The mods have ZERO influence on who advertises here or who stays. None of us here sell ads, solicit for them or have any say in when someone gets pulled down early or not. I think RPM might do a little but no other mod gets near the marketing end of this. If any of us feel strongly we can go to Ken with it but that is not our area of responsibility. Not passing the buck just filling you in, General is telling you what he knows. Shrink will have the more informed answer than any of us. He is out of town but I will inform him of this so he can find out what he can. Since we have a lot of you guys playing there and they were an advertiser here at one point that's the least we can do.
Personally not to be hard on SBT but I am not keen on growing pains as a reason for this. Money channels are the lifeblood of any business like this. Every single pay-out you do (or don't do) is a direct reflection on you and your business. Nothing else you can do will be more damaging to your business than not paying as agreed upon on demand. I can buy growing pains as an excuse for a lot of things but money channels are usually developed very early and used regularly enough there should be very few problems as a result of growth. Slow site? Undertrained employees? Not enough parking outside? Sure I can stretch the growing pains response for those, for folks not getting paid it's a little harder to swallow. I suppose it's possible to have the money available and not be able to fulfill your obligations in a timely manner but that would be representative of poor management at the very least. One thing you got to know in dealings with the public, perception is reality. When dealing with gamblers it's even more important as we are more cynical than most to begin with. You can have all the money in the world but if you slow pay people you may as well be out scrounging up post up money as far as the players are concerned. With the level of uncertainty out here to be flush and not getting pay-outs done is almost unexcusable. Come on Barry, we all can make mistakes but let's take care of this if you can.
In fairness to both the players and SBT let's understand we are all just throwing opinions out at this point. That is just how that growing pains comment struck me, it could be true. One thing for certain I admittedly do not have any inside information on this whatsoever. Until Ken or someone more informed can shed some light we should probably give him the benefit of the doubt. Good luck all.
Personally not to be hard on SBT but I am not keen on growing pains as a reason for this. Money channels are the lifeblood of any business like this. Every single pay-out you do (or don't do) is a direct reflection on you and your business. Nothing else you can do will be more damaging to your business than not paying as agreed upon on demand. I can buy growing pains as an excuse for a lot of things but money channels are usually developed very early and used regularly enough there should be very few problems as a result of growth. Slow site? Undertrained employees? Not enough parking outside? Sure I can stretch the growing pains response for those, for folks not getting paid it's a little harder to swallow. I suppose it's possible to have the money available and not be able to fulfill your obligations in a timely manner but that would be representative of poor management at the very least. One thing you got to know in dealings with the public, perception is reality. When dealing with gamblers it's even more important as we are more cynical than most to begin with. You can have all the money in the world but if you slow pay people you may as well be out scrounging up post up money as far as the players are concerned. With the level of uncertainty out here to be flush and not getting pay-outs done is almost unexcusable. Come on Barry, we all can make mistakes but let's take care of this if you can.
In fairness to both the players and SBT let's understand we are all just throwing opinions out at this point. That is just how that growing pains comment struck me, it could be true. One thing for certain I admittedly do not have any inside information on this whatsoever. Until Ken or someone more informed can shed some light we should probably give him the benefit of the doubt. Good luck all.
