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Yes, 75% is all u get. Your upvote was even better than mine... I got $10.36, so after curation, I lost 22% on the 10 sbd investment. I guess I need to due more due diligence before buying upvotes from bots like this... the only ones making money are the bots owners.

Keep in mind BuildaWhale is more than an upvote bot. It has additional curation services for quality posts that get submitted to give you a better chance to get your content seen.

I have lost money for months kicking the service off. I pay almost 35,000 steem/month to provide the service. Most windows offer a positive ROI, but there are windows where it is busy.

If you compare our service to Steemit's promote your post, we provide an upvote that most of the times is more than what you pay, and usually gets you on the hot page depending on your bid. We also provide daily curation digest featuring the best five of the day for more exposure, followers, and additional upvotes. We also hand out a guild trail of votes for $100-150 every few days with our Author of the Day promotion. We also have additional votes that come in with our PreVote club. All these cost us time and money and are at no additional expense to you, they come with your bid. Compared to promote where people will spend $300+ dollars to get to the top of promoted tab and not get a single $0.1 upvote.

I wish everyone got a positive ROI every time, but we do not control who much and how many people bid. In the end of the day, we are a bidding bot, and there are just a lot of people who need the exposure and not every bid wins out in the immediate vote, but a decent vote like what you get from @buildawhale encourages others to vote and read your post.