I am in a slight quandary here. I am thinking of promoting Virgin Bingo on my website. So before I sign up as an affiliate, I sign up as a player to check it out. On their page (
Note the bit that says " ... play Bingo games for free ... ". Also there is a FAQ entry (this is the same both before and after signing up/logging in - and as I found later is in fact a common FAQ across all the Virgin games sites, not just bingo):
so I signed up, and the 'play for free' button was no where to be found. Whatever I clicked it said I would have to deposit money and verify my account (i.e. send in ID etc.) before I could play. So I contacted their player support and asked how to play bingo for free to try out the software and games before I deposited (I am sure a fair few players would like to do this, especially if free bingo is mentioned on the home page of the site ) and I got this response:
Now - I think this is a bit sneaky. Judging by a TV campaign they ran last Autumn (see their forum on here for details of that) I think they get away with offering free bingo by the rationalization that the deposit bonus is effectively 'free money' so you are (sort of) playing for free when you use that, and also that once you have a funded account there are free play bingo rooms for an hour or two during the day (sometimes - and as far as I know not at the moment as if you peer at the screencap from this thread https://www.casinomeister.com/forums/threads/33872/ it looks like that free bingo offer stopped on the 2nd Nov last year).
I still think it is sneaky, and am really torn about whether to have them as an option on my website. Virgin are an accredited casino here, and have a good reputation so from that perspective I would like to offer them. But I don't like this free bingo that isn't thing
What do others here think? As players? Would you be annoyed at the 'free bingo' thing? Have I misread it? Obviously if I do put them on my site I can put a better description of what they mean by free bingo in my review/overview (e.g. there isn't any free bingo even if the Virgin site says there is). Is it no big deal? Am I fussing over nothing? They even have the title of the web page (i.e. as it appears at the top of the browser) as 'Play Online Bingo at Virgin Games Bingo for money or for free!'
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) if I don't login (i.e. before I would sign up):Virgin home page said:Bingo - Play Bingo Games Online
Virgin Bingo is a great place to play Bingo games for free or for real
money online! We have a range of great Bingo games so get ready to
call house! We also have a range of excellent Casino and Poker Games
for you to try too.
Note the bit that says " ... play Bingo games for free ... ". Also there is a FAQ entry (this is the same both before and after signing up/logging in - and as I found later is in fact a common FAQ across all the Virgin games sites, not just bingo):
Virgin FAQ said:Can I play for free?
You can play some of our games for free. Simply select the game you want to play, click on the 'play for free' button and enjoy!
so I signed up, and the 'play for free' button was no where to be found. Whatever I clicked it said I would have to deposit money and verify my account (i.e. send in ID etc.) before I could play. So I contacted their player support and asked how to play bingo for free to try out the software and games before I deposited (I am sure a fair few players would like to do this, especially if free bingo is mentioned on the home page of the site ) and I got this response:
Virgin support said:There are no free bingo games. There are penny Bingo games on Mondays though.
(*link redacted*)
We have free Casino games (*link redacted*)
Now - I think this is a bit sneaky. Judging by a TV campaign they ran last Autumn (see their forum on here for details of that) I think they get away with offering free bingo by the rationalization that the deposit bonus is effectively 'free money' so you are (sort of) playing for free when you use that, and also that once you have a funded account there are free play bingo rooms for an hour or two during the day (sometimes - and as far as I know not at the moment as if you peer at the screencap from this thread https://www.casinomeister.com/forums/threads/33872/ it looks like that free bingo offer stopped on the 2nd Nov last year).
I still think it is sneaky, and am really torn about whether to have them as an option on my website. Virgin are an accredited casino here, and have a good reputation so from that perspective I would like to offer them. But I don't like this free bingo that isn't thing
What do others here think? As players? Would you be annoyed at the 'free bingo' thing? Have I misread it? Obviously if I do put them on my site I can put a better description of what they mean by free bingo in my review/overview (e.g. there isn't any free bingo even if the Virgin site says there is). Is it no big deal? Am I fussing over nothing? They even have the title of the web page (i.e. as it appears at the top of the browser) as 'Play Online Bingo at Virgin Games Bingo for money or for free!'
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