Technojuice you know what you did by the way your talking! Why not be honest about it! See this installs anxiety in new webmasters who actually think google goes around banning people randomly. You have done something wrong. Own up to it! You admitted that in your second post of the thread!
Figure out whatever it was that you did - whether accidental or on purpose - and appologize to google in your appeal. Request that they remove that money from your earned ammount, and that you'll take steps to prevent whatever it was that happened. Make sure you take 100% accountability, and that you do not blame their robots for any of it. The second you blame them, they stop reading and send out their canned "sorry, this verdict stays" email
not sure which post you are referring but if you are referring this one The only time I clicked my own ad was 4 months ago by mistake... but a mail to support cleared that out !.... waiting for a response from them...! That was 4 months ago and a customer support mail cleared that off immediately. More than then the anger its the damn curiosity thats bugging me... what on earth caused this.... Fact is google is relying on bots way to much ....
I am not talking smack about being banned anymore. Sometimes people get banned for no reason. It sucks and there is nothing you can do try a different company. Bidvertisor sucks.
Once banned is ever banned. Look for an alternative. I bet you that there is no equal advertising program like Google Adsense. Google Support Sucks!! They have a set of replies, their staff usually copy and paste these messages (good job team!) You must surely visit this link http://www.batadase.com/adsense-blocked-on-your-sites-does-google-adsense-sucks/ Let me know your suggestions. Again please do not waste your time to writing google blah, blah. Google support staff has a set of replies for that too. Google ad(NON)sense
You might want to email them and ask them for a detailed reason why you were banned, whilst mentioning that your $300 Adwords spend is on hold until you hear from them...
You must have violated Adsense TOS, contact them to ask the reason behind this for confirmation. Is there really anything wrong doing that?
I got banned for no reason over 2 years ago... it's nearly impossible to try to get back in. I think my account has around $70 in it too...
Same thing happened to me a few months ago, I was banned from adense with no warning/explanation with $95 in my account.
One of my friend's website got banned and that too when he had over $100 in his account..He is also looking for methods to recover the same...
Woow, that was hard to believe. Google hardly ban ppl but we still have to becareful. Adsense is our business so don't consider to put it in big risk. hehe. I think that google won't return the money to advertiser after they ban the publisher. Maybe they put in their pockey? Just guessing. P/S - Maybe your Adwords made you banned by Google. Google hardly allow arbitrage now. But if arbitrage still works. Do PM me let me know. I'm interested too