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888 terms and conditions - Inactive accounts beware
WarBwastardo:
That"s very strange really. Imagine keeping a safety deposit box at a Casino you visited often only to find out that the times you hadn"t visited for six months they opened it up and helped themselves to ten percent of your money. How do the online poker sites justify this? Do they even try? How does it cost them money to maintain dormant accounts?
okidokie:
or you could look at it like it"s an administration fee for keeping your account open when you obviously don"t play there.
okidokie:
--- Quote from: WarBwastardo on March 16, 2011, 12:06:28 PM ---
That"s very strange really. Imagine keeping a safety deposit box at a Casino you visited often only to find out that the times you hadn"t visited for six months they opened it up and helped themselves to ten percent of your money. How do the online poker sites justify this? Do they even try? How does it cost them money to maintain dormant accounts?
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but it"s not quite like that scenario. how often does the average player play online compared to live at a casino? twice as much? four times as much? obviously it differs from person to person but you get the idea. say it"s 4 times as much, in your scenario it would be like leaving the safety deposit box for 2 years before they took any money from it.
i don"t see that much of a problem with it. if you use a service often then you should get rewarded for it. if you don"t then you have to pay for the privilage.
coprey:
Yes, thats exactly how they justify it. Administration. Exactly what administration is required to leave an account alone. The administration would seem to chiefly involve working out 10% of all the "dormant" accounts and setting up a monthly debit. Imagine $10,000 worth of dormant accounts, the interest on this deposited cash is not enough for the corporation, they want to take $1,000 per month for 10 months and tell us its for admin. Its laughable. They wont even warn you that they are going to do this, no opportunity is given to the customer to either play on the site or withdraw their funds.
coprey:
--- Quote from: okidokie on March 16, 2011, 12:13:37 PM ---
i don"t see that much of a problem with it. if you use a service often then you should get rewarded for it. if you don"t then you have to pay for the privilage.
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What reward and privilege are you referring to? Reward of not having your money stolen? Privilege of 888 allowing you to give them your money, playing on their site and generating rake for them?
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