Whineeee @ FT

[tiburon]

(Newsletter)

Stimulate your players’ thirst: use Full Tilt Poker merchandise as your salty bar snack

We offer our affiliates the opportunity to buy our merchandise at cost price; the prospective gain from awarding your players a mug far outweighs the initial expense. Contact the affiliate team to find out more about how you can give away Full Tilt Poker merchandise to generate both new sign-ups and increased play.

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I request more info, I got the prices, I wanted 20 items. Total should be 95$ without shipping according to their own file. Now they say the total is 350$, shipping including. The package is not even heavy (posters, pads, card protectors, small items).

Cheap items indeed!

[MPC]

Looks like someone picked up a tip from some ebay sellers.

It's like offering a free car, but you have to pay 30K for the key.

[Planet Mark]

Might even be cheaper to go to a conference with an empty suitcase... not only could kidnap all the Full Tilt bears, you might come home the proud owner of a Cake Poker toaster!

Mark

[Greg]

I don't really mind them offering merchandise at their cost because it does help boost players interest and physical rewards are pretty rare for online rooms. However, you're kidding me it costs $200+ to mail out some posters, pads, card protectors and small items. Do they mail these all individually for you? Honestly I've never used their in house rewards program for players as an affiliate. If they're mailing a coffee mug to 20 different people outside of Ireland then maybe it really is $10 a piece?

[nirva]

..you might come home the proud owner of a Cake Poker toaster!

I knew you were secretly proud of that toaster, even though you did hide your excitement pretty well

[Jeremy]

If you're a producing affiliate and send quality players month after month to any of these rooms..........and of course if you have a good A.M., you should be able to simply email your A.M. and say send me some promo stuff to give away to my players and help me increase my conversion and retention.

Obviously be reasonable, but most of these programs have tons of stuff laying around, and most would actually love to send a box of stuff out to producing affiliates.

[Georgia Poker]

They have a US based fulfillment center (more than one IIRC) so it's not that much to ship.

[jdwanchalk]

A few months ago on UB, they were practically begging to send me things. I accepted their offer and got a nice polo, new t-shirt (new as in with new UB logo/color scheme), a nice fitted hat, a few decks of cards, and some other small things. They covered shipping and all.

FTP is just run by weasels. Plus, they have a new cheating scandal every week, so never mind the long gone issues at UB.

Like I have said before, UB>FTP, and it is not even close.