Comments on: Kill (re)Bill – Yahoo Edition

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:44:32 +0000

At the moment, Yahoo does not seem to mind the rebill offers as much as Google. You still see them a lot more than you do in Google and they certainly won’t ban your account. At worst, Yahoo will simply delete the campaign from your account and send you a fairly mean letter asking you to not upload it again or face a ban.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:37:05 +0000

Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon.

By: TipJar

TipJar — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:35:46 +0000

Sooo…where do we go from here then?

By: Sharky

Sharky — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:26:30 +0000

The problem isn't the rebill. It's advertising the free then having small print talking about how the membership will automatically rebill at a much higher rate within a short period of time (from only a few hours to several days) if it's not cancelled. It's deceptive billing practices like these that are ruining the market for the legitimate offers.

By: eric

eric — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:22:10 +0000

I totally agree with Dustin.

Hey customers – read the dang terms before you buy something. Have some personal responsibility please.

If I lease a car and then go over on my alloted miles I don’t get to cry and complain about the fee – I PAY it because it was part of the terms.

I’m an advertiser finalizing a legit continuity program and I’m having to go out of my way to ensure everything is clear because people whine to much.

By: SlingBlog

SlingBlog — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:05:25 +0000

No worry, it takes them a year to do anything anyway…

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:16:10 +0000

I agree, this whole "ban rebill" stuff is getting to be garbage. Its not our fault consumers won't read things and then complain about it and make it seem like rebills are the worse thing in the world.

None the less, it'll just put more money in the pockets of other places. Can anyone say media buy/banner advertising on sites directly?

By: Needmoney.com

Needmoney.com — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:15:30 +0000

I guess you'd expect to see a spike in grey/blackhat promotion of the offers if all the legit avenues are drying up.

By: Danger Brown

Danger Brown — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:34:38 +0000

I had heard a rumor about Yahoo's impending rebill changes recently.

That's news to be sure, but I think the FTC is going to be coming down on rebill advertisers in a fairly serious way. Even that won't get rid of rebills. It may just force them out of the USA, so we'll just be sending more money overseas.