Google Adsense Goes Bankrupt

Google's
advertising platform AdSense is surely the most popular solution in its
category because it brings free money to numerous registered members.
If you didn't know, the Mountain View company automatically sends
checks to advertisers once the amount of money from your account
reaches a certain limit. Because the checks are sent from Mountain
View, California, USA, some users might encounter several difficulties
when trying to cash the check by numerous reasons. However, listen to a
story posted by mobilejones, one of the websites that encountered some
funny problems with the advertising solution.



First of all, the folks from mobilejones received a check from AdSense
that included all the revenues earned in a whole year. But the
interesting story starts now: when the site owner tried to cash the check, the bank representative
quietly said: "There aren’t sufficient funds in the account to cover
your check," as mobilejones reports in a juicy story. Of course, the
reactions were quite astonishing but they somehow tried to find a way
to fix it. "Are you sure? Do you know who Google is? You’re kidding me,
right?" the AdSense member said to the bank employee.



Immediately, an idea was rising in their mind: contact Google. First
step? Call the number on the check. Then, an interesting conversation
that I rather reproduce it as the folks from mobilejones posted it on
their official blog:



"Voicemail Lady: If you know the extension of the person you’d like to reach, dial it now followed by the pound sign.

Me: Nope, I don’t know any extension numbers.

Voicemail Lady: Press 8 to dial by name.

Me: Great! Pressing 8. *whistling to myself a bit*

Voicemail Lady: Please enter the first few letters of the last name.

Me: Hmmmmm, Brian the payments operations guy probably won’t work as a
name in this system. That’s the result of Google’s employee privacy
policy. I don’t know the guy’s last name. I know, Matt Cutts! Surely,
Matt can get me transfered to Brian the payments operations guy or
someone else. I type in Cutts.

Voicemail Lady: Please enter more characters.

Me: More characters for his last name? Or should I start on his first
name, now? I’ll do both alternatively until some combo works.

Voicemail Lady: Please enter more characters.

Me: Entering Cutts, Matt.

Voicemail Lady: That userid is not valid. Goodbye."



The interesting fact is that even if the AdSense registered member
tried to contact the search giant using the customer service, the
voicemail encouraged the customer to check the website for an official
response because "Google does not currently authorize customer
support." So, is there anything you can do if Google sends you a bad
check? I don't think so, just hope you are not one of the unlucky
guys...