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Buster sees his players as "customers" -- he is in a business offering a service for a fee (the service is RB; the fee is the margin he takes). The market shifted under his feet -- he wasn't in a position to control the market. Guess what? This happens every freaking day in multiple different businesses. Welcome to business!

This shift in the market was not unforseen; Buster himself saw it coming:

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We all knew this day would come . . .

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Instead of pricing his service to accomdate this risk he shifts the risk entirely to his customers. Or, instead of acknowledging he made a mistake in not pricing this risk into his service, he decides that the risk was always borne by his customers. He doesn't acknowledge that the market shift has impaired / destroyed his business but it will do its very best to meet its commitments -- instead, he explcitly favors some customers over others and also favors his own business over his customers:

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so those that chose to jump ship will forfeit your payments to cover my obligation to my loyal customers. Any remaining funds will be used to cover website costs, employee payments, and referral bonii.

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But, never fear, the disappointd customer can rest assured that he/she is not getting the worst of it:

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I assure you this sucks much more for me than it does for you

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Awesome. A fantastic way to do business. If I were a player under him, I wouldn't go quietly in response to this -- I would kick up as big a fuss as I could, including contacting Empire and any other room his site advertised, including harassing him mercilessly until all his players were paid for the monthly period covering the split (I am assuming Empire pays on a monthly basis similar to other skins, especially since Buster's own post referenced his quota for the month), including harassing him further if he didn't give a month's notice that the service was ending or the cost (%) was changing therafter, and including trying to use the civil justice system to force him to comply with his existing obligations (and he could use the same system to avoid his obligations, with a cost of course).

His action / attitude sucks ass, and is both unethical and embarrassing. I have trouble understanding how an individual could approach this issue in the way his post implies he does; and I'd consider his reliability and trustworthiness to be shot completely, for everemore, if he doesn't reverse himself promptly and admit a terrible lapse in judgment.

I work in an industry where reputation is key; he'd be finished in my industry for taking this stand without backing away from it immediately (and he'd be justly shunned for taking it in the first place with a lot of work ahead to restore his reputation). And he should be finished in this indujstry if he doesn't back away gracefully; and he should be finished in any industry if his approach here is at all typical of approaches is in tough situations.