All fine and dandy Captain and we accept that there have to be rules when playing with a bonus
However, why on earth can't you have the following easy to program player protections:
- Excluded games - these games should not load once a bonus is active
- Max. bet - why and why can't you implement a max. bet protection when a bonus is active to avoid over betting?
- Deactivate "double" feature" - why can't this be deactivated while a bonus is active?
The above 3 are the most common reason for winnings confiscations and subsequent complaints. I can only assume it gives the casinos a nice extra profit by not having those features, hence nothing is done!!!
Anything above 20/25xB WR is -EV, hence most players will bust out before making the WR.
Can't see how abuser syndicates make a profit in the long run.
Not allowing Neteller/Skrill/Ecopayz for bonuses means you are excluding 50+% of potential new players.
Bet big and take as many boni as possible. However, a single player can do this just as easily as a syndicate. I suspect that many of these syndicates actually have a very small number of active players, the other members are just getting paid off for allowing an expert to operate a casino account using their ID.
The lazy option is to simply blanket ban ALL players who fit a certain broad profile, so many casinos take the lazy option of showing Neteller users the middle finger rather than tackling those that are operating some kind of syndicate.
I also wonder how many of the 80% of players who take the bonuses, but go elsewhere if none is on offer, actually understand how bad a deal it is in many cases. Casinos have resorted to some pretty misleading marketing lures to make their SUB offerings look far better than they are, and if players don't read the small print, they will have little idea what a raw deal they are really getting.
As well as Neteller hating casinos, there has been a sharp rise in casino hating card issuers, which is WHY so many players have been pushed into using solutions like Neteller. I have dozen bank cards, some credit and some debit. Only ONE of these works smoothly for online casino deposits, another will keep tripping out if I try to deposit more than £100, and then I have to wait for the automated call from the bank to allow that one deposit through on the next attempt, by which time I have moved on and used Neteller elsewhere. All the other cards have failed 100%, and it seems to be the banks that are blocking the transactions, having tarred ALL casinos with the same brush by blanket marking such transactions as fraud triggers, and thus blocking them at source by default.
All the other methods are a massive pain given that I have Neteller. I have to nip down the local shop, train the cashier in how to use this rather obscure functionality of the pay point terminal that is normally used for topping up pre-pay electric meters and paying water and council tax charges, and even then all but one local shop failed to produce what was then called UKash, but is now Neteller's Paysafe voucher service. If this isn't hassle enough, the largest denomination available is £100, so if there are any deposit promos requiring more than this in a single deposit, Paysafe won't work, and Neteller isn't eligible.
In the case of Trada, only the SUB is affected, but of course this is something they have had to concede is necessary to get players through the door, yet at the same time they are freezing out some 50% of potential players from passing through this main marketing doorway, leaving the only way to attract these players the non deposit related cashback and loyalty system, which the rep has already admitted isn't a viable option for driving new signups.
It's also a poor reflection of Neteller that they simply don't care that their lax attitude to syndicates and bonus fraud has driven casinos to such extremes, which of course means a poor service to Neteller's customers is given by these casinos.
Simply offering Neteller customers nothing, rather than an alternative sign up offer less suited to syndicates, isn't going to be of long term benefit.
I am also surprised that no one has stepped into this gap in the market to provide a system that works like Neteller, but is secured from misuse by syndicates. Not allowing P2P transactions is one obvious way to tackle the problem of syndicates, but P2P is a big money spinner for Neteller, and an expansion beyond their core business offering of easy gambling deposits and withdrawals. Allowing Bitcoin deposits into Neteller may be good for customers, but it's yet another risk factor for casinos, and also a way for syndicates to bypass the Neteller P2P systems and monitoring, but without having to use conventional banks where the transactions are just as fast, but also likely to be monitored and reported to HMRC if the amounts or volume arouse suspicion. The last thing a syndicate needs is a big tax bill from HMRC because the banks have reported so many transactions that HMRC are convinced the syndicate leader is running a business, but not declaring the profits for tax.
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