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I think I may have got to the bottom of this.
I think Poker.com have been in trouble for something. http://www.CarbonPoker.com isn’t even indexed yet in any major search engine, so they can’t have had this planned very long. Also, how long do you think it too them to ‘make’ carbon poker, and change the logo on the tables? 5 minutes? 10 at a push maybe…
I am starting to think that Poker.com are getting scared of being prosecuted for their American traffic…and are trying to get out of it this way…
The domain http://www.carbonpoker.com was only created on the 24th of January 2007. Whatever has happened has happened fast. This is not a planned attack on affiliates – something has got them scared. HOWEVER this doesn’t make it right….Carbon Poker is still registered under the Poker.com Company name.
This is going to get messy!
That’s what I suggested in my first post.
But I still do not understand the approach of making wholesale changes and not informing affiliates – if everything is above board.
But if I get paid for every matching account at Carbon Poker (ie both accounts are effectively tied to my affiliate ID) then I can handle that.
However, as for promoting other companies with their own affilite advertising … I think that goes to far.
Run a portal by all means – but don’t use the traffic that we sent to join up to Poker.com for that.
Fair enough, but it would not have taken them long to have used the existing affiliate module to allow us to promote Carbon Poker.
Also, we will not be getting paid for it, as the players will be registering under a different username – so how will they track it? No-one is going to keep their poker.com username when they can get a new bonus from carbon for registering a new account. And that means carbon gets to keep that player with out paying the original affiliate. And whichever way you look at it – thats bad.
It’s called a cookie.
They use it to save user details for one site – and running a detection for a poker.com cookie when installing carbon.com (or viceversa) is damn easy – espeacially when you consider that they’re installing software on the client PC for BOTH sites.
IF they WANTED to tie them together it would be very easy to do.
If they did that I would be dumbfounded. They would got back on the list of good sites to promote!
Not holding my breath though.
If Poker.com do read this though – show your quality and explain whats going on!
This looks like it isn’t being handled very well right now. Hopefully someone from poker.com can answer the questions here soon.
I must point out, however, that it’s ALWAYS been if you go to http://www.poker.com you see ads for other poker rooms. They have always been open and honest about this. However, all affiliate links go to different landing pages without other poker room ads.
Ok guys we have contacted Poker.com and asked them to post clarification of exactly whats going on and how the transition to Carbon Poker will be handled with respects to affiliates and the players you have refered.
Its my understanding that Poker.com is going back to being a portal and that the software and player base has been sold to Carbon Poker. All players and affiliate accounts are supposed to be transfered over to Carbon Poker and you shouldnt lose anything in that process.
Again, we have asked Poker.com to clarify this and I am only relaying what I have been told today. I also understand that Carbon Poker has stated they intend to stay on here at CAP in place of Poker.com and will be available for support during the transition.
I hope this helps.
Thanks Prof for that info……. it doesnt seem to to match up with the email that was sent to holis – your info sounds more encouraging though
so hopefully they (carbonpoker) will pop over here and clear things up and also confirm all players will be transferred over – this should happen asap as people have stated they can open up a new account at carbon when they already had one at poker.com
Yeah the letter to Holis is confusing and not difinitive. Was this sent out to all Poker.com affiliates?
dont think it was, i never received one.
also its fuuny ages ago there was a thread about a site that kept letting its domain expire by mistake……. lets see if carbon do the same lol as they have only registered it for 1 year :dajudge:
Professor wrote:Yeah the letter to Holis is confusing and not difinitive. Was this sent out to all Poker.com affiliates?
I certainly didn’t get it.I guess that the poker.com people have been freaked by the USA changes – but it’s just such an about change of direction.
We’ll have to wait until the “business owners deign to fill us in I guess …
:plain:I don’t get it either!
Let’s look at it this way, the amount of money involved in the purchace of a domain such as poker.com…. Think about it, I would pay the best designer in the world to design me a site for that name, my 10 year old nephew could have done a better job!
I smell a fishTo add fuel to the fire, I tried downloading the poker.com software using one of my affiliate links and got the response that:
“Internet Explorer is unable to download the software…the host is unavailable”
The above is paraphrased.
So, our affiliate links are completely USELESS as of now…they just send NON-TRACKED traffic to their site so they can redirect and cash in.
How pathetic.
corpfan1 wrote:To add fuel to the fire, I tried downloading the poker.com software using one of my affiliate links and got the response that:“Internet Explorer is unable to download the software…the host is unavailable”
The above is paraphrased.
So, our affiliate links are completely USELESS as of now…they just send NON-TRACKED traffic to their site so they can redirect and cash in.
How pathetic.
My links seem to work fine? Possibly there server was down?
Although at the end of this weekend the links will be coming down anyways!
The LINKS work…but there is no more download….you can’t open a new account thru them. They are no longer accepting new players.
