Brian Cullingworth accuses GPWA members of having “payment agendas”

Brian Cullingworth accuses GPWA members of having “payment agendas”

Brian Cullingworth, owner of online gambling news and trivia service Infopowa, is a long-standing advocate of eCOGRA. eCOGRA is currently embroiled in the Grand Prive fiasco, as a result of an attempted audit of the Grand Privè affiliate programme, which left all affected members with derisory compensation offered a year after the programme's closure.


Cullingworth is touchy on the subject of eCOGRA, as the organisation receives heavy criticism from many industry observers on the basis of being nothing but a front for the software providers on whose behalf they claim to offer assurances of quality.


Touchiness notwithstanding, Cullingworth's latest attack is something of a surprise. After a couple of flare ups in the Casinomeister Grand Prive discussion, he came out with the following remarkable allegation of financial impropriety:

3rd March 2010

...the hallmarks of a number of GPWA posters with personal as well as payment agendas.

Cullingworth is no novice to the "agenda" broadside, the allegation that argument is made from a biased or compromised position - I have received many such myself when arguing with him about eCOGRA and the general failings to the player of the online gambling industry.


However, to accuse multiple members of a given forum of webmasters as having "payment agendas" is step into new territory, even for this old campaigner. What is the implied financial impropriety of which Cullingworth is accusing people? Does he have any evidence to back up the allegation?


Almost certainly he does not, as noone who has criticised either eCOGRA or the supportive stance that a handful of industry representatives have given to their mishandling of the Grand Prive "audit" has any interest beyond fairness to all injured parties.


Cullingworth should be a little less cavalier with his public allegations of financial compromise, particularly when they are plainly unfounded and without a shred of evidence to support them.

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