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So, what’s the payoff? According to bogus internet posting #1, $12 per hour**, plus bonuses for additional posts (allowing for inflation since 2005 or so, about $14.00 assuming 3% increases over 5 years). :
“I was paid a base wage of $12 an hour for my services. I was given a $1 bonus for every post over 100 per day as well as a monthly bonus of $100 for every penny the stock had dropped from the previous month. I was also paid a bonus for bashing on weekends.”
A hundred buck bonus for the stock being down a penny? Over a month? For a “service” that can really only influence the most ignorant of day traders? On what can only be described as random variations? Seriously?
Here’s another source, from the appropriately named “messageboardfools” site**:
“… learn how professional Bashers are paid: When you REPLY to Bashers you give them an opportunity to earn appox. 5-7 dollars.”
Let’s total up what we have: at $14 per hour, that’s just a tad under $30,000 annually. Plus the alleged “bonuses”