For the record I’ve never offered it as it was against the t+c’s.
I’m going to wait and see what happens but it would be nice if somebody from Party spoke up….
Here is a hypothetical situation….let’s say the rumours that we are reading on 2+2 are true, and that some affiliates will be switching existing players over to a rakeback….both which are against the t+c’s. If Party knows about this and does nothing, do we have any recourse against Party?
They would not be enforcing the contract that was agreed upon, and that would have a negative impact on our business.
I’m sure it won’t come to that, but I was just curious as I’ve been wondering how these developments will impact my income.
I guess it’s just be patient until we hear from Party if they are enforcing their terms.
From all reports, the rakeback writing is on the wall. Players (including those with existing Party accounts) have already signed up with rakeback affiliates and are getting rakeback at Party as we speak. Certain affiliates are already being provided with trackers to be able to offer rakeback at Party. This is sanctioned (and made possible) with the aid of Party.
I won’t claim this was their intent all along, but it appears as if Party is trying to engineer a future in which it deals primarily with a small number of high-volume affiliates, many (or all) of which are allowed to offer rakeback. It lowers their overall cost of offering an affiliate program by streamlining administration and support. It also gives Party much more negotiating power and leverage, which is something the high-volume affiliates may not yet realize.
Banning rakeback a year or so ago, instituting clauses that allow affiliates to acquire inactive players even if they previously signed up under another affiliate, and then severing the player pool of the Party skins and reintroducing rakeback to selected large, established affiliates all serves to speed up the consolidation of referred players under a select number of large affiliates.
Just my take, though, and who knows what their motivation and intent is. Odd that there continues to be deafening silence on Party’s end, even while they’re busy behind the scenes setting up selected affiliates with rakeback tools.