Mark.
PREDATORY RULE.
It is a predatory rule. It is a rule that means you do not pay affiliates a share of revenue earned from players that they referred to you.
This is a very common usage of the phrase “predatory” within affiliate circles – and bearing in mind that your program has such a clause included I’m surprised you haven’t heard it levelled before.
This clause may be well posted in your terms – but I certainly hadn’t noticed or known about it. That was obvious from my initial contact to you.
MISQUOTE
Now I didn’t say “all I can do as an affiliate is place a banner” did I?
Naughty. You’re misreading your mail.
What I said EXACTLY was “We can do little to boost the HollywoodPoker.com signup rate – all we can do is send clicks of interested poker players.” … you go and check the email for correctness.
As you can see – what you THINK you read was not at all what I ACTUALLY said.
OUR EFFORTS :
Don’t pretend that we’re a banner farm that did not give HollywoodPoker exposure – we were an active affiliate (if admittedly somewhat ineffective in your case).
We do (or that should be did) host a full page review of Hollywood poker.
http://www.goonersguide.com/poker_hollywood_poker.html
We covered your bonus details on it’s own page
http://www.goonersguide.com/hollywood_poker_bonuses.html
WE listed you with details in our main poker page.
http://www.goonersguide.com/poker_room_guide.html
These were all updated at least once a month to stay current. We WERE actively informing 1000’s of poker players of your brand.
We managed 39 signups in that time – which was a disappointing result for both yourself and ourself — but this clause and your response added insult to injury.
FUTURE WORK :
Having heard that you were going to insist in keeping the 0% penalty rate in place – because “This is the way the program operates …” you can imagine that I was not very interested in continuing working at that rate.
I don’t work for fun – or for ZERO PERCENT – just as you probably insist on getting paid a salary each month too.
CLAUSE CHANGE:
It is good to hear that your considering changing that clause – that wouldn’t be a tacit admission that it is actually wrong – and “predatory” would it?
:wink-wink
But we’ve got off on the wrong foot- frankly I don’t like your attitude – and don’t really want to work with you.
:sarcasm:
If you decide to retrospectively change the terms – please deposit any funds we may have earned into a local animal charity such as The American Society for Prevention of Cruetly to Animals (ASPCA) or some such.
Many Thanks.
And FINALLY the whole purpose of this post was to bring the clause to the attention of other affiliates who have possibly been affected in the same way too
Be careful out there guys !!