Hiya. I use to use Neteller, then they stopped letting USA players use them. I even had the Neteller debit card, and no issues at all with them.
Since then, i have use moneybookers, but then they also stopped letting USA players have accounts. This then left click2pay, and e wallet xpress. I never left money in them any longer than required to actually allow them to verify the funds. I almost always only used them to deposit into the casino, and then got a check from the casino when withdrawing.
The Powers to be, will shut down e wallets, before they try to stop a Casino from accepting USA players. I never had more than $1000 in any e wallet for the last several years. As long as the Fee from a Casino to send me a check, is a lot less than the Fee from the e wallet, to put the money back into my bank acct., I would rater wait for the check vs paying for the wire transfer.
Players in the USA are in a different position to the rest of us. If the authorities crack down on an ewallet, funds are frozen overnight, and can take months, or years, to retrieve by agreement after any legal case.
For the rest of us, particularly where our governments are NOT trying to stop internet gambling, it is down to how well the ewallet has performed. The longer you are with one, the safer you may feel leaving higher sums with them.
Neteller VIPs can have limits as high as 125,000 If this was from a substantial win, I would want much of it out to a safer account, a bank covered by the Financial Compensation Scheme. I would happily leave up to around 15K to 20K in Neteller until I needed it for something, but I WOULD be taking chunks out to bring the balance down if I didn't think it likely I might need it for casinos.
Neteller seem to run promotions where credit card deposits are FREE, so with this in mind, I can keep lower amounts in Neteller still, and know that I can wait for one of these promos, and top it up for free if necessary.
Neteller do not seem to like "unusual" flows of money, which is what happened when casinos took deposits by card, but could ONLY pay back to Neteller. From Neteller's point of view, I was making an unusual level of profit from gambling, because they only saw a fraction of the transactions going the other way. This lead to verification checks, and could be one reason some players get "dicked around" by ewallets.
Although I pay to withdraw back to my bank, as a VIP this is refunded at the end of the month, so I do NOT pay the 5 charge in the end. A portion of currency exchange fees is also refunded at the end of the month.
If I started out afresh with a new ewallet, I would NOT be happy to leave large sums lying around till they had proved themselves.
I Would Just Like Your Opinions.
