Buying followers, then selling shoutouts?

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cataclysm1987

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• Feb 17, 2015

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Okay, so bought followers are basically fake.

Is it a bad idea to buy any followers on an account you are hoping to do shoutouts on? Or do you go 100% organic on your entire account?

I ask because I'm at around the 1.5k mark right now and want more followers so I can start selling ASAP. However, I don't want to lower my reach significantly. Right now, at only 1.5k followers, I'm getting around 75 to 200 likes per post.

Anyone have any experience with this? Should I buy a handful of followers? Many followers? None?

 

LleixG

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It's bad to buy fake followers. People want shoutouts from active accounts not from accounts full of fake followers

 

dondada7

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Dont buy any followers to try and sell shout outs it'll be painfully obvious that you have fake followers and even if you do get a sell they wont be happy when when they get 100 likes and a few followers

 

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cataclysm1987

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Seems the general consensus is never buy fake followers.

Funny because a lot of IG shoutout sellers look like they have fake followers. LOL.

 

DFWi Reaper

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• Feb 17, 2015

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As stated, its pretty obvious when you have bought followers, the ratio is just so bad most the time....

 

g0han

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Well if you buy followers you'll more likely to get organic followers as when people see a profile with lots of followers, they're more likely to follow you.
But don't buy followers and sell shoutouts when you don't have many organic followers

Source: Instagram follower seller

 

LleixG

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• Feb 18, 2015

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cataclysm1987 said:

Seems the general consensus is never buy fake followers.

Funny because a lot of IG shoutout sellers look like they have fake followers. LOL.

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They have fake/inactive followers and that just make their account worst. You can see on the fitness niche accounts with 200k followers and just getting around 2k likes

 

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cataclysm1987

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• Feb 18, 2015

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g0han said:

Well if you buy followers you'll more likely to get organic followers as when people see a profile with lots of followers, they're more likely to follow you.
But don't buy followers and sell shoutouts when you don't have many organic followers

Source: Instagram follower seller

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I think this advice makes the most sense overall. I am averaging around 75 to 150 likes per post on 1.5k followers. I could maybe get more followers with more already in the account but I don't ever plan on buying more than a few k to get the account moving.

 

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02her0

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• Feb 18, 2015

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cataclysm1987 said:

I think this advice makes the most sense overall. I am averaging around 75 to 150 likes per post on 1.5k followers. I could maybe get more followers with more already in the account but I don't ever plan on buying more than a few k to get the account moving.

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Well, I'm averaging 200+ on each picture on my 1.5k account without any fakes. Some pictures even have 300+.

Anyway, in the long term it's not good to have fake followers. I've seen many accounst with fake followers selling shoutouts, but after a while people learn about it and won't be buying anything.

Example: buysellshoutouts website, almost all the accounts there have fake followers and people have realized that and are spreading bad words about them, so yea..

Remember - "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

 

quickpick

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lol what kind of question is that? don't dilute your shit. Grow it organically and offer value.

 

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Paper-Boy

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• Feb 19, 2015

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There are people who sell legit followers (they basically do shout outs on all their accounts) but I would never buy fake followers. Otherwise you may have complications in the future with your buyers.

 

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befitbabez

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joshbev4

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• Feb 21, 2015

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I don't see buying 1-5k followers to get an account going a problem. Eventually once you get enough organic followers you'll cover that spread pretty easily. But I wouldn't pour fake followers/likes into an account constantly that you plan to sell shoutouts with.