I am truly SHOCKED by Satya’s post! A few questions/comments…
PartyPoker.com’s position is that if a player has not made a deposit for 60 days, another affiliate who convinces the player to make a deposit should receive credit for the player.
HOW exactly does one affiliate convince another affiliate’s play money player to make a deposit? First of all, it is against the agreement to recruit existing players. Second, once a player registers, they no longer have the option to put a sign up bonus code in, so how would they ever get tracked to a new affiliate? Seems to me, it’s Party Poker who is looking to convince the players to make deposits, and not have to pay affiliate fees – since it seems unlikely that any affiliate could take another affiliate’s play money players.
Affiliate players are currently locked in with the original referring affiliate, but we intend to provide more flexibility on this soon to benefit affiliates who can assist players who have difficulties with their first deposit.
What the #$%^! I don’t even know what to say. This makes no sense whatsoever.
I can tell you this, if Party makes it so a player is not “locked in” – I’m done. Party will have seen my last player. Period.