Thanks for the response, Geoff. I agree that the units should be honoured. Surely a default would be '0' until the tokens are verified? That is not confusing, doesn't give anyone false expectations. Can you imagine if that while you were setting up your bank account (or taking a loan) the balance was shown as £250,000 until 'someone in the bank decides'. What kind of coder defaults to 250,000? Surely, 0 (or even -1 to show that it is 'not yet decided' - the interface could then respond accordingly.
To Jeff, thank you for your apologies and taking the time to respond. I do however think that just changing the interface is not enough in this case. Especially as, in Geoff's case, decisions were made based on the default number and no other information was given. I myself had an internal agreement based on this number, so am in a more difficult position because of this default, however do not have to report back to management. The sandbox is very useful, but as I have been told on this forum, it is not useful for ALL testing. (IE speed etc). So, this means some testing needs to be done when a system goes 'live' - these free units gave the impression that this would be possible. Regards Phil. On Feb 24, 12:59 am, Gnomish Inventor <gnomishinven...@gmail.com> wrote: > I completely agree with Phil, it was very clear that my account had > recived the free units (while waiting for my tokens to be approved) > and I got management approval based on the free units meeting our > needs for the next month. > > Now I am going to have to go back to management and tell them I was > lied to?!? > > I don't mind paying for services, but it was very clear that the units > were free, it did not state anywhere that the free units were not yet > given. > > The right course of action would be to honor the 250,000 free units > for Phil and I until the web interface is fixed. > > Thanks, > > Geoff > > AdWords API Advisor wrote: > > Hello Phil, > > > You're seeing the default behavior of the AdWords web interface-- > > while your Developer token is still under review and it's not yet > > clear whether you're eligible for free API units, a placeholder of > > 250,000 is listed on the page. Apologies if this proved confusing, and > > I'll mention it to the team. > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > On Feb 23, 3:58 am, Phil <5000...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have recently gone through the process of setting up Application and > > > Developer Tokens. > > > Before they were activated the acount said 'Free API allowance: > > > 250,000' - which I thought was nice. Give me some space to get > > > everything set up. > > > Now the tokens have been activated, this allowance has gone! > > > > What's the deal with that? Seems like teasing to me! > > > > Phil. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
