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Michael K Community Member

Boosted Posts Not Viewed

I have spent lots of money boosting posts that are never viewed.  Is this a fair exchange?  Should Freelancers get connects refunded from posts that are never viewed after seven days?  

 

Recently I submitted about a dozen proposals that I boosted with about 20+ connects. Only about two of them were viewed within seven days. Many of them went as long as 14 days without even being viewed after I spent 20+ connects to get my proposal to the top

 

This is a lot of money to spend and not even have your proposal viewed.

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Mykola A Community Member

You don't must to boost.

Client don't must to read boosted.

Have money to waste - go ahead, boost. But many clients ignore boosted proposals like annoying ad.

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Michael K Community Member

Not meaning to argue but you are being confrontational here not providing any solution. How do you know these things you claim about clients ignoring proposals?

Mykola's avatar
Mykola A Community Member

From my own statistic. Have some views. Boosted, wasted money, got no more views. Stopped wasting money, got same views back.

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Aleksandar M Community Member

I'm glad more people are realizing that this whole bid boosting system is absolutely nonsensical as it adds no real value to the proposals. A client with more than 2 brain cells will chose to contact and hire the person that apppears more qualified for the job and is more competitive, not the one that has more money to spend on stupid bid boosting.

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