YSM - No more Prepay Deposit Plan

Syfer · Joined: Mar 28th, 2008 Posts: 6

I email bombed YSM, because they were charging my account a crapload of money due to low funds.

To summarize this, we can no longer add funds in manually anymore. It will automatically get added. Unless you annoy the hell out of YSM like I did. :)

Yahoo Search Marketing wrote:

Hello Syfer,

Per your request, we have changed your current payment plan to Prepay Deposit. The Prepay Deposit plan (which allows you to periodically add funds manually to your account) is a program we are no longer actively offering to our advertisers. However, we are granting a one-time exception in this case and will switch your account to the pre-payment plan, effective immediately.

Once the funds in your account are depleted, your listings will not be shown again until a manual payment is made to add money to the account (3 days worth).

To add funds to your account, please follow the steps provided below.

1. Click on the Administration tab

2. Click on the Add Funds link

3. Select the credit card from the drop down menu and the charge amount and click Save Changes.

**Please do not change the deposit or replenishment amount or it will revert you back to the old plan.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can be of any further assistance.

Sincerely,

Ally Ping

Customer Solutions

Yahoo! Search Marketing

Joined: Dec 4th, 2007 Posts: 1190

This is crucial to the new people who are budgeting their PPC if they don't have the funds to kill on it in the beginning and want to monitor your spending while obtaining data.

I do want to note eventually at some point, you're gonna want to turn the automatic deduction back on once your PPC game is on so it doesn't shut down your income stream mid way.

Longover · Joined: Apr 3rd, 2008 Posts: 21

I had a problem with YSM a few weeks back. I e-mailed them about the same thing and they said that they would switch me to pre-pay if I requested it. So I e-mailed them back to do so. The next e-mail I get from them tells me that they don't have that option available. Lastly, I shoot another e-mail back and they finally switch me to pre-pay.

I think the option is still there for YSM's discretion. Will they do it for everyone who asks? - I doubt it. I also don't really understand why they are doing this... that is beyond getting advertisers to spend more.

T202Wes · Joined: Oct 20th, 2007 Posts: 2432

I haven't had any trouble doing that, although most of my stuff is on auto-pay.