SolidSnake wrote on 18
th Sep, 2014 at 3:16pm:
However, even if it works ok, IMO so far the BAPs deliver high valued ads well (etc. today I clicked another $1 ad..)
So, it's fast enough to just rely on your level group level.. and at any case you will get at least 155% ROI.
Yes I got that ad too. My first $1 ad.
The thing with the upgrade is that you receive all you BAP level group ads + the special issued ads. So it's even more cash per day.
SolidSnake wrote on 18
th Sep, 2014 at 3:16pm:
Getting ~$1 daily means that, if for example you pay that $3 on ads you will get that $4.65 in ~5 days and you can always reinvest it to make it grow even faster.. so, how do we know that the $3 upgrade will grant us more than that in such a short time?
The same goes for that $20 upgrade..
You're missing something here. BAP levels cover a wide range of BAP points. So someone with 50k and 80k theoretically receive the same amount of $ in ads per day.
This means that someone with 50k, that earns $1 per day, will not benefit from investing a week's earnings immediately, because that only brings his BAP to 70k. This means that he still receives the same amount of daily cash as if he'd never invested those $7.
However, by investing that money in an upgrade, he will start earning more money each day since he will be receiving more ads. This means that cash turnover rate is quicker. After the upgrade expires, the person who invested will have more cash than the one who didn't buy the upgrade.
There is of course an exception to this. If you're near the limit of the BAP level group, you benefit from buying Ads immediately, since it will put you in a higher group -> more earnings per day.
Naturally, I'm only speaking about theory. I have yet to see how long it lasts and much does an upgrade bring.
I'm not sure if you're able to tell apart the regular daily ads from the special issued ads.
If someone else is in BAP group 4, it would be interesting to compare how many ads +$0.01 we get between regular and upgraded member.
Edited: What I said up there was all fine and dandy, but I neglected a very important factor. The special issued ads also consume BAP. Which means if we earn exactly 2.99 we're the same in terms of money, but we're worse off in terms of BAP. If we want to reach the same level of BAP at the end, we must earn 8.5$ of extra ads during that upgrade. Since we consume more BAP with the upgrade, only by earning 8.5 and spending it on ads can we reach the same BAP of people who didn't buy the upgrade and used all the earnings to buy ads. However, breaking even is already quite good for in terms of advertising, since upgraded members buy more ads than normal members, so they get more impressions and visits to their sites.
But this all depends on the amount of sales by the site. If sales during the upgrade are low, we're kinda screwed. So it's a risky bet.