Hi,
I havent posted here lately as WBA wasnt a CAP sponsor.
It’s bad news for bingo affiliates as I am no longer working for World Bingo Affiliates.
In the last 6 months, there have been some major cashflow problems at WBA, some processors disappeared with the money. I am being owed half a year of salary, affiliates are owed alot of money as well, more than what WBA can pay or recover in the future.
Last week I was informed that the budget for affiliate payments for January is about 10% of what needed to be paid, as a result, I decided to stop working with WBA starting from this week.
For me, affiliates always come first and I agreed to delay my salary inorder to pay more affiliates for the last 6 months but I cant keep on working after they missed 6 salaries, nobody would I guess.
WBA financial problems are extremely deep for too long now and it came to worst in the last 3 weeks.
The got rid of the debt they owe me by hiring a new inexperienced affiliate manager who is a relative of one of the managers, this mean a yes woman as she wont have the ability to fight for the affiliates like a good affiliate manager do esp when operators show their bad side by not honoring agreements and low prioritizing affiliate payments. At the moment I can only recommend advertise with caution as affiliates might not get fully paid or not paid for a lifetime which is one of the most important benefits of taking a risk as an affiliate.
Most likely affiliates who earn low commissions via alternative payment methods like Neteller and ECO card will get paid while affiliates who earn commission via wire wont get paid in the next few weeks or months.
That warning is also valid for the casino affiliate program Lucky Click Club.
The affiliate manager David has quit as well for the same reasons and as far as I know no new affiliate manager was hired.
It’s sad after 4 years of hard work and taking care of WBA affiliates but I guess times are tough these days with some operators (esp small ones).
I wish the new affiliate manager, Julie, good luck with her new job, I am hoping she will manage to get all affiliates paid in a timely manner. she can be reach at the same email address I was using:
I am looking forward to working with CAP members in the future.
Thanks for everything! you can reach me via pm, I am positive we will be working again.
Best Regards,