@Casinolisten 143401 wrote:
Do you get my point?
Many poker rooms (and affiliates) think they will loose their players if they don’t give them rakeback (through affiliate commissions). I think they are wrong. Let the affiliates keep the money, buy traffic, send new (and bad) players and everyone will be happy.
The players were never supposed to receive “monthly payments” from affiliates!
I don’t think this helps your point about rakeback. This topic started off about rakeback affiliates stealing current and potential customers. Now this statement pretty much says, regular affiliates should get all the credit, while the poker room does all the work.
You don’t think poker rooms loose players if they don’t get in the rakeback game? That is simply not true. The big 3 sites can get away with it, but everybody else no, even so much more ever since the U.S. fiasco. A site like Absolute was a ghost town even with their generous player bonus, that was until rakeback became part of their offering. A site like Cake is following in the same direction, even with their substandard software they are gaining market share partly because of their stance on rakeback.
Bottom line is its a very competitve market, and all the sites need to find some sort of edge to gain players. Not all companies have deep pockets for marketing, some do and have failed (ie Mansion). Talk to the Carbon guys, they fought rakeback for the longest time, and now they had no choice but to join the club. They’ve done wonderful things with their software, but traffic wise they barely make the top 20.