In the terms and condition, do you see per household per account?
By warvial
@warvial (1146)
Singapore
March 15, 2010 12:11pm CST
When we signed up for an account with PTC sites, we have to agree to their term of only one account per household.
But one of the way that could get our account suspended or banned is having multiple accounts. I believe many of us doesn't have the luxury of having a static IP address and thus, we are reusing IP address (which we doesn't know) and it happens that for me, people who subscribe to the same ISP within my residence area will have a range of IP address allocated to our area. And it just so happens that there are active PTC-ers and I often run into the situation where my account got suspended because of multiple accounts detected using the same IP address.
Thus, I am getting frustrated with one of the PTC site as I keep getting my account suspended and have to request for unsuspension (it's already the umpteen times that I have to request for unsuspension within a week), and I don't know how many times will I finally hit the admin's threshold and got my account banned ultimately.
Thus, can't there be a software or something which could just tally the person's home address with IP address before our account get slammed with stuffs like "Your account has been suspended" without valid reasons given.
Did you encountered the same problem as me in PTC sites?
Have you got your account suspended or banned for no reasons?
Don't you find it contradicting because the terms mentioned one account per household but they used IP address, something that is reusable, to track for uniqueness instead?
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@PowerRevenues (81)
• United States
15 Mar 10
I answered another comment below but I will add to yours as well.
Some sites restrict membership to one account per household while others restrict to having a different IP. My site only requires a different IP address.
I have filters which will catch users trying to use the same IP and also those using proxy servers and trying to switch countries.
Typically, members without a static IP address sometimes do have problems on my site and get suspended. However, whenever they send me a trouble ticket, its pretty easy to look at them and the other IP and figure out what's going on, and it gets fixed.
I speak with the owner of Christyclix from time to time and she is a good person. Most of the issues come from asian users trying to create a false downline. That's her way of dealing with - the dynamic IP fee. I don't have that because normally when people do it (false downline), they realize they've been caught and don't try. Those that do...its pretty easy to see but it takes time.
Finally, I have an example of a couple in the US that only has one IP. However, neither has tried to sign up as the other's referral or go out and try to get direct referrals...in their case I made an exception because I understand times are difficult and the major danger signals just aren't there.
I know this is long, but one last thought. Most of what you see as far as restrictions, fees, etc. are because the site owner found out they were being taken advantage of after the fact and lost money, in some cases a lot of money. Owners which start which checks, etc from day one are more likely to take a little more time to look at individual cases and work with the members.
I hope that helps.