Your thoughts please,

I noticed an auction on ebay where they send x amount of visitors to a website.

Can they really do this?

Is that spam?

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I have tried this with a past company off ebay, it dont work. I'm not saying all dont, but the one I grabbed didn't.

I kinda get the felling it wont.

Are these targetted visitors that actually want your service? If not, you may just be wasting your money.

I've never tried it, but it sounds a little too good to be true. It seems they just send email blasts to their lists. I'm not sure if you want your website associated with spam.

I have tried one from ebay they do deliver the visitors but I think its waste of money and bandwidth

I tried "TARGETTED" and seen about 20% of the hits I have purchased after overviewing my apache logs later came to find out they're from 3-4 subnet's my guess the company was using compromised machines with a full 255 ips and scripts to generate traffic.

I dont want any parts of SPAM.

the auction just says they will send the traffic, So its most likely
SPAM'ing someones email account.

If you wanted to run some type of email marketing for targetted audience I would look around for local marketing companys that will offer this. If the budget is a factor try some other type of advertising "cold letters" work well. There also cheap.....

I've tried that before, didn't work for me, but some people have made claims it worked for them, I never had success and tried three different companies.

I heard Intrvix.com is a pretty good website promoter..

Are you sure that location is correct, I tried visiting Intrvix.com as you have it there and got a 404 error, page cannot be found.

I used to offer this sort of service, but i started getting negitive feedback so i stopped. As people were using aim bots to get the word out.

Yes, I don't see how they can send you xxxx targeted visitors for $3.50. If they could do this why not just send the visitors to their own site, or set-up massive amounts of their own affiliate sites and direct the traffic there.

I ordered one of those 1,000-user packs for $3.50 just to try it out. (I mean hey, it's just $3.50.) Supposedly I'm being offered targeted traffic in the "Webmasters" category. From what I understand, they basically send you traffic from expired websites.

So anyhow, I guess I forgot to Geo-target the traffic and I put it as worldwide, which isn't too big a deal because technically I can accept orders globally (I imagine fraud would be a pain, but it's not the first time I've bent over backwards for customers). The traffic is really there, it's not some proxy-generated crap but it's kinda odd. I have yet to see a visitor from one of those traffic servers surf beyond my main page. I mean I know they didn't exactly click on a banner to go to my site, but if they're targeted towards the "webmaster" category don't you think they would at least take a look?

The lack of curiosity baffles me, but overall, the only thing I've gained is just some people to keep me company :) Maybe it's the way my site is crafted too. I'm not sure if it's customer-friendly enough yet. Might have to get the design folks on it again.

So yeah, you get what you paid for. Well, kinda. I've gotten some nice traffic from WHT and I have yet to pay for it. For some reason WHT folks will go all the way through my checkout process and just kinda stop cold before the order confirmation page. What a tease!

I think its stupid if you dont have anything the users want all your doing is wasting bandwith.

Ive been autoforwarded to websites before all it does is annoyme and wast both mine and the owners bandwith if im looking for something ill find it myself I dont need someone pushing me there.

There is no cheap way to get real customer, or users to your site, work on your links and optimize for Google, and wait.

I tried it once.... ONCE! I will never do it again though.

I have a buddy that runs one of those sites and he SWORE by it. I thought, heck, for $150, I will try it out. They were also "targeted" audiences.

I got the hits! About 500,000 hits! But most visits were very short and there was NO inflation is sales for that month, or the next.

I say no, it's not worth the money. Pay for Google ads or something that you know works somewhat.