More age old wisdom...

[StellarWind]

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It's all buisness I guess. If party would offer the top 10%-15% MGR's each month a 25% "bonus", with the understanding that affiliates wouldn't be paid on those accounts, wouldn't it solve a lot of problems?

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You get what you pay for.

You are proposing that Party only pay affiliates for mediocre and bad customers. Little or no compensation for finding a big producer. If big affiliates don't dump Party completely they will at a minimum try to steer their website traffic to more lucrative poker rooms.

[somapopper]

So, stop paying the affiliate after 6 months or a year instead. If 8k for a year instead of 8k per year on a player isn't worth their time, I suggest they try a different business.

[wateronrock]

I agree that the affiliates are important and need to be compensated. However rakeback is the incentive to play 90 000 hands a month, it generates levels of play, that would not exist for the affiliates to profit from?

Rakeback for players that will only be high volume players with rakeback is a win-win-win. It eliminates the incentive for affiliates poaching players, and forces them to attract new players to generate profits.

[Sniper]

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However rakeback is the incentive to play 90 000 hands a month

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How many players do you think play 90,000 hands/month at Party? (I can tell you in advance that your guess is too high)

[wateronrock]

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How many players do you think play 90,000 hands/month at Party?

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None without incentive [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] .

[Sniper]

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None without incentive .

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Well if you think its about incentives, how many players do you think are playing 90,000 hands/month at all online & offline poker rooms combined?