Hi Wayne,
once again I’m impressed my friend. You’re the first aff manager since JJ at RB that I’ve ever seen face issues which obviously nobody would want to face in a timely fashion and all the while you’ve endured some rather nasty posts (though trust me – tame compared to what the source was likely wanting to say) …
and I – like I’m certain most here understand, know its not your decision, but you are rather the messenger.
So before we get into the meat and potatoes, know that your position is appreciated by the majority of us and that the venom that is spewing is not meant at you personally, a person whom I consider to be a pretty nice guy.
I’m putting aside the lapsed player stuff for now because I too; don’t have a clue as to what is meant by all that? and need it clarified further.
so putting off that for later; Now lets get dirty.
it seems to me that your explanation is a damn good one and I think that we are much closer to realizing an end result which all can live with.
at least to me anyway, I can now see where they were trying to go with this; rather than being left feeling this was some sort of ploy to just run off affs. I’m now certain that is no longer the case.
I think that to satisfy the majority of us, all you need to do is tweak a couple of things.
change the deal about first deposits so that if a first deposit is more than (you guys decide a fair amount and enter it here) then that is automatically considered as having been a second deposit as well, therefore you can still use the formula you mentioned on that deal.
How’s that tickle your petunia? I think it works great.
it completely does away with these very reasonable and well-thought out concerns
Also, please do not take this the wrong way and I am in no way saying that you would do this, but that clause leaves a huge opening for abuse against us.
if you were so inclined, you could see a player come in and due to profiling, you see that he or she could turn out to be a big spender, all you would need to do is lure them away from the casino we sent them to before they make a second deposit and sign up through a different tag. Now, you could argue this:
The player only made one deposit with a bonus – so you get nothing for that.
The player signed up at a different casino using a different source, so it he or she does not belong to you.
the oppertunities here are limitless…
I know there’s more to address, but I see light at the end of the tunnel for the first time in days.
Please keep communications open and allow us to keep bouncing suggestions off you until we can arrive at a mutually agreeable future together.