I took this thread off my watchlist since i no longer wanted to participate.... But since it popped up under my unread replies, i noticed you started to mock me:
We are aware even Mr Mocacinno can make us a good suggestion
You are good in math but after copy-paste ... keep on!
Altough, i'm a believer in the theory behind not feeding the troll, in reality it gets hard not to answer to somebody mocking you, so one last post combining all my concerns towards your service.As an answer to your mockery:
1) I found it to be ridiculous to ask the equivalent of 12 bucks for 1 pixel on a website, that's why i assumed you were talking about those 10x10 squares on your page... There is no math there, just counting. Maybe i counted wrong, IDK IDC
2) I have been participating in this community since 2014, some people don't like me, some people even ignore me, but i'm pretty sure i helped more people, and gave more good suggestions during this time than during the 5 months and 107 posts you've been here.
As for your website... My gut feeling tells me there is something wrong with this whole setup.
You claim to have sold 17% of the pixels. IF i counted correctly (not calculated, just counted), that's ((1000 x 1000 x 17)/100) * 0.02 (price per pixel) = 3400
BTC =~
4,2 million USD. Sure, you can make fun of me, but the cold, hard fact remains you're telling us that at this very moment, you have deals with people to pay you more than 4 million dollars to keep their add on your site...
Even if only that one scam-ad for the bitcoin doubler was paying, and all the rest was free, you're still telling us that somebody actually payed (or promised to pay) you 790
BTC =~
0.97 million USD for a spot on your site.
This would be perfectly normal if your site was google.com, bitcointalk.com, nike.com, but in your case, your site looks like it's using a script that was writting in 1990 (no problem tough, as long as it works), it simply doesn't work 100% of the time (i get a connection refused error in at least 25% of the time), and was registered only in 2016. It doesn't even have keywords in the domain name that are related to BTC, nor are the adds directly under the tld (you seem to be hosting a contact form there).
When running your site trough an estimator like estibot.com (since you cannot provide statistics), it says the domain value =~ 0 USD. Other valuators appraise it around $14, but it seems like they all estimate this site gets between 0 and 60 visitors/day.
So, in reality, if i was buying a decent size banner spot on this site, i'd pay a very maximum of 60 (visitors/day) x 365 (days) x 0.000002
BTC (average price for a unique adview) = 0.0438
BTC a year. This would be for a 468*60 adspot on a prime location... Even if i was going to assume this site would still be around in 10 years (i personally think it will be gone in a couple of months, but that's just my personal belief), i'd only pay ~0.4
BTC for a permanent spot. This is in strong contrast to the 468*60*0.02 = 561.6
BTC =~
700.000 USD you think this spot would be worth.
To be honest, because the estimated value (for one year) is a factor ~13000 times smaller than the asking price, only leads me to belief there's something wrong.
On the plus side, it looks like the name used in the whois information does live in the city that was used in the registry info.
Altough, i couldn't find a company on the address in the whois info, i don't judge... i don't have a company either (offcourse, my site offers free advice, it doesn't try to sell addspots for thousands of dollars)
As for your pixel lottery... you claim the price to be worth 297 BTC, so i can only assume you're raffling off an adspot of 14850 pixels... So it would fit a 297x50 pixel banner. In my estimation, this would be worth around ~0.02
BTC/year, hence i find your claim to raffle off a 297
BTC price to be unfair.
An other concern of mine is that you refuse to add extra security for the users: you will not use an escrow (not needed???) next to this, you will only give away your price with an estimated value of 0.02
BTC IF (and only IF) you sell 297 thousand tickets... These are serious problems.
I have a couple of theories... I have no proof, so it's just my gut feeling combined with experience that generated these possible theories:
- The rookie mistake theory: You're really new, and you're mistakingly using BTC instead of satoshi's (you need 100000000 satoshi's for 1 bitcoin). You refuse to read my posts pointing out that the prices you say can not be correct
- The overly optimistic bluffing theory: You're bluffing... You know that the addspots are not worth the price you ask, but you hope to sell tickets for your raffle and buy traffic/backlinks, so that by the time you need to give away your price, the spot will actually be worth something
- The victim theory: you sold adspots, but were not yet payed. A scammer promised to pay you in the future, so you added his ads to your page. You now think the adslots have an actual value, but in reality the scammer will never pay you, he's just stealing your traffic
- The scammer theory: you're creating a website using a fake name, you pay only $10 for a domain name, and you try to scam people any way possible: by buying worthless addslots for thousands of dollars, by selling worthless raffle tickets (you may even not give the slot in the end) and by placing links to bitcoin doubler scams on your website while mooching traffic by engaging in discussion on bitcointalk
- The divine intervention theory: by some miracle, i'm wrong, and this website is pure gold... It's worth 1000 (pixels) * 1000 (pixels) * 0.02 (BTC per pixel) * 1232 (USD/BTC) =~ 24.5 million dollars (current preev rate)
For the sake of the community, please prove me wrong... I really hope my divine intervention theory is correct, and you have a wonderfull business and make millions of dollars without scamming anybody...
Now, please, start ignoring me, and i'll do the same to you