I’ve been an affiliate of captain cooks since the day they launched. I remember being excited since the commission structure was similar to Casino Coins (the leader at the time) Initially I positioned them after the casino coins casinos but I quickly changed my mind on this and featured them.
While Casino Coins had historically being my largest earner at 35k in one month, I had to feature 4 casinos to earn that amount. Meanwhile I earned 20k in a month with captain cooks.
In my opinion Peter was a great affiliate manager. If I had a concern or needed a banner I would email him, and I would receive a lightning fast response. I was very sorry to see him go, and I wish they would have announced his departure instead of me finding out by having Carly respond. While Carly has always been friendly and courteous to my emails, I honestly dont feel she’s as knowledgeable of the industry as Peter is. I have therefore not been in contact with Integrity Casinos as much as I used to.
Regarding conversion rates. With Captain Cook’s I average 1 real player for every 15- 25 hits, and 1 real depositing player for every 50 hits or so. I have never experienced such as good conversion rate with any other casino. My results with Casino Kingdom have never been quite as good. My conversion rate is considerably less, I therefore focus all of my attention on Captain Cook’s.
I just logged in and this month I’m sitting at $4300, which is pretty good for the 7th of the month. I’ve been seeing earnings of over 10k a month for nearly a year now even after my traffic has dropped. My oldest active player has the player id 6694 while my newest players have the id 381541. So obviously players are not dissapearing from my account. I used to log into my account obcessively and look at the different player ids and I haven’t witnessed any discrepancies.
At one point in time I had a player make a huge win, I dont even remember what the amount was, and I didn’t even notice until Peter emailed me. He indicated they were going to give him bonuses and that the player retention team was working on getting him back. (the player had been a consistent whale for a while) it seemed like the player would never deposit the money again, but eventually he did, and he lost all of his winnings.
I’ve always been paid by Integrity Casinos, including for the competitions I’ve won. They also arranged an all expense paid trip for me to go to a trip to australia, and that went well. You can even read about my trip on the integrity casinos website. This trip was the best 2 weeks in life, so maybe I am biased because of it.
I personally haven’t witnessed more chargebacks on my account than what i viewed as normal from my experience with other casinos.
I’m probably not as quick to jump to theories about getting screwed by affiliate programs as some other affiliates here. I prefer to give a program the benefit of the doubt. I do have my suspicions about other programs including some of the more popular ones. But because I cant prove these suspicions I dont say anything.
Truth is my traffic to Captain Cook’s was nearly down to nothing at the end of 2001 and the beggining of 2002. I didn’t have any of my main websites operational, and i could not spend a dime on advertising. Throughout this period of time only 2 casinos did not experience a considerable drop in profits, and that was captain cooks and slot land. My earnings went down consistently month after month (as it should be as players moved on elsewhere and no new players were coming on board) but the decrease was around 10% a month. If they were to cheat me, I believe that this would have been the best time to do so, since I looked like one of those affiliates that had come and gone. My traffic has never fully recovered since then either.
I dont know what to say regarding the concerns brought up in this thread, but my experience with this program has been positive. I haven’t always agreed with some of the decisions made, but the honesty there is not something I question.
Antoine