[android-developers] Re: Google Stealing our Money

On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:58:36 -0700 (PDT)
MobileCo Studios <contact.mobileco@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, my name is Marcelo Cavazzoli. Head Programmer of MobileCo
> Studios. We develop android applications.
>
> We have a sad story to share with you. Hope it might help you before
> lose time developing for gplay.
>
> We have a Developer Account on Google Play where we sell apps. The
> money we get for the apps goes to our Merchant Account. The thing is
> the merchant account never PAYS OUT to our Adsense Account. And
> before you ask:
>
> 1- Yes, we have linked developer account with adsense account.
> 2- Yes, we have more than minimum 100$.
> 3- Yes, it has been more than 45 days.
>
> And most important; Yes, we have send more than 8 emails to google
> contact (android developer, google checkout, google merchant) and
> they seem to ignore our email, we just get automated answers.
>
> So basically we are working for free and just throwing away money to
> google play.
>
> This is very discouraging, for me and for the rest of the team. I
> wish you the best luck and hope you don't end up in our situation.
>
> Cavazzoli M.
> MobileCo Studios.

I don't know much about google play but can you keep track of all
transactions that generate money for you? How do you know when
someone buys your app? If you can keep track of it and they can't
hide purchases from you then you can at least keep a paper trail
of the online trail. What you do then is up to you.

I heard from an author that amazon was hiding purchases of their
book and the author no longer sells their titles on amazon. This
author decided to sell on their own and never filed suit. I don't
know much about how amazon works if you're an author but
apparently it's possible to hide purchases from the author.

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