elscrabinda said:
Any non-webmasters who oppose a boycott?
good point.
although i agree that a boycott of honest playtech is unfair, however the problems are.
1) while they give their custom to playtech, its provides no incentive for playtech to clean up its act
2) honest playtechs add legitimacy to the dishonest ones, for example from UK point of view, many UK players start off playing casinos off their favourite sportsbook, someone could start off at say bet 365,betfred or the tote, then when they see another playtech, they might end joining having gained confidence with the playtech software and customer service, only to get a nasty shock.
3) although the honest playtech are honest at the moment, the fact remains that playtech disputes is a joke, so the fact remains that should any honest playtech get tempted over to the darkside as there is no effective disputes channel for the player.
in fact having a disputes channel that doesnt work, increases the chances of a casino turning dishonest if there is no sanction against them doing so. I'm sure that some of the dishonest playtechs started off as honest operations and only turned dishonest when they realised they could get away with it.
fact is that if there was a wholescale boycott of playtech, then honest playtechs would be getting punished for no reason of their own, however while innocent players are putting their money in day after day to dishonest playtechs, then it is the innocent players who are getting punished for no reason of their own.
so as the situation stands, if the status quo is maintained, then some innoncent players are going to be out of pocket, if there is a boycott then some innocent casinos are going to be out of pocket.
i think i know which scenario i would prefer.
maybe a possible solution for those innocent playtechs is to set up there own regulatory body, firstly this would send the message to playtech that their disputes channel is not worth the paper it is written on, it would give a easily recognisable separation from the dishonest playtechs and most importantly of all give the player somewhere to go should he ever encounter a problem.