Hello and FYI, I'm a Smartsteem whitelist member and purchased an upvote for $4 SBD. Smartsteem shows the highest available upvote for members which was $41 at the time I submitted.
I received a return of almost 1 SBD and the return statement stated that was the highest available at the time. There is a discrepancy with what is shown and the amount of votes that are sent.
I do not know if you know this already? It has happened a few times already.
Hi Glenn thanks for your comment. Indeed, it happens to me a lot of times. The thing is, it depends if those users have already voted for your post in the past. The chances are that bigger upvotes get drained quickly.
Other chance, is that unless you are ranked as excellent in the whitelist those with the higher upvotes, are reserved for that rank; hence, you do not fall into that.
I think the 100% secure one is the "Highest vote for everyone" one.
Cheers and, I liked your mix of MTB and cryptos. I wish I get some beautiful weather soon to go Nduro and MTB :D.