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Please expand on this accusation.
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morgant 10/18/05 in A/R "Re: Anybody seen my Empire Affiliate Busterstacks":
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rakeback works like this. money in > money out. always. his tiers at empire are locked in. he gets XX%. and pays out 30%. he is always making more then he is paying out, unequivocably. he is trying to pull a fast one by this lame post. he clearly didnt realize, that some of us on here have 'forgotten more about the affiliate business then he will ever know'
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The key words in the above are "tiers ... locked in" which refuted Buster's excuse that he couldn't meet his payout rates because his volume tanked in the breakup.
I don't have personal knowledge of Empire's affiliate policies, but common sense tells me that morgant must be right. Empire could not afford to put its rakeback affiliates into negative cash flow at the exact moment it was desperately trying to hang on to as many high-volume players as it could. Multiple Empire rakeback affiliates dropping the site and defaulting on payments to players could have been the end of Empire.
Anyone with no life is recommended to read the whole story
here.