Update How to submit a complaint: new procedures - updated January 2021

maxd

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The complaints system is now GDPR compliant and back online.

Ok, so, we've had a few growing pains setting up a new Complaints system to work within our new forums but we've finally got that sorted.
(for those of you that are wondering our Complaints system is officially called Casinomeister Player Arbitration, or PAB for short).

The new system is based on Tickets, like you see in most customer service facilities across the web.

Here is the "new and improved but old fashioned" procedure for submitting a PAB:

The first step is easy peasy: click the "Submit Complaint" tab in your nav bar:


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Read all the good and highly informative stuff on that page -- please don't ignore the PAB Policies & Procedures -- and when you're ready to give us your details click the link at the bottom:

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Now you're looking at your Tickets page. Any Tickets you've created before are listed there but we're interested in creating a new one for your new PAB:

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There are, or will be, several type of Tickets but we want to do a PAB so select "PAB: New" from the drop-down box:

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Fill in the info requested and at the bottom there's a text box where you can describe the problem you are having:

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Finally click that "Create Ticket" button at the bottom and -- if all is well -- you're done!

Let me anticipate something that many of you are likely to encounter: an error pop-up complaining about too much text in the problem description area:

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The bottom line is that text box is enforcing a 500 character limit -- roughly 100 words -- on your problem description. We've always asked that people provide BRIEF problem descriptions, hopefully the text limit here will help encourage that.

Finally, you'll see that there is an "Upload a File" button at the bottom. Please don't. If we need further material from you we'll ask for it.

Ok, that's pretty much it. Needless to say if you have any questions, concerns or problems please don't hesitate to say so here.
 
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Not sure about others, but none of your images are showing up for me.

Bummer! That was pretty much the point of my post. Gotta look into that, we need those images.
 
Ok, I think I've fixed it. Please let me know if those images are NOT showing.

PS. thanks for the heads-up on this, much appreciated.
 
I think this new procedure will make it much easier for players to submit a PAB which is a great thing. Although the old system was good this new one seems less daunting. Well done CM team and Max :thumbsup:
 
I think this new procedure will make it much easier for players to submit a PAB which is a great thing. Although the old system was good this new one seems less daunting. Well done CM team and Max :thumbsup:
This one is an actual ticketing system where the members will be receiving alerts on the status of the PAB. Not so much leg work is involved in this one. :D
 
Yeah, I think this new system is bringing us into the 21st. My guess is that over time PABers will be much happier with this new process.
 
Quick update of the complaints/PAB process: the new system seems to be working quite well. I think complaints are being processed noticeably quicker, largely because we can now track them directly on the site via the ticketing system.

So now it's time to clean up some other PAB-related issues. GourdFollower and I will be redoing the PAB FAQ in the coming week or so to make it more "user friendly" and less of a slog. Hopefully we can come up with something less daunting than its current "Jabba The Hut" format.

If you have comments, suggestions or requests please let me know.
 
HEADS UP! : The PAB system is temporarily suspended while I update the FAQ to be GDPR compliant. We should be back in business within a day or two.
 
OK, the new and improved PAB Policies and Procedures ("PAB P&P"? :) ) are live: Player Arbitration Policies and Procedures
And the ticketing system is back online.

I hope everyone will find the new P&P infinitely more "user friendly" than the old, over-long FAQ.

Any questions/comments/concerns? Fire away, I'm ready. :D

I did notice that the "Player Arbitration FAQ" link in the nav bar still points to the old FAQ location. I reckon Bryan will tweak that back into goodness shortly.
 
One of the things I did when I re-wrote the old FAQ to become the new P&P was to ditch all the history and explanatory verbiage. When you go from 5000+ words to 800-ish something has got to go. :axeman:

That said some of the old explanatory stuff is worth having around so ...

GourdFollower had the great idea of doing a "post a week" thing on the PAB P&P to explain, elaborate, edify and illuminate P&P-related issues. :thumbsup:

To kick that off I'll start with a little exposition regarding PAB P&P item 1.6 (email addresses):
1.6 - We require that you be readily available for discussion during the course of your complaint being processed so when you complete the complaint form we ask you for a "contact" email address that is neither Hotmail, Yahoo nor AOL. In our experience those services are unreliable for casino-related correspondence. Complaints that fail to respect this requirement will be delayed and/or cancelled.

Over the years this has been one of the most troublesome requirements of the PAB process. Some people don't like hearing that their good old Hotmail address may be semi-borked, some can't be arsed to get a new one just to please the resident PAB police (that would be me :D ), and some folks just don't like to be told what to do.

Believe it or not there were (and are) some very good reasons behind this bothersome email policy of ours, as was explained in the old FAQ section 3.1:
Using email addresses from Yahoo (aka Ymail), AOL, ATT.net or Hotmail is not acceptable: these services often discard casino-related emails, the result being that you may or may not receive emails we send you. They are simply NOT RELIABLE for PAB communications.

The issue with these services — Yahoo/Ymail, AOL, ATT.net and Hotmail — is that they are randomly blocking and/or discarding our emails addressed to you. In our experience these deletions are unpredictable, intermittent and have been going on for 10+ [now 20-ish!] years. Our guess it that it’s their way of discouraging the use of their services for this kind of communications without coming right out and making it an explicit policy.

Please note that this email problem is NOT something you have any control over. It’s done on their mail servers long before the emails ever make it to your Inbox. In other words tweaking your spam filters or whitelists will have no effect on the problem because the deletions happen long before these are ever invoked. The bottom line is that this problem well known to us, hence our insistence on using alternate services.

...

FYI, Google Mail seems to work nicely. GMX.com is good too. There are many, many other free and reliable email services. If in doubt Google “free email services -hotmail -yahoo -AOL” and look for hits where various services are compared. You should be able to find one that suits you without much difficulty. We know, we’ve done it time and time again over the years, you can too. ...

So yeah, we didn't make that policy just to be dickish. We did it because those email services -- I would say "those dodgy, over-managed email services" -- pretty much forced us to.

Fortunately times change, a bit. We now have the ticketing system which is a pretty decent alternative to conducting PAB business by email and, as it happens, seems to be a lot more popular with PABers.
 
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Phung Nguyen 11:42:11 am


hi i just made a deposit can i get free spins with it pls





Support Agent 2 11:44:33 am


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Phung Nguyen 11:45:26 am


any thing you can give for the deposit i made today
free spins is fine to





Support Agent 2 11:47:20 am


You already played your deposit. Unfortunately, we can't offer you any bonuses or free spins at the moment. Our bonuses you can see at the website





Phung Nguyen 11:49:37 am


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i didnt know that though
can you give me an excemption to this pls





Support Agent 2 11:52:33 am


I am sorry, I cannot credit your account with a free bonus or free spins this time.





Phung Nguyen 11:52:47 am


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its not like i didnt deposit today
i did i just forgot to check if i get any free with that deposit...i also thought its should be automatic for the free spisn since i have asked for bonusesbefore i made my deposit..





Support Agent 2 11:56:11 am


We can't offer anything free for you as we said before





Phung Nguyen 11:59:52 am


well its not like it is really free that im asking you im asking because i made a deposit like 10 mins ago and lost that fast...
that is why im asking for free spins for MY DEPOSIT..
can you put me with the manager incharge please
im asking you nicely i hope you cooperate nicely to





Support Agent 2 12:02:16 pm


All the questions you can ask here
How can I help you?





Phung Nguyen 12:02:37 pm


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and you dont have power of what im asking





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Why have you posted that? To show the crap customer service have to put up with on a daily basis?
 
What do I do if the casinos ADR is not responding?

Try praying? :D

Seriously though, it depends on the casino, but generally speaking once your case is with an ADR it stays with them until they get around to dealing with it (= you wait). Some of the designated ADRs can be pretty back-logged with cases and end up taking a v e r y long time to respond.

If it's getting ridiculous, say 6 or 8 weeks, then you can go back to the casino and say "WTF? No response from the ADR!", for all the good that is likely to do you.
 
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Well its now going on since end of may. Already have had contact with the casino and they tell me it's a third party, so they dont have anything to do with it. FYI....I'm talking of an amount of € 100.000,00 euros. Not the least amount of money.
 
Well I don't want to speak badly of an ADR so maybe you can send me a Private Message and we can talk details?
When I know who it is, what casino, etc then I can give specific advice.

-Max
 

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