@Marcia 248948 wrote:
If you have a serious question about your earnings at BrightShare, or conversion at All Slots, then let’s look at it. In the spirit of mutual respect, write to me and let’s look at the facts.
Thanks for the invitation, actually wrote you as soon as I seen this particular post back on the 9th… still have not gotten a response not even an acknowledgement that you had gotten my email… 
so I reckon I will post a few questions here…
Maybe you could help me, because I don’t understand how the Jackpot Factory Brightshare/ASUSA/Spiral Solution issues could have been considered transparent, honest, and how the entire saga was in any way representative of straight as an arrow.
Back when that epic started Brightshare attempted to insinuate that the two companies BS and ASUSA were totally independent of one another. Was that transparent and honest?
The ASUSA website was set up and tested at free-casino-software.com on a Spinspark operated server using Drupal with the admin section open to the public no less.
When they first started sending emails they used a Google account – course that wasn’t traceable. Then after a month or so Janet, the supposed manager of ASUSA was sending me emails which originated from a Brightshare IP.
Shelley, working with Brightshare posted using the AGD forum account of Janet and signed the post Shelley. Ooops , as soon as that was pointed out to her she went in and edited that signature out, but too slowly though because the post had already been quoted by someone else.
Then I had Brightshare payments showing up in QT tagged as being sent by ASUSA.
Clearly now I had more than enough to conclude that Brightshare and ASUSA were under the exact same Spiral Solutions umbrella yet BS continued to claim they were independent.
Then one day the ASUSA site was taken offline and all our stats were instantly gone with no way to access them.
After the site and stats were taken offline many were contacted via email to explain players were charging back and that no payments would be sent – surprise!
Then we learned that ASUSA was referring our players to Jackpot Capital an RTG casino and that no tags were being included in those adverts.
Then shortly after this Lloyd leaves the company – very odd timing!
Now fast forward a year and a half or so later and Lloyd shows up out of the woodwork claiming he had been fired after a discovery of btag information being altered. For me that really was just another the nail in the coffin, based on what I used to make with this program and how many players accounts I seen listed as locked, how many I seen vanish from ASUSA and how little I make today on average – I have zero doubt that I was in fact cheated!
To date there is virtually no way in the world for an affiliate to prove shaving! The programs have a dozen or more ready made excuses to explain away tracking issues and many have seen those over and over again throughout the years. I have always said the only way possible that shaving could be proved would be for an employee of an affiliate program to come out and talk about it!
Of course these employees most likely have long disclosure articles in their contracts that prevent them from speaking out so that too will likely never happen. Despite that, we now have an X affiliate manager of a program saying that btags were being altered – of course he says he has no proof as to whether or not it was accidental or intentional, but we do know he was fired and we know all the other info we have collected over the years – all these accumulative issues MUST be taken into consideration!
The way I see it, that sure is a whole lot of conflicting information more then enough to make an honest person question the integrity of those involved. What is sickening is that these affiliate oriented sites let issues like these slide because taking action would mean money out of their pockets! Sadly once they let one issues slide, then another, then another – they have zero reach!
By that time the programs have already taken note that they can do and say anything and all they have to do is cater to the cash cows and they will be free to push the limits one step further – until eventually they are closing up shop and taking all the money with them on the way out. What good has that cash cow done for the community that makes them what they are? NONE!
Make no doubt about it folks – GPWA/CAP/AGD – they care more about money coming into their pockets than they do you – and I honestly have no issue with that at all. What I have an issue with is these sites claiming that they have the affiliates best interest in mind or that they are looking out for affiliates, or that they represent affiliates etc etc – all those tag lines are complete and utter bull$hit!
IMO the affiliate industry started going to pot the day these sites started taking money in exchange for certifications that they had zero reach to mandate. The day the affiliate community started focusing more on money in the back door is the day affiliates best interest left out the front!
And now – where are we? Clearly we are in the let is slide mode once again! Nothing will be done and the issue will be swept under a rug / ignored long enough that its all but forgotten. Those who are not on a $hit list will make money and claim everything is great and on the other hand those of us who speak from the hip and are no doubt $hit listed for it will continue to be cheated.
Maybe you remember that 10-12 years ago the industry was once thought of as the wild west by USA legislatures and many of us affiliates laughed at them proclaiming they didn’t really know what they were talking about. Now today that is exactly what it has turned into and us affiliates, USA moreso have very little we can do to protect our interest and those that say they are here to do so just continue to “let it slide” … “let it slide” … “let it slide”.
As has been said way too frequently lately – “the only person you can trust is yourself”!