I'm curious -- what's with all the bold text in your posts? Afraid they won't be understood without it?
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Afraid they won't be understood without it?
I sort of get this. If at first I don't understand something I select all text and convert it to bold upper case. Amazing how clarifying this step can be. If there are still areas where I suspect my understanding is incomplete, or where a certain ambiguity remains, I add underlining and choose a larger font, and maybe italics. By then, everything is transparent, lucid, incandescent with import. In one or two extreme cases, adding red is the final touch - producing a depth of insight a seer would envy.
Most people lie about LOLing -- they didn't really LOL -- but I actually LOLed at that. (Note that I didn't LOLOLOL, an idiotic tautology that translates to "laugh out loud out loud out loud.")
Trust me, if both of you LoremIpsum and Maaku worked at Amazon, you'd surely need those bold, italics and even underlined texts, to clarify things to semi-automatic humans in foreign countries giving you those copy & pasted texts and references to URLs instead of real answers.
If you guys were intimated by Fake Clicks on your KDP Ad Campaigns, trust me, you'd start using them!!
WoW!! You're so smart, you don't need emphasis; you can join Amazon now, and do your best to help resolve critical issues and save the world, instead you're wasting your time here.
Anything to take our discussion on Fake Clicks on KDP a step forward?
You would like them to adjust your daily clicks to not consider fake clicks in your daily budget. That's a reasonable thing to want, since it wouldn't prematurely end your ad campaign each day.
However, since they don't detect those fake clicks on the fly the best they can do is to not charge you for them.
You can ask them until you're blue in the face, it won't change their process. You can also ask them for an automated report on how many fake clicks you have per day to make sure you're not being charged for them, or to determine other information about them. Again, if they don't have a process in place to generate such a report they won't be able to provide this information to you.
I must reiterate: Createspace has nothing to do with your KDP ad campaign. GO PESTER THE KDP FORUM WITH THIS!!!!!!!!!!
Here's the deal: if you don't have anything constructive to say, just visit another conversation, instead of wasting your time here. Your response is pretty childish and distracting, I must say.
I am getting serious advice from Oreohelix on an issue concerning many writers who were screwed up as a result of the issue of the Fake Clicks on their Amazon Ads.
The KDP and Create Space belong to the same mother of all Gods – Amazon.
And the Fake Clicks on my KDP Ad campaigns surely affect my Create Space Print versions as well.
(I have both versions Print and Kindle, and the KDP Ad Campaigns advertise both editions, in case you've not used it.)
So, my dear friend, I recommend that you calm yourself down … pure yourself a glass of red wine, Scotch, or enjoy a long-lasting cigar, and go to sleep… You'll wake up tomorrow. There's goanna be another lovely day, blue skies and Scrabble.
P.S. I like Scrabble too ;-)
Cheers!
Thanks for your great advice! I've written to them again and asked them to:
1. Adjust my daily clicks to not consider the Fake Clicks in my daily budget.
I agree with you. It's a very reasonable thing to ask them to do, since it wouldn't prematurely end my KDP Ad Campaigns each day as the situation is now.
Upon detecting the Fake Clicks on my KDP Ads, Amazon KDP Ads/ Billing departments must absolutely make those Adjustments for running my Ads-- to enable them to run AFTER the Fake Clicks hit the limit every day; otherwise the scammer/bot will continue to stop my Ads running each day, after the set by me daily Budget is fraudulently hit by his Fake Clicks. And he'll go on with his scam, and continue to rip me (and probably many other writers too) off!!
2. I also asked them, if they are able to catch those Fake Clicks on the fly (as they happen, in real time) or they run their Analytics at the end of the billing cycle, then calculate, and either-- do not charge (as they claim) or refund (I have never seen any refunded sum, though).
If they dot not charge (as they say)-- that can imply they might be able, in some way, to catch those Fake Clicks on the fly (which, I am afraid , does not happen).
But if they run their Analytics at the end of the month/ billing cycle (most probably what happens) -- and then, do not charge (as they say) or refund (never seen that happen)-- then they must be able to be transparent about the Fake Clicks Scam (not only to me, but to other writer/advertisers as well) and establish all necessary procedures to produce a Report accounting for the the Fake Clicks-- making parameters such as the Number of Fake Clicks, and the Sum Refunded/Not Charged available in a chart.
I stressed that currently the Adjustments is the most burning issue. The Report might be secondary.
If, as you suggest, they do not have the tech procedures in place to allow for a Report, then I asked them to launch those procedures for many writers/ advertisers who might be affected by the same problem, without even being aware of it.
Writers/ advertisers just keep raising their daily bids (as you first suggested,) when their ads stop running each day (and they see Ad Status = Daily Budget Spent) after the scammer/ bot fraudulently exhausts their daily budgets.
That's a terrible situation!
Any new insights on how to stop this KDP Fake Clicks problem/ scam?
Please don't hesitate and PM me on Create Space.
Thanks!
Good luck, and I hope they will find a way to ignore those clicks but I imagine if they were able to analyze them on the fly they would have done that already. However, Amazon develops new tools all the time, maybe they will find a way at some point.
I think you should keep in mind (and it might make you feel better) that this isn't a scam. No one has anything to gain from this. The internet is a crazy place where automated web crawlers are all over everything. Anything that has a link to/from anything will have web crawlers on it. My own web page has a ton of traffic, but 99% of it is from bots. Nothing scammy, just the internet being the internet. I guess that's where all your fake clicks are coming from.