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I read this as 8000 customers responded. How many of the 8000 responses were positive to the new model is what I want to know
My question is, out of the 8,000 who signed up,how many actually find it beneficial and kept their accounts active?
Does that include all those that were rushed to get a listing before L$ were rumoured to follow Yahoo's lead in starting a yearly fee to be included in their directory? Unfortunately, we fell for that one and I suspect L$ played on it also. Our company is one of those that signed up, only paying for the bare min.
After the first months billing period (50+ days), all our free clicks were used up. We recieved an email "encouraging" us to pay for more clicks (as we all do) and we declined.
Funnily enough, this current billing period shows substantially fewer referrals.
Of course we're not happy, and I have let LookSmart know (on three occasions). We have not found this account to be beneficial but also decline to remove our listing - I don't trust that we'd get a refund! I would like to know if anyone has had some success???
Yes. But the good news is all the sites I paid to INK re-appear after about 48 hours with the L$ title, description and their PPC code removed. This is not to say I in any way approve of L$ hi-jacking my paid INK listings to gain 15 cents per referral for MY optimisation work - I certainly don't and have reported this to various legal authorities as it is (IMO) fraudulent for a company to charge me money for referrals from listings where I have paid another company. This isn't just an INK thing, I have to add. L$ are sticking their PPC codes anywhere they feel they may get away with it!
As I get more clicks from INK than from L$, I'm slowly removing all my listings from L$. Strange thing is my referrals have seemed to go up from pure INK. Long may it last!
[edited by: makemetop at 8:23 am (utc) on June 3, 2002]
