Just to pick on this issue …. you’re getting far more than 30% share if you are on a 30% deal that includes no bundling and no negative rolloever … that’s the whole point.
As a European sportsbook affilaite I was amazed to see that you could get – no bundling + no negtive rollover deals on the casino side at all and at 30% is amazing.
You (should) realise this – and you must realise this because you’re complaining about the very real affect of what happens to your bottom line when ALL numbers are collected together … and you are still getting you negatives cancelled.
So that claim that you’re only getting 30% of profits with that previous deal is very bogus … I suspect that if you went over all the reports for the last year that you’ll find you were actually making the lions share of the profit.
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As an example – I have a deal with an (unnamed) British bookmaker that used to be at 35% profit share … and they recently moved to 25% w. no negatives and no bundling across casino, poker, sports, games as well.
I snatched that offer out of their hand as quick as I could – because in the past I’d been hit by losing months (about 1 month in 6) that would also take me the next month to work off. So I only got paid for 8 months from 12.
The upshot ?
After nine months their revenue figure is GBP 6,742 …
And I’ve been paid GBP 8,827.64 !!!
That’s right at 25% no neg – no bundle – I’m being paid 133% of their total profit … due to the up and down nature of monthly earnings.
Now I know that sportsbooks can be a bit more flightly – a run of favourites winning can hurt sportsbooks – and it’s much more likely than a run of luck on casino games for BIG affiliates.
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That having been said – I do agree that a unilateral change to contracts is a very bad move – and something that I’d expect our affiliate guard dog (where is KWBlue ?) to have covered to let us know where we stand.
I suspect that the contract actually had that “little” clause tagged to it saying that they reserve the right to do anything they want … so legally we may not have much to go on … but KwBlue will have the facts.
But honestly – 30% – no bundle – no neg – is such a sweet deal … perhaps too sweet to last ?