An affiliate that commits these crimes are nothing but criminal AND they knew exactly what the hell they are doing.[/quote]Very true.
Quote:They do not need chances. They should get banned immediately and with NO payment! END OF STORY!
I agree completely.
Taking this one step further, I believe that the person behind the scraping should be banned from the affiliate program — permanently. There should be an internal blacklist of sorts, containing a list of names, home addresses, and payment details (Neteller email address, for example) of each rogue affiliate.
888 should not allow thieves and spammers to promote their properties. Sure, 888 might make some quick cash in the short term, but this is not going to work in the long run. Here’s why:
- Ethical affiliates, finally fed up with being robbed blind by scrapers promoting 888’s brands, will blacklist and trash 888 like nothing anyone has ever seen before. When the casino players and the general public get wind of this, 888’s profits will go through the floor. Many people will stop playing at 888 once everything is exposed and explained in detail.
Dominique has already set this in motion, and I will be following her lead by the end of the week unless 888 comes back with a serious plan of attack.
- Scraper sites will not be effective over the long term. The search engines are getting smarter at detecting this sort of thing, and it won’t be long before the technique is useless. Once that happens, will 888 see a fall in profits? Possibly, but nobody really knows except 888. If all of the ethical affiliates have abandoned ship by then, what next?
Point being, if 888 is relying on scrapers for even 10% of their revenue, they are going to be seriously hurting when hundreds of thousands of scraper sites are removed from the search engine indexes. If I owned stock in 888, I would be concerned.
- If thieves and rogue individuals are allowed to have a place in the online casino industry, it will never be looked upon favorably. Therefore, it is in 888’s best interest to eliminate the individuals wreaking havoc — not just the offending sites, but the unethical people causing the problems.