Chilipoker.com Dispute

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SHARE THE Chili has closed my affiliate account, and confiscated all earnings for january and future earnings.

I have around 30+ active customers that ive gotten within 2 months. They owe me a fair amount high 4 figures.

They have said i was offering rakeback but not once have i ever done such a thing.

What's my recourse what can i do? Can i contact the network directly ipoker and say chilipoker and the affilaite program are working unethically.... I'am already preparing a letter to send out in a newsletter to try and get my players to stop playing there.

I've been burned promoting adult live cam affiliate sites before.

any suggestions would be great.

[Hazo]

If you have a legit claim i would contact Casino Affiliate Programs | Affiliate Guard Dog

[ptg]

You can try the GAU as well.

Gambling Affiliates Union – GAU

SharetheChili has been pretty good to me, so I don't know why they would do this without a good reason. Perhaps there was some fraud involved? Are you on CPA or rev share?

[Pokerkeep]

For those who don't read GPWA forums, this was brought up there and this is what Chris Vaughan from Chili had to say....

As has been discussed, this matter is a case of disregarding clear ipoker policy. On at least three seperate occasions players have contacted both myself, customer support and you were also warned personally by the French Country Executive.

To have ownership of an Affiliate Account, it is your responsibility to monitor any offers made with your tracking links or bonus code. You state that you never gave access of your account to anybody, however you do admit that you let your players recruit for you. In this case it was also your responsibility to ensure they were not offering Rakeback.

It is very clear from over twenty emails from one player, detailing a series of correpondance discussing a rakeback deal and repeatedly using your bonus code as a reference, that your account was used to offer Rakeback to players. When you were first warned of this you could easily have taken precautions to ensure that is did not happen again, however two more incidents since then indicate that you did not take any action at all. This also implies that you would continue to offer rakeback via public forums, breaking strict ipoker policy.

I have forwarded you all the conversations from the forums, including areas where your bonus code was used. This was even initially offered to one of our Country Executives.

In the case that you did not directly offer the rakeback yourself, it is very clear that you did nothing to stop your players offering rakeback on your behalf.

Neither have you offered any reasonable explanation for why somebody would offer rakeback using your bonus code.
This matter is considered closed and as per ipoker policy you will no longer be permitted to advertise with Chilipoker.

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[Graham]

This quote coming from you sounds as though you admit there may have been a problem with your "sub-affiliates" offering rakeback:

"I've done what i can to notify the refereers what else can i do?"

It is your responsibilty to ensure that these people aren't offering rakeback. Since you did not do this, you are an "accessory" to the offering of the rakeback.

What can you do? I'd say nothing. In future, only YOU should be promoting your trackers. If you want to have subs, let them sign-up to chili poker directly (I don't understand why they didnt just do this in the first place if they were only getting 20%??).

[MJ]

A+ to an ipoker skin actively shutting down rakeback, most skins silently encourage.

[Chili_Chris]

I will answer this as I have answered every other thread regarding this issue.

I have been very open about this whole thing, and if I was notified I would have replied sooner. There really is nothing borderline about this case, it was blatant disregards for ipoker policy:

'As has been discussed, this matter is a case of disregarding clear ipoker policy. On at least three seperate occasions players have contacted both myself, customer support and you were also warned personally by the French Country Executive.

To have ownership of an Affiliate Account, it is your responsibility to monitor any offers made with your tracking links or bonus code. You state that you never gave access of your account to anybody, however you do admit that you let your players recruit for you. In this case it was also your responsibility to ensure they were not offering Rakeback.

It is very clear from over twenty emails from one player, detailing a series of correpondance discussing a rakeback deal and repeatedly using your bonus code as a reference, that your account was used to offer Rakeback to players. When you were first warned of this you could easily have taken precautions to ensure that is did not happen again, however two more incidents since then indicate that you did not take any action at all. This also implies that you would continue to offer rakeback via public forums, breaking strict ipoker policy.

I have forwarded you all the conversations from the forums, including areas where your bonus code was used. This was even initially offered to one of our Country Executives.

In the case that you did not directly offer the rakeback yourself, it is very clear that you did nothing to stop your players offering rakeback on your behalf.

Neither have you offered any reasonable explanation for why somebody would offer rakeback using your bonus code.
This matter is considered closed and as per ipoker policy you will no longer be permitted to advertise with Chilipoker.'

There is not much more I can say.

[MJ]

Welcome Chris.

[CK]

Is it possible to change the title of this post so they dont have scam beside their name unless the affiliate really was scammed

*Thanks MJ

[MJ]

Done.