Several days ago eCogra put out a marketing campaign which put them at the forefront of the Grand Prive debaucle. For those who are unaware, it is well-documented and easily found in the search engines. For the sake of brevity: Grand Prive closed down operations and left many affiliates uncompensated for their player base. Affiliate commissions were not paid and they opened another affiliate program for a non-US facing casino, Villa Fortuna. With a large player base from the Grand Prive group, they were able to regain 100% profits from their players (and cut affiliates from their contractually-earned share of the commissions).
In recent weeks, AGD (in partnership with CAP-Warren) began looking into a completely independent audit of the Grand Prive system. AGD wanted to become involved to ensure that the audit would be truly ‘independent’ and without bias. Grand Prive was involved in the conversations with Warren and progress was being made. The audit was to be done with an independent auditor (such as Price Waterhouse or similar) and would be overseen by AGD and with Warren’s involvement. We had briefly discussed eCogra as the auditor and determined that their involvement would have put a cloud around the audit {unless AGD/CAP had complete raw data access for the purposes of verification of eCogra findings}. The auditor of choice was being looked into until last week when eCogra sidestepped AGD/CAP with their announcement.
We had already discussed a proper investigative method and audit procedure prior to this announcement. Our plan would have included contacting all Grand Prive affiliates (not just those who submitted a claimant form) in the same manner that a class action lawsuit informs all affected persons. The initial investigation would have been an affiliate audit to determine which persons to contact. Subsequent to the affiliate audit would have been a detailed player audit with affiliate-tag verification and match-up. Upon completion, a compensation/commission audit could be performed. This portion of the audit was to be a 2-part audit: Historic Commissions Audit and Cross-Promotional Audit of tagged players. [This is a rough outline of our plans. Feel free, eCogra, to use this methodology or contact us for a more detailed plan.]
This is the plan we had worked on while waiting for the go ahead from GP.
With all that said, we applaud eCogra’s efforts in taking on such a monumental task. We certainly hope their plans are as detailed as our own and that their success benefits the affiliates that should have been compensated. This should extend to all Grand Prive affiliates, not just those who happen upon the ‘Claim Form’ (located at:
Submission Form) and [contrary to the claim form] affiliates should not be responsible for determining the legitimacy of their request. The Grand Prive backend has been down for quite some time and verification is just not possible.
Good luck eCogra and please do affiliates the same justice that would have been accomplished with our plan…
Thank you everyone and good luck to all Grand Prive Affiliates!
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