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Sportingbet are out of order. Apparently they feel it is okay to terminate an agreement to pay affiliates a percentage of players losses for life, whenever it so suits them.
Not only that, Sportingbet actually had the gaul to put in a warning by email, expressly telling business partners not to mention in public they are being robbed - or else.
Sportingbet Message >>
Dear Affiliate,
I write to inform and update you of recent decisions that have been taken by the sportingbet group that effect ALL affiliates and the sportingbet.com affiliate program.
As many of you will already know Sportingbet.com in it's current state has no geographical market that it focuses on and has growing restrictions on where it can be advertised. Sporting Bet PLC as a group has many regional brands that focus on local niche markets, such as www.SportingOdds.com for the UK market - see http://www.sportingbet.com
Moving foreword, Sportingbet will alter the dynamics of the Sportingbet.com site, so that it enables the Sporting Bet European Business to establish a single pan-European brand whilst in parallel complimenting and supporting the regional brands/businesses.
In essence Sportingbet.com will become a portal/gateway to the European domains. Sportingbet.com will therefore no longer drive recruitment of new customers from an affiliate program or any other form of marketing. Instead regional brands will use their own affiliate programs and marketing to drive new customers to their businesses contributing to the European business of Sportingbet.
It is therefore with regret that I write to inform you that sportingbet are serving notice of termination of the Sportingbet.com affiliate program.
We wish to serve a 30-day notice period to allow all affiliates to remove the sportingbet.com promotions from your websites and therefore the affiliate program will terminate on the 30th September 2005.Following the termination date a final report for commissions is needed along with an invoice. If you would like me to provide the report for you please request this by email and include the date range required, affiliate ID and agreed commissions structure
Peter Hanford If you would like to join one of our regional brands affiliate programs (such as sportingodds.com), please contact me for details.
I'm sure many of you may have questions so please do not hesitate to contact me via email or telephone where I will be happy to help 00 44 (0)20 7154 6709 (9-5.30 Mon-Fri GMT).
Many thanks for your business
Regards,
Peter Hanford
Business Development Manager
Additionally, it has come to light that Sportingbet, who are a publicly traded company in the UK, have been transfering players from aff leads they are supposed to pay a percentage on, to seperate operations of theirs, thereby robbing the affiliate of any funds from that lead.
