Friday Wildcard Should Sweepstakes sites be rated differently?

[maxd]

So a thing came up this week that had us scratching our heads.
A Sweepstakes site is facing a significant Ratings downgrade because it has several outstanding and unresolved PABs against it.
The Sweeps guys think they should be treated differently than casinos, that complaints against them are not as significant as complaints against casinos.
In other words they want to be exempt from the criteria that we apply to casinos.
Needless to say we have our opinion but we're curious what y'all think, hence the Poll.

If you've got thoughts on this please let us know. This helps us shape our policies on these things.

 

[SYPlayer95]

Same differences to me, we need to know who the good and bad eggs are.

 

[Mr Shine]

As far as I understand it they ARE casinos in all important respects, just they have to pretend that the exchangeable funds are a bonus, not what people are actually buying. Assuming the complaint is about the de facto cash, not the really free freeplay then why would they be different?

 

[Reelsoffun]

If it acts like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck, I voted yes they should be treated the with the same criteria as casinos, sweepstakes aren’t fooling anyone.

 

[dunover]

Yes, they should be treated very differently to online casinos.

Collected together and flushed down the Casinomeister bog.

 

[andysbetting1187]

100% they should be held to the same standard as everyone else - especially due to the amount of them that get added onto here

If any of them start with a "technically we are not a casino, so technically shouldn't be held to.the same standard" then it raises a red flag

I know they are not big in the UK so i don't really have any interest (from my side) but CM is a global resource for casino reviews/community - it wouldn't seam right to weaken the vetting/reviews for sweepstakes - to me that goes against what the site is about

 

[Mr Shine]

Personally I'd be happier the faster that the states where casinos are not legal smack down the ever so silly "Ha Ha our customers are not betting with MONEY they're betting with STARS and you can't buy STARS, you can only buy COINS, (but we'll give you a few STARS when you buy COINS) and obviously the COINS that you buy are purely for fun and can never be redeemed for anything...."