Bookmaker Affiliate Links - Super Slow Loading

[Prenut]

The Bookmaker/BetCris/Diamond affiliate links are taking forever and a day to load the respective site when clicking through. Anyone know if this has been going on for awhile?

[pokerprop]

Only noticed it just now, and wow that's super slow to the point it is essentially the same as having a broken link.

[Prenut]

Yup. No one is waiting that long, ever. Goodbye to any click throughs to Bookmaker for awhile I guess.

[pokerprop]

Its a pain for me to do in Thailand, so going to wait myself on calling: but while i haven't tried this yet supposedly customer service @ 1-866-926-6562 can patch over to an AM.

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Anthony Torres Ext 2160

[MJ]

Off topic here, but I just realized something about Bookmaker and their requirements of having 10 players active before you cash out:

Month A you make $200, with 2 active players.

Month B starts with a balance of $200 in your account rolled over, those same 2 players win $200 this month.

Now Boomaker says you have a balance of zero, so not only do they with hold payments until you achieve 10 active, but having a negative month they will literally deduct from your uncashed out earnings from previous months.

Is this common and I just haven't noticed it at other programs?

[pokerprop]

The 10 player rule is not common. The negative rollover is however used at every single major US sportsbook I can think of.

The only difference at other sites is one month you might cash out $1,000. The next month your account is -$2,000 you'll need to wait till that is worked off before cashing out again. In the end actual amount you're paid is the same no matter when you cash out.

Bookmaker has extremely excessive TOS if you read them, so being an affiliate involves rolling the dice as little as technically it's against their rules to use bookmaker anywhere in a URL (including file names) or to optimize for their terms in meta or in content.

Note: They also have a 60 day rule.

So you are at their mercy promoting them and the terms are not favorable.

However with that said. They are a great book for players and have no problem taken $10,000 bets. Player retention is also really good.

The 10 active rule I don't think is that huge a deal. More or less their affiliate program does everything to weed out the small timers, but that's their roots. Bookmaker is where the big bettors play and are welcomed. They do have lots of nice stuff now for the recreational player as well.

[MJ]

I tried to talk to them about increasing their exposure (I promote them on one tiny site right now and not others) and they weren't having it, period.

Thanks for the post though + rep.