Sorry for the duplicate, my computer freezed for a sec and had no idea it had placed this one sorry. I will leave it here since here I got a reply and remove it on the other. Thanks :-)

Hey very nice person!!! Did you check when I last used SearchTimes at getpaidforum? That's weeks ago, I just lost about 30 dollar.

I didn't do anything I shouldn't. Since I have not used it anymore since it isn't allowed any more


Anyway I wish you, who ever made sure that I lost my account plus 30 dollars the same as just happened to me, it's what you deserve.

Thanks again for you making me lose my account on something that is NOT NOT NOT according the rules since I didn't use it for weeks.

If we would do it like this every single person who ever used it whether it is here or a paid link or point link will lose it.

Or is that the what should happen? That would mean that about every webmaster will lose a lot of money and also that a lot of getpaidforum members will lose a lot.

If this is so that this so that even if you ever in the past used it for instant here may not have her/his account in that case no problem thank you for telling searchtimes.

So much.

Pos

Guess you contacted searchtimes .... what did they say ?

With this offer of rewarding people coming to tell them who was still using it in search exchangers, I guess some greedy hunters started to flood them with reports, some surfers like nothing more than report others.

I am really sorry to hear that you lost your account pos, hope it'll be fixed somehow and this greedy reporter blamed.

Maybe we should ask searchtimes to add that who accuses falsly somebody else will have his account deleted as well ... what do you think ?

Sophie

Thanks for saying that. I just wrote to them saying no more than that was weeks ago. I think it will take a few days before I hear from them.

About people who falsely accuse other people well.. I do believe what comes around goes around but I think to make sure that would not happen that searchtimes have to let them pay a dollar for every falsely accused report. That will make sure that they will be carefull.

I wonder how many more in here this happened to.

Thanks again for saying you hope that I will get my account back and so :-)

Feel a bit better now,

Have a wonderful day,

Pos

whats this about a reward for reporting others?

I must have missed something

This is the letter:

You are receiving this e-mail message because you are a registered affiliate of
searchtimes.com. Unsubscribe information is given at the end of this message.

................................................................

Dear affiliates,

It is time to bring uniformity in our ways to promote SearchTimes. To help you
with this, our team has worked out an impressive list of promotional lines,
which will help better click-thru and in turn increase your earnings.

Please find below the list of acceptable and non-acceptable text formats for
promoting SearchTimes.


********************************
Acceptable Text for SearchTimes Promotions
********************************

All webmasters and affiliates are allowed to promote our search engine with
following text or any other non-incentive text. Examples of such text are given
below:

Get Wise. Search with Searchtimes


Search Better...with Searchtimes


SearchTimes. Good Times. All the Time.


Good Times. Better Times. SearchTimes.


Search The Web


Search For Quality


Search what you need



****************************************
Non Acceptable Text for searchtimes promotion:
****************************************
All webmasters and affiliates must not promote our search engine with following
text or any other incentive text. These instructions violate our search rules.
Examples of such text are given below:

1) Click on the link

2) Make a Valid Search

3) Click on a result

4) Wait for the page to load

5) Receive credit for that link.

If you see any one promoting our search link with above text, just inform us.
Your cooperation in this regard will really help you to earn big commissions
every month by keeping our top advertisers with us. If any affiliate is
promoting searchtimes in an incentive manner then it results in big loss to all
affiliates and you will make less money with searchtimes. We want to run
searchtimes in a way, which should give quality traffic to all advertisers and
regular high-income opportunity for all our affiliates. Let?s work together and
promote searchtimes in a way, which is according to rules so every one can
benefit.

****************************************
Resources for Promotion:
****************************************
We are adding a link called ?Resources of Promotion? in affiliate control
panel. Under this you will be able to see places where you can advertise your
search link for free. You will also be able to find many web sites where you can
promote searchtimes at a low cost. We will keep on researching and update this
section for you. Kindly request you to use these resources to promote
searchtimes and thus increase your earning.

Searchtimes.com

A Better Way to Search & Explore

hmm.. so its not actually a direct incentive (in the form of cash) its a promise that if you try and stop cheaters you "may" be earning more

I can see the upside and the downside..

for all everyone knows they may put search bid prices down anyway to create a bigger profit for themselves..

Hi Pos

OK, have finger and toes crossed for Pia already but think she won't mind if I do it for you as well ;-)

And, the weather is beautiful .... you have to have a nice day


And Juliet, here you'll find another recent letter from Searchtimes.

I' copy here the part about the reward for reporting others :
If you know any of our affiliate promoting searchtimes against the above rules, inform us and we will give you high rewards for such information.

Sophie

LOL, POs, you posted the wrong message :-))

JUliet, my above posting shows they really offer soemthing for reporting people, or am I wrong ?

Sophie

Hey that letter I did not get I just read it!

I think that people should give webmaster a few days before go and tell to Searchtimes. They might not have read it yet. (not all)

Anyway I leave the earning for telling that people do something they are not allowed to others.

Thanks Sophieca hope it helps

Pos

Hi

well I hope they do not mean we cannot even put search box on site as I have on my forum, and on web page that members use, I do not send paid search ads and ask then to search if they want but this looks not good to me.

Richard

Hi Richard, I thought it was my lack of English that I wasn't sure where and when you could use it. Guess it is not.

But as long as I do not know what it is they exactly mean you won't see my link or box anywhere. (IF I get my account back i.e.

Pos

Why would you want your account back.. tell them to where to stick it

I don't agree with such under handed tactics and cancelling peoples accounts without a formal.. ALSO this site has only just recently FINALLY bought out a "do's and don'ts" list.. they have been around for ages and I can't figure out why they didn't do it sooner

Saved them paying out ALOT of money though didn't it.. *sigh*

PS - I can understand weeding out cheaters but when they took so long to come out with what was acceptable I think they need to give a little leway..

Juliet,

Because I asked about 2 weeks ago for over 21 dollars? That's why I want to have my account back.

And now I have about 10 dollars or so. I would wait awhile and if it means that you cannot use it anywhere not even on a website without any payments than how many will you think will continue to use SearchTimes??? I think almost nobody there are many good others if you want one who doesn't pay a penny to anyone use webcrawler it's the best out there in my humble opinion. (why say that? Because if you cannot place SearchTimes anywhere it would mean you don't earn anything anymore and then you might as well take the best I think).

So the main reason is because I redeemed about 21 dollar. They pay after about 45 days or so so I would lose that if I lose my account.

Pos

Pos

I read somewhere that you could still put ST in emails but not incentivised and preferably not tracked. LIke as a topsponsor or something.

You can also still put your search box on your site and webmaster can keep it on their site as well, as long as it is not paid to click on it.

I don't like the way they did it without prior notice and giving incentive to people to report others, it's not really something very respectable but on the other hands, no one was really searching anymore, only clicking ....

Still hope you'll have your money ;-)

Sophie

You know Sophie what the problem is that they did this so quickly that if you have bought an link at a get paid to read program who isn't so fast in sending out so waits a few days you still lose your account.

Two days before I got this letter I bought an ad, it was sent on the day that we got that letter and to my surprise the webmaster sent it again today if you click it it'll say you already got paid for this link. So although I bought the ad before this was forbidden it has being going out today. So I most likely will lose my account anyway. If so so it be, I just don't like it if I lose it over something that I did not do. And although I cannot help it that the webmaster sent it days after I asked and I bought it before it was forbidden I can understand that some people will tell Search times. But for those who are about to do it think about it for a sec. Give it a few more days I'd say.

Pos

I don't understand HOW we can promote it; seems so tight.

I have only $10.00 in that account too. Long way to go before payout.

Methinks someone from here complained about a few folks for some reason; that's why they did this.

I've deleted the url from my signatures so I won't lose my $$, but I don't understand how we can get people to click on and search without having the urls anyplace! ergh. so confused!

Yeah, there really are no ways left to earn.


I thought MrWord was being a pain, but this is much worse!

Hi I just read the reply I got from SearchTimes as I understand it I have to remove all the links I put here, I never had it in my signature.

Here's the content of the letter:

Dear Affiliate:

We are checking all the pages of getpaidforum so delete our link from your
signatures posted earlier only then we will unblock your account.


Searchtimes.com
A Better way to search & explore!



Quoting me_at@hotmail.com: (me_at is not my real account but I changed that so I am not getting more junkmail then I already am getting there).

> That is weeks ago?
>

Pos.