Dear Sir, I am sorry if you have felt that I have misled the info. As I am mentioned, this is really my thoughts and my recent experience. The upvote purchase that I am thinking of are not those that we need to bid for. I have used steemlike recently and it did give a nice upvote with certain % assured but I am not here to promote them.
I am sorry if I have made you angry as I may deserve it if I had really give the wrong info in anyway. I did try bidding before and the return like you said is really low.
Take a look at their recent upvote given for those who paid. I did constantly investigate before buying.
https://koinbot.org/#/steem/like
They are rather slow in upvoting actually. It takes many hours before they can do it. They are doing it one by one.
Below is their link in steemit.
https://steemit.com/@steemlike
I am sorry if I have made you angry in anyway as a newbie.
You wrote it as a how to get rich post, it is misleading and causes people who follow your advice to lose the chance to get curated for a nice healthy profit. I am not angry, you are just passing limited information as correct. 99% of the people who try this will lose money.
These services are only profitable when no-one really uses them. The more people that use them the more people who lose money.
Thank you for sharing and feedback as a more experienced member here! :)