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HostPr
09-09-2002, 05:35 PM
HostPr's client, ExoticCarForums.com is expanding and is taking in new ads for the month of September. Web Hosts are ideal for this forum as the members of the ExoticCarForums community are apt to start websites for their cars. It's very affluent and the average age is 27, income $68,000 per year and predominently male.

Pageviews (not hits) 13,000 per day

We are running this with an ad management system where you can view your statistics in real time. Rates are published at:

10,000 impressions - $9.50 (less than $1 cpm)
20,000 impressions - $17.50
50,000 impressions - $37.50
100,000 impressions - $65.50

Sponsorships - (Sponsored by YOUR COMPANY NAME on a particular forum)
$50 per month per forum category

HostPr is accepting a maximum of 6 sponsors/advertisers for the forums for September. Please contact us ASAP for spots. We will be posting availability in this post (real time) to see how much inventory is left.

contact us via private message or email function.

Payment is made thru PayPal to our account or via Check/Money Order.

Thank you,
HostPr.

Real Time Packages Left - 6 (9/9/02 at 5:41pm EST)

Akash
09-09-2002, 05:52 PM
READ THIS!!!!
I have to share my experience.

I purchased a 25K campaign in august. While my banner may not have been the best, I only got a 0.068 CTR.

So unless you have a catchy banner, i would not say that this is the best target market for a host. Normally, if the demographics of the ad group matched your target, you would get a CTR of at least twice that (which I did, with a similar banner)

edit: since my clarification is on the bottom of the page, and post people wont read it....



The advertiser is falsely representing his stats. He has knowingly done so and has made no attempt to fix it. He advertises 13,000 Pageviews per day. This is incorrect.

He has posted statistics from the ad management software that shows an average of less than 13,000 adviews.

While he is still selling by the impression, he is still falsely presenting statistics, which violates the basic ethics of business - you do not lie to your (potential) customers.

RandyL712
09-09-2002, 05:52 PM
I think you're full of it. There are currently 7 members online. Only 679 members total, and just 84,976 total posts on the site! 13,000 views a day? my ass :)

Most users ever online was 69

Stop lying and scamming.

HostPr
09-09-2002, 05:56 PM
Randy, I would like an apology. Attached is our stats as of 6:02pm EST. Please see them.

Akash
09-09-2002, 05:59 PM
Randy doesn't have to apologize just yet...If there were only 6 advertisers, then yes there were about 13K adviews, but if I recall correctly, there are 2 banner ads per page. So that means there were 6500 page views...correct?

RandyL712
09-09-2002, 06:00 PM
Further - the top 10 posters account for 40% of the posts on the site.

silock
09-09-2002, 06:01 PM
are these clicks or views

HostPr
09-09-2002, 06:02 PM
What i stated above was that 13,000 pageviews per day for the site. Never did it mention that it was for 1 banner alone. That was an assumption.

RandyL712
09-09-2002, 06:02 PM
Dont' expect an apology - anyone can immediately see the numbers I posted.

HostPr
09-09-2002, 06:03 PM
Originally posted by silock
are these clicks or views

They are views. If it were clicks, i'd be lying.

HostPr
09-09-2002, 06:04 PM
What numbers? Everything I stated is factual and we have the stats to prove it. Nothing I did was to lie/scam anything. We have run promotions for this site before and they work. Please don't flame this if you don't like it.

Feel free to call us at 914-912-7992 if you have any questions or would like to talk to me.

HostPr

RandyL712
09-09-2002, 06:08 PM
The site is basically a forum, no? If you are getting 13,000 pageviews a day but only 200 some posts (site's been up about a year, right?) than this isn't a popular site. Perhaps the same 50 people sit on the site constantly, racking up pageviews. Well, that's not advantageous to an advertiser. They want UNIQUE visitors. And I suspect you have 50 visitors that click through about 200 pages per day each. That's worthless.

Akash
09-09-2002, 06:12 PM
You said pageviews, your attachment shows ADViews

2 ads per page = 1/2 as many pageviews as adviews....

do your math


edit: come to think of it, i think it was advertised this way when i advertised.....i'd ask for my money back for the false representation of statistics...but i dont see any chance of that happening :rolleyes:

Akash
09-09-2002, 06:18 PM
Originally posted by HostPr
HostPr's client, ExoticCarForums.com is expanding and is taking in new ads for the month of September. Web Hosts are ideal for this forum as the members of the ExoticCarForums community are apt to start websites for their cars. It's very affluent and the average age is 27, income $68,000 per year and predominently male.

Pageviews (not hits) 13,000 per day

We are running this with an ad management system where you can view your statistics in real time. Rates are published at:

10,000 impressions - $9.50 (less than $1 cpm)
20,000 impressions - $17.50
50,000 impressions - $37.50
100,000 impressions - $65.50

Sponsorships - (Sponsored by YOUR COMPANY NAME on a particular forum)
$50 per month per forum category

HostPr is accepting a maximum of 6 sponsors/advertisers for the forums for September. Please contact us ASAP for spots. We will be posting availability in this post (real time) to see how much inventory is left.

contact us via private message or email function.

Payment is made thru PayPal to our account or via Check/Money Order.

Thank you,
HostPr.

Real Time Packages Left - 6 (9/9/02 at 5:41pm EST)

quoted just incase an edit is made....ive learned from my mistakes when dealing with others :)

HostPr
09-09-2002, 06:31 PM
There will be no edit- the offer stands.

Akash
09-09-2002, 08:17 PM
Then you should clarify...it's 13000 ad views per day, with 6500 pageviews....

RandyL712
09-10-2002, 11:26 AM
What a joke. 50 'real' users.