The Bidvertiser saga continues
Yesterday my Bidvertiser experiment was upgraded to debacle status, now I'm upgrading it to 'balls' status. In case you can't be bother reading yesterdays post, basically Bidvertiser accused me of generating 'invalid' clicks, which is how they justified the 1 in 10,000 click through rate. According to them, only one click was deemed to be valid (a $0.03 click mind you). I fired back a response asking them to explain how it was possible for me to generate invalid clicks when I knew without a doubt that I'd done nothing wrong. I also asked them on what ground the clicks I generated had been found to be invalid.
Here's their complete un-edited response:
Invalid clicks can also be recorded by robotic scripts and spam clickers which engage in fraudulent activifty without the owner knowing about it.
Your account's status will remain under observation in the upcoming future and if problems would be detected you will be notified.
So robotic scripts and spam clickers are the ones doing all the ad clicking apparently? Freakin' bizarre! I know I'm cynical, but I can't help but wonder if this is the standard line used to short change publishers?
Hopefully in the 'upcoming future' I'll get a response that is in some way informative and satisfactory.
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8 Responses to “The Bidvertiser saga continues”
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Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.
dodgy …
First, I think “Your account’s status will remain under observation” means will be looked up again if this issue is directly brought to their attention again.
Second, doesn’t Bidvertiser used Javascript? I thought most, especially the biggest spiders and bots can’t see or ignore javascript?
I didn’t mean to click 7 thousand of those times. I’m sorry. Just joking!
I think that’s seriously a lot of clicks for a spam clicker to click, probably even a pro clicker, lol. Like blankshooting said, “dodgy.”
Maybe they would be a little more convincing if they would let you see what they see (especially in the user control panel portion of bidvertiser), so you can see if one IP has clicked a thousand times.
Oh yeah, I forgot… It was impressions… But still, do spiders and bots even load Javascript to make an impression? *Smells bull crap*
I have to agree with David, there’s a rather strong stench of BS floating around that response.
Just reading the first Bidvertiser post, didn’t it say ” with a $10 minimum payout level.”.
Now even WITH dodgy math skillz 3 cents seems a little less than $10…
Unpure – its not the payout level that is the problem. The problem is that they are not recognising clicks as they are suggesting they are ‘invalid’. that is the BS part.
No, I understood that part, but seeing as they bequeathed 3c to you after 10,000 clicks you’ll have to wait out 3,333,333 (and a third) clicks to actually recieve that ten dollars.
Unpure – sorry I misunderstood.
Good news is, 2 more clicks have since registered. My account is now up to $0.88.
Nah, its OK.