Reply To: Rewards Affiliates – How they holding up for you?

@AussieDave 247592 wrote:

Reiterating, there are people with too many fingers in too many pies. Wolves in sheep clothing comes to mind. As I’ve said many times before over the years, I’m all for capitalism, I too like money and what it can provide. However, greed being one of the 7 deadly sins, can turn some people into self serving monsters who become both ethically and morally bankrupt.

Arkyt shoots from the hip and sums up the BIG problem in our affiliate industry with this:

APCW Catch Cry
Fighting for trust, honesty and integrity in the online gaming industry!
Yet, Rewards Affiliates still hold Silver Sponsorship, and are featured on perspectives weekly and given credence their a great program. What a total sham.

GPWA (Gambling Portal Webmasters Association)
Corfman claimed (words to this affected), the TLD was changed to the .org because it represented its identity better. Well, it should be a .com (commercial), it certainly isn’t an organization who places it’s members before making a buck, that’s for sure.

Questions about Affiliate4You.org (raised in response to welcome announcement) Diligence, this GPWA moob wouldn’t know what it was even if it slapped them in the face. What a total screw up this was.

AGD Catch Cry
Protecting Affiliates Interests.

While Andy added a cross promoting button to warn affiliates, the program remains. A straight link (leader board) banner sits at the top of this programs forum. Not withstanding, clear bias is held for RA/CR by factions of the auditing team & mods and admins too.

Affiliate Forum Alliance
affiliateforumalliance.com/Members/ and who do you suppose heads up this joint. When one starts to see the dots and joins them together, it paints and interesting picture, indeed.

GAU – Gambling Affiliate Union (formally AU)
I was approached by Anthony (APCW) to head up the AU which I accepted. However Corfman wanted a founding seat on the board (cough another finger in the pie), I refused his request.

Some 24 hours later, all hell broke lose at the GPWA when an AU founding member ( who Anthony suggested should sit on the board) was implicated in promoting a rogue casinos. Was that an Ace up their sleeve just in case I didn’t let Corfman in the door?

297 replies – and a staggering 19,677 views, well worth a read if you have some time:
The Affiliate Union

Anyway, I closed the AU before it even opened. And from the ashes the GAU was born. Headed by Mojo and Chalkie who incidentally were former AU members and who voted to not give Corfman a seat. Yet freely invited him to join them at the GAU.

Both people resigned, then PokerKeep took over. He lasted about 14 months. In Feb 2011 he also left. To this day he’s never been heard from since. So the only person left at the GAU, Corfman – stranger than fiction huh!

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That pretty much explains why these programs can continue to operate because they are give carte blanche powers to effectively bend affiliates over. Until gaming affiliates see the real truth behind many of the affiliate forums and associations, then nothing is going to change for the better and we’ll continue to be used and abused.

Cheers

Dave

Thanks for outlining the above Dave.

No matter how many so-called watch dog sites and affiliate forums are online protecting affiliate and player interests, shaving will still continue no matter what.

With regard to the above this is what I propose:

All affiliate programs and affiliates must be registered with a legal board policed by attorneys familiar with the online gaming industry. Obviously this will differ from country to country and might entail loads of red tape.

To become a member programs and affiliates must pay an annual fee. In the event a program is not above board and found guilty of shaving affiliates they will be investigated by a legal team. If found guilty the maximum penalty must be imposed.

The downside to this is most affiliates won’t be prepared to pay a fee or simply won’t be able to afford to. Fees could be paid on a monthly basis or annually. Honestly this is the only way I see this industry become a bit more transparent. This being said, when regulation happens in the US it will be a total different ball game altogether.