Entrecard Raising Ad Price To $250
I told you that I bought an ad on the Entrecard sponsor thingy on the 14th for 8,300 credits and when I didn’t hear anything I sent an e-mail just to make sure they got it, but I knew they did because I checked transactions. I hadn’t received anything letting me know if it was in a queue or what. If they were going to reject then they should have already done it or not even accepted the credits to start with.
So they did reply to the feedback form I had used to send the message and this is the response I received:
“We regret to inform you that your ad has been declined due to the fact that we are increasing prices for our advertising slot. We have expanded our ads to also run on our homepage, in addition to our forum and blog, and we have reduced the per-spot rotation from 4 to just 2. The new price is $250 per month, if you are interested.”
Holy crap I’d have to be selling diamonds to afford to advertise with them. It’s one thing to use credits that equal 50 bucks, but to use somewhere around 42,000 credits and no one would probably click anyhow is ludicrous. They also told me I could expect my EC-credits back within 24 hours, but they would deduct a transfer cost. Wait a minute they are rejecting me after accepting my credits and I still have to pay a frickin transfer charge.
Okay, this will be the last time I try to help support Entrecard even though it still tells me to spend 50 dollars or equivalent credits to support them on my dashboard. I joined SezWho, but soon realized that wasn’t for me same as that other thing before that which also was a bust. I purchased OIOpublisher to help support and I can’t say that it’s very good either so this was my last effort to help.
From now on I will simply drop cards and that’s it.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I am so sorry to hear the troubles you are having with EC. I though $50 a month was high but $250 is nuts.
You have lived the proverb…no good deed will go unpunished…
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November 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 am
I thought Gra had promised for cheaper ad. price…
This is certainly outta track!
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November 22nd, 2008 at 1:29 am
Promises are made to be broken, oh well such is life.
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
$250.00 is an insane price hell I could take a front page ad out in my local newspaper for that.
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November 24th, 2008 at 11:26 am
This doesn’t really bother me much. I seldom look at the advertising on Entrecard anyhow and certainly seriously doubt if I’d ever pay any money to advertise on it.
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November 25th, 2008 at 5:49 am
$250 is just silly. I wonder how long that will last.
@Steven
You’d get more hits from your local paper too
November 26th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
A transfer cost? For a blog that was kicked out of the system? What the hell?
November 27th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I have to agree- I’m not feeling a whole lotta love for entrecard these days.
The little bit of traffic and the communication tools are nice, but with every change, things just seem to get worse.
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November 28th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Maybe entrecard needs a bailout?
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December 1st, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I can understand trying to make money but that’s just crazy. I can take out
250 links on google for that price
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