vinylweatherman
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- Joined
- Oct 14, 2004
- Location
- United Kingdom
Perhaps it would be easier just not to accept Neteller and Skrill as deposit options, then there would be no need to worry about trying to find a way to prevent players falling into a trap, nor would players need to worry because they would be FORCED to use an alternative method of deposit if they wanted to play at the casino.
Given that casinos use bonuses as a marketing tool, they should accept that the majority of their customers will be taking them. Neteller therefore only caters to the small minority of players who don't take bonuses, so for the sake of the majority forcing this minority to use cards is the moral thing to do, and will not be much of a dent in a casino that is targeting players who use cards.
Since a recent EU directive, card fees have been capped at a low level, far lower than the kinds of fees Neteller are used to charging, and which are not affected by this EU directive. Casinos who charge 2.5% for card deposits are not paying 2.5% to the card issuer any longer, the EU directive put a stop to that.
Previously, casinos would try to push players AWAY from using cards because of the high fees, in fact, the online casino industry itself created Neteller specifically to process gambling transactions and nothing else, and also to be offshore so that the US banks could not get in the way of the transactions. It's not the same Neteller we have now, but it still has the primary purpose of supporting online gambling transactions and acting as a storage wallet for players.
It seems that casinos want to kill off their own creation and have us all using our bank cards. This may be fine now, but it puts the industry at the mercy of the banks, who are increasingly regarding gambling purchases as "high risk" because they are the ones holding the bad debt when a gambler gets out of his depth and loses the money and can't pay off the card bill.
Given that casinos use bonuses as a marketing tool, they should accept that the majority of their customers will be taking them. Neteller therefore only caters to the small minority of players who don't take bonuses, so for the sake of the majority forcing this minority to use cards is the moral thing to do, and will not be much of a dent in a casino that is targeting players who use cards.
Since a recent EU directive, card fees have been capped at a low level, far lower than the kinds of fees Neteller are used to charging, and which are not affected by this EU directive. Casinos who charge 2.5% for card deposits are not paying 2.5% to the card issuer any longer, the EU directive put a stop to that.
Previously, casinos would try to push players AWAY from using cards because of the high fees, in fact, the online casino industry itself created Neteller specifically to process gambling transactions and nothing else, and also to be offshore so that the US banks could not get in the way of the transactions. It's not the same Neteller we have now, but it still has the primary purpose of supporting online gambling transactions and acting as a storage wallet for players.
It seems that casinos want to kill off their own creation and have us all using our bank cards. This may be fine now, but it puts the industry at the mercy of the banks, who are increasingly regarding gambling purchases as "high risk" because they are the ones holding the bad debt when a gambler gets out of his depth and loses the money and can't pay off the card bill.