Unfortunately at some point in this process I turned my old campaign back on without realising (I was just looking at it! I didn't want to turn it back on!) and now they've sent me an email asking for £50 (USD $100) because my credit card on file has expired.
I cannot afford to pay this and the campaign hasn't made enough of a difference to my AdSense earnings to make it worthwhile!
What options do I have? If I email them and explain that I turned the campaign on my accident and it wasn't intentional, do you think they will let it go without paying them? I'm really worried about this, I can't afford to pay that sort of money at the moment.
[edited by: Richie0x at 3:40 pm (utc) on April 23, 2007]
Errors on their end can usually be taken care of, but I don't think they will be willing to eat the money when it wasn't their fault.
However, will they realise I also have an AdSense account and ban me from that too, even though the terms and conditions of the AdSense account say nothing about other accounts in their network?
[edited by: Richie0x at 3:41 pm (utc) on April 23, 2007]
I have a strict budget (being in quite a lot of debt already) that doesn't allow for this to be paid.
If you were to rank the importance of your debtees, I would think that an entity that provides you with an opportunity to make money would rank as the highest on your priority list.
The return I've had from the AdSense revenue is *lower* than the amount of money I'm supposed to have spent on the AdWords campaign, so I haven't made a profit.
This issue is that you bought traffic from Google. What you did with the traffic once you got it (converting it to AdSense revenue or not) is not Google's concern. By doing arbitrage, YOU are taking the risk, not Google.
In both cases (Google & the casino example), if you made a profit, would you have shared it with Google or Visa? Of course not. So why on Earth do you think they should cover your loss?
