Filing a lawsuit against Sedo

[Kase]

Has anyone tried to sue sedo? I'm probably going to file a lawsuit and call Google to say that one of their clients isn't following the rules here.

I've never seen such a BS excuse for not sending me a check. All of a sudden when my check is supposed to be sent out, traffic is not natural! This is such a quincidence! It seems as though every month I wasn't supposed to get a check, my traffic was fine! But I guess this is legitimate because sedo shouldn't have to actually send a check to their customers if they want to have the money for themselves.

[dodo1]

They only test the traffic once the payout limit is reached. That's why they didn't contact you before you were in the position of receiving your check.

By the way, where is your domains' traffic coming from?

[pelican]

have you tried contacting them to ask which of your domains' traffic is not valid

[octobus]

I don't think Google could be bothered.

[KwelX]

I would advise you to contact sedo. They should work with you to verify your traffic.

[DNjet]

Before you get to excited and pay lawyers fees remember that they can prove where the traffic came from ,and its up to you to prove it didn't.

[Kase]

I took all of this into consideration guys. The point is that they don't have any proof. I contacted the previous owner and he said it used to be a developed site and was not promoted (he wouldn't lie since his account is already closed at sedo at his request) and the person at sedo that I spoke to only stuttered and said "well we found a link on a Turkish forum". Of course I laughed at that lame excuse and even checked Google and saw absolutely NO links to the domain name... It's just a game they're playing and it's not working.

[jdk]

Did they state what forum it was on? It could be a site not listed in google.

[DNjet]

In short , you won't win , you will spend your time and money , try a PM to Jay from sedo here on the forum and see if you can work it out again , it could be an error on their part.

[Kase]

Ok I guess, I'll send him a PM. Thanks for your help.

[jdk]

I hope it is thousands they owe you.

[Fearless]

I'm probably going to file a lawsuit and call Google to say that one of their clients isn't following the rules here.

I don't care what your problem is. Don't start a thread with some wimpy ass threat you are probably going to file a lawsuit. Just do it. Show them who's boss.

[CashCowDomains]

he was looking for feedback.

[Fearless]

he was looking for feedback.

Give him feedback then. I did.

[droplister]

take em to court if you want but it wont be a "quincidence" when you lose.

[Kase]

If I lose it's because they are a huge company and I'm some random guy. I don't want it to come to that. But proof is proof and if they don't have any, there is no case for them. And I've sued someone before, but it never came to anything b/c the person just ended up paying after hearing about it.

[Acro]

Change the DNS so that you can have system logs and use forwarding to sedo. This way you can see where the traffic is coming from. Using Google to locate incoming links is not foolproof.

[Kase]

That's a great suggestion but it leaves time for me to end all "promotion scams" or fake the stats. They would only use their "proof".

[Andrew Shaw]

Proof is not needed when you have $$$... Its a shame.

[mole]

I think this boils down to the inherent problems with the PPC model. sedo has every right to be wary. Incentivising a "random" click can and will only breed deviant web behavior.