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As we told you a while ago Paypal is shutting down accounts of the vast majority of flashcart stores. As a result most of these stores cannot receive payments and have to cease their activity. As it turns out, all of GBAtemp's past and potential sponsors have been shut down. The most recent example is NDSCard.com who haven't been able to pay their sponsorship fee with us for two months, due to complete lack of income.

Consequently we have been forced to restore regular pay-per-click advertising banners on our site in order to support our server costs and other expenses. We are counting on you to put us in your adblocker's whitelist: bear in mind that it's also in your own best interest!

 

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paypal has become trash. maybe the sponsors should go w/ paypal's competitors. though, I'm sure paypal doesn't even know they exist.
 

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Somebody needs to DDoS PayPal again!
Or a new service better than paypal.
I don't know if google wallet would work though or would google track down flashcart websites too?
While I think Google themselves wouldn't really care much about flashcart sales, Visa, mastercard, etc, might put pressure on them to do what paypal does, if that becomes the popular e-payment system.
 

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I'm sure the "our profits r down, because we're protecting the interests of other companies" will fly well with share holders. if those companies can't manage their own products, that's their problem.
 

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I have to admit, it is said the Paypal have gone downhill.
I *used* to use them for a majority of purchases, but they have been too hard on people. A bit like MediaFire.
 

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Internet hosting noob here:

Pa- per-click advertising? Does that mean you only receive payment if one of the advertised links is actually clicked on?
 

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Eww... horrible virus / malware ads :(

It's a shame the best flashcart company, ZhuZhuChina, is so good. At the moment they're getting free advertising on every 'What card shall I buy?' thread, otherwise they would be a good sponsor.
 
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I guess i'll click every banner i see, but most of the time the banner just says it can't find the page...
That kind of thing is generally a bad thing to do in terms of ads. Clicking excessively can lead to the ad company suspending one's account since it looks like you're trying to game their system.

Only click if you're actually interested in the ad.
 
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