The value proposition is very clear and not fraudulent or are you saying that stuff build by robots is fraud? Here's what is being exchanged: Hi, I have lots

The value proposition is very clear and not fraudulent or are you saying that stuff build by robots is fraud? Here's what is being exchanged: Hi, I have lots of followers (to my knowledge they are not bots themselves) that I can present advertisements to. Many of them are either interested in NYC or located here. Would you like to Ie: let's exchange visibility (for this target group) for perks. This is the basis of advertising, just that perks is money. It's not the person asking for money who might be an idiot, it's the person paying if the value provided does not match. And frankly exchanging visibility for perks instead of money is extremely cheap for restaurants. If the value does not match what the restaurant was after, they can not accept such proposals anymore. There's risk in being in business, you just have to accept that.