Well I used to get presents from Referback quite regularly and I know they treat their best players the same way.
@Dominique 152674 wrote:
I actually have not seen that with places that did go out of business. With them I see problems with non payment that are not bonus related.
Unfortunately, I’ve seen it plenty of times when casinos got their sums wrong due to misjudging the growth of the market. In 1999 casinos used to routinely offer almost unlimited bonuses with practically no wagering requirements because the cost wasn’t great and just a few months later the same promotion would take them down. In a lot of cases they simply paid slowly and stopped before disappearing (eg. Tropika with their long ‘audit’) but in many cases they tried to use the ‘bonus abuse’ clause as a last resort. Usually the latter was with RTG or Playtech casinos but examples of formerly reputable MicroGaming sites that left this way are the Microgaming C3i (Caribbean Cyber Casino) after a massive PayPal promo although this was a long time ago. More recently Captain Cooks (Integrity) did the same trying to get out of paying bonuses. They were bought out and the previous people involved came back to open an RTG site Hippo Jo taking players money (I can’t help thinking maybe that was their intention from the start). The most recent was Fortune Lounge that clearly stated at the time that they needed to do it to save their business and Casino Rewards recently told me the same thing :”the sole purpose of the changes was to keep the business afloat“.
I read what Casinomeister said about Fortune Lounge and wasn’t really surprised after he forgave Jackpot Factory after this idiocy (http://mb.winneronline.com/showthread.html?t=2464 ). I don’t think Fortune Lounge paying the players complaining to Casinomeister was enough as I’m sure plenty more were not paid. I had them dumped years before for similar behaviour and even I had two bonus related problems playing with them (had to use VPops twice to resolve it and I think it was only resolved because of my website). I actually had some complaints from players too which I resolved and some only received their deposit back after my intervention (not winnings) and I was sure they were not part of a syndicate (they just had foreign names and poor english).
Maybe casinos should read this old thread: http://mb.winneronline.com/showthread.html?t=4854