Yeah, a lot of webmasters take advantage of kindness in this business, and try to pass it over for weakness.
There have been countless times I will answer hours of questions for a small order, which is usually ok because I really try to make my clients comfortable.
But with my biz being new to GFY and the slow but steady climb of earning respect has been tough, and people who want to just use you and your time make it that much harder.
People give the traffic business such a bad rep, just with all the shit talking and bullshit posts on message boards. A good example of this is the recent reversal of a payment by one of my clients because he thought it was ok to rip me off, then, when I take it to the boards, some idiot posts insinuating I deserved it.
But the fact of the matter is, the people who know what they are doing utilize this traffic in very profitable ways most webmasters just don't understand.
All it does is make our job harder when people are convinced they'll get ripped off before even doing business with us. Truth is, buying traffic is the same solid business principle as say buying content. It does you no good to take it and put it on a domain and hope something good comes from it, you have to work with it, present it in the right way, and THEN see profits from your investment.
Traffic is a solid business, and I am very proud to be in it, I just wish other webmasters would stop looking at it so negatively.
