Touted by the fans as the largest prank of all time, and should be recorded in the Guinness Book of Records for the most people fooled on an April Fool’s Day. Many were let down by the system ‘glitch’ that Air Asia’s Facebook admins claimed had delayed the ‘Exclusive Fares’ getting published on their booking system.

As fans were ranting and throwing endless comments at the error that was spoiling the usual mood of excitement while counting down to a classic Air Asia Promo, they know the exciting prime time is ticking away and the promo is nothing more than just a April Fool’s joke.

Many were calling it a day and going to bed with disappointment. Especially the Aussies who were 2 hours ahead of us, meaning they’re waiting for this promo to start at 2 a.m. in the morning. Worst of all, the Promo did not even feature any Australian destinations.

For those who managed to get a fairly cheap ticket off this promo, they’re frustrated with the Payment for not functioning. Can’t pay = No cheap tickets = Prank.

Press the Panic Button! “We will higligth this to the system team to check tomorrow.” At 2am in the morning, it is already tomorrow @ 2nd April 2010, or did you mean 3rd of April 2010? Alright, obviously the system team is snoring all the way to Good Friday, while the foolish Facebook fans wait for nothing? I thought the web sales department should be on standby mode 24-hours a day as it involves International customers from different time zones and any matter should be resolved immediately, not tomorrow’s tomorrow.

Customers want their ticket be bought and done with as soon as possible, for tomorrow the fares will be higher, or are you trying to cash in on that?

Act like nothing happened – Alright folks, that’s the end of the show, go back and have a good Friday!

Air Asia, if you’re ready to make all your 200,000 fans wait for some promo, make sure you’ve done your homework first. Damage has been done and its time to go to bed. This is undoubtedly the best April Fool’s joke pulled off this year. At such a magnitude, surely it deserve a record in the Guinness Book.

Air Asia – Now Everyone has been FOOLED!

Dear Valued Guest,

AirAsia regrets to advise that our flight AK 6083, scheduled to depart from Kota Kinabalu(BKI) to Sibu (SBW) on 26thoctober09 unfortunately has been totaly CANCEL.

Should you require further assistance, or if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call center 03-217192222/03-217193333 or log on to our website at www.airasia.com. We appreciate your understanding of our position in this matter and hope your future flights with us will be pleasant and problem free.

Yours sincerely,
AirAsia Bhd

First of all, what a shame on their web notification department. Take a look at their e-mail.

“26thoctober09″ – What is that? Your keyboard’s space bar broken?
“totaly CANCEL.” – Spelling and grammatical error – Should be “totally canceled.”

So which Ah Beng or Ah Lian were hired to write this e-mail Mr. Tony Fernandez?

I mean, it should have been [b]ON[/b] schedule!!! NOT [b]canceled[/b]! What the heck is going on with AirAsia?

But, this Ah Beng-ish e-mail is the best thing that I could ever wished for, forget that dreaded miserable canceled flight. They actually gave me 3 months advance notice for me to arrange a different way to travel back. Such great service you have AirAsia!

We appreciate your understanding of our position in this matter and hope your future flights with us will be pleasant and problem free.

Yeah, hope is always no hope at all. Can’t really hope on you, AirAsia! They just tell me that it’s canceled without even giving me a possible alternative to that.

The itinerary includes a flight from KK to Manila, and from Manila back to KK, and on a connecting flight, I’m supposed to fly back to Sibu on the same day. If that’s so, am I entitled to cancel the whole flight schedule and get a full refund since it’s all under AirAsia?

Those handful of users might had gone to the temple, or a fortune teller, or had a wet dream the other night.

Lottery betting is one of the biggest and most profitable business in Malaysia, as it is the ONLY form of legal betting apart from going up the hills to Genting Casino. Any other forms of betting activities will get you prosecuted.

Have you ever been to Kuala Lumpur? The Berjaya Times Square? Ya, the place where you shop for fashion clothes, and go for a IMAX 3D movie? The place where people countdown during the new year’s eve? Yeah, that place lorrr…

Well, you have to thank yourself for being one of the contributors to the funds of the building, because of your daily deposits to the Berjaya Group’s Sports Toto. They’re one of the largest and most profitable companies in Malaysia dealing with resorts, real estate, retailing, 7-Elevens, Cosway, education, and basically whatever you can think of…

They are the peoples waiting for fortune to happen, while the “bank” thanks them for all the fortune.

They’re also the ONLY bank in town that tells everyone how much money the users had deposited into the bank. Thanks to their jackpot system.

Now that you’ve read this post, go and bank in RM1.10 tomorrow for ‘9555′. I wish you good luck!

Just like this?

You take control from the other side.

Reshape it.

And shove it back on to regain control.

How many times have you actually used the CTRL key on the right hand side? I bet it’s less than 2 times a week? Why let the entire keyboard go to waste when I can switch the right CTRL key to the most frequently used left hand side?

This is my girlfriend’s old keyboard I’m exchanging with, she’s in possession of my Wireless Logitech keyboard now. I only ever uses Logitech keyboards for all my life, and this is the reason why – Durability and flexibility. I don’t know how she had lost the control key, but a moment of bright ideas came to the rescue. Time is hard nowadays, save every cent you can. Even the Americans are saving funds by not setting off flashy fireworks for their July 4th Independence Day celebration.

50 concerts, 50 years old, This is It. Coincidence?

We’re not going to get more of Michael Jackson, or Mikaeel Jackson, whichever you want to call him. But he left with a loyal legion of fans and impersonators continuing to pass on his legacy.

You’ll be remembered Michael. The God must be enjoying your moonwalk now.

and the rest as they said, is history.

Dear Stephen Then,

Thank you for your report on the Kuala Baram haze issue. But Kuala Baram is part of Miri City, Sarawak, not Sabah.

Please kindly amend your geography knowledge. Thank you.

Yours truly,
Alex Allied.

If you’ve yet to receive payments from Advertlets, please write a blog post about it and include the URL in the comment box below. Please also state your unpaid amount. I’ll link you from under this post.

This is a high ranking post on Google search term of “Advertlets” and it attracts a good amount of attention. I’m hopeful that this will help those who’ve yet to receive their hard-earned money. Good luck!

I’ve a very bad experience with Advertlets, their previous slogan “The better blog advertising network”, didn’t really suit their means. That’s why they’ve changed to their new slogan, “More Love for your Blogs and Brands”. If you’re really the better one, why would you change it in the first place? I’m not gonna start to compare Advertlets with Nuffnang here, this is not an issue with which company is better. Comparison do no justice, but just look at Advertlets payout ratio, the number of people who’re actually getting paid, you’ll see the real issue. A simple Google search on the “Advertlets not paying” will get you almost 2,000 unsatisfied publishers’/bloggers’ rant on their payout process.

I believe it’s not just me who’re being “scammed” of advertising revenues, but hundreds and maybe thousands of them. Let’s do a simple math. Let’s just estimate a small amount of the unsatisfied bloggers who’re not getting paid, to be around 200. Let’s take the minimum cashout quota of RM100 and multiply it with the 200 people.

RM200 x 100 = RM20,000.

That makes it RM20,000. Now, that’s just the estimation. Who knows how much money did Advertlets actually holds up in their wicked bank account? 2,000 unsatisfied bloggers? You do the math.

Advertlet’s RM100 Minimum Payout Quota

Advertlets set their minimum payout quota at RM100. So what? Are they really gonna be paying it? I bet you got fooled. Me, too! Bloggers work their heart out in giving Advertlets a good ad placements, all the work and codings go into account. Some even experiment different placements for better click through rate. After half a year, some lucky ones will reach the magic RM100 mark. For all the hard work and patience, you thought your cash out process would be swift and you can enjoy the fruits of your hard labor in a form of a cheque payment from Advertlets.

Truth is, you’ll get shit. Oh no, you don’t even get shits, cause they won’t even care to reply your enquiries for cashing out. They’re indirectly telling you, “You’re worth no shit to us”. So at this point, do you continue to display their ads? Or remove them?

If you remove them, there’s no way to retrieve that hard-earned RM100.
If you opt to stay with them, you’ve no guarantee that you’ll get paid.

I call it quit after RM125 worth of traffic and clicks.

Cashed out in January, 2009. Several inquiries sent. No reply whatsoever from Advertlets.

Below is an article on Advertlet’s support page, question “I have not received my earnings. What should I do?”

If you have not received your earnings 30-45 days from the end of the month which you cashed out, please contact us.

So I’ve contacted you, what next? I’ve contact you guys 5 times and I’ve got nothing. Not even a single reply.

For your information, you will be able to see several different status options of your Cashout Request. Please see the following for details.

Unpaid
The cashout request has just been received and action has not been taken yet.

Processing
The payment is being processed. If you see that the payment has been in Processing status for more than a month, please contact us. There may be outstanding issues with regards to your payment including: Full Payee Name not filled in, Incomplete Postal Address, or other factors such as a prolonged click fraud audit. It will usually take between 1-2 months to audit fully for click fraud – removing illegitimate earnings is a tedious process that takes a lot of human intervention and server log processing. Your earnings will only be audited if the amount of click fraud is not excessive. An excessive amount of click fraud will result in either that particular Cashout Request being denied or your account banned.

The terms really freaks me out. How do I know if I’ve got click frauds? Let’s take an example.
I go about other people’s blog with Advertlet’s ads running. I sit there and click their ads 10-50 times a day, everyday for a month. So if you consider that as click fraud, then Advertlets, you’ll have a fucken big problem. No one’s gonna get paid in the end, but Advertlets themselves.

No one knows exactly how they define “excessive” click fraud, and you won’t get their server logs, too. It basically means, if I don’t like to pay you, I’ll just categorize you in the Click Fraud group. Done. Case closed.

Sent
The payment has already been sent by post and should reach you shortly. Let us know if it doesn’t reach you.

Denied
The cashout request has been denied due to a high amount of click fraud. A payment such as this will not be received as the system has automatically determined that the earnings present in that Cashout have been highly or occasionally, fully consisting of fraudulent earnings. If your cash out function has not been disabled, you are allowed to continue earning with Advertlets, however only legit future payments besides the Denied Payment will be sent. In most cases, you will only have 1 Cashout Request denied before being banned completely.

I’m not gonna waste my time over the click fraud system again. The statement I’ve made above clearly tells you how bad their payout system is.

This is my recent earning status. High impressions doesn’t guarantee high payouts. But that’s not the case with last year, where I only get one or two thousand impressions, but the payout is like RM1-RM2/day, which was good.

On 5/5/2009, I’ve got 5808 impressions, but 0 clicks. I get RM1.277.
On 27/5/2009, I’ve got 10356 impressions, 5 clicks. And I get RM0.539.

How can anyone justify that? I need an explanation from Advertlets. Maybe someone there has a green MBA, or any kind of business degree, and can explain this. But it seems that it might be too late.

Only a Handful of Loyal Bloggers get Paid

It’s true that they only serve bloggers who supports them and ONLY them. Blogger who’re better in traffic rankings. Meaning, they hand pick their favorite bloggers for the payout. For those who blog for fun and thinks that you’ll make some side income with Advertlets, stop dreaming. You might as well put on some Google ads and get better revenue with them, albeit the long wait, but at least they pay!

I’ve sent 5 enquiries through their so-called friendly Helpdesk requesting for the status of my payment. Until today, I haven’t got a single reply from them. Talking of respect, this is customer service at the rock bottom level.

Advertlets advertisers, Have you heard us?

HP, Nikon, Ruumz, Tourism Australia, and some government advertisers promoting Crime Free campaing. I really wonder why would Advertisers still be funding their ads campaign on Advertlets, when everyone is complaining about the payout problems. Haven’t they realize the failed system that Advertlets have? The non-existent payout system? How long can they survive with their scarce publishers/bloggers?

Advertisers, save your cash, advertise on Google or Facebook. More and more publishers/bloggers are taking down their Advertlets ads due to non-payment of their ads revenues. Are you part of their conspiracy that cheats us our hard-earned revenue? I hope you’re not.

Final Words

If you’re still dangling in around, swinging on the pendulum and still considering whether to go on displaying Advertlets’ ads or remove them for good, I hope this will be it. Please call it quit if you’ve yet to get payments from Advertlets.

I won’t stay with a company where the boss doesn’t pay for the 1 year work I’ve done. Will you?

Got something to tell Advertlets? Say it here!

Haven’t got your payment even though you’ve requested cash out months ago? Advertlets never reply your enquiries? Need attention from Advertlets?

All you need to do is make a blog post about the non-payment, plus the amount owed, and explain in details that painful process of waiting and expecting something that never comes. I’ll personally link you with your post title, displayed right under here!

You can also put this button up your blogs and spread the words. We want real actions and real payments from Advertlets!

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The Victims

Local Blog Advertising Network “Advertlets” Not Paying Up – Tomorrow.sg
Do Not Trust Advertlets – eMocha.net
An Open Letter to Advertlets – The Fire in my Life
Screenshot of the denied RM500+ earnings – Sulaiman Sabur gave up his RM500+ earnings in Advertlets because they claimed he had click frauds.
Advertlets, where are my cheques? – Jialat.com
Stupid Questions Advertlets asks Publishers in a suspected “non”-Fraud Case – Webmaster Malaysia Discussion Board.
Advertising with Advertlets was just as bad – Larry Lim’s rants from an Advertiser’s perspective.

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