Forum Moderators: open
You have entered an invalid Max Bid (0.05). Please check that the format of the bid is correct (e.g. 0.10) and ensure it is between $0.10 and $100.00. In addition, please make sure that the bid is entered in increments of $0.01.
I tried to submit again and got the same warning. I did not change these items at all and the listings were bolded at .05 meaning I am currently paying 5cents a click.
They also had the red warning around the items in the list.
So I just clicked back to "manage bids". Now it seems to be working fine. I am not sure exactly what happened, if it was an error or some sort of trick they added to try and get you to raise your prices. Anyone else experience the same thing?
It also looks like they raised the maximum bid to 100. Didn't used to be $50?
Overture's minimum bid has been raised from $0.05 to $0.10 for any keyword opted for. Similarly, they have doubled the maximum bid from $50 to $100.
If you have an old listing bidded on $0.05 before they have raised the minimum bid, its better not to change it, if you want it to be on same price. But, if you change the listing / bid price or you are bidding for a new keyword, you would have to pay $0.10 for each click.
However, I didn't experience the same thing because, to be on 1st 3 positions, I changed all the bids either $0.10 or more. I think, they would want all their clients to change the bids to $0.10 which is the minimum bid at present.
Also they have set a standard $20.00 as minimum cost to the client per month. If you are spending less than that, you would definitely recieve a mail from them to increase the cost either by incresing the bid price or by adding new keywords.
And, they have also disallowed online pausing of listings in the new system. So, you have to ask them through mails to make any listing offline temporarily or you have to delete the listing and recreate it to resume it.This is somewhat time consuming as it would again be pending for few days for review.
Regards
guddu
I was aware of the 10cent minimum bid. These listing were already at 5cents in the charts and bolded to show the bid ammount(5cents).
I did not change those bids, but I did change a few other bids on the page. When I hit submit it gave me the following error:
You have entered an invalid Max Bid (0.05). Please check that the format of the bid is correct (e.g. 0.10) and ensure it is between $0.10 and $100.00. In addition, please make sure that the bid is entered in increments of $0.01.
This happened twice. And marked the two 5 cent bids with red error warnings.
I noticed my other bids took and I got out of there by
hitting the manage bids link.
Very strange, think it was an error.
If the process repeats in future, I may be right. Just intimate me if the same happens again.
