A party Rep contacted me recently to find out why...

[Sciolist]

If you say to them "I don't play on your site because you don't offer rakeback", and they clamp down on Empire/Eurobet somehow, I imagine that the high volume players would move to PS/Prima/UB anyway, so that'd hurt them too. The best move for them would be to look at a rakeback scheme of their own....

We all hope that rake will be cut by increased competition, and rakeback is the obvious way for this to happen, especially for a site whose rake may be higher than others...

[Sciolist]

Have you never dealt with their support before? :]

[Sciolist]

I'm not going to get into the analogy and whether it's good or bad, but I hadn't thought of the point about supressing rakeback and being anti-competition...

[meow_meow]

What Party really needs to do (from a profit perspecitve) is one of two things:
1. Kill rakeback on the whole party network. I don't think they can, at least in the short term.
2. Find a way to offer rakeback to high volume players at other skins. Of course, most of these players have party accounts already, without rakeback. Maybe they could institute a "cancel you account after 1 month inactivity" thing, and then re-sign players with rakeback. Problem is that they don't want to offer rakeback to everyone, they need to find a way to limit it to target players. Having it kick it at $2000MGR/m (or similar figure) should do the trick.

[Sciolist]

Yes, but those affiliate fees basically go on advertising - it's the same thing. They can't spend all that money on giving it back to the players, because their advertising would suffer.