It is like selling cars, but you are missing the point of that. You are looking at it like we are talking about someone wandering onto a lot, talking to a lame salesman, leaving and coming back to talk to a second one.
The greater realities are first that a salesman got someone to the lot, is walking him around, then a poacher smacks the first salesman on the head, runs up to the customer, lies that he is the legit salesman, and finishes the deal. This person is useless. Secondly, it's not just salesmen here, but also larger advertising. people are brought to the lot. Ignoring that is just not smart. If TV commercials brought thousands to the lot, that is the valuable thing, not the drone selling the cars -- and that is where more of the money goes in car sales too. Or, suppose one of the offline marketing types left business cards in urinals or books or wherever they do for poker, which brought tons of customers to the lot. The contribution of closing salesman again is next to nothing.
If a cardroom were foolish enough to focus on the closing salesman, no one would ever go to the room. Terrible business model. The closer of the deal here will 95% of the time be the cardroom itself. Rules should not be made for the relatively few times players fall through the cracks.
And most importantly, what you guys advocate is nothing but the death of affiliates, as all it takes is a final signup screen from the cardroom that trumps the last affialtes bonus code or whatever. Now the cardroom "closes the deal" and by your logic all affiliates are cut out of it. You better hope that cardrooms never adopt a policy like what has been suggested.
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