Linkedin charged me £40.50 for 12 views and 2 clicks.

[George97]

So I had a lot of work and a family was offering to help. My mistake.
We knew I needed someone a bit more skilled so I told them to try to find someone on Linkedin.

I meant just share a post saying we are looking for an assistant. Instead they created a paid job posting. Like seriously!!!

They told me just after they created the ad and said Linkedin had set some budget to £26, for the post. I was like wtf, what budget.

I spend about 10 minutes going through the jobs section on Linkedin until I found the job listing and cancelled it straight away.
The daily budget was set to £26 + 30%, and it had 12 views and 2 clicks.

I initially thought well £26 had been estimated for the day, and I cancelled it within 30 minutes, so would only be £1 or £2 - Ill take the loss and learn from the mistake.
In reality, even though my ad ran for less than 30 minutes, they still charged me the full budget + 30% + VAT, so was actually £40.50 something, for 12 views and 2 clicks.

What a scam linkedin are.

 

[Ravzar]

You could try contacting them for a refund pro rata saying the service wasn't used and the high price must be a mistake. In hindsight obviously it would be better to let the ad run if you were paying the one price no matter what which seems what has happened.

 

[George97]

You could try contacting them for a refund pro rata saying the service wasn't used and the high price must be a mistake. In hindsight obviously it would be better to let the ad run if you were paying the one price no matter what which seems what has happened.

Thanks for the reply. Will do.

Its surprising, that they can estimate a daily budget, then say also allow 30% extra incase there's more traffic than estimated.
Yet reach the budget and allowance within 30 minutes.

:/ More like they make up a number, and then pretend they've sent the relevant traffic.

 

[Mr Positive]

Twitter or Reddit is better for traffic, also ask for a refund from them

 

[HustleTong]

You deserve a refund.

 

[Deleted member 658642]

I meant just share a post saying we are looking for an assistant. Instead they created a paid job posting. Like seriously!!!

What a scam linkedin are.

Contradicting statements bud. That’s how paid ads work. You can’t call them a scam just because you weren’t aware of their ‘very public’ business model. This is on you.

 

[George97]

Contradicting statements bud. That’s how paid ads work. You can’t call them a scam just because you weren’t aware of their ‘very public’ business model. This is on you.

I don't think you know what contradicting means. Or you can't read. Probably both though.

I didn't say I wasn't aware of their 'very public' business model. The paid ad implied the budget was for a day, when in reality it lasted less than 30 minutes.

What do you think is contradicting?

 

[thelaptopbucks]

If it is a virtual job......hire someone on here using HAF section and that would save you further money losses

 

[ziko12345]

I don't think you know what contradicting means. Or you can't read. Probably both though.

I didn't say I wasn't aware of their 'very public' business model. The paid ad implied the budget was for a day, when in reality it lasted less than 30 minutes.

What do you think is contradicting?

Well, they can charge the day when the campaign starts, so even if you didnt cancel it, it would still charge you the same for thr first 24 hours.

 

[George97]

Well, they can charge the day when the campaign starts, so even if you didnt cancel it, it would still charge you the same for the first 24 hours.

If its an estimation, its based on traffic. If its based on time then it would have been a fixed cost.
The estimation is because they can't know exactly how much traffic would be generated but make an estimation, based on a full day. What they have provided is traffic for 30 minutes but still charged for a days worth of traffic.
I clicked cancel, they should have either ran for the full day then cancelled, or just charged for the time they did run for.

 

[Deleted member 658642]

Well, they can charge the day when the campaign starts, so even if you didnt cancel it, it would still charge you the same for thr first 24 hours.

You know what they say about a fool and his money.

 

[George97]

You know what they say about a fool and his money.

Whats your point?
I'm sorry your life isn't as exciting as you wanted it to be, but wasting your time here isn't going to change that.

I made my post to try to cheer up people, but your such a low person you try to bring negativity here.

 

[Elvlin]

well thats how it be. with not optimized ads, and wrong traffic. expensive and no conversion.
you need to find the suitable one for your product/service, with suitable content. i learned this lesson when promote my quiz site $40 for 200 clicks lol,using ads network. but $10 for 250++ click with influancer

 

[Th3 Canadian 3h]

Talk about sticking it to the business owners, call in and let them know you didn't mean to click it and that you have no idea how this computer stuff works. They should give it back

 

[Bots-Scrapers]

It looks like they are trying to make as much money as possible.
You better try other traffic sources.

 

[Williamsonsondvn]

Twitter or Reddit is better for traffic, also ask for a refund from them

Is Reddit still in 2020?

 

[Stiletto]

Is Reddit still in 2020?

It's in the top 10 most visited websites in the world for a couple of years already.
In 2020 it's 7th most visited site in the world according to ahrefs.