I was contacted yesterday by an affiliate manager who has obviously used a bot to harvest email address and never bothered to clean it up. Their intention was not totally clear other than they wanted me to sign up to their program and send them players or I promote their brands to our players and affiliates for a kick back!
A number of mails were exchanged and they still didnt get that I was in the same position as them, looking for affiliates to work with, even after telling them. In the end I got this out of them…
From: XXXXXXXXX
Sent: 13 August 2009 15:04
To: CWC Affiliates Martyn
Subject: Re: Business partnership with XXXXXXXXXXX.com
Hi Martyn,I am aware of that. (That I was an affiliate manager)
I am interested in the traffic that you have at CWC. I wanted to know what it would take to receive your traffic/players?
Let me know how much $$ and how many players you can bring in Martyn?!
Thank you
Are they really trying to get me to advertise their brands to the players signed up at CWC and related brands?
Also this…
I am asking you to sign up and when you sign up you can take banners, link, landing pages, etc., and start advertising them on your clients’ sites. They will eventually be converting the depositing players for you and will earn money from the amount of players that you bring in monthly. I would like for you to please check this out for me. Networks have the same methods Martyn and they are able to work with there clients and bring in players from the hundreds of sites that are workable.
I received your address from search.
Two things on this, I am now glad that they explained to me how the affiliate model works. I slept so much better last night as a result.
And secondly, do they expect that I sell their brands to our affiliates for them?
I would lay off the Meth buddy. :Bong: