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The payment due to me at the end of Feb this year arrived on the 3rd of March. Very unusual. Maybe it was the lower number of days in the month. But, wait, March had 31 days and they still couldn't get the money to me in time. It's not in my account even today, two working days into the new month. No big deal, I won't starve but...
Wassup, Google?
The same thing was reported last month by a few NatWest accountholders.
Sure could have told us they were changing it though.
HSBC UK.
[edited by: FattyB at 1:57 pm (utc) on April 2, 2008]
They probably banned you...
FattyB, one of my payments goes to a HSBC account in the UK. No show. One of my Adsense payments goes into a Barclays account in the UK. No show. Two go into FD accounts. No show.
ecmedia, methinks it ain't just me.
Either all the UK banks got together and decided to discriminate against Google remittances.
Or Google is getting into a habit of making late payments.
I still maintain that whatever issue there is with these EFT payments, it is not being caused by Google. It could have to do with international money transfers or something being caused by the bank.
Our payments specialists have confirmed that payments to the UK have been slightly delayed this payment cycle. This is because the Easter weekend coincided with the start of the March payment process.
You should notice that your payments details will be posted to your accounts by the end of this week.
Thanks for your patience, and apologies for the delay.
ASA
It appears that generally speaking it is just effecting UK publishers being paid by EFT.
Check the March PIP thread on here to see others discussing it aswell
I am not sure how ASA answers those members with his/her reply about the Easter problem.
Those effected (I'm not one of them) deserve an honest explanation.
Anyone affected in a country that does not celebrate Easter? Or any other countries affected?
But I agree if Google is saying money has been issued and the money has not been received then this is wrong.
[edited by: Visit_Thailand at 12:39 am (utc) on April 3, 2008]
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I doubt it matters if the recipient's country celebrates Easter. The Easter issue mentioned was based on initiating the process in the U.S. and the problem occurred several days after Easter.
I am not bothered if they do move to the 3rd, but a brief warning over payment date changes would be handy in future.
I see they paid today, so looks like the 3rd from now on?
MyNewPC, to answer your question from much earlier, the "details" link does have a number.
The strange thing about the Easter explanation proferred by ASA's friends is that no previous Easter caused a delay. Nor did Christmas, Id, Hannukah or Thanksgiving. On any of the previous years that I remember. It is also unusual that the US processing affected only some countries that celebrate Easter and does not seem to have affected the US itself.
But all of that aside, why was the payment for January made on Mar 3rd instead of in Feb? Two consecutive months of late payment is what in some commercial circles is considered an early warning sign and affects a company's credit rating.
Will the payment for next month be late as well?
In future, when the processing staff are surprised by a bank holiday arriving at an unexpected time, are they going to at least drop publishers an email to say payments are going to be late?
[edited by: oddsod at 4:19 pm (utc) on April 3, 2008]
The strange thing about the Easter explanation proferred by ASA's friends is that no previous Easter caused a delay. Nor did Christmas, Id, Hannukah or Thanksgiving. On any of the previous years that I remember.
I think this is down to timing, Easter was unusually early this year, I suppose this is their excuse, if google start the process internally between 21-23/24 of the month then it would not effect Christmas as these are still working days (unless its weekend)
It is also unusual that the US processing affected only some countries that celebrate Easter and does not seem to have affected the US itself.
Are the payments processed in the US or from Google's European Office in Dublin?
But all of that aside, why was the payment for January made on Mar 3rd instead of in Feb? Two consecutive months of late payment is what in some commercial circles is considered an early warning sign and affects a company's credit rating.
In theory the payments are not late - Google says EFT payments will be received by the 5th of the month, payments may be later than we have previously know but it could be said they have been early in the past.
Don't get me wrong, like others I have been outwardly concerned about the timing of the February payment and I can't believe that a company like Google did not have enough warning about the Easter break to be able to work around it, but in the calm of day, when you look at everything, the payment is still earlier then stated on the Adsense site.
