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They were unwilling to accept this, and refused any further contact, as appears to be standard. But that's not the point.
If I was banned and I didn't get my money, does that mean that all the sites that had their ads clicked, and which cost them money, got refunded? Somehow I seriously doubt it.
What this means in effect, is that google kept the money and didn't have to share ANY of the profits with me. Isn't this just a tad scandalous?
[edited by: martinibuster at 11:17 am (utc) on Mar. 2, 2008]
[edit reason] Fixed typo. [/edit]
Imagine a publisher needs six months to reach the $100 payout limit, and imagine further that he is running a type of site that Google really does not appreciates. Shortly before reaching the $100 limit, Google terminates the contract (which, as we all know, is perfectly OK and not the point of discussion here). In the past, there have been reports that this has happened before.
Now, IF Google is serious about their credit policy, advertisers should see credits. As the clicks might have occured over a long period of time (e.g. some of them being as old as six months), these credits should appear "out of nowhere" for the advertisers.
In some cases, advertisers might have stopped advertising on Adwords or Adsense, i.e. they are currently not spending money ($0.00) but still have access to their account. Credits should then come as a surprise, but the account should show the credits nevertheless.
Has anyone, ever, seen such a behaviour? If the answer is no, then we should further poke around and ask more questions.
(This question goes to those Adsense publishers who also run/ran Adwords campaigns.)
advertisers should see credits
They do. When I was running Adwords I was seeing credits every month.
RJ
