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[foofoolemar]

Happy days are here again tra la lar.

Oops Im sorry we are not allowed to have fun and must be very very straight faced when discussing matters.


There, Bryan has spoken, Jetset has spoken, Mary never shuts up

SO HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

[foofoolemar]

Jad are you still out there?

[Casinomeister]

Hi Lucky,

My time is limited as well, but I'll try to answer what I can.

The OPA is not as you believe "disorganized" but as I mentioned before, many key players were out of the net this past month. As you are certainly aware, when one returns from any absence, be it vacation or business, shit piles up. Well, everyone has been busy getting their "shit" together before tackling OPA issues. Don't forget, what pays the bills is what the committee memebers do besides the OPA. So what seems to be disorganization on your end is simply the committee members catching up on theirs.

Bonus hunters? We all have differing opinions about bonus hunters, but what I believe what has been expressed by the OPA is that if players play by the rules of the bonus, they are a bonus player. A bonus "abuser" is one who is out to scam a casino. Now the objective of a casino is to build a player base, having the same players return as often as possible. Most casinos have some sort of loyalty program, and they're stupid if they don't. As you can tell, most casinos that have problems with players or financial woes are ones that have poorly written bonus rules, or promote programs that are just "too good to be true". So when it comes to bonus hunters, the ball is in the court of the casinos to handle these players as well as possible. Most players play for bonuses. It's as simple as that.

Steve has been around, his last post here was only a few days ago. I would not go into a tizzy in his absence.

And yes, I am Mr. Admin, Bryan with a Y

~b

[jad]

foo foo
yes im still very far out there
hows your weekend goings??
tell fee fee i said hi
ok off to watch football

[jad]

hey foofoo
how long does it take you to get your hair like that???

[foofoolemar]

Hey Jad babes nice to see you are still about, Im off out shortly myself Im going to the Heath hopefully to get some business with some gentlemen folk.

Oh well better go and wash my bits

foofoo xx (not feefee that is some other dizzy cracked mare)

[foofoolemar]

Its a wig blossom, Im a 56 year old bald man under neath xx

[mary]

"How does the OPA balance the needs of members who are bonus hunters vs. courting casinos and having them see the OPA not solely as a bonus-hunter club?"

That's it exactly, Lucky, very well expressed. The OPA has as casino members many casinos that don't offer much in the way of bonuses and don't generate much in the way of complaints. Until Cryptologic casinos started offering their weird "handcuff the player" bonuses, we didn't have any for them at all!

We are in a difficult position with respect to the casinos that do offer large bonuses, and are continuing to do so, because they are also having increasingly lengthy payment processing delays. This affects not just the "bonus hunter" members, but all players. Our "bonus hunter" members help enormously in keeping casinos honest, which benefits our non-bh players & the other member casinos; but, it also lends rhetorical ammunition to those casinos that want to weasel out of paying up--see discussion on www.winneronline.com and www.bj21.com

There are also the "bonus hunters" who will do what they can to suppress other players' *collecting* so that they can continue to milk the cash cow by supporting casinos that offer high bonuses. They want to keep them in business. You'll see them bashing the OPA on one forum and giving out advantage play advice on another!

Yes, Steve has the most say in advertising. This is because of his affiliation with Casino Gazette. He has also assumed the most legal and financial liabilities that goes along with this.

I, for example, am much freer to express my support for our "bonus hunter" members because of my position as researcher. Maybe I don't see much discussion of that particular OPA service because it's going so smoothly (so far)!

I invite members to go over to www.winneronline.com and read some of the threads about Gambling Online magazine. Frankly, I was pretty proud of myself, to see somebody who gets paid to keep up on the industry admit that he can't...as well as I know I do. That's an OPA service too, guys.

[lucky]

Mary, good post. Thank you.

I do want to ask you to clarify one thing though. You said:

"I, for example, am much freer to express my support for our "bonus hunter" members because of my position as researcher...!"


This leads me to believe that the OPA as a whole, or by dictation from Steve, doesnt want to explicitly support bonus-hunters. I say this because by the words you chose, it seems that it is frowned upon to express support for bonus-hunters.

Can I assume this is true? Im not trying to twist your words, mind you, just want a clarification.

[foofoolemar]

There are also the "bonus hunters" who will do what they can to suppress other players' *collecting* so that they can continue to milk the cash cow by supporting casinos that offer high bonuses. They want to keep them in business. You'll see them bashing the OPA on one forum and giving out advantage play advice on another!


Mary the above statement is pure poetry, well done, now guilty parties go away and lick your wounds