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Many marketing companies prefer to process the dishonest transactions manually, so they can make the figures look more realistic to the affiliates. This is another reason why they don’t supply the figures in real time, to give them time to first cook them.
They go over the real sales, and decide one by one if they put it through for the affiliate, or completely steal it, or change the figures in order to steal between 95% up to 99% of the commissions that the affiliate should normally get.
It’s a fine art to steal properly, and go undetected, and some of these marketing companies and licensees are very good at doing it. The affiliate must feel that he is really getting paid for the sales he generated, but it’s impossible to pay him because there is no money left for him after all the other thieves helped themselves first. Remember that 100% is the maximum available for distribution, and the thieves grabbed their own money first.
The crooks processing the dishonest sales manually for the affiliates normally have a better chance to go undetected because they have more flexibility to decide manually which sale goes through and which ones don’t.
They may let a few small ones go through, block the bigger ones, try to save an affiliate that was going to drop them, by putting a few more small sales through for a short time, put a few sales through at the start of the month, and nothing after until the following month, totally block all the sales for the affiliates when they detected that an affiliate could end up making too much money for the month, and all sorts of other dishonest methods to cheat the maximum from the affiliates, while still making them believe that they are getting paid normally.
Some crooks simply put the system on automatic mode, which means that they block all the sales for the affiliates so he will get nothing at all, for days, weeks and often longer. Some disconnect the tracking of the sales for the affiliates for the weekend, or when they have days off, or go away for a few days.
This entire report was compiled from true and accurate inside information supplied by people dealing with these crooks all the time, and for many years, since early 1997, so it’s not how someone thinks it is from the outside, it’s the hard reality seen from the inside.
Comprehensive reporting in real time, showing all the necessary details that will help the affiliates detect pattern of frauds are absolutely essential, and all the affiliates should insist on getting them, but not from the marketing companies, or the licensees, but from the game developers directly.
Don’t the crooks promise the affiliates 35% to 50% commission or more? They certainly do, and some will go much higher if you ask them, but they won’t publish it on their web sites. If the affiliates are supposed to get that kind of percentage, then they are supposed to be real partners with the marketing companies, licensees and game developers.
Is that the way to treat your “majority” partners by keeping them in the dark, and cooking the figures before they get them, and cheating them massively?
The problem when dealing with dishonest people that are completely rotten, and corrupted, is that you can never trust them, ever. No matter what they do, or don’t do, at the end of the day, they will find a way to cheat you massively, and steal your money. These crooks can’t resist the temptation to steal, and specially when it’s so easy, and goes undetected.
Even if they supply the affiliates figures and details in real time, they will still massively cheat the affiliates because stealing is their normal business model.
You hear of the occasional player who won some money with these crooks, but the other 99% lost. These crooks are heavily into marketing, and it’s good business to have a winner to make the other 99% of the players feel that they also have a chance to win.
They use the same methods with their affiliates, every so often, they will pay a higher commission to some of the hand picked affiliates that will give them the most exposure and publicity, in order to make the other 99% think that they are going to be the next ones to get paid properly.
These are the same crooks who program their rigged games to make you win when you deposited $25 but loose when you deposited $1,000 or $10,000
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