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They were not converting for me at all – I had a banner up for a while. I took it down a good while ago.
So I haven’t promoted them since. I must be on the chopping block! Off with my head!
Stats for 2005:
Period 2005
Clicks 440
SignUps 15
Total Deposits $0.00
Deposits# 0
Depositors 0Personally, I don’t much care because obviously for me this wasn’t where the money is, BUT this is definitely not a smart way to conduct business.
You catch more flies with honey than than with vinegar, and us affiliates are very sensitive when Terms and Conditions are changed.
A contract is a contract and a handshake is a handshake.
Breach of contract is illegal. Being online doesn’t change that.
I guess you guys missed entirely what happened last year when a number of programs retroactively changed contracts.
Oh my lord what a bunch of idiots. I just got that e-mail. I was just about to do a $2000 marketing project based on their program too. Ha ha ha. Instead I’ve dropped them altogether. I had about 40 people all ready to sign up too. Oh well, onto new grounds!
Can’t believe these idiots would do this and think it’s okay. lol. “Yes you can bring us 3000 players in January, but if no players come in February then that’s not good with us! We’re booting you out of the program! Sure your players are making us $50,000 a month but we don’t care! We need one signup a month!”
When will they realize that affiliates are there to help them, not as people to threaten? Why wouldn’t they e-mail the affiliates who haven’t been actively promoting them and just say “Hey, why don’t you promote us?” or do what Party(and others) do and offer bonuses for depositing players?
What a joke.
This is unacceptable.
This was a huge topic of discussion a few months back; someone should point these guys to the numerous threads here at CAP.
Retroactive changes are a breach of contract, and the affiliate community won’t put up with it.
Slightly off topic — the sites within TheBingoAffiliate Network look like shit, and I don’t know why anyone would bother promoting them. What an awful, ugly group of sites.
In any case, if these retroactive changes aren’t rescinded, every site from this network will be added to my blacklisted casinos page.
Wow. Their marketing manager is quite ignorant.
“You are not promoting us anyway. How is this a bad decision? If you do not
think that you can achieve 1 depositor per month then it is a waste of time
for both of us.So far our affiliates have responded very positive to this. The ones that
will promote us once will be rewarded with increased commission structures.
The ones that don’t won’t impact our business anyway.The fact that you are emailing me tells me you do not think that you can
obtain 1 depositing player per month. Save your $2000 with us or any site
if you think that investment will not get you 1 depositor.”What an ass.
This really makes me mad. I had just put about 20-30 hours of work into the site I was launching with them, then they have to go and do this. Is there any other programs like this that allow you to basically create a “skin” bingo hall, that are actually trustworthy?
That’s about the biggest bunch of bullshit I have ever heard (sorry, Prof, for the expletive)
Now they’re changing their story. Although I have absolutely no idea what this first line means:
“Just got off the phone with a friend in the casino industry about you….lol
Anyway as I have responded back to every affiliate that has contacted us and
I will confirm to you the purpose of this email. This email was sent to
clean up a 5 year old database of inactive affiliates. If you are or intend
to be active in promoting us then your account will never be closed. Just
that simple.You will see another email tomorrow outlining to the affiliates that do want
to promote us what additional changes we will make to accommodate any
affiliates their needs.”i pointed out that in their original e-mail, they said, and I quote directly:
“f you fail to
produce one new depositing player during any given month your account will
be closed and data will be removed from our network.””Sigh. I was looking forward to working on this project too. Oh well.
I still thing that is complete BS. If you signed up for life, they SHOULD NOT be removing you from their database. PERIOD!
This is a breach of contract and should be dealt with appropriately. If they cannot follow THEIR OWN contract, then why should we promote them???
Seriously!@
Wow any program willing to do this and then give you that kind of a email response is terrible, this is not good business. I would never do business with them again. Even if they change it back, they could always do it again….
Dealer Dan,
don’t waste your time on this anymore.
One minute he says one thing, a minute later another, and then a third.
You can’t trust an outfit like that. Written contract, spoken agreement – nothing means a darn thing to them.
Don’t invest your time and money into this!!! Plus, they don’t have a good player reputation either, so their skin may not be what you want.
If you are real serious about a Bingo skin, PM me and I’ll see if I can help.
Thanks Dominique. I’ve PM’d you.
I asked for clarification in regard to the “actively promoting” line, and got this:
“As for the rest… if you show me that you are making an effort, clicks,
sign ups then as far as I can tell you are making an effort and you will not
have your account closed.”So I e-mailed him back:
“And put yourself in my shoes: would you want to work with a company
who one minute says “if you don’t get any depositing players in any
one month we will close your account”, then make a statement that is
contradictory to that a few hours later? It’s a matter of trust.”And that’s it. You couldn’t pay me enough to work with these guys
What is the url for these guys? I cant even find them when I search for
“The Bingo Affiliate Network” at MSN or Yahoo!!
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Professor wrote:What is the url for these guys? I cant even find them when I search for“The Bingo Affiliate Network” at MSN or Yahoo!!
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hmmmmm
Very odd. These guys seem familiar and yet they dont… Are these all white labels? Are they Parlay powered sites?
Here is a list of them.
http://www.thebingoaffiliates.com/bingo_sites.asp
Amigo Bingo is the parent Bingo. The rest is white labels. They are powered by Parlay. They kinda come and go.
A while back there was some incident with Amigo and a cruise – I am not sure of the details anymore.
Kiwibingo.net and BingoAstro could be trademark problems.
Who wouldn’t see red with that email. I replied to it (a small novel) and was assured that they would not remove any site that actively promoted them.
I think that the flagship site of thebingoaffiliates is amigo bingo. It converts decently with spanish speaking players. When a user signs onto any of the tba sites they get a user name which works on the rest (except for Canadian Dollar Bingo) – so you may be sending users that already have accounts.
Their control panel grossly over reports click throughs – my summary report states 4103. I think that I’ve actually sent them less than 200 (unless I sent them a pile before I started tracking but it is unlikely.)
It’s funny though — I find the Canadian Dollar Bingo affiliate control panel is extremely accurate. Canadian Doll Bingo has a fairly different interface for affiliates. CDB converts very well for me considering its placement on my site.
A small sour note about Canadian Dollar Bingo — it does try to send users to amigo bingo as exit traffic — I doubt we get credit for those. Some of the revenuegiant sites direct users to other revenue giant sites — but you get credit for them. Have I ever told Roo that he’s my hero?
On a side note — has anyone had their intercasino / interbingo accounts debited for inactivity? I’m still seething over that.
