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–> on the bad contact / payment information: folks, we cannot expect to be paid if that information is incorrect or missing, right? can we have some agreement there?

I agree, if the contact information is incorrect and Casino Blasters or Best Casino Partner have tried to get in touch with the affiliate – the affiliate program may lock the account (not take the commissions). If, for some reason, the affiliate never contacts them – I guess they win. Realize, though, that they win regardless (they get to collect intereste every month on balances they do not pay out). Once the affiliate returns, he/she should be able to collect commissions (otherwise, it would be stealing would it not?)

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C.B. can easily deal with this part of the problem by making a list of accounts that have this problem and freeze them until the affiliate contacts them…. am I overlooking something here? then they never make it to accounting to become a hassle until the account is “un-frozen” when the affiliate finally makes contact. Sick or not, they can’t get us our money if the contact details are wrong / missing.

Absolutely. Freezing the accounts is simple. Lock them and don’t pay out. This is easy on the accounts receivable / payable end as well as taxes. Nothing earth shattering here.

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–> the affiliate must send a player within 90 days issue (case-by-case, they’d like to stress)

If BCP/CB are going to put this term into their Terms and Conditions, they will have to be marked as a predatory program. This term is a way to steal commissions from affiliates who have worked very hard to get those players over to their casinos. In many cases (especially early on for new affiliates) it can take a year and a lot of $0 revenue to build up websites in order to gain traffic for these programs. If the program is going to stop paying out for players ‘for life’, then there are many other programs to promote. Why promote them if they try this?

It is VERY easy to lose graces with the Search Engines, get sick for months on end, or any number of other reasons to stop promotion of a casino brand. That is not a reason to renig on a contract.

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IF this term was not applied retro-actively, I think that I could submit a little here. The home page needs to stop making the false claim, and explicitly say the truth. That way a little affiliate doesn’t get swooped into the program on false premises. When I first started in the industry, I had a hard time getting players.

A contract is a contract. It really doesn’t matter that they have a term that says ‘we can change this at any time’. The contract you sign is the one which governs your wages earned. If BCP/Casino Blasters wants to remove earnings from past affiliates, then we need to gather all affiliates who will be affected and look for council.

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I’d like to hear from AGD on this. I don’t think that term would be considered predatory if mentioned up-front. Maybe not desirable, but certainly not predatory.

We believe that the term is predatory even in it’s infancy. It is a way of taking commissions away from a hard-working affiliate. If we allow such a condition to exist, then why would we work in this industry. Residual income is what this industry is about. We do not have 401k’s, Insurance, or all the other benefits of a typical job unless we pay for them and many of these residuals go towards these items along with the feeding of our families.

Think about it CB/BCP – Let’s resolve this and keep your programs affiliate-friendly We all want that.