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I don’t think it’s as simple as changing the name of the merchant anymore. I think each merchant probably has some type of account number, and the banks probably flag the account or merchant id as selling online casino chips.
The most impressive experience I ever had in this regard was at Party Poker. I tried to make a deposit with my debit card, it declined, and my phone rang. It was Party Poker, who walked me through the process of getting a prepaid phone card to fund my account with. It was a very good experience, and one that I’m sure contributes to their high conversion rates.
well that may be; but why then am I able to deposit at one microgaming casino; but not another?
I know up until just recently that I was able to deposit into the casinos where I cannot deposit now.
the only thing I could associate that was different, was the name of the company that I deposited to; for instance, CR shows up as CRewards, 7sultans shows up as sorbetal, or something like that;
I agree there probably is an account number instead of the banks going by name, but what is it then that triggers the bank to make the decision not to allow me to deposit?
That would likely be some good information for a casino to know.
Because to my knowledge, I do nothing different when depositing from one casino to another.
So what tips off the bank?
Well, I think it’s the merchant id of the casino. Which isn’t necessarily the same just because it’s powered by the same software, or even if it’s run by the same company. I could be wrong about this too, so someone feel free to correct me if I am.
so they need to change their merchant IDs on occaison is what I’m taking away from this.
Does that sound right?
frankly I’m surprised more people aren’t chiming in about this; because I think its probably costing some serious money to the casinos.
*(if I wasn’t already signed up with NETeller) I know once my debit card is no longer accepted at one casino. I’m going to a different one, rather than mess with having to go thru the “NETeller sign up process”.
Do the casinos just say oh what the hell? I guess we’ve lost that player who was previously spending a nice chunk with us on a monthly basis; simply because the person can’t deposit anymore using the current merchant ID?
We’re talking some serious numbers here; I think it would be well worth the casinos effort to at least find out how much of a problem this has been,
Have they ever went back thru and cross-referenced the players that no longer play, (who were at one time consistent players) to see if the timing for when they stopped playing at the casino; coincides with the fact that their debit card deposits had suddenly started being denied?
think about it.
This is probably something one of the program should chime in on, because I don’t know what’s involved in changing merchant id #’s or anything like that. I’m just speculating. (My guess is that it’s not such an easy thing, but I dunno.)
