all affiliates: vital important to your business

[bb1web]

Hi all,

thank you for coming in.

if you haven't read about grand prive, they have chosen to snub aff earnings.

all residuals are gone. no more payments will be made yet the casinos are staying open.

Further salt in the wound is they have the gall to open a new aff program for casino villa fortuna.

If we do not come together and blacklist this group of casinos and prove we can take down anything we built ... it will set precedent for all future aff programs that want an easy way out.

By blacklisting their casinos hopefully we will do the same thing to them as they have done to us ... put us out of business.

Please join and make the affiliate voice heard, whether you have ever promoted this group or not.

more here

http://www.gpwa.org/forum/grand-priv...ot-178057.html

[bonustreak]

I am shocked that this is not being addressed here on this forum. We all need to team up on this and act together, we cannot allow this to happen in this industry.. BB maybe change your thread title so everyone knows your addressing the Grand Prive scandal.

[GamTrak]

I agree bonustreak. I can't think of anything going right now that is more important than this.

[mojo]

There is some discussion in the private area here. More discussion over at the GIA as well. Casinomeister has recently rogued them due to this issue and is already high in the search engines. Cap has a link thread but since some of us are not members there I will post my link here for anyone who would like to trade similar links, it that's ok with GPWA.

Thank you BB1 for bringing this to the public forums here.

http://gamblingmojo.com/grand_prive_...ve_warning.htm

Let me know if anyone would like to add their link.

[matted]

I have taken similar action after reading up on the situation...

Gambling Smarts Blacklisted Casinos

[robertmedl]

i added blacklisted entries to my affiliate programs page for GP and VF.
http://theonlinecasinogamblingdirect...affiliates.htm

i added an entry to my blacklisted sites page.
http://theonlinecasinogamblingdirect.../blacklist.htm

i re-added the GP and VF sites to my database, and flagged them as blacklisted, so that they appear as such in my SERPs. for example:
http://theonlinecasinogamblingdirect....php?q=fortune

i've drafted a blog entry that i will publish in a day or so.

by the way, here is a link to their GP homepage from the way back machine. at the bottom, you'll see the word lifetime.
http://web.archive.org/web/200801291...ffiliates.com/

[elgoog]

and now,please interlink our pages,
that will get them ranked in Google
and can have quite some impact.

http://www.casino-internationaal.com...a-blacklisted/

[mojo]

I have added matted, robert, gamtrak and elgoogs links here:

http://gamblingmojo.com/grand_prive_...ve_warning.htm

[robertmedl]

i linked to other's pages from my blacklist page

[bb1web]

Hi all,

i think i have all the links from here up on my site now.

is it sufficient that I link my sites to one page instead of creating a page for each separate site and then that one page will have all the links from here and cap and gia

I'm very adamant that we ALL need to pursue this aggressively as possible but I'm not sure how to go about some things so any suggestions will be of great help.

[matted]

I too have linked up a bunch of such pages...

http://gamblingsmarts.com/online-casinos/blacklist.asp

Let me know if I missed yours...

Let's keep an eye on the SERPS next week!

[bonustreak]

We will list all the site links posted from this point on in this thread in the morning everyone and you will find it here http://www.microgamingbonusstreak.co...acklisted.html

Please link back and lets put the hurt on these jerks!!

[rmeeuwsen]

I'm glad someone is keeping track of groups that try to pull crap - if they are unfair with one group, chances are they unfair
to others also.

I added a post at http://www.greenbaycasino.com/2008/c...inos-to-avoid/

too. Thanks

[Tony]

I just put a blacklist page never had one before, here is my link: http://www.casinoscafe.com/Blacklist.htm

[Dominique]

I am keeping a current list of all sites blacklisting Grand Prive I can find at: http://www.onlineplayersunion.com/fo...02/#post104047 The same links appear at http://www.gamesandcasino.com/blackl...lacklisted.htm a little later (up to 24 hrs) but they all appear there.

All the links from this thread and many more are now at the OPU.

Linkbacks are appreciated. This list is used by all the places it mentions to update their links daily.

This is a very serious matter IMO, if other operators follow suit and just use affiliates to build up a healthy player base for the casino and then simply stop paying, we are all in deep trouble.

So are all the other operators, since any serious affiliate will not work on that basis but start going the huuuge CPA (to balance out loss of whales) or media buy route.

That will be the end of free exposure for casinos, now they get exposure for free unless they make a profit.

There is no excuse for being unable to pay a % based comission, they only pay out a % of what comes in, so affiliate expenses are covered.

I strongly urge all affiliates, Microgaming, Ecogra and all operators to take action against this. It can well ruin our industry as we know it.

I will be cruising by to collect more links here periodically...

[bonustreak]

You are 100% right Dom, this is very serious and everyone needs to fight against this!! I am please to see so many jumping in there and adding pages even though they never promoted this brand, thanks for being on the team!!

These sites are yet to link to our page can you please update your sites please, thanks.

xxhttp://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2006/03/bella-vegas-grand-prive-microgaming.htm
xxhttp://www.casinovas.com/onlinecasinos/grand-prive-warning/
xxhttp://www.kasinoking.co.uk/Blacklist.htm
xxhttp://www.gamblingoldmine.com/microgaming_grand_prive_rogue_ca.htm
xxhttp://www.gamblingsmarts.com/online-casinos/blacklist.asp
xxhttp://theonlinecasinogamblingdirectory.com/usa/blacklist.htm
xxhttp://www.casinoscafe.com/Blacklist.htm

[mojo]

I have linked everyone up to this point. Including the ones at OPU, thanks Dom.

I would rather not have to go check for link backs so please everyone, link back! It is the most effective way to get our message out.

Glad to see we are all on the 'same page'.

http://gamblingmojo.com/grand_prive_...ve_warning.htm

[mx]

I was updated all links on my blacklist page:
gambling.li/owner/grand-prive-group-allegory-investments.html

Please link back.

[casino2k.com]

I'm not directly involved, but I want to support:
http://www.casino2k.com/forum/casino...iati-t111.html

[matted]

I've updated all up to this post...

Please don't expect a quick backlink from this point in time... During the work week I have much less time and have other matters to attend to.