Yahoo Free 50 $ what a hoax! Going to ask VISA for my money back!

I saw in another thread that it was for USA customers only some codes but i clicked on a email direct from Yahoo.
I am sure now its only for USA but there is nothing in here that says USA.

They just took 50 $ from my VISA what a hoax!!!


1. Offer open to new Sponsored Search advertisers only. (A new advertiser is one who has not advertised with Yahoo! Search Marketing for the past 13 months). Each account requires a nonrefundable $5 initial deposit. Advertisers signing up for Self Serve will receive a $50 credit into the account. Advertisers signing up for the Fast Track® service will receive $50 off the $199 service charge. In each case, initial credits are nonrefundable and will be applied to click charges. There is a minimum bid requirement of $0.10 per click-through. Limit one offer per customer, and one use per customer on a single account. Sellers of certain legally restricted products may require third-party certification at extra cost. Search listings subject to editorial review. Offer may not be combined with any other offers or discounts, separated, redeemed for cash, or transferred. Other terms and conditions may apply; see Advertiser Terms and Conditions when you sign up.
2. Nielsen//NetRatings, Q3 2005 (Custom aggregation of the many sites included in the Yahoo! Publisher Network).
3. Each account requires a nonrefundable $5 initial deposit. There is a minimum bid requirement of $0.10 per click-through.
4. Site implementation may vary.

 

It happend to me as well
i am from India and i called up them and asked can i sign up for US account.. they said yeah and i will get $100 credit but they never gave me back .. i again called up them and told them the issue but they said they cant help as i m from india.. it was only for US advertiser..
they suck i think cheaters

 

They told me first that it said on the first page. I just wrote back to them saying.

"I want my credit i do not care what you say i got an email and i want the money now or i ask for a chargeback. "

2 hours later i got an email telling that i now got 105 EURO in my account 5 Euro more then i should.

They know if i do a charge back with VISA it will cost them more then 150 $

But you are right they are very bad and the system is lightyears behind Adword.

 

VISA doesn't charge for a chargeback - they only license banks and processors - which are free to set a fee for a chargeback, and this only applies if it is a found to be a valid chargeback. Chargebacks are no where near $150 and a large company like yahoo likely has a deal for no fee. Yahoo isn't some shady company that is in the business of pulling scams. They must have understood your point - and refunded your money.

 

Yeah, I agree with mjewel. It sounds like a case of quality customer service actually.

 

All credit cards charge for that. Thats why they do not want porn to much chargeback WAY to much for people to pay everytime sone one enter a false credit card number. Every credit card have a fee that they take for when customer have a problem. No it was not customer service they did not want to give me the money back until i told them i am going to ask for a chargeback. I had a telephone site before selling calling card thats the next worse thing the porn beucase all people that have false credit card test there card on porn and on calling cards sites.

 

No, you're wrong. As I said, each individual bank or processor gets to decide what they want to charge, if anything. There is no one company "VISA" that sets charges or merchant rates. I'm sure you were charged a fee because you were a much smaller company and were using a processor who did charge - but that is because of the agreement you signed with them and were not in a position to negotiate. Large companies are very much in demand because of the volume they generate and are able to negotiate their merchant fee and get such charges waived. I ran a company that did a large annual amount in merchant card fees and we paid NO fee for chargebacks.

Even if there had been a fee, do you really think an employee of a company that does 100's of million dollars was worried about a very small corporate charge that wouldn't mean anything to them?

 

Y is not generosity as big G.

 

Even if there had been a fee, do you really think an employee of a company that does 100's of million dollars was worried about a very small corporate charge that wouldn't mean anything to them?

I guess they was beucase they gave me the money i asked for. Not when i asked for it but when i demanded it. It was not of pure goooood heart. They did it beucse they risking loosing the money.

Anyway thats not the point the point is they said they will give me 50 $ and they did not i had to demapand it. Very bad

 

even worse is that there is no real option to run your money out. i got a $100 free voucher and figured i'd test a few keywords on it but once it was all up and running discovered that as soon as your account falls below a certain balance they top it up via your credit card. now dont think that i had grabbed the hundred and run, i spent around $600 (intentionally) on that campaign.i had to email them about it and got an email back saying they would do me a favour and swap me over to a prepaid account. Do me a favour? what by letting me use the complete amount of the service i bought from you? i assume they just wanted me to leave either the credit in their accounts or keep the accounts running till the end of time.

or maybe they were just playing silly buggers with me..

 

When i wrote an email to them i told them "i want an email back telling me that you never going to take money from my credit card ever"

And they change the setting and wrote back to me tell me just that no way i am going with them more then i already lost

 

They must be bloody desperate! Jesus how can some one invent something stupid like this

We wanted to remind you that Overture requires all accounts to incur a
minimum of EUR 10.00 a month in click-through charges. Because the month
is now half over, we thought it might be helpful for you to know that your
account 1773553046 has accrued approximately EUR 0.15
in click-through charges. If your account does not reach the EUR 10.00
minimum by the last day of the month, you will be charged the difference
between your spend and EUR 10.00.


You can avoid this charge by ensuring your site receives at least EUR 10.00
in click-through charges this month. Doing so will also deliver more
targeted customer leads to your business and provide you with more
opportunities to sell.

Sure i am going to spend my now 100 $ and never ever look your way EVER!!!

 

Today they wrote me back. Now i know why no one click on my ads!
They put me in Sweden!
I never ask for show my ads in Sweden. Sure my CC is in Sweden but hey i never told them i want to be in Sweden.
I hardly get any clicks and now i know why!
They can not move me i have to open an New Account hahahah and spend another 50 $ just for that, Jesus !!!

 

yea guys.. report em to bbb.. as if it wud do any of us any good..but hey.. worth a try..

 

Could you tell me what " bbb " stands for?

Thank you

 

BBB= Better Business Bureau
http://www.bbb.org/