Quote from: Slow death on September 20, 2024, 02:51:04 PM

Quote from: Lida93 on September 20, 2024, 01:37:55 PM

Incase you're wondering, this post is what inspired this my topic. So It's no news that we are at a period where airdrop projects are flying around thanks to telegram mini app which is where most of these projects are cooking. With the airdrops trend I have come across many topics relating to it especially in the area of scam about some these mining project after which people might have spent their time executing different tasks daily for months just to be told towards its end that they have to pay some TON to stand a chance of gaining from the airdrop which some don't eventually fulfill their promise.

Now from a different angle aside from an airdrop project been regarded to as scammers when they request people to pay some TON and didn't airdropped. What about a scenario where a project after requesting for such payment from participants actually airdropped but to just about 15% of their participants out of a 100% that made that TON payment task. Can that still be regarded as some form of scam? since the notion has been that most of these airdrops that request some fee to be paid don't usually fulfill their promise.

In my opinion, if someone is paying to participate in an airdrop, then they are no longer participating in an airdrop. They are buying a token that they don't even know what the future will be like. It makes no sense to pay to participate in an airdrop. Even if they charged $1 for people to participate in an airdrop, it makes no sense to pay. Imagine how ridiculous it would be for someone to pay $1 to participate in an airdrop and still have to do tasks like share the project link on their social networks or in forum threads. This is crazy. People don't realize that when they are participating in an airdrop, as a condition of being paid, they must perform tasks, so they are not being given free money, they are being paid for the advertising work they are doing. It's the same thing that happens when a company pays a singer to promote the company's products. The singer is not getting free money and I consider it a scam when a project charges participants to participate in an airdrop

Yea, I totally agree with you because it makes no sense that you are going to pay for a product you haven't seen, something you aren't sure of it possible outcome in the future.

Secondly, all my time doing airdrop, I always believe that anything I get from it is as a result of the job I did, and I never believed that I have to pay any amount of my hard earned money to anyone, except for gas fee based on the network, but it's not always, so if a project is demanding for any amount of money, then I think that they are very much likely to be a scam, the ones that are in position to do so that is the network, which we normally termed as gass fee.

So in essence of what am trying to say is that any project that demands payment of any kind from their airdrop participants are nothing but a scam.