Woe Unto the Bonus Chaser!
Nice dramatic title, eh? I've mostly been faux pas-ing about the past week. When moving money around to various gambling sites is as slow as its become, any false step becomes irritatingly magnified because it takes so long to undo and do over.
For example, Caribsports sent me an e-mail notice that they were having a reload. I've always liked Carib, and was sorry I had burnt them several months ago. I took the e-mail notice as an indication that they were making me a special offer and suspending their policy of no reload bonuses unless you have a negative account balance. (i.e. you gotta be a loser to get a reload). I cashed out a wheel barrel of money from them in early summer, and never thought I'd see another reload from them.
This turned out to be wishfil thinking on my part. I deposited via Western Union/Swiftpay and then asked for the bonus. "Your account is ineligible" came the reply. I argued for a while and got a little steamed - but the bottom line is that it was my own fault for not clarifying with them before I moved the money in. If I don't find an easy way to bet it out soon, I'm going to have to suck up the withdrawal fee and chalk another one up to experience.
I also decided to give casino chasing another go. I have a Click2pay account from LONG ago, and decided to move some money into it. Many online casinos accept Click2pay deposits. Long ago I had set up an experimental account at NetBank, and this was the account attached to Click2pay. I moved $500 into NetBank so that I could fund Click2pay. I moved the money to Netbank, but then could not load my Click2pay account. Click2pay does not answer their CS e-mails either. Not a problem to abandon Click2pay, but now i have to dink around and get the $500 back out of NetBank - substantially more difficult than moving it into NetBank.
One thing that is going right for me this week is my overdue discovery of Cake Poker. I wrote about it at ITH, so read about it there. Happy Chasing!