Love the memes (especially the one with Morgan Freeman in the Shawsank Redemption) haha :D
Anyway, I'm with you. I'm quite the noob but already realize that such services are quite useless. I mean, even though a post has been resteemed, it only gets exposure. But it doesn't necessarily follow that it will also get an upvote. Besides, it would take an awful amount of upvote to get the ROI of that $1 (I know because most of my posts only get below 10 cents) :D