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Peter Hogg

9 Years Ago

Facebook Ads

Wondering if anyone else has had this experience with FaceBook. I stayed away from Facebook for a long time but joined only because it gave us more ability to get our fine art out into a different market place. Some of the chit chat is ok but I viewed it as a business tool which would bring hopefully millions into contact with the images I posted on FAA. So, I joined and took it one step further and decided to create an ad on FB to further promote my FAA site. My bad as should have done some more research before I did this as once completed I needed to make some changes. Yes Facebook says you can make changes and even cancel the ad. Not so as I found out once I got into and discovered that I'm not the only one with the problem and that there are others who haven't been able to cancel or delete their ads and are suffer recurring bills from Facebook. Every try to get hold of a support person for facebook or even email them. Good luck there as to date it's impossible and when you go to report a problem it just brings up "maybe" solutions. All in all now, once I recieve a bill on my Visa card, I have to block any further acceptance of that billing. So fellow artists, stay away from trying to do any advertising on Facebook and to date not sure what good Facebook is anyway.

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Barry Lamont

9 Years Ago

Hi Peter... sorry to hear of your bad experience. I too have avoided Facebook for years and plan to keep it that way.. It's great that you posted.. hopefully a few others will benefit from your experience by avoiding falling into this trap. Here's a vid from Youtube which another user posted in another thread.. It explains in great detail a few other issues with Facebook ads and fraud.

 

Rick Al

9 Years Ago

Thanks, Barry!

 

Peter Hogg

9 Years Ago

I finally was able to delete my promotional ad on Facebook but had to spend way too much time doing so which shouldn't be. However, as I said earlier there are a lot of unhappy people out there with Facebook which seems to be not a great place for us to promote our work. Regardless of what others want to do I'm done with trying to promote my site on Facebook.

 

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