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guyute
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Posted: 2003-Jul-28 06:38
anyone ever worked with budsinc.com? I know the guy posts over at geekvillage but you can never get honest answers over there from companies they are partnered with ( like SI). I applied, and got in. But it seems a little sketchy. The company phone number goes to a house. My email came from Mike, but the phone number is registered to Abraham ( at his house). The whole set up of the thing, 3 different pay scales, one for a banner with 1 pop up per 24 hours, another with a banner and 2 pop ups per 24 hours, and another with a banner and a pop up per banner seems A LOT like saybyebye.net and Adoptimal. Both of which counted about 8-12% of my impressions ( only about 40% of the unique impressions) And I never got paid from either of them. So I'm sort of weary. I've had 5 straight back experiences with advertisers. the only one who ever actually paid was Focusin ( and zonify, but I had to drop them because I couldn't keep up the CTR which is pretty hard when the only banner was ancerstry.com
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Silv
Joined: Aug 10, 1999
# Posts: 1668
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Posted: 2003-Jul-28 23:10
Rates seem kind of low to start with.. but I guess that depends on what you could get elsewhere, too.  Personally - I'd go for more.
Regarding the company, I'm also interested to know if anyone has worked with them - I can't find any additional information anywhere .. no websites, no newsgroup posts, etc.
My overall feeling in cases like this is to hang back and see what comes up.
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guyute
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Posted: 2003-Aug-08 23:31
So it's been a couple weeks, and I tested budsinc out. Not good times. Not good times at all. First I Signed up for the 0.30/cpm for banner with 1 pop up per 24 hours. So first day put the code in, looking good. Impression count looks good. Then out of no where they kept having large 3-5 hours chunks when it didn't record anything. I emailed them and asked what the deal was, the only thing I got back was a form letter saying the impressions are done in rea time updated every couple minutes. . Well great, super, BUT, that still doesn't explain why I got 4,000 impressions at 8:00, 4,2000 at 9:00, 3,900 at 10:00, then nothing from 11:00-2:00. So I emailed them again, and got the same letter back.
Then after a few days ( after I was getting only roughly 65% of my impressions counted) The banner started spitting out TONS of pop ups, not just 1 per 24 hours, but 4-6 PER impression. So once again I email them ( because calling does nothing, they list a phone number it never goes to a live person It sounds like the voice mail on someones cell phone). They tell me that they changed the way they do things, I now had a choice between banners with a billion pop ups for 0.57cpm. Or just banners for 0.09, or banners below the fold for 0.05 or skyscrapers for 0.10. Or just pop up hell for 0.40.
So I opted for none and took the code off the page. I guess I'll just stay with focusin. I happier with them then anyone else I've used. I've gotten paid, I emailed them to ask it they could take out the pop ups tied in with the banners, and with in 20 minutes they were gone.
But Budsinc. gets a big thumbs down
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