SocialMedia.com.. Not scammers but OMFG are they serious?

I started playing around with SocialMedia.com again. A few weeks ago I was seeing some good results. Then my conversions stopped. Then I get obviously bogus clicks/data….. here… read this and tell me what you think.  The [REMOVED.... ] are my editing.  everything else is a direct copy from their support site.  Now granted it is less then $50 but still they are being a pain about it.

John Hasson
Posted On: 17 Nov 2008 03:27 PM

I noticed something weird. One of my ads shows 8 impressions and 494 clicks showing a CTR of 6,175% for 11/14/2008
It is in adgroup Ad Group: [REMOVED] Dimensions are 160×600
AdId 60a814c93461046d0f6f6bda195a6f34 (It has been paused because of this)

That doesn’t seem right (especially since on my end I only show 4 clicks.) Are you just experiencing some hiccups in your tracking?

Do I have to send a special request to get the $49.40 refunded?

John

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Karen Song
Posted On: 17 Nov 2008 07:57 PM

Hi John,

I’ve informed our engineers. Thanks for alerting us to the problem. We will get back to you shortly.

Best,
Karen

Lisset Morales
Posted On: 21 Nov 2008 01:56 AM

Hi John,

I was following up on this ticket and I noticed that none of the ads in the ad group that you are referrencing have the statistics that you note in your email. Please verify that you are still seeing this discrepancy and if you are please verify the ad group and ad id.

Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve this issue.

Best,
Lisset

John Hasson
Posted On: 21 Nov 2008 05:16 AM

I deleted all paused ads because I was told that I can’t have more then 100 ads in my account and I needed to clear up space to ad more ads. What other information do you need to refund me for the weird traffic?
John Hasson
Posted On: 21 Nov 2008 05:28 AM

Look here

http://www.socialmedia.com/network/ppi.php?act=advertisergraphs&adid=[LINKREMOVED]

Even though it is deleted you can still see the bogus clicks.

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Lisset Morales
Posted On: 24 Nov 2008 05:48 PM

Hi John,

Thank you for your patience while we worked through this issue.

We have looked into this and we would like to inform you that your account was never charged for this weird activity that your account experienced. The November 17, 2008 total charged to your account was only $32.55. Also, in speaking with our engineers, it seems that this activity that you saw was only a small glitch in the system that momentarily showed click and impression values incorrectly.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Best,
Lisset

John Hasson
Posted On: 24 Nov 2008 06:02 PM

If you read the ticket the traffic was for the 14th. Not the 17th.

On the 14th I was indeed charged for this traffic. $92.66 for that day.

5 Responses to “SocialMedia.com.. Not scammers but OMFG are they serious?”

  1. I think the most frustrating thing is the impression I get they they don’t know how their own system works (deleted ad makes it so they cant find it even when I give them their own internal tracking guid? right…) They can’t match up the 14th with the 17th. Their only way of matching up clicks to spends is to look at a daily charge and guessing that since it is lower then the amount that it wasn’t charged….

  2. They might have poor or no analytics involved and be flying by the seat of their pants.

    Maybe have Mario screencap everything?

    They might not be that savvy to pull up historical data and analyze it intelligently.

  3. Well they credited my account today. (They haven’t told they credited it yet, but they did.)

  4. Funny thing is that I found out because the traffic is converting again. So if this holds up they will be getting a lot more of my money.

  5. i actually just signed up with socialmedia.com. so you saying they are not worth it? i am still not exactly sure what they are (i know they sell ads into facebook apps)..can you give an example of how to use socialmedia.com to promote a cpa offer? would really appreciate it. thanks.

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