I just got off the phone with Godaddy, as usual, i have my “strange godaddy thing of the day”, i have just learned that i lost my $125 of Google advertising coupons because i did not activate the credit from within my godaddy account within a month of buying the product that got me the credits
What you need to know, don’t save your ad credits for later, even when you don’t activate them, they expire, nothing written on that, they don’t tell you anywhere, but the Google ad credit coupons expire on their own after 1 month of the purchase not of activation.
This time, i login to get a receipt from an old API account i have with godaddy, and godaddy tells me they have Google credits for me, i say yipee, and go to collect them, then i start a new adwords account with my gmail Google account, and then what do you know, Google tells me this credit has expired “This promotional code has expired. Learn more”.
So i go to godaddy’s website and other sources, but it only says that the credit must be used on a new Google account within 15 days of activation. So as you might expect, i call godaddy who will then blame Google (Even though it is a newly activated Google credit)
So, i am listening to the recorded conversation to tell you here what happened,
** for my records and convenience the file from the auto call recorder is godaddy_expired_credits_API_Voice-0003.amr ***
Anyway, here is more or less what happened (i am not strictly transcribing but rather describing and skipping the nonsense), but the audio file is available (I am not sure if it is legal to post it though)
So, here is the lowdown on the phone call, this is what you need to know, i don’t know how godaddy will justify that they still offer you to activate a credit that has expired before being activated, or why they still give you a link to activate it after the 1 month, or why they have the activation feature all together if it starts counting for expiry from the time of purchase not the time of activation of the credit, but check this out.
ON HOLD through 22:36
Godaddy Brit : as far as it expires after a month , that you will not find with us, however you will find on that disclaimer there that Google has the right to revoke it at any time for any reason, any credits that we supply, that may be on Google’s end, that’s not something we have the right to say, because once again that is on Google’s end, Google’s terms, but not our terms.
Waiting for a representative to pick up 6:46
Me: i have an old account, and i logged in to get the invoice from there so i can print it, and i found that i have google credits, so i opened the credits tab where the credits were not used, so i clicked activate, and i just did activate them, and then i went to Google adwords, i created a new account, i entered the promo code, and it tells me that this promotional code has expired, i just activated it but it expired.
Godaddy Brit: Ok let me take a look here, did you ever have any products in this account
Me: Yes, surely, an API reseller account
Godaddy Brit: Okay, but i can’t see anything in here right now.
Me: I can see it, i just click on promo codes, Oh, u mean… You just go to order history, i cancelled that product,
Godaddy Brit: Okay, i am not sure that credit will be useful if there is no actual product in the account
Me: Well Brit, i am not sure about that, because it doesn’t have an expiry on the credit, So if we could go step by step and check out that credit, it shows i still have the credit, and there is a button to activate it, So i clicked the button just right now two minutes ago, and it gave me that it was activated on the fifth, which is today, and gave me the code, Now just by giving me the code this means this is an actual Google code, right ? Google credit code, or is it some random string of numbers
Godaddy Brit: I am not sure how it works in connection with Google, but if you want me to run this by my lead just to make sure, please remain on the line.
On wait 13:15
Godaddy Brit: Apparently those credits, although you were able to activate it, they expire on Google’s end about a month after you purchase the product, so if you bought a domain name,and you got the credits, A month after you could still activate it on our end, but Google will reject it about a month after the purchase
Me: Ok, Brit, is that written anywhere ? because i have seen your adwords account needs to be less than two weeks old, but i leave my credits unactivated because it doesn’t say anywhere that you lose your rights to the credits here or there or this way or that way,
Godaddy Brit: Ok, this is probably not as illustrated the best that it could be but let me see here, (A wait) and are you activating this code in a new adwords account or….
Me: Yes sir, it is a new account
Godaddy Brit: So right now i am scanning through our almost unless looking legal terms of service for you to find you where this statement is on.
Me: No problem, take your time, sorry for the inconvenience
Godaddy Brit: Let me run this by one of my leads
Me: take your time
ON HOLD through 22:36
Godaddy Brit : as far as it expires after a month , that you will not find with us, however you will find on that disclaimer there that Google has the right to revoke it at any time for any reason, any credits that we supply, that may be on Google’s end, that’s not something we have the right to say, because once again that is on Google’s end, Google’s terms, but not our terms.