My unaudited reports for one day is 2.54, after they autidted, it becomes 0.13. very very funny. Are they cheating?
It comes down to the basic idea of margin of error. $2 means you had maybe 10 clicks... that's a low number so the chance that you'll get a "bad" day where you'll get a bunch of invalid clicks is more likely than if you had hundreds of clicks. At the end of the day, it's the total that matters. If Chitika was "cheating" you, but you still got paid twice as much as with any other program, would you complain? No.
I really think chitika is cheating people around. They paid really really low after their damned audtion. They already added filter to traffic and keep eye on who is clicking ads. why the y still "audit"? nonsense! Just like their name, "cheat you "
Well, er, you don't have to use them. If you want to play in their sandbox, you have to play by their rules. And if you believe they are unfair, you should find a new sandbox. There's plenty of programs out there.
Chitika is one way of earning more from your online business. However, Chitika is much worse like programs such as: Adsense, YPN etc. Anyway, they're just a small company. Once there was a hot wave of Chitika, now it has apparently cooled down.