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I was just thinking about this before, and was wondering if the habit of casinos 'pending' a withdrawal for anything from 24 hours to 72 hours, and quite often more if a weekend or bank holidays gets in the way, actually hurts them as much as it inconveniences players?
Current case in point for me was I got a letter through the post from Red Flush offering me a 100% match up to £100 on a 30xB WR. I decided to have a go and managed to finish the WR with £175 (so a reasonable little £75 raise), so I made a withdrawal. (I'm hoping they don't invoke their insane 'we can void your winnings if you use autoplay' T&C.....)
I made that withdrawal last night, got the email confirming the request and stating their 24 hours pending period, which I guess means 24 hours starting on Monday, so I'll perhaps get my money into my Neteller account Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
Problem now is I'd quite like to do some slotting tonight, and there's nothing stopping me depositing at any other casino with my 'gaming card' (which I always keep fully paid off and don't use for anything else), but knowing that I've got £175 'in the system' as it were, but out of my reach, dissuades me from depositing elsewhere in the meantime.
Now this doesn't make any difference to Red Flush, they sit on my withdrawal for a few days in the hope I'll reverse it (which I won't), they pay out in the end, and everything carries on an usual - it's pretty much a no lose scenario for them, but for other casinos where I could be depositing and playing, the fact I feel disinclined to deposit elsewhere until I get my money back from Red Flush effectively takes that potential deposit out of 'the gaming system' as it were.
A couple of months ago I hit a point where I was waiting for something in the region of £800 or so of withdrawals to make their way back to me, and I simply stopped playing for real money until I got them all back, and went onto play money instead.
It just seems bizarre to me that I can make a withdrawal from 3Dice at 1am on Sunday morning, and by the time I get out of bed eight hours later, the money is sat in my Neteller account. A withdrawal from GNUF on Wednesday night doesn't arrive in my account until Monday or Tuesday the following week, thanks to the way their 48 hour pending goes past the end of the working week, so another 48 hours gets added on for the weekend and only then do they actually start to process it.
My point here is that I think this behaviour is bad for the casinos as much as it's annoying for players, because I can't be the only one who reaches the point where I think, 'Nuts to this, I'm not playing another penny of real money until my withdrawals get back to me.'
What do you think?
Current case in point for me was I got a letter through the post from Red Flush offering me a 100% match up to £100 on a 30xB WR. I decided to have a go and managed to finish the WR with £175 (so a reasonable little £75 raise), so I made a withdrawal. (I'm hoping they don't invoke their insane 'we can void your winnings if you use autoplay' T&C.....)
I made that withdrawal last night, got the email confirming the request and stating their 24 hours pending period, which I guess means 24 hours starting on Monday, so I'll perhaps get my money into my Neteller account Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
Problem now is I'd quite like to do some slotting tonight, and there's nothing stopping me depositing at any other casino with my 'gaming card' (which I always keep fully paid off and don't use for anything else), but knowing that I've got £175 'in the system' as it were, but out of my reach, dissuades me from depositing elsewhere in the meantime.
Now this doesn't make any difference to Red Flush, they sit on my withdrawal for a few days in the hope I'll reverse it (which I won't), they pay out in the end, and everything carries on an usual - it's pretty much a no lose scenario for them, but for other casinos where I could be depositing and playing, the fact I feel disinclined to deposit elsewhere until I get my money back from Red Flush effectively takes that potential deposit out of 'the gaming system' as it were.
A couple of months ago I hit a point where I was waiting for something in the region of £800 or so of withdrawals to make their way back to me, and I simply stopped playing for real money until I got them all back, and went onto play money instead.
It just seems bizarre to me that I can make a withdrawal from 3Dice at 1am on Sunday morning, and by the time I get out of bed eight hours later, the money is sat in my Neteller account. A withdrawal from GNUF on Wednesday night doesn't arrive in my account until Monday or Tuesday the following week, thanks to the way their 48 hour pending goes past the end of the working week, so another 48 hours gets added on for the weekend and only then do they actually start to process it.
My point here is that I think this behaviour is bad for the casinos as much as it's annoying for players, because I can't be the only one who reaches the point where I think, 'Nuts to this, I'm not playing another penny of real money until my withdrawals get back to me.'
What do you think?