@Spearmaster 199392 wrote:
You cannot be serious! As a player I would certainly not trust a casino who paid a couple hundred bucks for a certification… because it is a sure sign that the casino bought that certification without having to meet any standards! And the same goes for me as an affiliate – any Tom, Dick or Harry can pay a couple of hundred bucks to get a rubber stamp…
A proper certification costs money to do, such as checking software, due diligence on the program operators, meeting certain requirements, etc. I’m not saying that a program needs to be held to ransom for certification, but it is simply ridiculous to expect a PROPER certification to be available for hundreds of dollars.
Certification can never be free if it is to be respected. But certification must not also be tied to any other external conditions such as advertising, events, etc. – a certification must be for the SOLE purpose of ensuring that a program meets certain standards, and agrees to maintain these standards, and agrees to arbitration in case of a dispute. Nothing more, nothing less.
It costs money to inspect these things, ensure compliance on an ongoing basis, and provide arbitration.
I agree with Ted on this. The audit process is not simple and would cost much more than couple of hundred bucks.
A scenario how the certification process can work –
We need a metric whereby the following groups of people/ organisations can score the programs based on a fixed one time scoring and an ongoing variable scoring.
1. Auditing company
2. Opinion leaders
3. Affiliates/ members
The variable score can go up or down based on affiliate & auditing company’s feedback on the timely payments, quality of support, overall profitability and other parameters. I have put this together very quickly but some research has to done to get all the parameters and the weight age of the scoring right.
Sometimes back we had a thread about what the affiliates need to evaluate regarding a new program. There are a few good parameters in it. http://www.casinoaffiliateprograms.com/bb/showthread.php?t=26746&page=2&highlight=satya
But we also need to take into account the player side of things like the games, software, payouts.