Because we use cookies a player who visits and does not join right then will still be tagged to that affiliate until they are sent to the site again via another affiliate.
There is no need to cross promote a different casino in an attempt to get the unregistered player. Just wait until the cookie expires and send a promo for the same casino.
As we know a cookie is written for each casino. Since we know that different affiliates can have the same player in different casinos we can safely assume that a brand cookie is not written.
If the potential player registers before the cookie expires then the last affiliate is credited. If the cookie expires the affiate is no longer credited.
After examining my cookie data for various casinos, including several CR’s it looks like the CR affiliate id expires in 90 days.
Cookie data for affilate field:
Name: affiliate
Content: aff28318
Host:xwww.blackjackballroom.com
Path:/
Send for: Any type of Connection
Expires: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 7:00:01 pm
Perhaps someone from CR could verify that it is in fact the above affiliate id field that is read in order to credit the affiliate?
as an FYI: I did receive one of those scratch cards a long time ago.
thanks
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