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Al - with all due respect, Party brought this on themselves by engaging in long-term affiliate payouts and at the same time discouraging but not banning rebates. This fosters an atmosphere of hidden deals, lack of transparency, and an irate customer base.

This all works fine, but not in the information age. We can't operate under the assumption that by being hush-hush here, 95% of average joe poker players have no clue what's going on. They're only a google search away from figuring out what's hapenning, and any idiot including Party management can anonymously solicit rebate offers, probably ten in the next 24 hours if they tried.

Why do we as players pay Party rake? To run fair games with a level playing field. Obviously the latter doesn't exist with hidden rebates. And if this alienates the 10% of highly active players (many of which were content in the more "open" rebate market that existed on the skins) who generate a majority of Party's revenue, the analysts will know soon enough and Dikshit's & CPC's paper fortune will evaporate into thin air.

Granted, what we had on the old-Party network with the skins was not utopia, but it was a relatively open market for rebates. High-volume players were happy, they were driving game liquidity, and generating rake.

Anyhow, it's on Party to figure out how to fix this problem. No player should bow down to them, accept inferior offers, or be told to shut up in the interest of preserving what is a flawed and unstable system.