I think it's interesting that those shouting "He should have got a warning message" earlier are, now that it appears he DID receive another warning message (when choosing his payment method), saying that it's "not enough".
Sorry, but it's almost laughable. It just proves that it's not about the facts of the case for some, but rather that the player lost $17k and they are just taking the player side because that's what they do.
I'm sure someone can think of a way to get a screenie of it. I know a way, but I'm not spending a dime to help someone else get out of a situation they placed themselves in, so someone else can do it if they really feel so passionately that the player has been ripped off. It would cost $20 at most.
What next? A phone call everyone withdraws to make sure they're sure? geez. I'm all for software functions to prevent "accidents" (although this was more ignorance than accident), but there has to be a limit. You can't stop everyone doing silly things, and if it IS the case that there was yet ANOTHER opportunity for the OP to avoid losing his money (#6 in reality, but #2 for those who don't accept the others) then I think the casino has done everything it can to stop the player making a mistake.
I also think it is odd that he lost his $17k, and then just went and cashed his comps and kept playing. Eh? Why wouldn't you wait until the issue had been resolved?
Still, the latest information to be revealed won't make a difference to the "casinos are evil" club, but a few logical and reasonable thinkers might re-visit their POV.
17K is a hell of a fine for a moment of stupidity. Seems it's OK for the wild west of the internet, but this would never happen in the real world without some serious grief from the authorities.
If it's OK for casinos to use "wild west" tactics, they should stop bleating about "advantage players" outsmarting them and getting away with the money before the casino cottons on. It's punishing Paul for the crimes of Peter for the sake of balancing the books - it's just not on.
All that is being asked, and it is VERY simple, is to unwind ONE stupid decision made by a customer who clearly didn't really understand the messages, however "clear", in that moment.
If Playtech pulled their finger out and wrote the software with players in mind, none of this could have happened. Playtech share the blame for having software that allows customers to make such silly decisions in a few seconds of madness.
We can no longer trust the "facts" from the rep, as there are now two different versions, one here, and another on askgamblers. Since these were extracted from the records of transactions and play, they should have presented the EXACT same trail of events, even if the wording was different.
Hi Mario
I have just checked your account with regards to the loss of your bonuses and winnings.
On the 26th of March at 14:41 you made a deposit of €500 where you received a bonus of €1000 which had had a wagering of 50 times = 50.000. After playing different games your end balance was €1.30 meaning that this bonus and its wagering were still active.
On the same day the 26th of March you made another deposit of €500 and received a bonus of €1000 which had a wagering of 50 times = 50.000. Your new balance was now €1,501.30.
Now since you didn’t finish the first bonus the wagering is still active and you have to clear the bonus wagering for the first bonus.
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On the 26th March you stopped playing and ended with a balance of €31.30 still with the 1st bonus active since you had not yet met the wagering conditions.
On the 31st of March you started playing with the €31.30 and stopped by the time your balance was down to €2.50 still with the 1st bonus active as you had still not yet met the wagering conditions.
Hereafter you made a new deposit of €500 and received the weekend jackpot bonus of €100. Your total balance is now €602.50 (remember you didn’t finish the wagering from the 1st bonus yet)
You then played Roulette which has a low stake % contribution and by the time you decided to make a withdrawal where you had €17,007.50 you had only wagered the first bonus for €14,526.25.
You mentioned that you were only allowed to withdraw €1500 and the reason for this is that you made three deposits of €500 each. As per our terms and conditions only the sum of the original deposit/s or remaining balance of the original deposit will be withdrawable.
Please note that you can see your transaction, bonuses and wagering history in the casino client.
The story given here makes considerable mention of the first bonus being active throughout, and the reduction of the balance to €1.30, rather than zero, being key.
This is the response from one of the Casino reps on askgamblers.
With regards to this complaint, I, as CasinoPlex representative have checked the history of this particular player and here are my findings :
On the 26th March 2013 player deposited 500 Euro and got bonus of 1000 Euro with 50x wagering requirement
He lost all the balance less 31,30 Euro without reaching the wagering requirements which were clearly stated in this offer.
On the 31st March 2013 the player played using the 31,30 Euro in his balance and deposited 500 EUR when the balance went down to 2,5 Euro and got another 100 Euro Bonus ( 50x wagering requirement ), so he started to play again with 602.50 Euro and with a wagering requirement of min 1000 to play.
Player decided to play on European roulette where Stake % Contribution is only 5% as stated at URL Not Found / Outdated it means that he had to wager another 20,000 Euro before withdrawing winnings.
He decided to withdraw at 04:02 GMT with a balance of €17,007.50 and system automatically cut 14,407.50 of winnings + 1,000 of first bonus + 100 of second bonus
Following that, the player got 362 Euro converting comp points in real money and continued to play at BlackJack Multihand 5 and now he has 12 Euro in his balance
All is totally clear and right also because, apart from the clear rules stated on the CasinoPlex website, where rules are stated very well, player can:
1) Check, all the time in cashier menu, the status of wagering required, wagering reached , bonus balance and real balance.
2) Each time a player accepts a bonus , a pop up tells him there is a wagering requirement attached and he is free to accept or refuse the bonus
3) When a player tries to effect a withdrawal, it is clearly stated in each withdrawal method that if he withdraws without reaching the wagering required, bonuses and winnings will be deducted,
The message also invites the player to check in the bonus section in the cashier menu to see exactly how much he has to play or if reached, the wagering requirement
4) Player can check in cashier all the history, bet by bet , transaction by transaction
Firstly, all mention of the first bonus, the WR from which he never completed throughout the entire train of events. This is a pretty important omission in the submission to askgamblers, and dramatically alters the WR from being based on 2000 of bonuses, to being based on 1000 of bonuses at the point the balance got down to €2.50
In one account the WR carried, in the other, it didn't. If it didn't carry from the €1.30 in the askgamblers account, it shouldn't have carried from the €2.50 either, so only the WR from the €100 bonus should be what matters.
It is not clear whether or not this changes the calculations sufficiently that the play after claiming the €100 was more than the WR on that €100.
Next, having omitted all mention of the first bonus, the askgamblers account brings up something that was clearly irrelevant in the account given here, the comp points redemption and play. It is actually completely irrelevant, as it takes place after the account is zeroed out, and seems to have been added to make it look as though the player was unconcerned about the loss of the €17K and simply carried on playing. Why therefore fail to mention this here?
The key difference between the accounts is the WR from the first bonus, uncompleted in the first account, and not relevant in the second (so presumably zeroed due to the balance being only €1.30).