Most of us are familiar with ways in which people get terminated from adsense and the emails that follow... Chitika follows the same procedure, even when it claims the provision for "audited" traffic filtering... A copy of the mail sent to my friend this morning... "" Hello XXX, We are sending this message to inform you that your account ID: XXX has been suspended. We have received a complaint from one of our clients. Please remove our code from your web pages immediately. You will not be paid for any traffic going forward. Regards, Chitika Customer Service This message contains confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is legally privileged. It is the property of Chitika, Inc. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify sender immediately by return e-mail, fax or phone and destroy the original communication and all copies thereof, including all, if any, attachments. Thank you for your cooperation. "" By "clients" do they mean advertisers or other affiliates...? -- Arun
Started what? Getting rid of their fraudulent publishers? -- Good! I love how this is just ignored too:
Ya its good, But what i meant is they should have Cancelled the Fraudulent Clicks and pay for Valid one's. Instead of Banning.
Why honor the privacy of a company that arbitrarily cuts earnings? Reputable companies do not behave like Chitika has.
Iam asking GetBanglored with the thread title. Is he or his friend banned. Cos somepeople try to hide their mistakes.
I don't think it really matters does it? How did you lost $160, it sounds to me like they will pay you what you have earned so far, but nothing more starting now.
The correct title for this thread should be "my friend got kicked out of chitika for cheating. Advertisers saved $160 in fraudulent clicks". Good to know that Chitika is also getting rid of these thieves...
I like how some people thought because they audit out fraudelent kicks that they were just going to let people who blatantly were trying to cheat the system to stay in the program. Not sure why anyone would have arrived at that illogical conclusion, but it seems a lot of people have.
They say you will not be paid for any traffic going forward, to me it sounds like they will still be paid for what they earned so far?
I have to agree. If you are found trying to cheat the system why should they keep you or pay you? Its not fair for the advertisers to support his crime and why should they have to keep checking to make sure he hasn't found new ways to cheat that aren't detictable.
When adsense kicks you out, they refund the entire account, fraudulent or not, back to the advertisers (so they say). I imagine Chitika would do the same. Goodbye $160.
How do you all get to the assumption, that his friend cheated or generated fraudulent clicks? I mean, the only thing they say in the eMail is that someone complained about him. Of course I understand that it's necessary to protect the advertisers, but while doing so they could at least tell us what was done wrong or what was complained about.
The only problem I see with telling them what was done wrong is they then learn how to cover their tracks for the next time they attempt to cheat the system.