OK...
Just signup up and tried to claim the NP25 coupon and it says:
Incentive Scheme is not allowed for your Marketing Code
Hmmm. I have emailed support lets hope they answer!
Anyone else get this message?
** Doesn't matter - the games are exclusively WW so I can't play them. How stupid. I can walk 5 minutes down the road and play them but not in on the other side of the world via the internet. *sigh* It isnt even illegal to gamble online over here.
This illustrates the complete muddle and the lack of logic with various game suppliers' policies. You can play them with a 5 minute walk down the road, but not at a perfectly legal online casino. I can play them online, but I have to fly to VEGAS to play them in a casino (I don't know if UK casinos offer this type of game now, in the past they have not).
Even with other suppliers added, there will STILL be players who feel they are not being taken seriously, because they will be able to sign up, but "most" games will not be available to them, and they will NOT be able to understand the logic behind it because they are able to DEPOSIT quite legally. The only players likely to understand are those from the USA, as they are used to this, and KNOW that depositing is illegal under UIGEA, and that they are only able to do so because implementation of UIGEA is not perfect, and nor will it be.
You can not reject the sign up bonus if you have either clicked a link with a bonus code embedded in the link or you have entered a bonus code in to the "Account" section of our website.
This amounts to involuntarily forcing a bonus on a player. They CANNOT know what has been "secretly" encoded into a link to the casino, although they CAN be said to have VOLUNTARILY accepted the bonus of they type the code in themselves. Many players are unaware that affiliate tags are "encoded" into the links they follow, thus will be equally unaware of any other "secret code" embedded into a link.
Standards for accreditation require that player can choose to opt out of bonuses, and this is NOT the case where they follow a link with a bonus code secretly embedded within it.
Even when a bonus gets automatically added, it should be a simple matter of the player contacting support to have it removed, which should not be a problem provided the player has not placed any bets after receiving the bonus.
This assumes that Spin32 is seeking to achieve these standards.
The error messages being given by the software need to be addressed.
WTF does this mean
Incentive Scheme is not allowed for your Marketing Code
This is a message going to the USER, not a console operator working for the casino, it needs to be in "plain English" so that the player can understand what the problem is. It also contradicts the statement:-
PLEASE Note if you have received a £/€25 No Deposit Bonus you can also gain a 100% First Time Deposit Bonus up to £/€100 plus you can get a second Deposit Bonus of 50% up to £/€50.
The information seems to imply that the free 25 is open to every new player, but many are having one problem after another with it. This gives a bad first impression, and could drive customers away BEFORE they start depositing. MOST players will not win anything from the free 25, and are more likely to deposit up to 100 for the initial deposit bonus, which many will STILL lose on.
The ONLY mention in the terms regarding ineligibilty for the free 25 is:-
6. Please note that players from China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Thailand, Brazil, Romania, Poland, South Korea, Mexico and Dominican Republic are not eligible to participate in this promotion.
Finally
I am also puzzled to hear we have a German Casino website as I know it’s only in English. Our poker site is in German plus many other languages.
This could be the answer to this mystery. The player who reported the "German casino" asked for an English version because they didn't understand German. It is therefore likely that they saw the German POKER site, didn't understand the text, and figured it was the casino by "looking at the pictures". From this was born the idea that a German version of the casino existed.