For those bounty hunters who can hardly relate

[Zdraste16]

To all crypto bounty hunters who can hardly relate:

Situation: ICO started their main sale and will last 2 months and offers bounty program. ICO price was $0.5.
Bounty Hunter: I will join their signature campaign! Let’s do this!

After 1 month....

Admin: We decided to pause the campaign because our legal advisor suggests for our product to be fully compliant with the country’s regulations.
Bounty Hunter: (facepalm)

After 1 month....

Admin: Good news bounty hunters! We will now resume our bounty campaign. Since ICO was extended for a month, the same goes to our bounty campaign. Happy bounty hunting!
Bounty Hunter: Yippee!!!

After 1 month (one day before the ICO ends)....

Admin edits the ICO countdown timer and replied: Due to overwhelming demand, we decided to extend the ICO to another 2 months!
Bounty Hunter: Whaaaaat??? (But decides to continue the signature campaign).

After 2 months....

Admin: Congrats bounty hunters! Our ICO is successful! Here’s the final spreadsheet!
Bounty hunter looks at the spreadsheet and replied: 1,000 stakes for me! Yippee! I’m excited for my tokens to be distributed.
Admin: Good for you! We will distribute the tokens within 2 weeks!
Bounty Hunter: All right! My hardwork finally pays off in 2 weeks! Can’t wait!

After 2 weeks....

Admin: I received an advise from our legal advisor that bounty hunters must complete KYC process. Since we have an influx of bounty hunters, approving your KYC might take days to weeks.
Bounty Hunter: (sigh) Oh well, it’s better than nothing. I’ll just do it anyway. (Logs in to site and submits KYC verification).

After 3 weeks....

Bounty Hunter receives an email that his KYC was approved and was excited, however.....
Admin: We would like to congratulate those bounty hunters who have passed their KYC. Unfortunately, we had a meeting with the development team. It has come to a conclusion that our team voted for bounty hunter tokens to be locked and will be distributed after 6 months to avoid massive dumping in the exchange.
Bounty Hunter: Admin I HATE YOU!!!!

After 6 months....

Admin: Bounty hunter tokens are now unlocked. You can now transfer your tokens from the dashboard to your ETH wallet. Thank you!

Bounty hunter transfers his tokens to his ETH wallet. After successfully transferred, he goes to Etherdelta exchange where he can trade his token to BTC or ETH. Unfortunately, the token’s buying orders are empty. Only selling orders appear with the lowest bid at $0.001 per token.  

Bounty hunter: F*** you admin!!!!! My efforts are wasted coz’ they’re worth shitcoins!!!!
Admin: (blocks bounty hunter from Telegram channel).

Trust me guys, I’ve been here before. Are you too? 😂🤣😅

When performing an ICO company generosity, I often come across such situations as described above.  Some companies just disappear without finishing the reward, others finish the job, but when tokens are heard, the fun begins.  What to expect from ICO in the near future is unclear.  But still I want to say that serious projects are and will be, but, as a rule, this is very rare.

[zhekinsp]

This post was on point haha,specially this past few months almost all bounty campaign i joined here was like this on the post,every campaign demanding for kyc and the projects then becomes a trash and we cant even get money worth of what we worked for,

That is why we don't have to accept useless tokens as payment even if it has lucrative rewards per week because after the ICO completed it will become nothing as well so better to get something from bitcoin rather than waiting and getting nothing from bounties.

[cryptolidus]

Unfortunately, this is the bitter truth about bounty campaigns. The whole ICO market is struggling for a year now and
Hunters are victims of that as well. Very often not getting rewarded at all or getting rewards half a year later as it should and the biggest problem is that the tokens are valueless after being listed.

[mrdeposit]

This post was on point haha,specially this past few months almost all bounty campaign i joined here was like this on the post,every campaign demanding for kyc and the projects then becomes a trash and we cant even get money worth of what we worked for,

I do not think there is any big change. This will continue until better projects come. These projects stopped because of the market situation. Anyway, if the market situation improves, everything will be as previous.

[Polar91]

This post was on point haha,specially this past few months almost all bounty campaign i joined here was like this on the post,every campaign demanding for kyc and the projects then becomes a trash and we cant even get money worth of what we worked for,

That is why we don't have to accept useless tokens as payment even if it has lucrative rewards per week because after the ICO completed it will become nothing as well so better to get something from bitcoin rather than waiting and getting nothing from bounties.

But for someone who can't get some way to earn Bitcoin or ETH already, they'll still pursue on what they're doing. It's still worth it if you know the best bounties to join with. This is not an easy task since a project may seems so good at first but with poor marketing it can end up as failure.

[Jonking]

the actual situation between the admin and bounty hunters  .. but not all ICO's with bounty are like these.. there are still some project that pays their hunters after the ICO's

[Svarora]

Its the harsh reality but still we are doing the hope that whenever market improve these bounty admin are also paying well because they also want to launch as quickly as posible.even after this negetivity many people are doing this Even you can check it on the spreadsheet because they all are believer of crypto And they spend their time in understand And invest in it.

[Gab20]

Bounty hunters who work on platforms tat already have their tokens prepaid, do not have such issue. Immediately after the campaign they get paid without delay, because it already has a stipulated time.
There are also others, who pay a month after the token sale. Bounty hunters should also learn to choose the best.

[Argoo]

Just read and can not get rid of the feeling that is written about me. Recently, many ICO projects behave in this way, but what irritates me most is the requirements to perform any action not indicated in the original version of the bounty campaign. Such as conducting an KYC verification, downloading mobile application, registering on the site, etc.

It's right. Back in 2017, we had no idea about registering on the ICO campaign website, even registering with their telegrams, and even more so about KYC checks. We wrote messages, followed the calculation of rates in the table and then waited for the appearance of tokens in our wallets. Now, the ICO teams seem to be competing among themselves, who will come up with additional responsibilities for bounty hunters. Therefore, many simply abandoned this activity. The KYC check after the expiration of the ICO is especially annoying, when we are told to follow our social networks, in a month or two we will additionally announce the KYC check. It’s as if we have nothing more to do and we have to read hundreds of messages in their telegrams almost every day so as not to miss the opportunity to check KYC, because we can lose the right to receive earned tokens. Absurd. KYC verification has simply become a form of fraud against bounty hunters. In addition, such verification is generally illegal in respect of participants in the campaigns of the ICO bounty.

[BossMacko]

Scenarios like this happens a lot to Bounty Hunters time are being wasted but what can we do? none we chose to pick that project to advertise them and wear there banners to promote. Not all project are like this you are just unlucky if you encounter this kind of things. As of me i joined a lot of Bounties before and 6 out of many bounties paid in time and i was able to exchange there token to money without any hassle.

[De_nis]

This is not the worst case, sometimes in half a year they give a week for KYC, and then they say to hunters who worked half a year that they did not have time to receive their awards. 

[Apaxy]

This is not the worst case, sometimes in half a year they give a week for KYC, and then they say to hunters who worked half a year that they did not have time to receive their awards. 

despite the negative, that they are trying to constantly talk about hunters for bounty, I believe that these people are not appreciated and do not pay for their work at the moment when the market is in poor condition.  Lately, there are more and more deceptions of participants of Bounty companies and very often try not to pay their rewards.

[Mila52]

A well-known situation, which is now being repeated more and more often.  as there are no legal norms and laws on the cryptocurrency market, bounty hunters will be subjected to similar humiliations by the project's administration, because there is a condition in every bounty campaign: the team has the right to change the rules.As hunters joined to bounty they accepted these rules and risks associated with participation in the project.

[salty]

After 6 months....
Bounty hunter transfers his tokens to his ETH wallet. After successfully transferred, he goes to Etherdelta exchange where he can trade his token to BTC or ETH. Unfortunately, the token’s buying orders are empty. Only selling orders appear with the lowest bid at $0.001 per token.  

Bounty hunter: F*** you admin!!!!! My efforts are wasted coz’ they’re worth shitcoins!!!!
Admin: (blocks bounty hunter from Telegram channel).

Trust me guys, I’ve been here before. Are you too? 😂🤣😅

Well, tokens do not always have value after they are received.Perhaps after waiting another 6 months, the price will still be more than during the ICO (but this is not always the case).Most of the participants of the bounty can not understand one very serious detail-if no one uses the services of the project and the demand for the coin will not be.Just sometimes projects need time to show progress and increase demand for their product.

[iTradeChips]

I got a similar experience on that not so long ago. I got into a bointy and I worked the campaign to the utmost of my abilities. Then once the campaign is finished they all of a sudden announced a KYC which I decided to send a copy of i. D. I asked them about it why they are demanding and they said it is due to security issues.

[cytpoway121]

I have experienced loads of such experiences and it has even upgraded
Now, bounty rewards are slashed often; and payments delayed and not paid at all

Researching before participation is not enough at this time

[MaiQwaN]

It is better to stop participating in the bounty campaign immediately as soon as you find out that it is paused or extended for a new term. Save both your nerves and your time.

[mr_random]

I have experienced loads of such experiences and it has even upgraded
Now, bounty rewards are slashed often; and payments delayed and not paid at all

Researching before participation is not enough at this time

The bounty rewards are not source of passive income nowadays, having a third party expectations will not save the bounty hunter if there is no additional income. The third world countries are stuck to low salaries and the earnings a from the bounty campaigns can be a good solution to live as they wish. Research before joining the bounty campaigns is not enough, having a analyzed data should help to choose the corresponding bounty campaign in my opinion.

[johanesrobin]

Strongly represents the feeling of a bounty hunter, it is not easy to be a hunter because this game is very painful and annoying.
almost everything that the OP wrote was the fact that bounty hunters were always sacrificed.

[joybella]

You took the time to summarize bounty hunting and payout experience. I've been here severally I gave up at some point but I'm back. It's better than nothing if some rules can be made to protect hunters interest, it will go a long way to help.