overture requires $20/month

and they charged me to make up the difference

[amoore]

I just got a mail from overture which says that they are now requiring at least $20/month of clicks per account. Since I didn't spend that much in th e month of April, they charged me the difference ($19.15). Now, what I tought was enough money to keep an overture listing for years won't even last me another month.

Is this a new policy? Has anyone else noticed it?

It pretty much means that I can't use overture anymore because I don't want to pay $20 a month for more people when all I can handle is a few people a day. I have a pretty high ROI, but not many people search on the stuff I offer (on this particular site).

Anyone want to team up with me to create an overture account that spends at least $20/month. I'll gladly pay my share!

[seth_wilde]

They've had this policy for as long as I can remember...

[nell]

I'll pay the $20/month for all the business you can't handle. Just let me in on it.
Feel free to post all info openly here on this forum as its members have taken an oath not to poach anyone else's business.

[chiyo]

Try Google Adwords. I dont think they have a min per month.

Overture has had the $20 min for around 2 years when they changed to the 5c min bid etc, except for pre-existing costomers, where they are still exempt from the monthly minimum, and the 5c min for pre-existing listings. However for new listings they are like everyone else.