If you have dealt with Pay Per Post, then you know how difficult it can be to get approved.  However, if you have worked with other related but less popular businesses then you know where I am coming from.  So here is my story…

A few weeks ago I figured I would start down a path of monetizing ThoughtSponge.com.  Little did I know I would be sitting on my hands for weeks to see any result from the initial registrations I had made.  So day one of this journey I registered for Pay Per Post and also Smorty.  To my surprise, only a day later I see an approval from Smorty stating that I have in fact been approved.  After that I got a little antsy and figured that Pay Per Post would be as quick.  But as you would have guessed, things didn’t go as planned.

Pay Per Post was completely dead to me, or I was dead to it for about two weeks.  Their process has you wait after you have entered some code on your site for approval which may take, “a few days.”  So I sat back and figured that a few days wasn’t incredibly too long for a site that seemed to have a ton of requests and users.  As the days passed and turned into weeks, my vision of a very efficient business turned into one guy at a laptop manually approving each blog at a time.  Whether or not this is how the business is run doesn’t really matter.  What does matter is the e-mail I received once I prompted Pay Per Post for an answer…

I fire an e-mail to Pay Per Post and again I wait.  A few days later I get a response stating that their was a problem with some new coding or update that they were doing and hey (you guessed it) I’d have to wait a few more days.

At what seemed like the end, there was and still is another problem.  It seems that after a thorough review of this site.  From top to bottom, banner to footer, and post one to post… here I guess, Pay Per Post has shot me down.  Pay Per Post describes this blog as having followed or contributed to the following activities, ”payment from online contests, lotteries, pyramid schemes.”  It makes me feel like a criminal.  Perhaps I will flee the country, but for now I am back to resolving a lengthy problem with a company that has horrible customer service.

Conclusion

Expect only great customer service if you are paying for something.  For example, my hosting company for this site practically sits with their e-mail open and ready to e-mail me back before I even have a problem.  On the other hand, Pay Per Post puts you in queue of 200 or more people and takes days to answer a simple question.  Every time I deal with a company like this starting out, I always have to ask myself whether or not this will be the norm.

So here I am awaiting the Pay Per Post “ticket system” to get done updating so I can wait once again.  Will Pay Per Post create a new Postie, or an angry Anti-Postie on a destructive campaign?