Whats wrong with this industry?

In the largest poker affiliate community, pokeraffiliatelistings.com a fellow affiliate posted a very nice story about an affiliate manager at red star poker. And it is really hard to believe! This manager was asking if he wants to promote red star poker. So far so good. But he already promoted rakeback there through a sub affiliate network. He already told it a few times and after the affiliate manager wasn’t willing to recognize he asked if they can write a review for him. Actually they did but it was a complete ripoff from another site. This is really, really sick and quite frankly I can’t laugh about that. It shows that this industry has some problems with quality progresses. I understand if affiliate management was not that important five years ago. Party Poker could have given a damn about affiliates and just pay some standard scheme. But now the situation changed and poker rooms have to realize that they should take affiliates seriously. They are the most powerful distribution channel and you should pay attention to them every time. Don’t make them laugh with stupid spam emails or reviews you found and copied from other sites.

There’s an experience I appreciate very much: Being an affiliate besides of my affiliate management acitivity at TrickyPlay.com. Some may think that this ain’t good but the big advantage is that I’m an affiliate myself and know what they’re looking for. So you can expect that I’m working WITH affiliates rather than try to sell anything to them. At least I would never copy reviews from other sites and give it affiliates to put it on their sites…