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Be Careful with ZeroPark Bids! (6)

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After a short break form the AM grind, as I was returning ot the groove of things I decided to set up a pops campaign on ZP.
I made a mistake however; instead of placing my daily spend at $5/day, I placed it as my bid! (derp). Secondly, I didn't make sure to start my campaign off paused once it got approved (make sure you manually pause the campaign before it gets approved), and once it did get approved, it ran through my $15 account balance into the negatives! How do you even spend negative $'s?
Anyhow, I contacted support and they said their software failed to terminate my campaign, and that I need to top up my balance to cover the -169$. As if.
So I "noped" out of that traffic source and will be utilizing others in the near future.

Lessons to take away from this:
Make sure you set up your bidding properly so that you don't screw up your campaign.
Find traffic sources with more supportive staff.

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I feel for you!

I don't think this is unique to Zeropark, however.

Everyone who has been in this game for awhile will all have their share of "fat finger" stories. One of my junior team members about 2 years ago made a Google Adwords bid of $15 per click instead of $0.15 per click. I woke up the next morning owing Google $XX,XXX for the previous night's traffic, LOL.

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This sounds bad.. But can you appeal, which i doubt so, to google regarding about the mistake? Ended up you still have to pay for the super overcharged bidding price for that costly mistake?

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From Google? Nah that is not going to happen.

Listen this was our fault. Can't really expect someone else to take the hit for our mistake.

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Ya i agree with this. In term of team management, how do you deal with that junior team member with regards to this costly mistake?

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You want to write off a traffic source just because of the 169$?

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