Hi again,
I should add that so far the results I’ve seen are promising with the new model but like Dom eluded to: most of my players are slots players (I was originally surprised to find that out) so its entirely possible that may be the reason I’m seeing promise where others are not.
One other thing that I am doing is to try and focus the RA properties on pages where i think I’ll get the kind of traffic which plays a long time without seeing anything much more than a few dollars actually trade hands … which in my thinking would be the video poker traffic … I’m still at a loss as to how the slots players are making this model look so good because frankly when I play slots its either lose fast … or lose very fast 
with an occasional win streak thrown in to keep me interested but usually when I win its a lot and the rest of the time I don’t seem to play long enough to let my neteller account cool down from the previous deposit … before I’m back wanting more.
but you can’t argue with results and so far the slots players seem to be making the model … not suck anyway. I need to set down and do the math to see exactly where I’m at but so far its been at least good enough to not make that a priority task.
.. I should also add that IMHO it wouldn’t really be fair of me to choose the summer months to be judging because honestly I cannot see any able-bodied person spending much time inside …. I mean in comparison to winter months … so of course gambling is going to be done less as well.
After reading Dice’s last post I realized it was him who has the 8 players and all I can say is that I truly hope my prediction comes true and you see a portion of your 8 players return to play again later in the year. I think its already been proven (at least to my satisfaction) that the new model is at least going to return similar results to the old model and plus (i think this is over-looked because I know I did at first) but there isn’t going to be any negative occurances which I realize right now wouldn’t make much difference to those having a bad month but consider if you do have some good months in the last of the year then at least you won’t have to worry thru the end of those months about losing your income to a big winner on the 29th or 30th.
Please understand since its my income too that is effected that I am certainly not going to side with RA (or anybody else) unless I truly think they have some merit to their madness.
Frankly I don’t kid myself. Of course it is unlikely that any program is going to shift things so to be against their favor but I do think that if you take into consideration that RA pays 35% out of the gate … that perhaps they realized they were really cutting things a little close and as such wanted to find a way to at least put themselves in a postion to get some of that back …. and still save face.
… now consider if you think I’m shilling for RA and that I’d pose such a scenario then you’re truly grasping at straws …
and I don’t know at all whether that is true but the point I’m making is that if I have to settle for making a little less than I was making from a program I feel I can trust … and at the same time in truth be just falling back to a % like I get from other programs ….. most in fact only pay about 25% (unless you’re making a lot for them and get bumped up) so if I end up making a little less than 35% then I’m not going to throw a fit about it.
that’s my situation
… looking at the person who was making $1000s and now making only $11 … I’d first say that often times I’ve been as worried about accounts only to have them catch up at the end of the month or else make up for it the following … so there is still that hope. And I think the real answer to your dilemma lies in a collection of the coming months which should if the RA new model is anything near fair … should get you back to making at least … what? 80% of the previous and if the model is really beneficial then you ought to see 100% plus.
that sound like a fair assessment of things?
please point out where I’m wrong – you sure aren’t going to hurt my feelings because I need to know since its my income at stake also.