Casino Rewards Group B/S bonus wagering

[roygen]

Had a $20 free chip given from Casino Rewards Group , Had a decent win and my bonus balance changed, Here is my conversation with live chat:

You are now chatting with Lucy.

Lucy: Hi ! Welcome to the Rewards Loyalty Team, how are you doing?

Roy: Hi- I was given a free chip of $20 with a playtrough of x30 which is $600

Roy: I have just been told that the playthrough is $3900 ?? Impossible

Roy: Can you check for me please

Roy: Golden Tiger Casino

Lucy: Please hold for a moment while I check the details in your account.

Lucy: Roy, you have a bonus balance of $130 in your account

Lucy: 130 x 30 = 3900

Roy: Nooooo

Roy: I started with a $20 free chip from casino rewards

Roy: That is wrong

Lucy: you dont think the wagering should apply to the $110 then?

Roy: I only had a $20 free chip

Roy: what $110?

Roy: whare did $130 come from ?

Lucy: Please hold for a moment while I check the details in your account.

Lucy: You must have had previous unfulfilled wagering requirements on your account

Lucy: from past bonuses

Lucy: let me go trhopugh your history

Lucy: i will try to find them

Roy: You are joking

Lucy: I kidd you not, sir

Lucy: Its fairly common

Roy: Congratulations Roy, We have noticed you have not been playing with us for the last few days and as a gesture of good will and to welcome you back to the Casino we would like to offer you $20 AbsolutelyFree so you can keep enjoying the action. Best of Luck! Best of Luck! To redeem these points login to your CasinoRewards account by clicking the following link or paste the link into your browser:

Lucy: OK

Lucy: You are still bound by the wagering requirements though

Roy: Wow

Lucy: OK, i can see what has happened

Lucy: you have only ever purchased on this account once

Lucy: then you claimed three sucessive bonuses

Lucy: without purchasing again

Lucy: those bonuses accumulated wagering requirements

Lucy: and so this is why when you won with the bonus, it went into the bonus balance

Lucy: rasing it from $20 to the $130 it is at this time

Roy: So is it going to go up again and again ?

Lucy: No, it appears to be capped at $3900

Roy: Ok thanks

Roy: Is there any other secrets attached to this bonus ??

Lucy: Not really - we dont normally mean for our nice gestures to go bad

Roy: Any max cashout or anything like that

Lucy: we certainly didnt intend for this to occur

Lucy: No, there is no max cashout

Lucy: just the minimum, which is $50

Roy: Ok then , Thanks

Lucy: Is there anything else at all that I may be able to assist you with Roy?

Roy: Thats it thanks

Lucy: We are always here to chat! Come back anytime if there is anything more that you need, or even if it is just to say hi. Your satisfaction and happiness are our priority! Please click here to complete our Exit Survey. Thank you very much. Goodbye

Chat session has been ended by the site operator.

[vinylweatherman]

She didn't seem to sure what happened. You should have stressed that you had a zero balance when you claimed the $20, and asked her whether the WR accumulated even if you bust out. They DO naturally accumulate if you stack bonuses, even depost ones. WR have only ever been cancelled if you reach ZERO.

It is possible that they have altered the system so that they STILL carry over if you take SUCESSIVE free chips, without depositing.

She was more honest than other chat reps, but it does seem that this issue is some kind of dirty little MGS secret that they don't like to talk about, and try to fudge plausible replies to players so that they don't probe too deeply.

Perhaps a complaint to eCogra would be in order, so that this dirty secret does at least get admitted to by MGS, and that it is NOT just players not understanding how bonuses work, which is what they would like us to believe.

This has happened before, and when called out here, reps have eventually said it was a bug, and corrected it, yet YEARS later it keeps on happening. Looks more like a scam to me, correct when noticed to the extent that the player cannot be convinced they are wrong, but kept in place because if the player fails to notice, or accepts it as something that is supposed to happen, the casino has much less chance of having the player cash out.

[roygen]

My balance was Zero when I accepted the bonus, to be honest I did not make to much of a fuss about it as it was a free chip, just hope this does not happen with a deposit match bonus hence my posting here to make players aware.

I had a great run though and still made the $3900 wagering off the $20 chip and cashed out $175 - just hope they follow through and pay up

Cheers

[slotplayer]

I haven't played there in a long time so maybe its changed but don't you login into a central page and select which casino you want the bonus chips redeemed to? That is how I used to it.

If so, its hard to believe you would miss having $110 in bonus chips in there.

[roygen]

I haven't played there in a long time so maybe its changed but don't you login into a central page and select which casino you want the bonus chips redeemed to? That is how I used to it.

If so, its hard to believe you would miss having $110 in bonus chips in there.

Yes your correct- Logged in to Golden Tiger Casino and from the Casino Rewards Page chose to redeem the $20 free chip at Golden Tiger.

My bonus balance was $20 at first then I had a big hit on Jungle Sevens Slot and after I posted the screen shot here I went back to play and noticed that my bonus balance had changed from $20 to $130.

[XOXOXOXOXOX]

i had similar experience with one of bellerock casinos. I received 25$ bday chips and all wining from the first game i played (about 100) became a bonus. So i had to do crazy x120 or something playthru. I have not deposited prior to that in a long time so i don't remember if i've taken any bonuses before but my balance was 0. Anyways, its was the hottest streak i ever experienced with a mg casino and i cashout 1000 $ for my bday. Luckily they don't limit winnings from free chips.

[incrediblestuff]

wow almost rogue like: zero balance is zero balance to me, of course no way in h*ll should any playthrough from lost deposits or bonus be carried over, thats totally ridiculous.
anyway glad you still made playthrough.

[roygen]

Anyone ever heard of funds SENT to Neteller taking 2 buiness days to arrive ?

I Withdrew last Sunday, It is now the 3rd business day, Here is my chat with Live support after I had received an email saying that my withdrawal has been processed to Neteller :



You are now chatting with Jen.

Jen: Hi ! Welcome to the Rewards Loyalty Team, how are you doing?

Jen: I haven't heard from you for a while. Do you still want to continue the chat?

you: Hi Jen- I received an email today saying that my withdrawal has bee processed to Netteller but it is not in my Neteller account ?

you: This email is to let you know your recent withdrawal has been processed.

Jen: The email said we had sent the funds to your Netteller account?

you: Please see below for a breakdown of your payments.

you: Account Currency Amount Paid Type Delivery Time USD 175.00 NeTeller 1-2 days

Jen: It takes 2 business days for payments to arrive with Neteller

Jen: For security purposes, can you confirm your date of birth, ZIP code, email address and phone number please ?

you: But it says AMOUNT PAID ?

you: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

you: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

you: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Jen: Thank you.

Jen: Please hold for a moment while I check the details in your account.

you: Thanks

Jen: No worries

you: Neteller is INSTANT - it does not take to days to arrive after being sent ?

Jen: Okay, so we sent 40+135 to your neteller on the 16 of June

you: ????????????

Jen: It can take up to 2 business days for the funds to appear in your neteller account

you: I have not been paid anything

Jen: Yes, as I said it takes up to 2 business days

you: I deposited 40

you: You just said - Jen: Okay, so we sent 40+135 to your neteller on the 16 of June

you: My reply is thatI have never recieved any payment from the casino

Jen: Yes, we sent a total of 175 on the 16 of June, as it takes 2 business days to receive the funds to Neteller, it is normal you do not yet have the funds in your account

Jen: It is only the 17th today

Jen: If you do not receive the funds by Monday, please contact us

Jen: Is there anything else at all that I may be able to assist you with ?

you: I will check again tomorrow- Thanks

Jen: No problem, as I said, 2 business days time will be Monday

Jen: And you can always come back to check with us

you: Nooooooooooooo

you: I withdrew on Sunday , Over 2 business days already

Jen: Roy, we sent the funds on the 16th

Jen: When you request a withdrawal, it automatically goes through a 2 day pending period

you: If you check my chat history, you will see- I have the screenshots I can show you of the withdrawal and the chat

Jen: The 2 business days with Neteller start from the 16th, which is when we sent the funds

you: They have not been sent- NETELLER is instant

you: No funds have been sent

Jen: Roy can you please listen to what I am saying, Neteller is instant for deposits, however withdrawals take 2 business days to arrive, the funds were sent on the 16th, so it is normal that you do not have the funds in your account as of yet

you: actually Jen it is not normal, Neteller is instant, I have deposited and withdrawn to Neteller for years now, and have never heard of such a thing.

Jen: Roy, I can see you have never withdrawn from Casino Rewards, and I can assure you it is normal for withdrawals to take 2 business days, as it says in the email you received from us confirming we had sent the funds on the 16th.

you: I have actually been payed within minutes from some casinos after making a withdrawal

you: If it had been sent to Neteller the funds would be in my account now

you: OK- I will check on Friday

you: Thank you

Jen: Roy, rest assured the funds were sent on the 16th

Jen: We are available 24/7 if you have any worries about your withdrawal, but I can assure you everything is in order

Jen: Can I help you with anything else at this stage?

you: No thanks

Jen: Okay, have a good day then and dont hesitate to contact us again

[vinylweatherman]

Load of BOLLOCKS. Once SENT, Neteller is INSTANT either way. What may take "x business days" is where the funds are MARKED for processing to Neteller, but the processing between merchant account and player account has not been actioned. Many casinos process withdrawals in batches, rather than individually, so any delay is down to the addition of the withdrawal to the next batch, and the actual processing of said batch. The longest this delay should be is 24 hours, for casinos who only process a single batch per day. Longer delays means they don't always process every day, and may only process a batch once it has reached a certain size.

Ask Neteller, THEY will tell you it's instant once they receive the command from the merchant to transfer the funds to the player. Neteller themselves HAVE NO INBUILT DELAY, the system is "real time".

[lost2much]

I wonder if the lag time had to do with the stupid CR rule that all withdrawls sit pending for 48 hours. 48 hours on top of the processing time does drag out the whole withdrawl process. I would love to hear from a CR rep as to why they have such a clearly underhanded procedure in place. Even Stevie Wonder can see it is all just a ploy to get us to reverse withdrawls. Anyone at CR care to elaborate??? I hope so, but unfortunately think not!