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All USA affiliates are terminated as of October 31st
Go F yourself
Quote:Dear affiliate,We write with reference to Score, the Ladbrokes and LBapuestas Affiliate Programme in which you are currently participating.
We regret to inform you that Ladbrokes and LBapuestas have taken the business decision to cease commercial partnerships with all of our affiliates based in the USA.
In accordance with Clause 12.6 of our terms and conditions (a copy of which can be found by clicking on the following link Ladbrokes | The betting and gaming affiliate programme by Ladbrokes), we hereby provide you with written notice that we are terminating our contract with you with effect from 23:59 on 31 October 2012.
Of course, all commissions due and payable to you in respect of the period 1 October 2012 to 31 October 2012 (if any) will be paid in full in accordance with the terms of our contract with you. This is in addition to all other outstanding commissions (if any) due and payable by us to you in accordance with the terms of our contract. Please do so by emailing affiliatepayments@ladbrokes.co.uk with your payment details together with a pdf document on your company letterhead with the required authorised signatory on the account.
Please be aware that with effect from 23:59 on 31 October 2012 the licence granted to you pursuant to Clause 7.1 of our terms and conditions to display the relevant Ladbrokes and LBapuestas brand features and related content will terminate. Therefore we kindly request that you remove and refrain from using all Ladbrokes and LBapuestas branding (including, but not limited to, all of our logos, trade marks and trade names) and any other Ladbrokes and LBapuestas content from your website at all times after this date. Please also note that access from your website to our score platform will be blocked by us with effect from 23:59 on 31 October 2012 and therefore we also request that you remove all links on your website to the score platform with effect from this date.
Should you have any queries, please contact affiliatequeries@ladbrokes.co.uk. We would like to thank you for your efforts to date and we look forward to working with you again in the future where business circumstances permit.
Kind regards,
Score Affiliates Team
Goes to show ya how important the T&Cs are.
I hope this is not the beginning of a trend…
Hey DOM – have not scene you around much
– how are you?Yeah when bwin.party (Bewinners) the rogue and predatory affiliate program first did what they did last year – I said this was the beginning of what were starting to see now.
So many companies are using terms and conditions to exercise shutting out affiliates. This is just another example of a “douche bag” program – simple as that.
Sad – so much more bad news today along with Poker Stars giving previous FTP affiliates the “F U” finger were not going to pay you.
Along with that you got sites shutting down like the once solid Program celeb poker who partners with the totally ROGUE and disgraceful and dishonest “EUROPARTNERS”.
Then of course the newly crowned “non payment” brand Guru revenue who are stiffing affiliates.
The list goes on – but those 4 stick out as soar thumbs and I am going to give every one of them as much negative publicity as i can.
They are all douche bags!
Well, I am going to have to catch up after my long hiatus.
I have been more or less absent for two years now.
Sites still running fine but I am afraid I am not up to date re. programs anymore and have a lot of home work to do. I should be back full force by the beginning of the year.
At the end of the day, ANY affiliate program can turnaround and say F U and there is nothing any affiliate can do.
I’m a little surprised though by Ladbrokes, a publicly listed company on the stock exchange, which just goes to show that ANY program could be next….
Thank you for the feedback on this, of course, we’re not happy about the negative impact this decision has on our ongoing affiliate relationships and we have been trying to make this a smooth as possible for all our active affiliates. We would like to again express our sincere apologies for this undesirable change.
Ladbrokes does not accept US players and although our USA based affiliates were promoting us to a non-US customer base, we still had to cut our ties. As a public limited company, we are constantly monitoring risks to our current and future business. In the light of this, working with affiliates directly or indirectly associated with the USA is regrettably perceived as high risk for our future business in a potentially regulated US market.
All other affiliates remained unaffected and it’s business as usual.
Although this only affects a fairly small amount of Score Affiliates, we’re still mindful about the impact it has. Should our decision have directly impacted you and you have not yet made contact with us, please contact us on affiliatequeries@ladbrokes.co.
uk and we will be happy to discuss. ON behalf of all affiliates!
“YOU ARE A DISGRACE”
@Ladbrokes_Score 246459 wrote:
Thank you for the feedback on this, of course, we’re not happy about the negative impact this decision has on our ongoing affiliate relationships and we have been trying to make this a smooth as possible for all our active affiliates. We would like to again express our sincere apologies for this undesirable change.
Ladbrokes does not accept US players and although our USA based affiliates were promoting us to a non-US customer base, we still had to cut our ties. As a public limited company, we are constantly monitoring risks to our current and future business. In the light of this, working with affiliates directly or indirectly associated with the USA is regrettably perceived as high risk for our future business in a potentially regulated US market.
All other affiliates remained unaffected and it’s business as usual.
Although this only affects a fairly small amount of Score Affiliates, we’re still mindful about the impact it has. Should our decision have directly impacted you and you have not yet made contact with us, please contact us on affiliatequeries@ladbrokes.co.
uk and we will be happy to discuss. Hard words there Rick but it’s the absolute truth. My gut feeling tells me that this might be the beginning of a trend as one person commented already. I believe many other affiliate programs might follow suit since they would like to remain in the DoJ’s good books in the event online gambling is legalized in the US.
I love the, we just screwed you but new memers can join our wonderful program with the link at the bottom of the post!
Seriously, I am STILL waiting for my answer on my Score account????
I dont have time to do it myself, but if anyone has any articles they want me to post on this topic, send them my way.. You can include links in them too.
Score needs to buy out our players!!!!! This is not okay and I hope other affiliates realize they could be next! Score could decide to not work with Spanish, German affiliates at any time and steal players from other countries as well. I hope affiliates think long and hard about signing up to work with this program.
I have a blacklisted page if anyone wants to link up please pm me.
If you US guys are owed a lot of money (or potential earnings from referred players) could you not set up an offshore company somewhere and continue to earn from score? I appreciate this would be a ball ache and expensive, but could be worthwhile if you are potentially going to lose significant $$$$.
It surprises me that Score Affiliate Program even responded to this post. If they think that saying some nice words, patting our heads, and saying “Run along now” is going to make any of the the US Affiliates feel better, they are sadly mistaken. There is absolutely no basis to remove us. I know that it is legal to do, but it is a slap in the face. I will never be involved with Ladbrokes, Score Affiliates, or any casino that Score Affiliates promotes in the future.
Fool me once, shame on you.. fool me twice, then I have only myself to blame. So, shame on you Ladbrokes!
They offered me a laughable amount of money supposedly 6 months worth of affiliate percentage.
