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I've been burned by this a couple of times. Posted something with an influencer and got over 1,000 instagram likes both times, but basically zero traffic and zero sales. I only spent about $50 total so should have expected bad results from that much price/promise but this is a real thing... facebook should tackle by blocking these accounts or at least creating a market for doing this legitimately (in which case they get a slice of course)

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> I've been burned by this a couple of times. Posted something with an influencer and got over 1,000 instagram likes both times, but basically zero traffic and zero sales. I only spent about $50 total so should have expected bad results from that much price/promise but this is a real thing... facebook should tackle by blocking these accounts

Those paying off other accounts to create covert marketing, or those doing the covert marketing?

I find it hard to tell which are worst.

1000 likes costs $5 in Gramblr, you can buy them yourself from within the app and will get the same effect. Before doing anything with an Instagram account, you need to do an in-depth analysis of the account, otherwise it makes no sense - you'll just get empty likes.

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