Exceeding Daily Budget

[snay]

I recently submitted 15,000 keywords on overture. I didn't change the pricing and turned "off" the cateogry so I can adjust the pricing at once when they have approved more than 10k keywords.

I resumed my campaign two days ago and set the default category pricing (0.30), yesterday overture approved around 100 keywords (top position for each keyword) and I got couple of billing notice from overture so I paused all of my campaigns. My budget is $30/day.

I just saw the updated stats and I have been charged $579.39 for 128 clicks. How is it possible? How can they exceed my budget more than 19 times?

[dregs33]

Hi

I don't post in this category any more, as I was just repeating myself.

The system that Overture uses does not work!

Contact support?

Good luck

dregs33

[grigoroo]

I think Yahoo's budget operates on the basis of a calendar month. If you set your budget to $30 a day, then they assume you want to spend $900 per month and let the money run until you hit an average of $30 per day for that month. If you start on the 30th of November, I think you could conceivably spend $900 on that day alone, then $30 the next day, Dec. 1. I've had them halt my spending temporarily to get my average down to my budget level.

[snay]

grigoroo,

You're right, that's exactly what they said. Now they want me to deposit $700 (future 3 day click charges) and only then they will activate my account so I have paused everything, i'll start it again after few days once its down to $200 or so.

Thanks

[CSlady]

Just to point out that MSN adCenter has the options of a 'daily limit' or 'no daily limit' If you choose 'daily limit' then if you reach the $30 limit the order is paused until 12:01 AM and then restarted.

[CSlady]

I should add that in adCenter you set only a monthly budget, so if you pick the 'daily limit' option adCenter's engine will pause your order automatically when you have reached the avg. daily limit for the month.