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Title: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: Santino67 on January 04, 2009, 17:27:45 PM
Hi Des

Tried to register on the Blue Square site and entered 2 bank card details. A Visa Debit and a Visa Electron. On both occasions it states that if I make a withdrawal from my Blue Square account I"ll be hit with a £15 charge.

Any idea why this is the case? Has anyone else had this problem and how can it be sorted?

Cheers
Grant
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: APAT on January 04, 2009, 18:25:09 PM

Hi Des

Tried to register on the Blue Square site and entered 2 bank card details. A Visa Debit and a Visa Electron. On both occasions it states that if I make a withdrawal from my Blue Square account I"ll be hit with a £15 charge.

Any idea why this is the case? Has anyone else had this problem and how can it be sorted?

Cheers
Grant


Never heard of that Grant, but I will forward to the Blue Square team to clarify what the situation is.
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: Santino67 on January 05, 2009, 01:49:19 AM
Cheers Des, I appreciate it.
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: nosey-p on January 08, 2009, 12:10:56 PM
The way to get around it is to transfer your $ from your poker account into the sports book in £ then request a cheque from your sports account.

Hope this helps, but I would wait to see what Des comes up with
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: smileriraq on January 08, 2009, 15:05:52 PM
£15 isnt steep its effing vertical
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: Roscopiko on January 08, 2009, 15:12:59 PM
Why would you ever need to withdraw from a poker site  ??? ???
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: Cyntaf on January 08, 2009, 16:52:18 PM
Hey Grant how u doin?

Could you get $10 out for me too, seeing as i couldn"t play the freezeout for UK online, having registered. Make that $11. ???
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: hollaboo on January 08, 2009, 20:15:33 PM
think nosey is right i"ve never been charged withdrawing from my sports betting account with blsq
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: TopPair2Pair on January 08, 2009, 22:50:39 PM
****TOP SECRET**** I"ve just heard this from the friend of a mate of a girl who was dating the dude who looks like a shark on the bluesquare homepage who overheard a conversation between the bluesquare mascot and the admin guy man stating that Bluesquare are having connection problems logging into their email at the moment, and subsequently cannot respond to Des dudes 15 emails (1 for every £1 of the charge) regarding this and furthermore wont be able to comment until after you"ve withdrawn some money!!
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: Santino67 on January 10, 2009, 11:24:41 AM

****TOP SECRET**** I"ve just heard this from the friend of a mate of a girl who was dating the dude who looks like a shark on the bluesquare homepage who overheard a conversation between the bluesquare mascot and the admin guy man stating that Bluesquare are having connection problems logging into their email at the moment, and subsequently cannot respond to Des dudes 15 emails (1 for every £1 of the charge) regarding this and furthermore wont be able to comment until after you"ve withdrawn some money!!


:D :D :D
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: UkPlayer on January 22, 2009, 01:47:19 AM
Now I know there is a £15 withdrawal charge, I don"t think I would put any cash in the Blue Square site now.
I was with Ultimatebet and I withdraw $1000 and had to pay $50 and the exchange rate was bad.

I had a good look at Blue Square web site and even E-mail them if there was a charge and was told there was not any charge.
Wish I kept the E-Mail now.
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: tumblet on January 22, 2009, 02:08:47 AM

Now I know there is a £15 withdrawal charge, I don"t think I would put any cash in the Blue Square site now.
I was with Ultimatebet and I withdraw $1000 and had to pay $50 and the exchange rate was bad.

I had a good look at Blue Square web site and even E-mail them if there was a charge and was told there was not any charge.
Wish I kept the E-Mail now.


I have just tried to withdraw using visa debit and there is no charge....
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: Hillster on January 22, 2009, 14:19:22 PM
Hi guys,

Blue Square will only charge you for withdrawals with certain types of card. Generally, there is no charge. I can only assume that the type of card you have registered is a pre-pay card? As a result, there is no facility on the card for us to pay funds back onto it, so the only way we can return funds to you is by processing a manual bank wire. As a result, the bank charges us for the service and so we pass the charge on to you (sorry).

Other payment methods which will run into problems like this are some types of Mastercard and UKASH. If you have no other payment methods, then I guess you have no choice, but if you can avoid using these, do!
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: UkPlayer on January 23, 2009, 23:22:27 PM
Thanks for the replys.
I have a visa debit card.   ;D
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: Santino67 on January 24, 2009, 09:39:58 AM

Hi guys,

Blue Square will only charge you for withdrawals with certain types of card. Generally, there is no charge. I can only assume that the type of card you have registered is a pre-pay card? As a result, there is no facility on the card for us to pay funds back onto it, so the only way we can return funds to you is by processing a manual bank wire. As a result, the bank charges us for the service and so we pass the charge on to you (sorry).

Other payment methods which will run into problems like this are some types of Mastercard and UKASH. If you have no other payment methods, then I guess you have no choice, but if you can avoid using these, do!



Hi again

Neither of my cards are pre-pay, both are current accounts that my 2 salaries go into monthly. Doesn"t make sense that this will incur charges as I already use one on Betfair Poker & William Hill and have made withdrawals from there without any problems or charges. This is very frustrating as BSq are sponsoring APAT events and I"m missing out on the tournaments and qualifying events.
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: tumblet on January 24, 2009, 23:34:54 PM

This is very frustrating as BSq are sponsoring APAT events and I"m missing out on the tournaments and qualifying events.


I dont understand why you would be missing out.. Are they charging you to deposit??
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: Santino67 on January 31, 2009, 13:25:29 PM


This is very frustrating as BSq are sponsoring APAT events and I"m missing out on the tournaments and qualifying events.


I dont understand why you would be missing out.. Are they charging you to deposit??


Not being charged to deposit Jizzemm but let"s be honest, whilst we all love the game, we"re still here to be in profit. I personally ain"t keen to see that profit got to the site that already gets a buy-in fee when you take part.
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: reevio on February 04, 2009, 10:36:24 AM
Hi Santino,

Have you actually added either of the cards to your account?  If so could you please let me know your username/nickname so I can ask our payments team to take a look?

There are certain types of card that will now accept withdrawals to them but if you already use them elsewhere we"ll have to check what the issue is.

Jamie.
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: Santino67 on February 06, 2009, 21:37:42 PM

Hi Santino,

Have you actually added either of the cards to your account?  If so could you please let me know your username/nickname so I can ask our payments team to take a look?

There are certain types of card that will now accept withdrawals to them but if you already use them elsewhere we"ll have to check what the issue is.

Jamie.


Hi Jamie

Was going to reg with my g/f"s credit card and decided to have another go with my own debit card again and it seemed to go ok with no message of withdrawals charge. my username is Santino67. After Sunday"s performance I don"t think I"ll be troubling the withdrawals department too much anyway  :-[  :D

thanks
Grant
Title: Re: Withdrawal Charges
Post by: UkPlayer on February 13, 2009, 01:43:35 AM
what about the exchange from Dollars to Pounds?