me, my cheques had to go the hard way, through the US postal service. and these guys Do Not Believe In Foreign Countries. It Simply Does Not Occur To Them That There Could Be People Outside The United States. Read this for some enlightenment. I eventually convinced the ad network that 2 months after they had send the cheque, I really couldn’t have received them. I had to mount a small scale paypal scam to get my money back.

It’s really annoying that with all that talk of cyberisland, one of the major hurdles in the path of an exciting e business is that they get your address right or not….

and I don’t think google’s adsense is the best though. It may be what pays for most of the free stuff from google. but its operation is highly dodgy (and the advertiser side, adwords, is plain scary). People really do get kicked out of adsense. often on claims that some magical algorithm they use decided that the publishers were doing click fraud coincidentally when their revenue had just hit the $100.00 mark.

As a matter of fact, I’ve indeed got my adsense cheque & I didn’t get any problems with the post until now. (Got a 2nd cheque last week)
(posted about it here)

There’s an option about a secured fast cheque transfer, but you need to pay for that. But the normal mail comes fast enough – around 2 weeks.

With all ad networks I’ve tried Google is obviously still the best, even if they don’t reveal what percentage they take off each click (75-25?)

& I had to put my payment on hold coz the banks in Mauritius levy a flat rate of Rs. 100 per cheque!

Paypal sucks… you can’t send payments into your Mauritian account coz Mauritius is still not “safe” for them to process transactions. & if you open a US account, you’ll need to activate it using a US credit card.

As a matter of fact, I’ve not (yet) reached $100 so I can’t comment. I’ll let you know.

I do not use adsense myself. It’s the dark side of google. The place where all the evil they don’t do is done.

But I was wondering… last time I checked the minimum payout for adsense was $100.00 and payment was made only by cheque (it may have changed since then). Have you ever reached that minimum and if so have you recieved a cheque within a reasonable time limit.

from my experience with ad networks, all the cheques I was issued from a company the US never reached Mauritius. I’ve verified with the ad networks themselves; the lost cheques were never cleared. so lost in the mail is the only explanation.

It would seem that the US post does not acknowledge the existence of mauritius (same thing happened with postcards I was sent…). so if you have not reached the minimum payout, you should be worried that even if you do, you’ll never see that money…. (these days I only trust bank transfers, paypal being the scum of the internet)