There are three main reasons as to why we have taken the hard decision to blacklist Vegas Affiliates and urge all webmasters who are considering working with this program, to proceed with extreme caution. 

Earlier in 2009, Vegas Affiliates decided to change the terms and conditions retroactively which their existing partners signed up to. There were two specific areas which these introduced changes meant  had a negative impact on affiliate earnings.

Firstly there was the bundling of all online casinos making up the Mini Vegas Group which Vegas Affiliates is responsible for marketing - previously each casino was ring fenced from each other - meaning a negative balance on one casino, would not affect commission earned across all other casinos. This was applied retroactively which means it also applied to affiliates who had signed up with Vegas Affiliates under the old terms, whereby each casino was ring fenced from each other.

Secondly, Vegas Affiliates decided to also introduce player quotas which again was initially going to be applied retroactively. In layman terms, this meant if a webmaster promoting Vegas Affiliates failed to produce the required minimum number of new depositing players over a 60 day period, Vegas Affiliates could then remove all existing players from that webmaster's affiliate account.

Thankfully after much negotiation led by affiliate webmasters, Vegas Affiliates have decided not to introduce this term retroactively. However for all new affiliates signing up to Vegas Affiliates, quotas are now written into the terms and conditions of the affiliate program contract.

Online Casino Reviewer deems both moves made by Vegas Affiliates as predatory and on their own  they would be enough reason for us to recommend to webmasters to avoid promoting Vegas Affiliates. However these predatory changes which Vegas Affiliates have implemented are nothing compared to what we have subsequently heard.

Affiliate Guard Dog has recently also marked Vegas Affiliates as a rogue program and in this thread it is stated:

"Vegas Affiliates have been known to threaten affiliates who speak against the program on forums or in other media. Affiliates who are earning with their program currently have been threatened to remove the blacklistings or lose their player base (income)."

Sebastian the Affiliate Manager for Vegas Affiliates then commented in the same thread:

"Engineer was asked to refrain from posting negative and libellous comments about VegasAffiliates or we would have been well within our rights to close his account. Note that we did not close his account but merely warned him after numerous unfounded and opinionated comments that were stated as fact and clearly were not."

Now from what has been detailed by the affiliate Engineer and other webmasters on forums and websites - are commentaries on the actions taken by Vegas Affiliates. Therefore nothing libellous has actually been written, only the facts. The last time I checked, certainly in the United Kingdom where Online Casino Reviewer is based, stating the facts is not libellous.

We therefore deem the strong arm tactics of threatening legal action and account closure used by Vegas Affiliates to intimidate their partners as a rogue and bullying action. In fact it sets out in our opinion Vegas Affiliates as the most affiliate unfriendly program to work with in the online gambling industry.

Vegas Affiliates is responsible for the marketing of the following online casino properties: Grand Hotel Casino ~ Vegas Joker Casino ~ Vegas Slot Casino ~ Colosseum Casino ~ Vegas Country Casino ~ Vegas 7 Casino