Originally posted by Wager
I finally have some feedback for all of you and i must admit that i am rather chastened .I have spoken to my immediate superiors and would like to make as clear a statement as possible.I am very ashamed of what i have done in naming people,i have read the posts and i should have listened to the wiser amongst us and kept my brain in gear.
Classic you are completely correct ,that was a very stupid thing to do and i must apologize to all of you for my behaviour.I have sent an email in to the owners of the GPWA apologizing for the posts and the situation that occured due to my post.
This board has never been a place for this sort of behaviour and i am mortified that i was the person that started the ball rolling.My apologies to all of you for this.
I have been advised that i have no case to present and that both Elizabeth May and Michelle Slowinski are owed an apology.
My sincere apologies to both of you for the distress that i have caused to you.
In short i am here to make my Affiliate money and not to do anything further.That is what i intend to do for all of you.
If you have any further comments Michelle and Elizabeth please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected]
Best Regards
Greg,
I appreciate that you were told by your supervisors to come and make this post. It meets the minimum standard as an apology, and barely that as an exhoneration of any wrongdoing by me.
You have managed to leave the impression that you, personally, still believe in what you said, but that those who pay your salary realize the implications of what you have done, and were wise enough to nip this in the bud.
As I said before, I have nothing to hide with regard to any affiliate programs I am engaged with. Be that as it may, no matter what is said here, by me or Greg, some will insist that where there is smoke, there must be fire.
Even though I am not obliged to do so, I will tell you my side of the story.
Back in maybe September of 2003 (Greg did not come to Wager Junction until maybe Feb 2004), I was signed up with Wager Junction. They have both CPA tags and % tags available. I used both on my sites. Their CPA deal was $50 per for players who make a $20 deposit.
I asked Nic for contest money as an incentive for signing up. He gave me many free coupons to give away, if players signed up and made $20 deposits. These were coupons for $20 free. Fine to me. To ascertain whether these players had actually deposited their own money, Nic sent me complete lists of all these players names and email addresses and the amounts of their deposits. I then distributed the coupons per the agreement, and was paid accordingly. At no time was any of this an issue. It was a deal instigated by Wager Junction, not by me!!
When they saw the math wasn’t working out, they wanted to change the payment structure. I told them to forget the whole thing. I only asked for contest money in the first place, not all this other. I’d have made money anyway, without anything else, simply from players clicking on my links. It’s always been that way, and still is.
I have had only two other CPA deals, that with Connecto Casino and Cirrus Casino, for whom I no longer advertise, and haven’t for quite some time. If my conduct was so bad, why did Greg contact me asking for more exposure?
The fact is that Greg could not have stopped anything, as he said. I stopped it in October, 2003, while he was still a happy employee of Alkemize.
Now Dom has seen fit to go over to WOL, (and who knows whereelse) and post as a fact that some other affiliate managers have complained to her in private about some bad behavior on my part. ( http://mb.winneronline.com/showthread.html?t=17297 ) This is an out and out lie, since I have no other CPA deals anywhere. As have all of you, I get calls and emails all the time for prime position, and offers of all kinds of deals. I turn them down. Because I want to decide for myself who I promote, and not based on anyone’s whim but my own.
Those who have issues with me, will choose not to believe a word I’ve said, but for those with an open mind, you can now make an honest assessment of what to believe.
As for what I posted at GPWA, I am embarrassed myself by that, and it is my turn to apologize again for those remarks. It is not my place to cast aspersions here or elsewhere, and I now leave you in peace.
Elizabeth