goClicks pop-under: reliable or not

[DrSobol]

I wonder if someone here used the goClick.com pop-under ad which in theory pays you $2.5 every 1000 pop-unders.
I am in a difficult situation because thay are the only ad network I found that pays with PayPal, which also luckily allows Argentinian subscriptions.
But I need a credit card to verify my Paypal account, and I dont have one. Therefore I wonder if goCliks is reliable or not before I go on with my plans.
Thanx.
Andres

[Jan]

Hi Andres, yes goclick are reliable, the only problem is that they seem to drop the CPM rate at will. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme nor reason for this, it just seems to happen.

See Czar's review (http://www.net-ads.com/sponsorship/popups.html) of them. But the payments you can count on :)

[cris]

I used them in the past and they paid me $1.25/1000 not $2.5. Also they count only about 30% from the total unique visitors.

The only good point with them, in my opinion, they pay you in time.

[Matt]

Goclick is reliable. Rock solid reliable, but only as far as requesting and sending out payments.

All popup networks will have a tracking rate of--I have found--15 to 40%, due to unique-impression buys, people closing the ads, ad blockers, no javascript, etc., etc. Goclick was actually one of our better partners for their tracking rate.

You will find, though, that most everyone here has a story about goclick dropping CPM rates as time goes by. For us, we started out at $2.50 CPM and had normal CTR rates. When they dropped us to $1.50 CPM, we began to get serious about supporting goclick and rearranged a large portion of our network to boost performance for them. This increased CTRs from average 0.60% to well over 4%. Yet, after a few months they dropped us yet again, this time in half, to $0.75 CPM. That was _almost_ the straw that broke our back, but as I've said goclick, at the time, was one our last bastions of safety in a sea of pitiful networks and pay rates so we stayed with them while even keeping up the arrangement that allowed for the 4% CTR. Again, though, they dropped our CPM to $0.50 CPM.

And that was it. We left. That circus lasted well nigh 8-10 months, when I think about it, so you may be able to earn a good dollar in the little time you can survive with them.

The rate dropping appears to be pretty common, though, and that's a major strike against them. Who knows what they'll do if they have scruples like that.

[IceLord]

There is only one problem with that, they pay very little compared to other places. I would find a good popup company that pays for RAW hits if possible.

http://www.zonify.com/publishers.shtml

was reffered to me by someone, i haven't tried them, but at least they measure raw hits. The ones that count uniques only, ex. popuptraffic, popupsponsor do not count accurately. With 1k uniques a day, I make 20 cents, that means like 40 people allow the popups to load, yea right....

[venomx]

I was getting $100+ a month for the first 3 months.. nothing has changed at all yet I am now making $30 a month...