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Old 12-08-2010, 11:53 PM  
Tempest
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And I want to warn other fellow "newbies" for this kind of "scam/ ignorance" call it what you want.
Not a "scam" usually. It's that for years cheaters sign up, send a few hits and then turn things off hoping the other person doesn't notice and keeps sending traffic... Or you get dozens of "newbs" signing up that can't send squat for traffic and if you've been doing this for enough years, you just know that the trade isn't going to go anywhere so it's not worth your time... And then of course there's lots of sites that ppl just leave on "auto" and don't check the script, emails etc. very often.

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I received 2 hits in the very beginning of the trade, imedeatly when signing up, then no more return traffic.
More likely "hits" from the script itself checking your site, not real "hits".

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Forced him 50 hits to start the trade...

I sendt him 10 hits a day, just to keep the thing alive.
Takes a lot more than that for me to turn on a trade. In fact, if you were to send 50 hits to start and then drop it down to 10 a day, I'd just delete you. Most people won't bother with anyone that can't send a bare minimum of 100 a day and show that they're going to send that right from the start and do it consistently.

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I sendt him a message on ICQ and email, asking him to please activate our new trade, twice , and a third time, the same. No answers. Nothing.
ICQ can suck big time, messages not getting delivered etc. if you're not on a persons contact list.. Can't speak to the emails.. Who knows, maybe he was on vacation.


Having said all that, yes, there are a lot of sites out there that will suck up what you send them just because that's what they do. Leech from you.. But it's the same from the other end. It's the way things are when you don't know the people. Never going to change.
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