A couple of days ago I get two complaints about Rushmore and Cherry Red not paying out and customer service blowing smoke up these players for weeks. The first complaint from Cherry Red was for $250 and it was over a month after the withdrawal was initiated that he came to us for help. This player was smart. He got his $250 yesterday because he politely pestered the **** out of Rushmore customer service everyday for over a month until I believe they got sick of him and finally paid out his $250.
The other player hasn't been this lucky and unfortunately he is owed $12,000. He started his first withdrawal request on May 10th. He came to us for help on June 2nd. Now since the wonderful "New Management" came on board at C-Planet and Rushmore I haven't exactly had a stellar relationship like I did when Ben was there but I decided to try and help this player out with a simple email to an affiliate manager over there named Michael that emailed me earlier in May to ask me to "re-establish a healthy partnership" again with C-Planet and that "our processing is now good and stable for all 4 US brands" REALLY??? Is that why it takes Rushmore and Cherry Red over a month to pay players?
Okay, getting back to the player and why I made this post. So the player is owed $12,000. He has made 3 payout requests for $4000 each. He doesn't appear to be a trouble maker or bonus abuser. From what I can tell he has been very pleasant and patient with customer service. So like I said above I emailed this Michael the manager guy and damn if he isn't eager to help. Although it's Thursday and he says it will take awhile because he has a 3 day weekend starting Friday he assures me we will get some answers come Monday. In fact he goes on to say "Our players are the most important thing to us and an answer will be giving promptly, however I simply want to have all the details before contacting the player. What you've mentioned is quite a delay and does not sound like normal practice here". Wow I'm impressed. Maybe the new improved wonderfully amazing "New Management" isn't so bad after all. And then comes Monday (for Michael anyways) and I get this email from him...
Hi Rick -
Hope you're enjoying the weekend.
I've asked our support team to follow up with the player but unfortunately I can not get any further details from the operators. As we are just the marketing team, management has decided to keep distance between ourselves and direct contact with players.
Sorry I couldn't be of assistance here.
Best Regards,
Mike
Well I was having a good weekend until I got your email Mike so thanks for that. Is this something Mike apparently didn't know when he first started our conversation? The C-Planet of yesteryear loved to help me out with player issues and was NEVER separated from player issues. In fact awesome RTG groups like Mainstreet, Intertops and Affiliate Edge are very helpful when I come to them with player issues which is rare because they don't suck at paying out their valued players in a timely manor like C-Planet does.
Anyways I'm now done with my Sunday C-Planet rant. Just wanted other affiliates to know what is still going on with these casinos under the new management. I know most probably don't get complaint emails like I do so they might not be aware of this issue. And the fact that if you come to C-Planet for help in resolving player issues you won't get any. Or maybe it's just me.
Rick