I was ripped off by industrybrains some time ago. My budget was used up with click fraud and industrybrains denied and refused to refund me although it was clear that some Chinese guy got a bot to click on our ads. the experience using industrybrains was so annoying that I use it as an example I give to new internet entrepreneurs:
1. you will get screwed
2. even if the traffic provider has nice ad real estate it doesn’t mean he wont screw you
Today I got 10 emails from marchex.com telling me i have a low ad budget. marchex.com? who the hell are marchex.com and when did i use their service? after some googleing i found out that industrybrains changes their name to marchex. I guess a lot of people think industrybrains suck so they had to change their name to the parent company that bought them in 2005. It looks like they think so as well since nowhere in the email did they mention their old brand.
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Marchex is so so bad.
The commit click fraud in 2 ways. one buy owning the actual websites and two, but simply lying about clicks.
I warn ANYONE using Marchex to please set up a landing page just for them and use ANY type of counter and you will shortly see.
Also, you can save time and simply do a search for Marchex Click Fraud on the internet. They are terrible.