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Economy => Speculation => Topic started by: JimDowJones on November 06, 2014, 01:01:21 AM



Title: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: JimDowJones on November 06, 2014, 01:01:21 AM
Ive noticed "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads on different tech sites and bitcoin news conglomerates.

Whats going on with this? Has anyone else noticed these ads?

Is this some kind of bitcoin reverse psychology experiment? Or, is someone really using all that money to fud bitcoin?

I think it would be really interesting to get to the bottom of this and find out who is really behind it all.


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: derpinheimer on November 06, 2014, 01:07:05 AM
Would love to see one of these. Proof?


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: biggus dickus on November 06, 2014, 01:09:01 AM
This reddit page claims the adverts lead to a video which is selling subscription to financial advice for $39.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1vaihi/lol_urgent_message_for_us_investors_do_not_buy/


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: biggus dickus on November 06, 2014, 01:19:35 AM
Would love to see one of these. Proof?

Try Googling "Do Not Buy Bitcoin". These are some of the results I got.

http://s30.postimg.org/rk0qghugx/bitall.png


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: Soros Shorts on November 06, 2014, 01:20:46 AM
I just caught one on Bitcoin Charts and it goes here:

http://landing.crowdability.com/the-next-bitcoin/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=disp&utm_term=bitcoin%20currency&utm_campaign=2014_07_NextBitcoin_FE

Who the hell is crowdability.com?


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: JimDowJones on November 06, 2014, 02:08:33 AM
I didnt get a screen shot but ill keep refreshing the page to see if it comes up again.
This is where i found it:
http://lwn.net/Articles/414452/


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: Ruthful on November 06, 2014, 02:29:11 AM
Meh ,look like someone is taking advantage of bitcoin interest to  pimp some other fraud.


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: Bejkn on November 06, 2014, 02:31:13 AM
what is the ads want us to buy if not buy bitcoins?


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: Ruthful on November 06, 2014, 02:37:43 AM
what is the ads want us to buy if not buy bitcoins?

It wants us to buy bullshit , that's what it wants.


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: biggus dickus on November 06, 2014, 02:59:37 AM
what is the ads want us to buy if not buy bitcoins?

It wants us to buy bullshit , that's what it wants.


It wants us to buy bullshit advice for $39 on the right timing to get into or out of various investments, like the dot.com bust, or Gold and so on. Bitcoin sounds like a much better investment.


This reddit page claims the adverts lead to a video which is selling subscription to financial advice for $39.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1vaihi/lol_urgent_message_for_us_investors_do_not_buy/


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: Nrcewker on November 06, 2014, 03:27:08 AM
what is the ads want us to buy if not buy bitcoins?

It wants us to buy bullshit , that's what it wants.

That's a waste of money, squandered lives. Scorn it


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: worle1bm on November 06, 2014, 03:36:25 AM
Clickbait, trying to get your attention.


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: dadugan on November 06, 2014, 02:15:38 PM
Who is funding those ad?


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: btcney on November 06, 2014, 02:18:57 PM
Who is funding those ad?
da gubermint  >:(


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: SpeculateThis on November 06, 2014, 11:47:50 PM
Who is funding those ad?

Somebody clearly not invested in BTC :D
Attention-grabbing contrarian clickbait on a hot topic such as "bitcoin" makes affiliate marketers mad $$$$$


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: podyx on November 06, 2014, 11:50:59 PM
LOL

Sharks tryna keep the price down?? 8)



Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: Nrcewker on November 07, 2014, 02:09:42 AM
LOL

Sharks tryna keep the price down?? 8)


After the fish die off, the shark will die, the price is rising today


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: galdur on November 07, 2014, 02:15:35 AM
Maybe shorty is getting nervous.


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: JimDowJones on November 20, 2014, 08:15:38 AM
finally found an example of what i was talking about

https://i.imgur.com/AifHIZX.png


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: cryptodevil on November 20, 2014, 08:20:03 AM
The word 'Bitcoin' is probably a variable that changes depending on the search terms used etc.

I bet there are ones that are exactly the same but instead of "Do not buy Bitcoin" it'll say, "Do not buy Stocks".

As has already been pointed out, it's clickbait set to target people who are interested in investments of various kinds.


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: njcarlos on November 20, 2014, 03:30:39 PM
Meh ,look like someone is taking advantage of bitcoin interest to  pimp some other fraud.
"Some other fraud" lol... love the implication there ;)


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: adaseb on November 20, 2014, 04:01:15 PM
What do you expect?

Its been going down and down everyday for the past year.


Title: Re: What's up with the "Do Not Buy Bitcoin" ads?
Post by: var53 on November 20, 2014, 04:04:24 PM
What do you expect?

Its been going down and down everyday for the past year.

It's gone down overall, but not steadily down every day. There have been rallies where the price went significantly up, like the one last summer.