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Paying out of your own pocket, outright stealing all of their money, or just paying them so you breakeven or make a little profit out of it.

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If he is actually profiting on octoboer, then I agree with all of you that he is a dirtbag. I guess I sorta misinterpeted his post. I assumed he wasnt even going to make enough to pay his players who did stay. But I guess it sounds like he will be able ot pay them and then some. I agree the extra money should go to the other players, but it would be pretty tough to split up fairly and I dont think you can expect him to cover the rest out of his own pocket.

He gave you guys a higher % than anyone else, and most of you ditched other affiliates to take advantage of his offer. He isnt screwing you any more than you screwed your previous affiliates. As someone who never got more than 25%, I would have been perfectly happy to sacrifice one week worth of Oct. rake for 5% more the rest of the months.

edit-to say I am in no way connected to buster and he was not even my affiliate. I just think you guys are overreacting and are pretty quick to judge someone who is obviously in a pretty ugly situation.

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Heres the very basics of what i know about the affiliate business. An affiliate is set with a base earn rate, and a target that if they meet, they get a higher percentage. This is based on mgr. However, its not a game-over situtation ifyou fail to meet your target. From most affiliates ive talked to, you still get x percentage. Im assuming that busterstacks deal with empire works the same way.

While there might be additional costs accrued by running a medium-sized affiliate program, i can't imagine those costs are all-consuming, especially given the way buster has run his program (which up till now ive had nothing but a positive experience with). Even if those costs are going to consume the totality of any earn WE PLAYERS have made for busterstacks, before he reniggs n our aggreement, he should at least offer a little more trasnperency other than the one post he has made. There is a way he couldve handled this situation, and he chose pretty much the exact opposite.

Also. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? You honestly feel this way? You are okay with your affiliate just deciding to not pay you with no explanation? As someone who i have always suspected of being intelligent, clearly this is unexpected.

peace

john nickle