Hi Nick,
thanks again for your help as always.
I just need to comment on this statement:
I kindly ask people posting in our forums to collect correct facts instead of making quick assumptions and posting threats and such that really are not productive and also can hurt our effort of professionalism and relationship with our affiliates.
Not once did I post any false assumptions nor any incorrect facts. Everything was as you saw it and now solved. So I am not sure what you menat by that statement. The fact is that the affiliate was copying other affiliates sites. Whether he was using a service or not is of no concern as to what I posted. He is responsible for the content on his site and when we affiliates contact him, he should react immediately and not wait until an affiliate program has to.
Why do we contact you?
Simple really – it is also in your best interest that this type of thing does not continue. Most, if not 90% of the banners were for your properties. It is a lot easier for you to find out who it is than us. In this case it was better for the copycat affiliate as he has not been shut down by his ISP or been banned by google, which would be the steps that we would need to take if it was not for affiliate programs jumping in.
I do not understand why we are now told that we should calm down when it is clear that WE were copied and the offending affiliate admitted it. Nowhere were any false facts or unwarrented threats made.
On a side note – you seem to have a feeling that you were the only affiliate program that was alerted to this – this is not the case. I spoke to many affiliate programs and posted in the respective forums as well. Some of them could help a bit but many could not as mentioned earlier – they were copying the reviews but were not linking to their casinos, so they could not see who it was. This is why we needed your help so desperately.
This is not the only case, I have 2 other cases that need to be dealt with and luckily for you, your properties are not involved. Brightshare and Wagershate are the ones mostly affected at these and they are delaing with this. The difference is that they closed the accounts immediately.
I do not want to start a huge fight here, but your statement really gives the impression that you think we are overreacting. I do not earn a lot of money with you as such – but that should not be an issue when an affiliate is being hurt.
Again – THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!!