Google support is a waste of time regarding the issue. . in fact, after emailing them several times for advice and an explanation of my ban, I have come to the conclusion that they are robots, not human.

I find it ironic that one of Google’s core principles is that the “Internet should be a democracy”. What rubbish! I have never experienced such an autocratic system!

Unfortunately, it seems that Google have now made far too much money, (from Internet marketing revenue no less) that they now consider themselves above mere mortals (especially Adwords publishers), and somewhere just below God, literally, thanks to their very own spy satellite . . BTW that thing and ‘Google Earth’ has got to be one of the biggest security risks of all time. . terrorists, criminals, weirdos can now have instant access to geography, topography, military and government locations and your backyard at the flick of a mouse. Google’s defence’ to this is that the aerial information displayed via Google Earth is easily available to anyone flying over the area in a plane .. . er, hello, how many of us have our own planes? The odd terrorist may be lucky enough have his own plane but if he flew over a military base, or government building, in it he would be much more visible than he is from behind his laptop dontcha think?!

Apart from that, they have a great search engine. Maybe the Google Directors should do a search, via ‘Google Chrome’ of course, and see just how many people they have wrongly ousted from Adwords. The words ‘hands’, ‘biting’ & ‘feeds you’ spring to mind.

Storing full CC numbers on your own systems is against the T&C of most, if not all, merchant account agreements for the merchant – which would include Google in this context.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Google are doing some sort of cross checking of other data – names, emails, IP addresses, etc – on the various accounts they offer, but they shouldn’t be doing it with CC numbers. If they are, I hope they get well and truly busted for it.

There’s an enormous amount of traffic out there for these offers. Stop killing yourself by chasing 5% margins on overpriced advertising.