Why AdBrite and Ebay Suck

So yesterday I mentioned that I was firing up a new CPV campaign on AdBrite.  I got my nice, shiny, new campaign all fired up and ready to roll.

When I went to bed last night, my main screen said that my campaign was “Pending Approval”.

This morning I wake up, login to see if any affiliate magic has started happening, and my campaign is totally gone.  Not denied, not paused, gone, like it never existed.

I called them and couldn’t get through.  I e-mailed them about it and never got a response.  Hey, great job guys.  I’m sure your advertisers just love when their campaigns just disappear.  I’m sure that happens to people over on Adwords all the time too.

While I’m tossing out Moron Medals, let’s hear it for Ebay today.  For some unexplained reason, they somehow managed to block all Hostgator IP’s from getting their affiliate feeds for several hours.   Good thing too because my PHPBay sites were starting to look a little cluttered with all those highly targeted affiliate links cluttering them up.  I’m sure my visitors much preferred the blank pages they got when they visited my sites today.

“Hey, look…it’s a site about nothing!”  Great job, guys.

You know, some days you are the bug, and some days you are the windshild.

Now, stop reading.  Stop making money too, while you’re at it…just by using AdBrite and Ebay!