I've long ago wanted to open an account in Pokerstars. Primarily to get a chance to play in the biggest tourneys available around the net. But since they were not accepting Click2pay which is my primary payment processor and I was too lazy to try bank transfers and stuff. It was probably something that wasn't going to happen.
Heheh .. that was until Paradise Poker through sheer greediness made it work. I deposited a small amount in Paradise a few weeks ago to avail of a sign-up bonus. After depositing, I noticed that there was no pending bonus. So I emailed them and asked. I received a reply that since I registered the Paradise account a few months ago, I wasn't eligible for the bonus even though I made my first deposit just recently in line with their promotion. They said it was only available for new players who registered and made the first deposit at the same time.
I know ... utter stupidity. Whoever heard of such a moronic ruling. All other sites give you a bonus upon first deposit. Who gives a fcuk when you registered the account? Obviously this ticked me off and I wanted to get my money out of there as soon as possible. So I went to their withdraw page.
Huh ? Strange. There was no click2pay option to withdraw even though it was clearly stated in their own website that you can only withdraw thru the same way you deposited. So I emailed them again. Their answer was that even though click2pay was a deposit option, they are sorry but it was not part of their withdrawal methods.
What a crock! I got the sneaking suspicion it was just a delaying tactic so that you end up losing the deposit before you could get a chance to withdraw. Scumbags seems like too nice a word to describe the people behind paradise.
In any case, I took a look at what was available and I saw moneybookers. So with nothing to lose, I registered an account with moneybookers. And then I made the withdrawal thru them. I received another email from Paradise CS. This time they were again apologizing and said that they have been recently having problems with withdrawals thru moneybookers.
I was pretty much shaking my head in disbelief after reading this. I resigned myself to just playing in paradise even though they had crappy customer support. Then suddenly 2 days later, without any notice. I received an email from moneybookers stating that I had cash in my account. I immediately transferred this to pokerstars which accepted moneybookers.
Woohoo .... And that is how I finally got an account with real money in Pokerstars.
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