It’s good to see that they ditched the retroactive bit. Whether its VIP or anyone else, you need to be able to trust your partners to keep an agreement in any business.
Unless a casino is on MG or Crypto (both of whose licencees are assessed & well policed by the software vendors), I don’t generally put a new casino into my sites until at least a year has passed so I can see how the casino and affiliate program adapt and perform and am able to assess the reputation they have built. These sorts of rule changes are a case in point – new programs are always learning and, quite rightly, changing things to survive/remain competitive and are quite within their rights to introduce new (non-retroactive!) rules as they see fit obviously.
But this is business for me too, and this clause forces me to promote a specific partner forever, or lose any earnings as a result, or at best accept a “handshake” agreement that it won’t happen to me. It’s just not an attractive offer when I can send the same player to somewhere that guarantees lifetime and hasn’t given me cause to suspect that they would change terms retroactively in the future. At the end of the day, if I find a customer for a casino, I can’t see how it is fair that the casino can cut me out of the deal later.
It’s nothing personal Mario/Simon, purely business, but I hope adding my opinion to others will go some way to making you rethink the rule some day.
Cheers,
Simmo!