About Advertising Late Payments
One of the major problems almost all of the advertising industry has
or had is late payments. Google’s contextual advertising system
AdSense is not exception to this. Many people who are new to the advertising
system ask me if it’s to good to be true, “will I get paid”.
And the answer is most definitely yes. However as to when the check will
arrive, has become anyone’s guess. November’s 2003 payment
was late, and now December 2003 is late. Some tips for determining when
you will get paid.
1. The “Date Sent” field is really when the money has been
transferred to be paid, it rarely if never is the real date the check
is put into the mail system.
2. The people who write the checks take between 3 and 10 days to get the
checks in the mail
3. For U.S. Mail it takes around 2 days to around 1 ½ weeks for
delivery.
4. For international mail expect between 2 weeks to 1 + months depending
on how remote your location is.
Another consideration is that the check usually takes around 2 to 5 days to clear, that is for bank accounts in the United States. That mean you will not have the available funds for the check for that amount of time. This also can vary when you are outside of the country. Some remote counties could take up to 1 to 2 months to cash your check and will also charge a decent fee for the transaction. You may want to check into using a bank in the United States like Citibank.
Finally the best practice is not to rely on contextual advertising or
any advertising as your sole source of income, its just to unpredictable
at this point.
