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Hi everyone,
Just a heads up -- Ladbrokes has decided to steal money from their U.S. based affiliates on October 31st. Here is the email they sent to their U.S. affiliates:
Essentially, if you built up a player base with Ladbrokes, and if you happen to live in the USA, Ladbrokes intends to steal your entire player base at the end of this month without paying any sort of lump sum compensation whatsoever. If you counted on the residual income to put food on the table, too bad. No soup for you!
This latest move comes only a few months after another unsavory move by Ladbrokes, when they retroactively forced lower commission rates on all of their affiliates. Apparently that reduction wasn't enough to satisfy them, since they now intend to steal the remaining residual income on the 31st.
IMO, all affiliates should be very concerned about this. This month, U.S. affiliates are the victims of Ladbrokes' greed, but next month it could be another country. I would advise any affiliate reading this to stop promoting Ladbrokes immediately, since they are very comfortable using Clause 12.6 in the T&Cs to shed affiliates (and therefore steal) when it suits them.
Additional discussions here:
xhttp://www.affiliateguarddog.com/forums/money-grab-ladbrokes-dumps-all-u-s-affiliates-steals-future-residual-income-t5615.html
xhttp://www.gpwa.org/forum/ladbrokes-boot-us-affiliates-207661.html
xhttp://www.casinoaffiliateprograms.com/bb/48224-score-affiliates-screws-affiliates.html
xhttp://www.pokeraffiliatelistings.com/forums/general-poker-affiliate-forum/24603-labrokes-cuts-off-us-affiliates.html
Just a heads up -- Ladbrokes has decided to steal money from their U.S. based affiliates on October 31st. Here is the email they sent to their U.S. affiliates:
Dear affiliate,
We write with reference to Score, the Ladbrokes and LBapuestas Affiliate Programme in which you are currently participating.
We regret to inform you that Ladbrokes and LBapuestas have taken the business decision to cease commercial partnerships with all of our affiliates based in the USA.
In accordance with Clause 12.6 of our terms and conditions (a copy of which can be found by clicking on the following link xhttp://www.score-affiliates.com, we hereby provide you with written notice that we are terminating our contract with you with effect from 23:59 on 31 October 2012.
Of course, all commissions due and payable to you in respect of the period 1 October 2012 to 31 October 2012 (if any) will be paid in full in accordance with the terms of our contract with you. This is in addition to all other outstanding commissions (if any) due and payable by us to you in accordance with the terms of our contract. Please do so by emailing affiliatepayments@ladbrokes.co.uk with your payment details together with a pdf document on your company letterhead with the required authorised signatory on the account.
Please be aware that with effect from 23:59 on 31 October 2012 the licence granted to you pursuant to Clause 7.1 of our terms and conditions to display the relevant Ladbrokes and LBapuestas brand features and related content will terminate. Therefore we kindly request that you remove and refrain from using all Ladbrokes and LBapuestas branding (including, but not limited to, all of our logos, trade marks and trade names) and any other Ladbrokes and LBapuestas content from your website at all times after this date. Please also note that access from your website to our score platform will be blocked by us with effect from 23:59 on 31 October 2012 and therefore we also request that you remove all links on your website to the score platform with effect from this date.
Should you have any queries, please contact affiliatequeries@ladbrokes.co.uk. We would like to thank you for your efforts to date and we look forward to working with you again in the future where business circumstances permit.
Kind regards,
Score Affiliates Team
Essentially, if you built up a player base with Ladbrokes, and if you happen to live in the USA, Ladbrokes intends to steal your entire player base at the end of this month without paying any sort of lump sum compensation whatsoever. If you counted on the residual income to put food on the table, too bad. No soup for you!
This latest move comes only a few months after another unsavory move by Ladbrokes, when they retroactively forced lower commission rates on all of their affiliates. Apparently that reduction wasn't enough to satisfy them, since they now intend to steal the remaining residual income on the 31st.
IMO, all affiliates should be very concerned about this. This month, U.S. affiliates are the victims of Ladbrokes' greed, but next month it could be another country. I would advise any affiliate reading this to stop promoting Ladbrokes immediately, since they are very comfortable using Clause 12.6 in the T&Cs to shed affiliates (and therefore steal) when it suits them.
Additional discussions here:
xhttp://www.affiliateguarddog.com/forums/money-grab-ladbrokes-dumps-all-u-s-affiliates-steals-future-residual-income-t5615.html
xhttp://www.gpwa.org/forum/ladbrokes-boot-us-affiliates-207661.html
xhttp://www.casinoaffiliateprograms.com/bb/48224-score-affiliates-screws-affiliates.html
xhttp://www.pokeraffiliatelistings.com/forums/general-poker-affiliate-forum/24603-labrokes-cuts-off-us-affiliates.html