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Party Poker and Party Gaming and Starluck Casino are well known for programming the cookies to expire in a very short time to avoid having to pay the commissions to its affiliates. Most of the time they don’t pay the commissions at all, and when they rarely pay them, it’s only for a totally abnormal amount of time.
One of the big problem with these crooked affiliate programs is that they were designed to cheat the affiliates and programmers can program anything, the only limit is their imagination.
One affiliate recently complained to Party Poker and this was their answer:
“ With regard's to your e-mail, we don't see any problem with your tracker link, to get a player tracked to your affiliate account, the player has to download and install the software using your link. Please note that if the party poker software is installed already on a computer, then the player needs to uninstall it and reinstall the same through your link, only then will he get tracked to your affiliate account. “
It means that the first affiliate who got the player to download their software only gets his commissions tracked for a few days, if he is very lucky.
Because the cookie expires in no time, this first affiliate gets nothing whatsoever after that, but he generated the player in the first place.
If an affiliate is stupid enough to promote Party Poker or Starluck Casino or any of their other sites, it means that it’s a total waste of time and money if the player who clicks on his banner already had downloaded the software previously because he will get absolutely nothing in commission, even if the player generates a large amount of money for the crooks.
In this case, the first affiliate gets nothing, and all the other affiliate after him also get nothing, and this can go on for years. Party Poker gets their stupid affiliates to promote and advertise their games for free, and the poor affiliates get nothing in return. Absolutely nothing.
Read the answer from Party Poker and it means that they expect the affiliates to contact the players to ask them to first uninstall the software, then go back to the affiliate sites, and click on the banners and re-install the software once again.
How would the affiliates do this because they don’t even know the players in most cases? You would be lucky if you get one player in 100,000 to do this.
What these crooks are asking the affiliates to do is also totally dishonest for another reason. Even assuming that you knew the player, and could ask him/her to uninstall the software, and then click on the banner, and then download and re-install the software once again, when the player will need to register, the registration will get blocked, because there is already an account under that user name, and duplicates are not possible.
It’s normal that game developers block duplicate registrations, so how can the affiliate ever get paid, even if he tried the dishonest suggestions of Party Poker?
If the player tries to register under a different user name, or different e-mail address, or different name, then it’s nearly sure that the anti fraud system will detect it, and block the account. This is also normal for security reasons, and Party Poker knows it only too well.
They know it so well, that it’s the reason why they suggest affiliates to do it because it’s sure that they will never get paid for the business they generated.
Party Poker and Party Gaming and Starluck Casino are not the only crooks using these dishonest methods to cheat their affiliates, it’s widely used in the entire industry, and we haven’t seen a program that works differently.
There are many variations of the same scam, but at the end of the day, they are programmed to cheat the affiliates, and for no other reason.
Party Poker and Party Gaming and Starluck Casino are big crooks, and they don’t even supply figures in real time to their affiliates. This is always a big warning sign, because it makes it much easier to cook the figures and cheat the affiliates. They don’t show the number of clicks the affiliates generated, and they update the affiliate figures only once per day, which is totally unacceptable and dishonest and completely unjustified.
From a technical point of view, figures in real time were always possible going back to the very early days of online gambling, so these crooks have no valid justification not to supply them now.
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