Mistaken Spam - Oops! Purple Lounge

[maxd]

So your not Tom from Club World ?

No, that Tom was recently arrested while riding in his birthday suit on the A4 on a kid's tricycle. We won't be hearing much from him for a while.

(hey guys, it's still April 1st. )

[Roanan]

Hi all,

I'm truly shocked at how this has escalated and I thank those that know me for their support in this thread and in clearing things up to get me reinstated. For those who have had negative views on the post and have taken things a step further, I'd like to take the opportunity to explain:

1) I run an outsourced program management company, called GameOn Affiliates (NOT to be confused with the Game On JV between Littlewoods and 888). We work with a number of clients to develop and improve their affiliate programs, in some instances we take on the responsibility of affiliate management.

2) This is the case with Purple Lounge’s casino affiliate program. The post was simply me fulfilling that responsibility, albeit slightly clumsily, I must admit.

3) The account I used to post is a new one. Previously I posted under a bet365 account, though that was some time ago. As you can tell, I'm hardly a regular poster here, so I admit to being slightly rash with the terminology used and issue it flagged up.

4) As a result, I can appreciate how this has looked like spam. The honest truth was I was trying to offer CM players a decent bonus and get some feedback on it!

5) The link I used was an affiliate tracking ID. It happens to be Bryan’s tracking link, not mine or anyone else's.

6) PERHAPS this didn’t strictly follow the forum’s regulations, but upon submitting the original post it went for moderation, so any issue with it would have been flagged before it was posted. I am certainly no spammer and would have appreciated the opportunity to clear my name before facing crucifixion (I’ve got that in the calendar for someone else tomorrow).

7) Furthermore, I cannot understand why my business partner has been dragged in to this discussion, nor what I consider to be my upstanding employment history in this industry. That is unacceptable.

8) My relationship with Ace Revenue is one of trying to help the program turn around an admittedly poor reputation thanks to links to a certain casino group. Yes, I know it has been rogued at CM, yes I know the related group has given players problems in the past - it seems you have been personally affected by it Roanan. As with a lot of my clients, I am providing assistance to them to ensure they are correctly run affiliate programs, run to expected industry standards, and that they improve. For this approach to be effective, I happen to look beyond whether or not a casino group should be given another chance. It does not matter if a lot of players or affiliates here or anywhere else rogue or blacklist a program, players are still going to find their way there and it is absolutely right for somebody or people (from all I’ve seen the affiliate team at Ace Revenue are credible industry people determined to legitimately achieve a positive turn around in reputation) to make sure things do improve and not to simply write it off. As I say, players and affiliates still end up there, blacklisting or no blacklisting. If I did happen to witness something to the contrary, that does indicate a new or underlying problem, naturally my position should be called in to question and I will react appropriately.

9) If anyone wishes to take up a personal issue with me, please email me. I don’t dare post the address here in case it gets flagged as spam. Feel free to Google my name ‘Tom Galanis’, visit my name .com and contact me through there.

Thanks to MaxD for reinstating me and apologies for the confusion caused!

Tom

Okely dokely...


I would like to publicly apologize for dragging Tom's name through the mud.


I have read the thread in it's entirety and conducted my own investigation and I now know that you are above reproach.
(although IMHO you do need a wee bit more education regarding the 'dark side' of the online casino industry)


Any member here can attest that I have quickly become one of the chief proponents of the anti-rogue movement.

I believe you probably were unaware that Acerevenue IS owned by Tej Kohli.


This man is the real crook, certainly not you and he has his fingers in a lot of pies.


In my thread here I list all of the companies that are owned, run by or founded by Tej Kohli.

My thread here as well as Kohli's personal web pages provides the proof that Acerevenue casinos, NetsurfMedia bingo rooms, as well as the marketing programs Silver Arrow, Acerevenue and Icronex are all his.
There is also some evidence to suggest that Curgam Malta casinos are also related.


Until the day that this jacka$$ joins Warren Cloud in hell, I will never believe that any of his companies will ever be honest.


I would be more than happy to help you with your 'education' as well as your company and I am pleased to be the first one to make a 'friend request' on the forum.

You may feel free to contact me at any time. Simply send me a PM and I will be happy to give you my info.


Roanan



PS: To the rest of the CM staff and membership, please do not 'thank' me for this post.
I do not feel it appropriate to have my reputation boosted for something that should never have had to happen in the first place.

[maphesto]

Thanks Roanan!

[tomgalanis]

For everyone's information, I have now ended my partnership with Ace Revenue.

[maphesto]

For everyone's information, I have now ended my partnership with Ace Revenue.

Good to hear!

I do apologize if there were some hard words earlier in the thread.

[Casinomeister]

So Tom, how was the pizza?

[RobWin]

For everyone's information, I have now ended my partnership with Ace Revenue.

That's a great move but I do have to ask you...Why? I mean, I'm just curious here...did you all of a sudden have a vision about the guy(s) behind Ace Revenue or something else that told you that you were dealing with bottom feeders there?
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[tomgalanis]

Just wanted to clear a few things up from this thread and also the one on OnlineCasinoReviewer. Having had a good conversation with a number of trusted affiliates, I've ended my association with Ace Revenue with immediate effect.

The public nature of the attack on my name, both at here and at OCR, has been hard to take for someone who has spent a significant number of years building up an upstanding reputation, and I thank both Webzcas and Bryan for echoing this.

I must stress that nothing that I have personally seen in my dealings with the affiliate team there (solely in the affiliate program and not at ownership or customer level) has led me to this decision. As much as this may not be enough to convince you, it is simply me saying that this has been my own personal experience.

No doubt there are posters both here and there who will continue to think of me badly, but please understand that I'm not in this business to see people ripped off and I do not believe I have contributed personally to any such instance on any level in this case. Moreover, I have not profited from the activity, nor will I do so going forward.

Whilst giving people or companies a second (or third) chance to clean themselves up may be admirable trait of mine at times, it clearly doesn't suffice for most in this instance and I have listened to the levels of outcry and the decrying of my name. As such, I, and my company, no longer carry out any form of representation or work for Ace Revenue.

Please do not view this as an admission of guilt - my intentions were to see the affiliate program legitimately improve, which, whether you continue to vilify everyone associated with it or not, must surely be for the greater good of players and webmasters in the casino industry.

However, having heard about the group's past and the irreconcilable issues that many webmasters I hold in extremely high regard have, I am unwilling to help them do this at the expense of my reputation and that of my company.

PS Pizza was great, thanks Bryan. How were the Red Lights?

[vinylweatherman]

Just wanted to clear a few things up from this thread and also the one on OnlineCasinoReviewer. Having had a good conversation with a number of trusted affiliates, I've ended my association with Ace Revenue with immediate effect.

The public nature of the attack on my name, both at here and at OCR, has been hard to take for someone who has spent a significant number of years building up an upstanding reputation, and I thank both Webzcas and Bryan for echoing this.

I must stress that nothing that I have personally seen in my dealings with the affiliate team there (solely in the affiliate program and not at ownership or customer level) has led me to this decision. As much as this may not be enough to convince you, it is simply me saying that this has been my own personal experience.

No doubt there are posters both here and there who will continue to think of me badly, but please understand that I'm not in this business to see people ripped off and I do not believe I have contributed personally to any such instance on any level in this case. Moreover, I have not profited from the activity, nor will I do so going forward.

Whilst giving people or companies a second (or third) chance to clean themselves up may be admirable trait of mine at times, it clearly doesn't suffice for most in this instance and I have listened to the levels of outcry and the decrying of my name. As such, I, and my company, no longer carry out any form of representation or work for Ace Revenue.

Please do not view this as an admission of guilt - my intentions were to see the affiliate program legitimately improve, which, whether you continue to vilify everyone associated with it or not, must surely be for the greater good of players and webmasters in the casino industry.

However, having heard about the group's past and the irreconcilable issues that many webmasters I hold in extremely high regard have, I am unwilling to help them do this at the expense of my reputation and that of my company.

PS Pizza was great, thanks Bryan. How were the Red Lights?

This group are very clever in what they do, it is no wonder you saw nothing amiss when you started working with them.

What does you credit is how you reacted once you had looked at them in more detail, and became aware of the issues surrounding them, and why even mere association with them was likely to damage your standing.

You dropped them like a hot potato!

Had you not done this, they would likely have dragged you down with them the next time they were involved in something particularly "nasty", which happens on a frequent basis.