This is basically a sportsbetting problem – it isn’t an issue with casino or poker. So the first thing I would do is make sure that this term does not apply to casino or poker affiliates. That will immediately put any issues to rest for a majority of your affiliates.
Once you’re left with only sportsbetting – you then need to create a way to identify offsetting bets – something your fraud department should be picking up. Your standard terms and conditions will contain some sort of term related to fraud – and if your fraud team can pick it up and prove it – then you’re sorted.
I’m going to disagree with you there… this can be a problem on casino and poker,. especially for our wager model.
Say an affiliate signs up a player who constantly places bets on red and black on roulette.. They may be breaking even but the affiliate is making commission from this betting. On a revshare deal this might not be an issue and since we’re the only ones with a wager model I suppose that part only affects us.
Then you have the affiliates who refer a player they know so that if the player wins a large amount at one casino putting the affiliate in the negative, the affiliate then tells the player to go to another casino so there is a positive at one casino and a negative at the other.. If the casino doesn’t bundle, this is a real problem.
Just another point of view.
Regarding the clause about not referring yourself, we have a pretty good one in our T&Cs that seems to work fine.
Renee
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