Navigating OnlyFans Guaranteed Gains: Are Recycled Fans Worth the Price?

One of the hardest jobs a content creator has is building a subscriber base. The competition is fierce, and breaking through the noise requires strategy, effort, and sometimes a bit of help. Enter the world of "guaranteed gains," a burgeoning niche in the OnlyFans ecosystem where creators pay a set price for a guaranteed number of subscribers. While this may sound like a dream come true, the reality can be far more complex.

Today, I want to share my experiences and insights into how guaranteed gains work, the potential pitfalls, and strategies to maximize their value.

What Are Guaranteed Gains?

Guaranteed gains is a type of promotion where you pay a fixed price—typically ranging from $0.90 to $4 per subscriber—to another Onlyfans content creator who will run a campaign until your desired number of subscribers is delivered to you. Below is an image of a typical flyer offering this service. (It's a fake flyer I made up for example purposes - not a real creator).

Some of these content creators make their living by selling their subscribers to other OnlyFans creators. And that may sound great, but as a potential buyer, that can be a problem. How do you know if the subscribers they are sending you are worth the money you paid for them?

You spent your hard-earned money to buy these new subscribers, so are they worth the investment? The answer depends on several factors: the quality of subscribers, how well they align with your niche, and your ability to convert them into paying fans.

My introduction to guaranteed gains was through a creator offering promotions on Telegram. For $75, she promised me 100 new subscribers to my Onlyfans page. It sounded too good to pass up. However, my excitement quickly faded when I discovered that the 100 followers were fakes—inactive accounts that brought in only $7.20 in earnings. This experience taught me a valuable lesson: not all promotions are created equal.

But just because one seller is bad doesn't mean all of them are. What you need is a way to track those subscribers someone sends you.

Tracking the success of your promotions is crucial. Platforms like OnlyFans make it challenging to monitor subscriber activity, but third-party software like OnlyStruggles fills the gap. This tool not only tracks your links but also provides insights into subscriber behavior, helping you evaluate the effectiveness of your promotions.

For example, after purchasing a promotion, you can use OnlyStruggles to monitor the financial impact of your new subscribers. Did they buy content, tip, or engage with your posts? This data is essential for determining the return on investment (ROI) of your guaranteed gains purchase.

Let me show you a purchase I made from Telegram last year. I paid $45 to 45 subscribers from a content creator. Of that $45 I spent, I ended up making ($130.10)

Finding Reliable Sellers

Over the years, I’ve discovered reliable sellers through two main sources: Telegram creator groups and platforms like Gig Social (formerly Shoutout Express). When evaluating a seller, here’s what I look for:

1. Cost vs. Delivery Feasibility: Does the price align with the promised results? Extremely low prices may be a red flag.
2. Target Audience Match: Choose sellers whose fan base aligns with your niche. For example, if your content caters to fans of curvy, mature models, a promoter with a fan base of younger audiences might not yield good results.
3. Paid vs. Free Accounts: Avoid promotions from free OnlyFans accounts. Free pages often attract freeloaders who are less likely to spend money. Opt for promotions from paid accounts, which tend to have more engaged and financially committed followers.

When setting up your free trial links for promotions, organization is key. Use naming conventions like GigSocial1, GigSocial2, etc., to track the source of each subscriber group. Limit your free trials to 3-7 days—this is enough time to gauge whether a subscriber is interested in your content without giving away too much for free. If I'm purchasing from Telegram, I try and use the name of the creator when setting up the link. Within Onlyfans, you can't rename tracking links once you've sent them up, but tracking software like OnlyStruggles lets you add notes to help you better keep track of your links.

Once the promotion is live, you’ll need to actively manage it. This includes:

1. Daily Progress Updates: Send screenshots of your tracking links to the seller, showing how many subscribers have been added.
2. Monitoring Subscriber Activity: Use OnlyStruggles or similar software to see how much these subscribers are spending and engaging.
3. Communicating with Sellers: If the subscribers aren’t meeting expectations, don’t hesitate to raise the issue with the seller.

Maximizing Subscriber Value

Once you’ve received your guaranteed gains, the real work begins. Engage your new subscribers to encourage spending:

• Send personalized messages to welcome them.
• Promote exclusive content or discounts to incentivize purchases.
• Maintain consistent and high-quality posts to keep them interested.

Once you've gotten your new subscribers, it's your job to try to make the most money you can from them.

Don't Give an Instant Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Avoid giving instant reviews to sellers. Promoters often pressure you to leave feedback as soon as the order is completed, but it’s important to wait at least 3 days to assess whether the subscribers are genuine and spending money. The reason they want you to give an instant review once they have delivered is so they can go to other potential buyers and use your positive review to get more sales. But what you need to be reviewing is not the fact that they delivered the promised subscribers but how those subscribers actually perform.

Who cares if they send you 1,000 new subscribers if those subscribers never spend a single penny?

That's why programs like OnlyStruggles are amazing. They help you keep track of all of that for you with ease.

Always give it at least a few days. Here is a perfect reason why. I spent $50 on this order from GigSocial. In the first few days, I didn't appear to make any money.

But by the time the order was complete, I had made $57.89. Not a big amount of money but I made my money back and the goal being not to lose any money, I consider this purchase a win.

Not every order will be a home run. Your goal is to track your earnings to weed out the guys who make a living selling off subscribers, knowing damn well those subscribers aren't going to spend money on your page. You want to work with real creators who have real subscribers.

Guaranteed gains can be a valuable tool for growing your subscriber base, but they’re not without risks. By carefully vetting sellers, tracking results, and actively engaging your new audience, you can turn these promotions into a profitable investment. With the right strategy, guaranteed gains can help you expand your OnlyFans presence and increase your earnings—but always approach them with caution and a plan.

Here are some things I use when finding good buyers. I typically start by searching by going to GigSocial.com, simply because it's a site I have used so much in the past without issues.

I search through their discovery list, turning on "guaranteed gains" since that's what I care about most. I look for creators who look most like the person I am trying to buy the promo for. If you are a busty Latina MILF, then don't buy promo from a 19-year-old petite blonde. Your goal here is to find a common user base.

Next, I look for their percentage. Not because I care how much money the sellers are making but because experience has taught me that anyone who isn't at least in the top, say, 4.5%, won't have enough viable subscribers to be able to sell me 50.

When I find someone I like, I click their profile to see their price. It can be anywhere from $.90 to $4 per subscriber. If I've never done business with someone before, I won't spend $4 per subscription. The most I'll spend on a new purchase is $1.50.

After I find someone who meets my criteria, I make my purchase, never buying more than 50 to 100 right off the bat. I don't want to spend more money on a test purchase than I have to. I know that having no experience with this person before, I could end up throwing away all the money I spend. There is no real way to know if her subscribers are real or not.

I know that some might say, just check out her reviews, but I've covered that already. Most reviews are crap. Never trust a review that you didn't make yourself. (Scroll back up to where I say "Don't Give an Instant Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐" and re-read that.)

If, after making my initial purchase, I end up making money, I can always go back and purchase more from them. By starting off small, you are minimizing your risk.

When it comes to buying guaranteed gains from Telegram for your Onlyfans, just remember to always search the names of the sellers in those Telegram blacklist groups and never buy more than you absolutely have to.  No matter how big of a special they offer you, you don't want to spend more money than you have to until you know their subscribers are worth it.

One additional qualifying step I make when purchasing from Telegram is to check their flyers. If you see they have a massive number of fans and followers, that means they are typically a free page. Free pages, while not the worst, don't often convert well for page pages. Ideally, if your Onlyfans page is a subscription page, you want to try and find sellers from non-free pages if you can.

You can tell the difference between the two pages simply by the number count. On her paid page (this is where she charges for a subscription), you can see she has 2.1k fans and 32.8k following. Ideally, that's the page you want to purchase your promo from.

Just remember, go slow. Don't rush into a big purchase until you know their subscribers are real and willing to spend money on your page.

If done right, guaranteed gains can be a great way to grow your Onlyfans page. But if you aren't careful, it can be a costly endeavor.