[John Ho]

Well in defense of these non-rakeback paying affiliates - if PartyPoker's policy states that giving rakeback is forbidden one can make a STRONG or perhaps undeniable case that anyone who gives rakeback is commiting fraud.

And these affiliate managers on that site have a good point re: rakeback sites basically just cannibalizing the affiliates who brought the players to Party in the first place. So someone else plays by the rules, brings customers to a business partner, and then someone comes in, breaks the rules, and steals your customers.

My personal opinion is that if you CHOOSE to be an affiliate of PartyPoker you ought to follow their rules or at the very least you certainly can't complain if someone calls you out on being deceptive.

Flame away. For the record I am not an affiliate one way or the other. I don't blame people for wanting rakeback...I was getting it on a Party Skin until the big change.