christopher - 1:38 am on Sep 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi Blubb,

No I'm not wrong actually, and you didn't understand what I was saying.

You paid them for an advert. It doesn't matter how you were billed - you still had to pay for it. Ok, they are slowly deducting the cash from accounts, but they have the cash don't they, then again you always have the option of cancelling the agreement at any time so...... They would still have to legally give your cash back, so what do you want exactly?

Don't forget that people are STILL clicking on your ads - therefore they must be going through to your site, so what's the problem? You can always cancel and use say Overture?

Don't worry so much. You can't do anything about it - none of us can. I'm sure Ask have checked with their legal team over this - infact that's probably a safe bet that they have. Then again the advertisers should be getting loads of exposure because of this right?

You are correct when you say you are billed for every click, what I mean is that you are still paying for the advert space.

I didn't mention any 'displays' of your ad did I.....

Displays or impressions of ads are free anyway, as your account wouldn't be deducted for those - only the actual clicks themselves.

Ask Jeeves should have asked first before doing this though. I mean they are using people's ads as leverage to promote themselves aren't they (if I've understood things correctly)

hmmmmmmmmm