Thank you for clarifying that for me.
EWX customer support told me that I can request a withdrawal if I like, but that it would take over the normal 10 days to process. Should individuals be requesting withdrawals or is it pointless since the funds are frozen anyways?
This is EXACTLY what Neteller told all US players when THEY had their funds frozen, and ex execs held hostage by the DoJ. This more or less CONFIRMS the story.
They are ONLY giving out this curious "advice" to keep the lie alive that this really IS an issue that thay actually have some power over.
If they had said you CAN'T withdraw right now, the lie would collapse.
You can request a withdrawal, but it will take far longer than 10 days, and NOT because they are overwhelmed and pulling extra shifts to get through the request, but because they have no liquid funds available, and most of the cashiers will have been sent home, with only a few in place to log the withdrawal requests under "whenever" for processing.
Until the fate of the frozen funds is decided, they cannot be moved. Neteller took the best part of 2 years from beginning to end, with US players having to wait a year of this for a deal to be struck that enabled the return of outstanding balances.
I note in the chat transcripts posted that CS NEVER give a straight answer to the direct question "is it true your funds have been seized". IF this was merely a "technical issue", they would be falling over themselves to make it absolutely clear that the rumours were NOT true, instead, when answering that question the human goes away, and has the "robot" speak the standard answer for them.
It is a bit like the suspect who says "no comment" under police interview, rather than admitting or denying anything put to them.
It is possible that EWX are hoping to buy time with this lie, and maybe the merchants are cooperating, because if the truth were confirmed, there WOULD be a stampede by US players to get their money out any way they can, and currently they are still "in time" to dispute some transactions with their banks. IF they can stall for long enough, the right to dispute the transactions will lapse.
Because of the roundabout way these transactions are made, withdrawals may NOT look like a "return of deposits" to the banks, and any dispute may result in the "chargeback" of GROSS deposits into EWX, and even those directly into casinos, with NO abatement for monies already paid out in withdrawals by other means.
The US government and banks are NOT going to care that merchants risk being driven out of business, the money will be back in the country, and the industry driven closer to extinction.
It is the industry that set these schemes up, and they should NOT be trying to lie their way out of a fix at the expense of players who are not told the TRUE degree of risk attached to the funds they currently have sitting around in various parts of this industrial "system".
Remember how Neteller panned out, and also remember "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on ME".
Light a BIG fire under EWX, and keep it going until they start telling the TRUTH, and give back the money they have tied up.
