[MiltonFriedman]

1. Not everyone is as honest as you. Some people use fake or stolen VISA cards to make deposits. A site accepts a deposit and gets certasin information, which it then corroborates thru a variety of means. You are very mistaken if you think that a site does NOT check everyone who deposits at some point.

2. Why you cannot play ? If the information they get from third parties either cannot confirm what you told them or there is a conflict, the site WILL ask you for further verification before letting the chips you purchased on credit circulate. Simply put, they are the guarantors of those chips to other players; it is not unreasonable to ask you to correct or provide corroboration for information furnished at the time of purchase.

3. One of the MAJOR benefits Neteller had for sites was that the sites were indemified againsy customer fraud in deposits. That is no longer available for the US/Canadian markets. Verification might seem like a comparative pain in the ass to you, but consider having to drive however many miles whenever you want to play poker.


4. VISA as a general rule does NOT allow a gaming merchant to refund money back to the card used. (That WAS permitted like 4 years ago, but as a general rule, not currently.) THAT is why the sites are issuing checks as payments for cashouts.