Style of Play
If we are to be classed as "bonus abusers", due not to "taking the piss", but simply by playing the games to the best of our ability while meeting T & C, then we deserve to be told up front IN THOSE T & C, what "style of play" will get us kicked off the bonusing list. It is certainly not clear!
I have been kicked off of bonus lists from the rogues, where "style of play" that gets a ban is simply having won! Others, I have just not lost enough.
While many will not believe this, the most extreme "kick off" from regular bonuses was meted out to me by Ruby Fortune. While it was explained as an "administrative error", I find it painfull that it has taken more than a month to correct this "administrative error", yet they requested, processed, and validated all my documents in a record breaking 12 hours!!!!!!! (The actual mailing and confirmation of valid receipt was done in 4 hours, the rest was the finance dept validating them). At the time, I was 4000 down on deposits of 9000, hardly abusive play!!!!! I had also made a number of deposits beyond the minimum for the bonuses, and this is quite dificult as only 2 days of 7 do not qualify as deposit bonus days.
This week though, I received an E-mail stating that the investigation was complete, and they had corrected this error. If so, the next mailer should go out Friday, and I should be Gold, having earned that for play in February. I will keep an open mind till tomorrow before I cry "liar!", as the fix may only have been made on Wednesday, and I had not played since the debacle over the check and cannot know if the bonuses started working soon after and the problem was only the mailer.
Littlewoods, (earlier in thread), are STILL INVESTIGATING the issue I raised on 13th December 2005. I have phoned support at least once a week through December and early January, but all they could do was E-mail managers (they cannot phone). I have never had a response, but the 50 reward still works on my account.
Clearly, if only depositing the min for the bonus gets you flagged, well, overdeposit, wager for the bonus, and make a bigger withdrawal!!! Silly, but it shows that you have made money available should you go "on tilt" one day, and they can hardly say that you are banned for gambling responsibly with your deposit and withdrawing when you felt you had used up your luck!
Depositing at Intercasino and then regularly withdrawing before playing, that would be "bonus abuse", even though within the terms, it is playing in "bad faith", as the withdraw at any time rule is not meant to allow this as routine, but is there to allow a player to get "cold feet" about playing if they feel out of their depth and at least quit with something. After doing this a few times, you are a customer with no possible value to them as they have no chance of winning, just as players would not like a game where you could either lose, or win back your original stake, but could never get ahead.