I'm negative when I see deceipt practised, or when I believe I see it - and this is a business in which deceipt is practised on a daily basis
Definitely agreed on that one.
The fellow has $20 a month, not a week, and it makes him happy and brings him excitement to do what he does. Like I said, beats the lottery. By the time he saves $20 a month to buy a new computer he may have died. We have become friends. I watch out for him.
About portals
New webmasters are faced with fraud of huge proportions. There are places selling bulk traffic, 100,000 visitors for $300. Right, it's a computer someplace generating clicks. No visitors exist. No one has ever seen these popunders anyplace, and by the volume sold, they should be under every other site of the internet! It is plain fraud. Same thing with the cheap Pay per Click search engines. They actually hire people to click - there is a large work force in India that is being paid to sit there all day and click on ads. Voila, they haver logs, proof that the clicks are honest. Even some prominent and purportedly "for the benefit of webmasters" created communities sell this stuff to newbie webmasters. It's a disgrace.
So now you have a handful of determined webmasters surviving all that. Every casino group will tell you that a handful of webmasters generate 80% of the money. All the rest barely pay themselves for their labor. There are a few "in-betweens". Thanks to some more information about fraud being publicly dispensed, more are making it lately and less are losing their savings.
Out of these, actually about half make an honest attempt to serve the player. They will find a type of player they can benefit and concentrate on that.
Now look at the current development. With the political situation in the US, many of the reasonably profitable sites are being sold. Quietly. Who is buying them? Huh? Take a wild guess.
Casinos, and not your favorites either. They buy them, including the affiliate accounts. They change the payment method and after that the represented casinos never even know that a competitor is now their affiliate. Of course you can look at these sites and see them slowly morph into sites that concentrate on the group that owns then, a few other casinos are carried to make them look legit.
With that trend, how do you think players will fare? Now the owners have a real vested interest!
For me, I could care less if any of the casinos I carry are declared rogue - for every casino I kick out I have ten standing in line waiting to get it. Old fashioned portals have an interest in happy players - they make return customers. Plain old business sense.
The new portal system has no such interest. If you keep attacking decent portal owners, you may just end up with nothing but scum.
