Full Tilt Adds Predatory Terms

[Chips]

I went to the FullTilt Affiliate cashier and before cashing out the commissions there was a pop up of new terms and you had to agree in order to cash out earnings.

They have added a dollar amount and player count stipulation and failing to reach the benchmark will result in the closing of your account.

Here is the new terms in regards to quotas. This is being jammed down our throats:

1. TERM AND TERMINATION
   1. Termination By You. You may terminate this Agreement, with or without cause, immediately upon written notice to us. In addition, you may cease marketing the Website any time you want.
   2. Termination By Us. We may terminate this Agreement, with or without cause, upon thirty (30) days written notice to you. Further, we may terminate this Agreement immediately, without notice, upon the occurrence of any of the following events:
      1. You materially breach this Agreement;
      2. The total cumulative balance of Affiliate Commissions due to you is less than USD$50 for three (3) consecutive months;
      3. We determine, in our reasonable discretion, that you issued a Press Release in violation of Section 5.11 herein.
      4. We determine, in our reasonable discretion, that you knowingly benefited from Fraud Traffic as set forth in Section 2.12 herein;
      5. We determine, in our reasonable discretion, that you knowingly participated in Fraud Traffic, as set forth in Section 2.12 herein.
      6. The total number of new Players introduced by you in a sixty-day period is less than one;
      7. We determine that you have used Spam, Adware, or Spyware or have engaged in an unauthorized marketing technique as set forth in Section 5.2 herein.
   3. Effect of Termination. The following will apply upon the effective date of termination:
      1. You will cease all promotional activity related to us and all rights and licenses given to you under this Agreement will terminate immediately, except as expressly stated herein;
      2. You shall render permanently inoperative any URLs which were used or maintained by you where such URLs contain any combination of the words full, tilt, and poker.
      3. You will return all confidential information related to us and cease use of any of our trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, Banner Ads, Text Links and other materials related to the Website or designations of FullTiltPoker.com;
      4. We may leave open, redirect or deactivate any Trackers in our sole discretion without any obligation to pay you on new Players who come in or would have come in on those Trackers;
      5. In the event that your Player Account and or Affiliate account is closed for any reason, we reserve the right to extend the closure to all your activity related to the Website, including but not limited to withholding your Affiliate Commissions without prior notice. If any such closure occurs, we reserve the right to dispose of any remaining funds in your Player Account and or Affiliate account at our sole discretion. If we suspect Fraud Traffic, we may withhold payment of Affiliate Commissions for up to one hundred eighty (180) days, from the original due date, to ensure that the payment is correct and that any fraud has been reversed out.
      6. In the event that we determine, in our reasonable discretion, that you knowingly participated in Fraud Traffic, as set forth in Section 2.12 herein, you will forfeit all Affiliate Commissions that you have earned and we reserve the right to terminate this Agreement.

The player fees have been on a steady rise too, player retention fees, admin fees and other fees pretty much negate the bulk of the revenues earned. I have one player that had zero rake this month yet has a negative 0.81 revenue!

Way to go Tilt!

 

[bc518]

LOL, it's old bad Full Tilt Poker. You will get 10% of total rake after all kingds of fees. Its affiliate program is crap.

 

[sunflower]

Fulltilt, poker stars and the large gaming companies don't want to be bothered with the small affiliates. Super affiliate sites is where they get 99% of thier players from. These Predatory terms don't affect them. They need to close down their affiliate programs and do it by invitation only. Don't waste your time promoting these jerks! They only offer a affiliate program because it"s trendy. JMO
Terry

 

[WCD Admin]

I used to make some money with them. Remember the good old days? Poker was a small climb, but added up in the end. Then the rakeback, and then the 10% crap, etc... now my income is reduced to 100$ or maybe a little more ....

My question is WHO are you guys promoting then?

I can't make squat with poker! Thanks for recommends, and warning on FT.

 

[CGP]

My question is WHO are you guys promoting then?

I can't make squat with poker! Thanks for recommends, and warning on FT.

In my opinion you will earn more promoting shared wallets like Unibet or PlayersOnly (poker and casino under one account). A lot of losing poker players spend hours on the blackjack table or playing caribbean stud.

 

[PlayingPokerNow]

Just recently I received an e-mail for the latest update on FT reporting. They used to have the poker usernames in their reports and affiliates could see how different poker players rake. 'To our convenience and to make reports clearer' they have noe removed this. As far as I know this was the only poker site that had such reporting. Or am I wrong?