I did indeed answer Rick via PM. Rick has expressed his views on this many of times and so I preferred to keep our exchanges private.
I should however have given an answer publicly too.
Sub affiliates were "taken away" (I have no proof that they were or were not taken away) many years ago. The reason I have no proof is because not one person who was on the marketing team back in 2004/05 are currently working for totesport.
Through research I have done, I believe if sub affiliates we indeed "taken away" it was due to the fact that we had to change affiliate software providers to Orbis, which simply didn't have the sub affiliate functionality at the time and still doesn't.
We are now with Income Access as the Orbis system simply wasn't good enough, lack of sub affiliates being a prime example. As we all know, Income Access does have sub affiliate capabilities and we have no plans to ever move to a software that does less than the current software.
Perhaps the decision was taken in the past the the benefits of the Orbis system outweighed the lack of sub affiliate functionality. Clearly a decision like this would never need to be made again.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Dean
Dean Leyland
Affiliate Marketing Manager @ Sky Betting & Gaming