Unibet Affiliates - Predatory Terms

[Guard Dog]

Unibet - Unibet Affiliate Site

MINIMUM PLAYER RULE

Minimum Player Rule
Unibet has the right to set limits for a minimum level of activity on affiliate accounts. Such minimum activity will be continuously reviewed and Unibet reserves the right to terminate any agreement not reaching the limit. Such limit shall reflect the intention of avoiding accounts where the revenue does not cover Unibet’s internal costs for maintaining the account and the payout procedure. In such an eventuality, the provision of Clause 12(d) shall apply mutatis mutandis.

SPAM AGREEMENT

Spam Terms
use any form of spam (including search engine spamming or spamdexing) or unsolicited mail in its attempts to refer New Depositors to the Unibet Site.
If Unibet determines, in its sole discretion, that the Affiliate has engaged in any of the foregoing activities, it may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available to it) withhold any monies otherwise payable to the Affiliate under this Agreement and/or terminate this Agreement.

COMMISSIONS

Payment Date
For the avoidance of doubt, all payments shall be made inclusive of VAT, if applicable.
h) Subject to clause 6 (c) at the end of a calendar month, the Affiliate may raise an invoice for the relevant Revenue Share payable by Unibet to the Affiliate, which shall be paid within 30 days of receipt by Unibet of such invoice.

Chargeback Policy “Net Profit” means the total sum of the following six (6) components:
(i) on sportsbook activities, all gross monies received by us in respect of all settled bets made by New Depositors after deducting; (i) monies paid out to New Depositors as winnings; (ii) monies paid in the form of betting duties or taxes (or reasonable provisions in respect thereof) (iii) bad debts; (iv) fraud; (v) returned stakes; (vi) transactions which are reversed by instruction from the card-holder's bank (commonly referred to as charge-backs); and (vii) voids and bet/deposit bonuses.
(ii) on casino activities, the value of opening balance with the addition of funds transferred in less (i) funds transferred out (ii) closing balance (iii) credits made to users (iv) licensing fees (v) charge-backs (vi) bad debts and (vii) fraud.
(iii) on poker activity, the gross rake less (i) licensing fees, (ii) poker chips bonus, (iii) charge-backs, (iv) bad debts and (v) fraud.
(iii) on games activity, the gross stake, less (i) voids, (ii) returns (iii) betting duty, (iv) licensing fees, (v) credits made to users, (vi) bonuses (vii) charge-backs, (viii) bad debts and (ix) fraud.

Commissions Structure
The Affiliate in the Unibet Affiliate Network shall be entitled to receive, on a monthly basis, a 30 % “commission” of Net Profit (“Commission”).

Sub-Affiliate Revenue Sharing
None Found

Minimum Payment
If a Revenue Share does not exceed 5.000 GBP, Unibet shall be entitled to withhold and carry forward such sum until the end of the first calendar month in which the Revenue Share (including such carried forward sum) exceeds 5.000 GBP, at which time the Affiliate shall be entitled to raise an invoice in accordance with Clause 6 (h).

NO NEGATIVE CARRYOVER INFORMATION FOUND

Negative Carryover
None Found

TERMINATION

Termination
Affiliate shall be entitled to receive the Commission for each New Depositor for a lifetime value from the date of the first deposit made by the New Depositors, except in the event of a termination of the Agreement. In the event of the termination of the Agreement, the payment of the Commission shall end after a period of 6 months following the date of the effective termination of the Agreement.

[Guard Dog]

This is a strange one.....

We contacted Sebastian Gorecki, initially, on 9/17/2006 and received a reply that he was interested in hearing our issues with Unibet's Terms and Conditions on 9/18/2006.

We followed up with the issues list several times after that and have not received a response. They have had enough time to respond, so we must mark them as predatory due to the implementation of the MINIMUM PLAYER RULE.

Thank You.

[johnski]

I am presently an affiliate with Unibet and I'm still awaiting commission for January. I have e-mailed them on numerous occasions and keep getting the reply that they are sorry there is a delay and it will be paid shortly. The last 2 e-mails I have sent them have not been acknowledged at all.

Anyone else having the same problems?

[Guard Dog]

That is one of the main reasons we have them marked as predatory. Besides their 'Minimum Player Rule', they do not acknowledge emails.

Very poor affiliate program, IMO.

[aksana]

I talked to Stephen Banks, he asked me to promote Unibet through IncomeAccess, but I didn't agree with Unibet's T&Cs, then he told me that Unibet changed its T&Cs for me (of course, I told him, that it was not for me, it was for all affiliates ).

Unibet removed a Minimum Player Rule, and also changed the minimum payment from GBP5000 to GBP50.

Maybe there were other changes but their T&Cs seem good.

[Guard Dog]

Hey Aksana,

Thanks for that! I checked the Terms Alert System this morning and noticed the change. When was the change made? I'm surprised I got it over the weekend. We tried very hard to get this change implemented, but were met with silence. I'm very happy you were able to get this change done!

We will re-review their entire terms again and, if applicable, certify their program.

Thank you!

[aksana]

He sent me the following email on May,8th

Hi Aksana,

We chased this up and Unibet will be updating their T&C’s in the network J

The new ones will be: unibetpartners.com/help-terms.html

We are awaiting the new set to load into the system J

Warm regards

Stephen

Btw, who are already an affiliate of Unibet? I don't understand how to work with them directly. I respect IncomeAccess but don't want to promote Unibet through a 3d party program. I see Unibet affiliate program is still under construction.