Position preference

How reliable is it?

[syoung]

How reliable is position preference?

I set some of my keywords to 3-10, but when I do a search myself I sometimes see my ad in positions 1-2.

[ranadeep]

Position preference seems to be pretty reliable to me and worked well in quite a few cases as I have seen. However, it is clearly mentioned at [adwords.google.com...] that

"Position preferences are not guaranteed. Your ad may still appear in other positions, though we will make every effort to display your ad where you prefer. Once you set new position preferences, it may take a few days for the AdWords system to begin delivering your ad according to those preferences."

[syoung]

A few days. Wow.

Thanks for the response.