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It is comical to see poker players whining about an affiliate not giving rakeback. Okay Mr. Fellow Poker Player how about the fact that I spend $1000's of marketing dollars each month to find new players for these sites. If you have an incredible killer session on your first experience, are you going to ship me some of my marketing dollars back as a thank-you? Likewise I am like anyone else, I'm in business to make money. My business provides a marketing service to the poker sites and I expect to be paid accordingly by those sites.
Saying poker affiliates are scum sucking parasites because we do not give rake back is an extremely uneducated and ignorant statement. When your searching for a flight on the internet, let's say you follow an Expedia banner somewhere and subsequently book your reservations. Do you then go back to the original site and ask for a portion of that webmasters commission? |
I think most 2+2ers know very well what you do. Personally, I have no problem with you as a group whatsoever.
However, I think there is a difference between high volume pro and semi-pro players. I had rakeback at party before they canceled it five or six months ago. I then moved to an account with rakeback on a skin. However, I still play on party sometimes. Although this represents a fraction of my playing, about 25k was raked from me in the period after rakeback ended. If he was getting 30% this is $7,500 he made off me, and the only work he did to get it was responding to an email i sent him. This is not an airline ticket commission. This is my semester's tuition.
When a player is putting up less then 1k in rake a month, then no biggy.
But the person who has my account will be making well above the median income in this country just off my rake, assuming no rakeback, as I will be moving most of my playing to party with the (effectual) closure of skins.
It is not rediculous to expect a precent back with numbers this high. Your expenses marketing to fish and mainting largely worthless (to me) websites is not relevent to me. I am paying for your kids' college and expect to be compensated. I am sure there will be affiliates willing to cut me an "illegal" deal to get a part of this. I do not think this is unreasonable on anyone's part.
Normal affiliate marketing, etc., is different then managing a lot of the pro accounts with monthly rake of 10k+ who frequent 2+2.