Vegas Affiliates

The new affiliate manager (Daniela Balzan) has daniela[at]vegasaffiliates.com in her signature at the GPWA.

I emailed VA several times last month; nobody responded. I sent Daniela a PM yesterday at the GPWA concerning the possible new, predatory T&Cs. I haven't received a response yet, but I'm hopeful that I will soon. I'll post here if I hear back from her.

The new beta system annoys me. You still have to click around quite a lot to find what you're looking for, and the pages are slow to load. NetRefer would have been a better choice, IMO.

 

Hey Bonustreak,

Here is Daniela privet MSN; danielabalzan@msn.com

I hope this will help you.

 

Hi Engineer,

It would be much more useful if you communicate with us through email or on forums were we are actually active such as GPWA.

It took a short while for me to get back to you simply due to the fact that you emailed us on a Sunday, and Monday was a Bank Holiday in Malta. However your email was promptly answered first thing on Tuesday.

If there is anything you need please contact me on info at vegasaffiliates.com

REGARDING OUR INACTIVITY CLAUSE

As you have heard, a no-activity clause will be introduced shortly however we will not simply be reducing any affiliate commission for partners who will remain active or reactivate with vegas affiliates. A newsletter outlining these details will be sent out very shortly.

If you would like to discuss this further you can contact our head of affiliates Sebastian Debono who will be happy to talk to you on sebastian at vegasaffiliates.com. Or Skype- sebdebono

 

Hi Bonustreak,

We have not received any emails regarding your missing payments, I am looking into in and will get back to you shortly. If there is anything you need I am always available on Skype - vegas.aff or through email.

Thanks

 

No offense intended we are finalizing all the details, we'll be happy to share them with you as soon as we are ready.
Daniela

 

I forgot to post a couple of days ago that Daniela did get in touch with me on Tuesday -- apologies everyone.

 

That's very good to hear, I'd just as rather keep increasing the player base and give them a push than drop them...

 

Oh boy. I hope that's not so once everything is taken into account.

 

FYI I just received a payment from them a couple weeks ago.

 

While Vegas aff has not always been the most responsive of programs, I have always been happy promoting them and have a nice little player base of long term hobby players there.

I generally target that group of players because I am in this business for the long run and building a lasting player base is my number one priority, as it is for the casinos too.

With quotas in place, I am much better off sending bonus hunters,which are much easier to find. That would satisfy a quota.

It seems casinos that impose quotas cannot see past their nose. What do you think you are going to gain? Who in their right mind is going to send good quality long term players to a place that can stop paying at will?

Most affiliates will just drop the program. Who can afford to let their income depend on someone who can confiscate it at their whim?

Those with large player bases will just stop sending good value players alltogether to protect themselves and send the occasional bonus hunter instead.

What have you gained? You have stolen people's earings where possible, but you have cut off your future earnings.

Your reputaton with affiliates is ruined, and you know how hard it is to redeem a reputation online. Every word written about you online lives forever.

I really hope you reconsider this. It would do Vegas affiliates a world of good to work with affiliates to increase new players sent than to alienate them. I know on my sites Vegas Aff has always held medium to low exposure due to the lack of contact. The occasional communication and special offer would have generated more players, a quota will put a total stop to this.

And I have not even touched on the legal implications of a breach of contract. Locations such as Great Britain, Malta, South Africa, Australia, Antigua and others will allow lawsuits for breach of contract in this. I checked with my lawyer. Gather up enough disgruntled affiliates who are losing a good portion of income, and there will be consequences that will cost you a lot more money than you are proposing to save by confiscating our income.

Work with us, don't stab us in the back!

 

Agreed.

Vegas Affiliates, I know you are trying to "save money" by doing this, but if you renege on the deals you made in the past, it will completely destroy your business. Your casinos will end up blacklisted on every reputable portal, because if the management is capable of stealing from their affiliates, they are capable of stealing from players, too.

Please do the ethical (and legal) thing by honoring the agreements you made with affiliates in the past.

If you absolutely must have new T&Cs, then the new terms should apply only to players referred after a certain date in the future -- i.e. the new terms should not (and cannot, legally) be applied retroactively.

I hope you'll do the right thing.

 

Post deleted, I will not comment on VA anymore.

 

I never had trouble converting there, I had communication problems for years though.

They apparently send bulk mail to an address of mine that has a box trapper and I never get it. It is impossible to change the email address at the site, and I have written to them about it and submtted tickets for literally years off and on. The last ticket about this was submitted just last week and got no reply.

If and when they "contact individual affs" they will still not reach me.

That is the cause of not being better featured. Easy fix, just reply to mails. No need to stab people in the back.