Affiliates = PIMPS

[Gregg777]

Sniper is the only person in this thread that seems to have the slightest idea of what is going on.

Poker sites have affiliate programs only as a means to direct new customers to their site. It is simply subsidized advertising.

The problem with the system is that everyone already knows about the sites. As a result, the affiliate industry is highly competitive, to the point that they give almost all of their income back to the person they signed up!

This is almost unheard of in other online affiliate programs. It only exists with poker affiliates because of the unusual circumstances.

You people calling affiliates pimps, while correct on the one hand, are completely misguided on the other. Technically we shouldn't be getting any of the rakeback, fortunately we do, so don't be too harsh.

And no, I don't have a thing to do with any rakebacks...

[HavanaBanana]

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these ideas are all good, but they dont work. you need to have an affiliate. remember, party is a publically traded company... if certainly players are DIRECTLY getting rakeback (paying less fees and losing less money) this could very well turn into a huge rigged/favored debate.

sure, casinos love to give comps... but direct cash comps... no way.

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You are arguing for a lost cause, not only are affiliates who do not create new players or action superfluous (as in the sites can do all that themselves), but also taking money out of the system that the players would have reinvested.

I say they are P.I.M.P.L.E.S. on the poker community's arse.

Now on the other hand, affiliates who actually contributes NEW players are useful and actually serves a purpose.

I see you are a Moderator here, so I guess you are not exactly unbiased either.

You should include a disclaimer on the bottom of your posts if that is the case.

ToT

(Neva eva signed up knowingly under any P.I.M.P!) WORD UP!

[O Doyle Rules]

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these ideas are all good, but they dont work. you need to have an affiliate. ...if certainly players are DIRECTLY getting rakeback (paying less fees and losing less money) this could very well turn into a huge rigged/favored debate.

sure, casinos love to give comps... but direct cash comps... no way.

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I would tend to argue that this does in fact happen and an affiliate is not needed.

Affiliates would be best served if they sold themselves on the basis of the service they provide rather than to go down this road. Good affiliates are worth the percentage they receive because of service.

Saying all this, I still would not classify affiliates as pimps, because then that would make me a "ho". [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]