Matched.co.uk is closing

I have some Matched.co.uk ads on several of my sites. My whole experience with them has been unpleasant. On the surface, it looked like a good idea. They supposedly paid you 5 pounds per ad per month. I had three ads running. Each month, they would send me a message claiming that my payment couldn't be processed even though I had, on many occasions, given them my payment info.

They also would send me multiple messages claiming that they couldn't find my ads and it was causing errors. The ads had been up the whole time. Yesterday they sent me a "we can't pay you, you need to give us your payment info" yet again. Seconds later, I got notification that they were paying me 9 pounds even though they owe me around 45 pounds.

I sent them a message to their help desk (not my first) and their response came to me this morning:

MATCHED HAS CLOSED
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It is with much regret that we announce that Matched.co.uk has closed.

Matched has been running as a beta experiment for some time and, after much careful consideration, it has been decided not to progress the project to the next stage.

As a result, Matched will not be accepting new sign-ups and will no longer be assigning adverts to its current publisher base.

If you completed your last payment run before November 19th 2008, you will still be paid, but please note that no future payments will be made after this. Therefore, we recommend that you remove any Matched ads from your websites.

Thank you very much for being part of the Matched.co.uk experience and we wish you the best of luck for the future success of your websites.

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So I guess that's it. I'm out of luck for the money they owe and I should have seen it coming.