Hello,
The player was banned for promotion abuse. He swept through most other Rivals in the last month and claimed every free offer. We are paying him his deposit plus winnings.
Support reps spoke to him in Russian today. I don't know why it continued in English initially.
We DO NOT use Rival's central support. We have dedicated support with another group (multilingual).
And yes - I meant not being active here is a good thing because we rarely have player problems. Our last login in December was to follow industry news. I can't remember the last time we had to answer a player issue here. I appreciate Bryan contacting me about the issue.
Thanks
Eh
My bullshit detector just went off the scale.
If you are TRULY independent, WTF do YOU care what he did at "other Rivals", this is YOUR casino, and YOUR chance to snare him as a customer.
If you REALLY had this info on him, the free chip wouldn't even have been in his lobby, let alone it getting as far as asking him to make a deposit.
Seems YOU are "linked to other Rivals", just as players are sometimes accused of being "linked to other accounts", or you are lying, and you ARE "just another Rival white label", all run by Solverstone/BonneChance, or whatever they call themselves now, with all the money coming out of one central pot, which makes what a player does "at other Rivals" relevant, as it is taking money from the same people running the white label empire behind the scenes.
Imagine Jackpot Factory saying my winnings are at risk, or locking me out, just because in the past month I took the freebies and welcome bonuses at, say, GoWild, 32Red, Lucky Emperor, and coming on here with the explanation; "this player was banned for promotion abuse, in the past month he has gone through a number of other Microgaming casinos, taking only the welcome offers, and then moving on".
This would NEVER happen, because unlike Rival white label casinos, these are REALLY independent of each other, and just don't care what playing strategy was used at a competitor, judgement will have been made ONLY from the playing strategy at THIS casino when it came to locking out.
The truth is you ARE using the centralised Rival support and player tracking system, and not very well either, as it SHOULD have ensured the OP had NO free chips or any other welcome offer available in the lobby.
It seems you have "crippled" the systems so that you only act when a player WINS, but is not driven away from LOSING by finding a lobby devoid of promotions.
I would also like to see a link to the part of the terms and conditions that says players may not have the free chip at Superior if they have already had a similar offer at a given number of other Rival casinos.
THIS is why Rival white labels often get a "beating" on the forum, they seem to want to have it both ways, or have their cake and eat it, yet when PLAYERS want the same, they are branded frauds and abusers.
If you believe a new player is only going to play the free chip and move on, just don't offer it to them, don't let them take it, lure them to deposit, and THEN start accusing them of all sorts of things as reason not to pay.
I realise you DID pay in this case, but not willingly.
The whole white label model is a deception, it tricks players into seeing a number of casinos that just happen to rent the same software, so they rightly believe that they can have one account at each, obey the terms at each, and not have any problems. In reality, they are separate entry points to the same underlying casino, and having an account at each is similar to having multiple accounts at one casino, so it DOES cause problems after a relatively small number of accounts has been opened.
NO operator, nor Rival themselves, has agreed to say how many accounts an individual is allowed across the whole Rival franchise, if anything, they have misleading implied that an individual can play at ALL of them, because they are not related to each other. You can certainly LOSE at all of them, no problem, but dare to win at just ONE, and the rest will drop you like a hot potato because they believe that if you won elsewhere, you are CERTAIN to win EVERYWHERE run by Rival. In a truly independent operation, if Jackpot Factory found out I had just won big at one of their competitors, far from locking me out, they would try to persuade me to play at THEIR casino with some of the winnings, rather than play it back where I won it.
This flawed "chase away the winners" policy might be why so many Rival white labels went bust. It has lead to big payouts from Rival casinos being played back at casinos with alternative software, as all the other Rival white labels have made the player feel unwelcome at any of them.
This leaves Rival with mostly free chip hunters, and net losers, as they have driven away the winners. Despite this, they continue to rely on the free chip model, to drive their player base higher.
The simplest solution is to admit the connection, and have the term "one free chip only at any one Rival casino as an introduction to the software" incorporated into the terms at each, and enforced through the centralised player database at the point of account registration. Being transparent about the true structure of Rival white labels would also mean that players would know where they stand, and be less shocked when a win at one causes bonuses to reduce or disappear at the others.