It looks suspiciously like it's the casinos that have pulled the option to pay back to debit cards, but are blaming the players' bank. If it's simply a replacement card of the same type for the same bank account, and they could pay back to the old, they should be able to pay back to the new.
Cheques should not take "weeks" either, they are probably using a scare tactic to drive players towards the £5 fee bank transfer.
Like the 10 day pending period I was subjected to for 5 out of 6 withdrawals, I think this is another of the undocumented Digimedia tricks used to "back off" the less profitable players. Perhaps in this case the problem is players who deposit small, withdraw at a mere £100, and keep doing it long term. £5 is a fair chunk for such players, although a player that deposits thousands and only withdraws when they have won a decent 4 figure sum would probably not care about the £5 fee so much if it makes a problem like this go away.
The obvious answer is Neteller. Withdrawals are usually free, and hit the account "instantly" once processed from the casino's merchant account. Not much chance of it being delayed in the post or eaten by the dog either.
Oddly,
32Red have been trying to steer players AWAY from using Neteller and towards using debit cards, yet Digimedia seems to be trying to push it's players away from using cards towards using the eWallets like Neteller and Skrill.
I was using Neteller at the old Belle Rock casinos, so instead of my cheque taking "weeks", they pretended to have just introduced a standard 10 day pending period so that my "instant" Neteller withdrawal also took "weeks", the same as a cheque.
Where I have been paid by cheque from casinos, it has taken 2 or 3 days, not weeks, to arrive in the post.
