I got TWO, both on the same day. Says a great deal about their attitude to the environment
Funny that a group that once HATED the British because we are all a bunch of frauds and abusers now makes such a HUGE effort to pretend they now LIKE us, and want to shower us with all the bonuses that they always promised, but never delivered once they got you snared.
They got rid of Microgaming overnight (Literally, even Microgaming and Kahnawake didn't have a clue what had happened), and brought forth this inferior software so that it could continue to fleece the US market. Now they expect the rest of us to come back to this US facing software. Why would we, when we can play at casinos using "proper" software. They should have KEPT MGS, and moved US players over to "level 11", just like 99% of all the other MGS casinos did with their US players (the 1% being Go Wild, who thought they could stop the tide of change, and found they couldn't
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The phonecalls DO seem to suggest that our details have been "pimped out" for marketing, since postal marketing companies do NOT have our phone numbers, cannot even LEGALLY use them if they had.
It also seems that unrelated groups DO pool their resources for "marketing", usually redirecting players they themselves cannot take to a group that CAN take them; hence we have US players visiting Riverbelle being redirected to Slotastic, who CAN take them, whereas Riverbelle cannot.
These postal CD's seem highly targeted too, so it is NOT just a case of mailing them to a large database of UK addresses, they KNOW that the people who they are sending these CDs to are online players, and they MUST have got this additional information from somewhere, and in many cases it is ONLY the casinos that KNOW one is a player, since many do NOT tell their bank, boss, insurance company etc, which is the other route whereby this information can be tied to postal address and used for marketing.
The CDs often come by international post, which means they have neatly sidestepped UK law in terms of how they can gather and use our information, even though it would be much CHEAPER to generate and send this stuff within the UK. The phonecalls also come from abroad, which would make it hard to trace whether the laws can actually be enforced. The UK regulators know about this "dodge", and are trying to arrange international agreements to put a stop to it, but this is far from simple.
The REALLY odd thing that most of this activity comes from AMERICA, a country that is doing it's best to destroy the industry, yet it harbours the more aggressive marketing outfits that bombard the rest of the world with mailers and phonecalls for online casino products - even the rogue ones.
(not only this group of casinos)
