C-Planet Affiliate Program Goes Rogue
Once a respected casino affiliate program, C-Planet appears to have officially gone rogue after a report from Casinomeister accuses the program of detagging players from affiliate accounts.
C-Planet runs its own independent affiliate program covering brands like Rushmore Casino, Cherry Red, and Pure Vegas. C-Planet is now being accused of shady practices that should bring affiliates pause in working with them.
From April 2008 through June 2010, more than 1,000 players deposited at Rushmore Casino through Casinomeister’s affiliate links. Now their earnings have flat-lined to nothing. Initially, Casinomeister assumed this was because people had quit playing there. However, when a C-Planet representative started a forum thread at Casinomeister which prompted many players to respond indicating they still had active accounts with Rushmore, Casinomeister became suspicious.
Casinomeister made inquiries with forum members to determine that at least a few of them had active accounts at Rushmore creating through a Casinomeister affiliate link. It appears that C-Planet has been detagging players from Casinomeister. The site’s efforts to reach C-Planet management to discuss the matter have gone ignored.
This incident is more cement poured on top of C-Planet’s place in the rogue pit.
In May, CAP forum member “GamblersHeaven” shared word from C-Planet that his affiliate commission had been lowered from 40% to 25%. “GamblersHeaven” stated that despite things having been slow, C-Planet was the only affiliate program to drop commissions. CAP forum member “Lenny” responded indicating he received the same news from C-Planet.
In December, “kgbcasinos” started a thread to warn affiliates about C-Planet’s payments. After inquiring when exactly he could expect to receive his already-late affiliate payment, “kgbcasinos” received the following response from C-Planet:
In a perfect world affs would get paid on the first of the month, unfortunately things don’t always turn out the way you plan them. We are working to get payments out soon – and I’m not sure of an exact date for payment either.
It’s unfortunate that C-Planet has gone to the wayside. As recently as November 2009, CAP forum members were reporting their casinos to convert better than any others and that affiliate payments were processed promptly. Since that time, the outfit has gradually lost its favor among affiliates and has now been rogued by Casinomeister– and CAP.
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An “I’m sorry for the delay” is better than silence. Seems like the previous prosperity ‘went to their heads’. Problaby added too much overhead to support in a down market.
Too bad!
I think their ultimate downfall was processing. For a U.S. facing operator to survive, their #1 priority must be adequate processing and I don’t think these guys kept a close enough watch on their funds and that created a domino effect. Nevertheless, arrogance towards affiliates should not be ever tolerated.
What a pity….just started with them!
Thanks CAP though for the heads up!!
No problem. Get away before you invest a substantial amount of your time and traffic.
Awful stuff
Very BAD news.
Crazy industry(
You gotta smella rat with these bastards when their landing pages have popups encouraging visitors to visit another casino in their stable. (without tracking to he referring affiliate) I queried this with CP but of course they did not respond. Steer clear these rogues
Do you have a screenshot of this that you can send us? We can update the article with this additional info…
I have it on good authority that many other affiliates’ commission rates were downgraded from 40 – 25% . BonusBonusBonus for one but others as well. Not many good RTGs left if any.
Yes, although many other U.S. facing programs did the same (due to frozen funds / substantially higher processing rates). That’s very different than not paying affiliates at all and/or shaving.
Too bad. I put so many of their links in my websites. I signed under you guys.
A few months back I had 12k in commission with them, I held onto it for the entire month, about 25 days. On the very last day of the month it droped down to $250.. I stopped promoting them then..
Ryan, a lot of similar situations occured.
What a shame, but I had many players in the past sending me e-mails about non payment from c-planet, its hard enough getting depositing players and then when they get burned that is not good., fortunately they where not my top converting casino.
This is no good for anyone. I also may be naive in believing so, but I hope the approaching legalization of online US gaming will include a substantial reduction in this type of shenanigans.
Well said!
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