Bidvertiser. Be Careful
A lil’ story about the Bidvertiser Advertiser program, the opposite of their Publisher program.
I saw a free $20 coupon so I signed up a while ago (last year) and finally used the coupon for $20 in free traffic.
Things were sailing along, I had set my max bid to .05 and figured out how to get around the $5 a day minimum so I set that at a buck a day.
No problem - in the middle of the 18th day (over a month ago), I paused the account, and paused all further advertising. I left $1.50 or so in the account. That way I wouldn’t be charged to continue it. I figured I’d take a hard look at the traffic and see if was worthwhile or not (being it was free).
Well nothing’s free I guess. Even though I had paused the account, they kept sending me reminders that my ads were not showing - no problem there, I expected that. I hadn’t finished up my analysis yet.
What I didn’t expect is for them was to charge my CC $35 and turn my account back on without notice or a word to me. I had paused it.
Just got off the phone with Bidvertiser and they say they’re gonna’ refund the unused balance asap ($27), but I have a funny feeling that if they charged my card without approval, they’re not gonna’ do what they say they’re gonna’ do anyway. We’ll see.
Moral to the story, even though I paused my account - these guys charged my card and restarted the ads without any notice and when they felt like it - so be careful.
I’m just lucky I caught it after only $8, it’s been so long I almost forgot I had even used that “free” coupon.
L2
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I got similar experience with bidvertiser but it was even worse. i took their offer of giving like $20 free advertisement by opening new account. however, after i opened one, they charged me with like 15 days advertisement budget (around $150!!!) since i set my daily budget at $10.
amazingly, they did it without any prior notice. luckily i changed the budget setting from 30 days to 15 days, otherwise they might charge me $300.
and the worse thing was, all those $150 was spent for nothing since i got plenty of clicks but not converted yet.
i have asked them several times by email to refund the unused money, however till today (it’s been more than 4 months), i haven’t got any response from them. Now i stopped my campaigns at bidvertiser ads with $17 balance on it. i have removed my credit card details from my account as well to prevent that they might automatically charge me again.
so…. beware!