vinylweatherman
You type well loads
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2004
- Location
- United Kingdom
Actually I have had it all explained to me recently and I am now fairly happy with the way CR operate; They don't "spam" players (they only send promotional mails to players who have signed up to one of their 30-ish casinos) and they don't "steal" active players from affiliates by sending un-tagged mails.
I was fairly confused at first - hence that AGD thread is a bit of a mess - sorry about that!
KK
When I signed up at one casino, I also got mailers for all the others, including the new ones as they came along. These ARE triggered by signing up, so must somehow be related to CRs own database. The player then receives a flood of offers, all pretty misleading, and all very similar. I could click on any one of 100+ offers I receive every month for an individual CR casino. This DOES short change affiliates as the chance of me clicking one of the few properly tagged offers among the 100 must be pretty slim. In fact, the chance is zero, as I view the whole lot as spam, and I am not going to click on any, but navigate directly to the casino site instead. If there were fewer emails from CR, and they were more honest and properly designed to look like proper personal invites, I might click on one, and if they are preserving the tag from the original signup during the cross marketing, the original affiliate would still benefit.
An email that comes direct from CR will have at the footer a list of all the account numbers you have tied to that email address and rewards account. If this is not there, it is most likely spam (this is how I tell).