Question about credit cards

[lordmenace]

I have a client who wishes to open multiple adwords for the use of vouchers, but they plan on using the same credit card to activate their accounts. Will Google ban their accounts for that?

Also, can a Visa Gift Card be used to activate an Adwords account?

Thank you for your time.

[RhinoFish]

you call that a "client"? run.

[poster_boy]

Are you being compensated via these same means?

[LifeinAsia]

Question #1: most probably yes.

Question #2: possibly. When the gift card runs out (and if it hasn't been recharged) Google will put the account on hold until a new credit card is added (or the existing one is recharged). At that time, your client will have an outstanding balance with Google. You can view other threads with theories as to what affect (if any) that has on your client's relationship with Google.

Tell your client in no uncertain terms that trying to cheat Google is NOT something he/she wants to try. A short-term benefit, no matter how great, will not offset a potential lifetime ban.

And if your client has no problems trying to cheat Google, what does this say about the relationship with you?

[edited by: LifeinAsia at 6:03 pm (utc) on May 9, 2007]

[rocknbil]

I must be missing something here. How are they cheating Google? I don't see that they are specifically serving the same website (but am guessing that is implied?)

Just to clarify, see this thread [webmasterworld.com], I asked the adSense team about multiple accounts with the same payment method. They don't care where the money comes from. What they *do* care about is if those multiple accounts serve the same website or the same keywords. But if you have multiple accounts for different unrelated websites, there should be no problem paying with the same credit card.

[LifeinAsia]

I must be missing something here. How are they cheating Google?

From OP: "open multiple adwords for the use of vouchers"
In other words, instead of abiding by 1 voucher per person, the client wants to use multiple vouchers.

[sailorjwd]

"I must be missing something here."

Gee... let me think... missing:

1 Common sense
2 Religion
3 Morals
4 Ethics
5 Ability to play by the rules
6 A brain
7 A conscience

Better to sell used cars from Kansas.

[rocknbil]

instead of abiding by 1 voucher per person

Gee silly me who always expects the best of humanity and assumed "vouchers" would be obtained by legitimate means. Never having had a "voucher" I wouldn't know by the post that this rule even exists.

sailorjwd: What has anything in your pompous list have to do with clarification of the issue? RELIGION? lol . . .