@BB1webs
When rakeback started it was pretty much shady affiliates promoting it but the landscape of rakeback has changed. Now a days the networks are learning that the rakeback needs to be fair and even with the affiliates.
My guess is that the rakeback situation will level out in a couple of years and become standard. Either you promote it or you don’t. And if you do you will be promoting the same as everyone else.
A great example is the new rules on Cryptologic. No affiliate can be given extra percentages to work with. They all have to promote the same program. The same it true on Boss.
The big problem is that the pokerrooms are breaking the network rules when it comes to re-tracking players and overpaying large volume players. Especially the latter problem is giving me a lot of problems. We have quite a lot of high volume players and they are constantly getting offers directly from pokerrooms.
They are competing with their own affiliates and it stinks! But in the future I do believe that this will change when the networks learn how to set up rules that actually work and punish the skins who doesn’t follow them.
Rakeback started out badly and due to this the rakeback market is suffering a bit. But things are getting better.
/Mike