Affiliates United Change Revenue Sharing Scheme

[Guard Dog]

Affiliates United have updated their Revenue Sharing Plan as shown below:

TERMS UPDATE, Commissions, Sub-Affiliate Revenue

Accumulated Number of New Players Across All Products Per Calendar Month Percentage of Net Gaming Revenue
0 12,5%
1 – 6 25%
7 – 20 30%
21 – 50 100 35%
51 101 – 199 300 40%
200 300 and up 45%

Summary:Interesting changes to revenue sharing. On the surface, this looks like a good change. For the affiliates at the top of this revenue table, you may be pushed from 45% to 40%, though. If you are in those levels, please talk with your affiliate manager to ensure you are not affected this way.
Affiliates United Change Revenue Sharing Scheme

 

[Engineer]

I'm not a fan of the 12.5% commission rate. You basically have to continue sending players forever to earn at least 25%. No thanks; that's a crappy deal.

 

[bc518]

Engineer got it...
I don't think it's a good deal

 

[Guard Dog]

Absolutely... The 12.5% is essentially a quota. It is also why they are marked as predatory at AGD.

If you want to take a look at the AGD Archiver for the terms, here they are:

Affiliate United Terms - August 6th, 2009
2009-08-06 21:25:46

Affiliate United Terms - August 24rd, 2009
2009-08-24 09:39:04


That is the AGD Archiver at work and shows the difference between the 2 versions of the terms since this change. Feel free to browse the complete website there too... it's all archived.

 

[WCD Admin]

Hey Andy,

Top link doesn't work. Glad the archives are working. Did I miss the announcement, or is this a subtle link?

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12.5% - hehehe, new affiliates, small affiliates screwed and as Andy pointed out, the top of the tiers are getting screwed too.

Bad for everyone promoting this program.

 

[Engineer]

Affiliates United = Cpays, so I guess we shouldn't be too surprised. Screwing affiliates is what they do.

 

[Guard Dog]

Hey Andy,

Top link doesn't work. Glad the archives are working. Did I miss the announcement, or is this a subtle link?

Both links work now. More of a subtle set of links, yes. Just so people know we are working behind the scenes creating tools that will give us more power.

The archiver is just like 'The Wayback Machine', except we archive the sites more frequently since we have a smaller subset of sites to archive. It will ensure that we can all go back to the date we signed up for a program to check different areas of the site.

 

[Vladi]

cpays have been ripping off affiliates via shaving and extortion for years anyway, the 12.5% clause just makes it official.