Yeah, I mean I understand if people want to boost their posts up for attention, naturally they should pay more than what the return is. With us they get a much more stable return over time and they know the votes are going to authors that deserve them and use our bot to grow on the platform and help distribution.
So even if bid bots may have higher ROI at busy times, they may struggle other times with it.
We are hoping that with a bigger whitelist and more unique authors buying @ocdb votes daily we can lower the max bid but that will not affect anyone's ROI. Call it an early adoption bonus for those using it now. :)
Yeah, at present it's financially profitable to advertise - not that common elsewhere in the world!
More authors and a lower bid would be even better.