solution to providing our users enough information to make an informed decision when bidding. Keep in mind, it isn't perfect and there is no guarantee you will make 400%+ on your bids.

A recent slanderous post was made by a user who claimed he got "burnt" by using Hive account@buildawhale. By burned, he means he made 53% profit instead of 400%+.

And as you see from the pics. that it upvoted me with - < 8$ - so it was near half what I was expecting indeed, and I don’t think that the calculator is wrong I think that the bot programmed to give a fixed margin of profitability to upvote with even if the bidding pool is not giving the same result. :-(

I understand the frustration as the Bot Tracker tool had a glitch and reported the wrong potential profit. Instead of 400%+, he made 53%. There is no guarantee you will make any profit much less 400%.

Prior to this tool, users had zero information to work with and were bidding blindly. With Hive account@yabapmatt's tool, users have more information than ever to make an informed decision.

Hive account@yabapmatt responded to the user in question:

Compare that to Steemit's "Promote" service that people spend upwards of $300 to show up on the promoted tab with $0 ROI on their money

I (Hive account@themarkymark) run Hive account@buildawhale with complete transparency. I pay around 8,500 Steem/week to offer this service while struggling to even break even. We have lost money for months as we do not own the Steem Power used to power Hive account@buildawhale. Everything I make via the Curation Digest, Hive account@themarkymark posts, and bids goes to paying rent so I can continue to offer this service.

The goal of Hive account@buildawhale is to provide users a way to gain exposure and traction for quality content. It is not so users can exploit the reward pool by submitting stolen, plagarised, low effort content and expecting instant huge profit in return.

We offer far more value-add than other service. We provide an immediate ROI most of the time, something that cannot be had in any other advertising medium.

We go through over 400 posts a day and find our favorite five posts and highlight them in our daily Curation Digest. This is an immense amount of work as we receive over 400 posts a day and a large amount of them show virtually no effort. Being featuerd in the Curation Digest adds a lot more exposure and additional upvotes rewarding great content.

We also reward an author with over $100 in upvotes multiple times a week with our Author of the Day program.

We also have a PreVote club where we provide even more upvotes prior to our upvote coming in.