Grand Prive to pay missed payments
February 17th, 2010 by admin
The now non-operational Grand Prive affiliate marketing programme is ready to pay twenty-six affiliate payments that were disregarded when the service was closed just over 12 months gone due software problems. Grand Prive associate Program served sites including JupiterClub.com, GrandBayPoker.com and BellaVegas.com but was closed in December of 2008 after continuing software issues saw costs escalate and service levels become worse leading to break in operator Grand Prive’s reputation. Losses accumulated to the company that weren’t workable re the comparatively tiny earnings being derived and after some 12 months led on to a call to shut the programme, read a statement from the previous operator. Disputes over skipped payments surfaced straight after, which pushed Grand Prive to ask an inquiry by player protection and standards organisation eCommerce And Online Gaming Regulation And guarantee ( eCOGRA ).
Following a long and detailed study, eCOGRA has broadcast its discoveries, which can be viewed in full at eCOGRA.org. Notwithstanding 2 communication exercises conducted by Grand Prive before the programme shut, eCOGRA discovered that twenty-six affiliate payments of ‘relatively low amounts’ had been overlooked. The report covers communication of the inquiry to interested parties and the method utilised by eCOGRA’s team of chartered accountants and established the twenty-six failings had been unintended. Grand Prive apologizes for this unintended omission, has accepted the eCOGRA observations and will pay these accumulated commissions including any commission earned in the 13-month period to December 31, 2009 and ‘life of player’ adjustments, read the statement from Grand Prive. In addressing the compensation due to these twenty-six affiliates , the eCOGRA auditors managed to exactingly figure out the commission accumulating to each complainant, for the period December one, 2008, when the program closed, to December 31, 2009, when the inquiry commenced. To this has been added an amount to compensate for ‘life of player’.
The effects of this is that we have implied a standard lifetime price for every one of these players of at least 3.5 times the average lifetime of all Grand Prive players. The twenty-six associates will be paid the accumulated amounts by Feb twenty-six, 2010 and Grand Prive has closed the book on this unlucky and lamentable issue.
Management want to thank those affiliates who submitted claims for their info together with those associate representative bodies who aided the eCOGRA enquiry team by publicising the enquiry..
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