Android app developers have complained about a hold-up in payments from Google.
Europe-based program writers have posted hundreds of explanation on the company's forums, adage their February fees had not been received on 7 Mar as scheduled.
Coders take a 70% share of sales of their app on the Google Play store.
Six days after the initial complaint, a Google worker wrote that: "We're actively questioning this."
"We apologize for this inconvenience. At this time, no action is indispensable on your part," the developer family executive added.
She did not say either the complaint originated with Google or a of its remuneration estimate partners.
Some users in France, Sweden and the Netherlands reported that their banks had received the allowance by midday on Friday. However, others in the UK, Spain, Portugal and Germany mentioned that they had still to take funds.
"They appear to regard no send meeting is a great thing??? Crazy incident but that's how these large armed forces work and until it hurts their bottom line nothing will change," wrote a developer nicknamed UKAPPS on the Google page declared Checkout Merchant forum.
The forum members became quite irritated after the definite supposing an refurbish final night on its developer console - the page programmers record in to to follow their sales.
"We are wakeful of reports from a few European developers that they are nonetheless to take their Mar 2012 payout for February 2012 sales," it said.
An trustworthy hyperlink earnest "learn more" led to a page that said: "We're remorseful but the data that you requested cannot be found."
One forum member, nicknamed Red_Rage wrote: "Their reply to what is a make-or-break issue for a few developers is so amateur. A damaged couple in the console couple after all this whining? Really Google? Really?"
The BBC spoke to a developer who is due thousands of pounds, but asked not to be identified in box it jeopardised his livelihood.
He remarkable that he had been formerly been able to meeting a staff associate at Apple when there had been an issue with a of his apps on the firm's iOS stage - but mentioned in this example it had valid unfit to attain a Google representative.
"If you span by the 'contact us' pages of the site, you'll finally obtain to a form, but it's pre-populated with broad a/b/c choices, and there is no space to write a law note," he said.
"Google must be realize that investment in real human encouragement staff is essential; there are boundary to the ways in that a network may be programmed - however financially popular that choice may be."
A orator for Google mentioned he was not able to to give a matter about staffing.
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