Sportingbet T&Cs changed, 3500 of my players stolen

[silcor]

I have been an affiliate with Sportingbet since around 2005. In 8 years I have send them about 4000 players.

It looks like meanwhile (around 2012?) Sportingbet changed T&Cs from lifetime commission, to 24 months commission from player. As I joined before, that doesn't affected my account. Till now.

Few days ago my affiliate manager send me a note, that due to board decision from my account (and from all other "old" account) all players with registration date older than 24 months will be removed!

That will remove about 3500 players from my account. And this is scam!

[justbookies]

No, they did this rip-off retrospectively in 2009. Those terms have been there for four years. Very sorry to hear about your plight but this is not new and it has been commented upon since then. This is not a firm you should have been promoting since 2009. They have a terrible history of ripping off affiliates - including closing the program years ago and stealing all players before opening it again. This is one leopard that has never changed its spots.

[silcor]

So how is possible there are no warnings about them? I don't see them on affiliateguarddog rogue affiliate programs list.

[justbookies]

I don't know why they are not rogue on affiliateguarddog - I would have bet my life they would have been. I am also sure I engaged in discussion about the '24 months' theft terms on the affiliateguarddog website a few years ago, but now I can't find any reference to it. I don't know if they archive things there or what.

I know it is of no help to you, but whenever SBT has been mentioned on this forum I have always chipped in about the 24 months term and their rotten past history. See this thread on sportsbooks to avoid:
https://www.gpwa.org/forum/sportsboo...ht=sportingbet

I even wrote a few pars about it on my own websites including: http://www.bettingaffiliateprograms....liate-program/
I am not saying you should have seen any of my posts, let alone anything on my websites, though. But the information has been commented on in the past. If I recall, I too only discovered the 2009 term change quite late and thought it happened later than it did.

I can only offer my sympathy. It looks like Ladbrokes have bought these crooks now so the brand may disappear altogether.