Hi Jamie,
After getting my poker site up and running in Feb, I ran a promo with Doyles Room for this month giving the 1st 25 sign-ups $25 free. My aff manager has worked with me and within 15 minutes can verify if this person who gives me his screenname only and the e mail they used when signing up, did in fact sign up under my link. I also check my stats right away as the sign ups are in real time to make sure someone did indeed just sign up. It has run so smoothly and has been such a success, I will be doing the same promo in April along with running a freeroll where I bank them $1000 and maybe act as a bounty as well.
I did have someone use 2 names with the same e mail but we did verify that a relative was visiting and joined Doyle’s using his brother in laws e mail address, which we had him change once we deleted his initial registration.
I did have a couple people that had joined through another affiliate and wanted to join again and I told him no.
I did notice on Party Poker whereas affiliates cannot play for money at their site. Of course it’s open to interpretation, but that’s how I read it anyway.
But for an affiliate to tell an existing player to rejoin and they will give them free money is not good a business practice especially to the original affiliate this player signed up under.
Does anyone know as I’m curious to find out, of all the new daily casino and poker registrations, what % are entering these sites from an affiliation?
Dana