Hey! I hope I'm too late to this post!

I've been waiting for someone to post something exactly like this! Firstly I'd just like to say its really well written and easy to read so thank you so much for that, hard to come by these days on steemit haha

I'm fairly new myself here and have spent hours and hours pouring over posts also trying to figure out the most effective way to use the platform, ROI wise. But when it comes to bid bots, I just always hit a dead end.
For me, I always fall back on the same thing, the bots ROI never ever seems to live up to expectations. Granted I was researching into this at a time where every single bot was being over-sold and we were all getting a negative ROI every single time. I see now that some bots have a positive min ROI. But still, whenever I use the bidbots, lets say I pay 1SBD for a vote, I get 2SBD vote from it. First thing that happens is for me that value always decreases slightly until the payday. Secondly 25% of the value disappears for curation, and thirdly only half of the rest is paid back as SBD, usually around 0.75SBD

Sorry for the hard-to-read wall of text, but I suppose what I'm asking is, I use bitbots, just as you have, I always got a negative ROI, whereas you receive nearly 50% which in any sort on investment sense is absolutely incredible. The only difference between us I can see is that you spend 100's of SBD the promote whereas I only spend 10's of SBD if not 1's haha.
Is all of that extra ROI just coming from that fact that you hit the trending page and I don't? If so what kinda minimum would we be talking about to spend to hit said page?

Sorry again for the wall of text, just excited to hear from someone as seemingly intelligent as you!

P.S I had a creep on your introduce yourself post and you seem absolutely unstoppable, your kids are truly blessed haha