BODOG STOLE MY WINNINGS!!!

[GrannyMae]

I have yet to meet one person who has never made a mistake.
Our maker is the only exception.




he's certainly made some bad decisions.

fold

[rags1025]

Granny,

If this happened to you, would you not be upset? I didn't post this story on here to brag about my winnings. I posted this story to disclose an unfair practice from a company that makes millions of dollars.

[GrannyMae]

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Granny,

If this happened to you, would you not be upset? I didn't post this story on here to brag about my winnings. I posted this story to disclose an unfair practice from a company that makes millions of dollars.

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it would not happen to me, but that's besides the point.

as other's have said, the missing digit and latter claim of an honest mistake is exactly how many scammers would do it.

tho i'm not calling you a scammer per se.

[GrannyMae]

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Granny,

If this happened to you, would you not be upset? I didn't post this story on here to brag about my winnings. I posted this story to disclose an unfair practice from a company that makes millions of dollars.

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btw, i did not think you were bragging. i was merely stating to mike haven that the reason for posting it is because you won money, and therefore it was an issue. had you lost money, we would not have heard about it.

HOWEVER, had you lost money, bodog would not have gotten your $100 either, and that's just another bad debt for a poker room. bad debts from unprocessed charges etc., make the cost of poker higher for all.

[chief444]

Of course I have. But I also take accountability for them rather than blaming others.

Look rags...BoDog's policy does suck...that they let people play with uncleared funds. I agree with you there. And I also agree that it should be made clear by them to new players that this policy is in place and will be enforced. But it's still your screw up. And you're acting as if they are scamming you or stealing your money when in actuallity you're out exactly $0 and they have done nothing but enforce a policy that is in place for a very obvious reason.

[tagtastic]

The obvious thing to do here is:

1. Make a new account and "mistype" the account number again.
2. Deposit as much as you possibly can as a new player (I'm sure there's a limit on this first transaction).
3. Proceed to lose all this money ASAP.
4. Avoid their calls.. oh wait, the phone number, name, address, email, etc were all bogus. No problem here.
5. Repeat

I give it a week before bodog changes their deposit policy.


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[betadecay]

I was going to state what tony paladino already said. A few others have chimed in with the same response. This is the same thing going on with the stars/party cheating policy. If you were at stars they would give you the money back. If you were at party they would not. Bodog is basically protecting itself from cheaters/con-artist. This bank-info is a bid deal. It sucks Bodog lends you money to play initially. Like everyone said, get NETELLER.

[StellarWind]

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The 11 digit thing is false. I know I have a Chase account that is 12 digits.

And the credit card number thing is wrong too... Amex cards are all 15 digits.

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I have a bank account with a 10-digit account number.

[StellarWind]

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Yes and no. Obviously the second deposit is collectible. However that would really defeat the purpose of the policy if they just allowed anyone who won to redo the deposit since they still couldn't collect from anyone who lost. Clearly they view it as two seperate deposits in that case...one uncollectible and one collectible.

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But the T&C are what they actually say and not what they should have said. My narrow point is that the word "uncollectible" in the context of a debt has a widely understood meaning. It means that the money owed has not been paid and is unlikely to ever be paid. That doesn't seem to be anywhere near the case here. This paragraph of the T&C does not apply to this situation.

[frommagio]

Think of it from their perspective - if a scammer drops the $100, then BoDog is out $100. If a scammer earns $500 profit, then of course he'll make the $100 deposit available retroactively. And pretty darn quickly, too.

In your case, it was a simple mistake. But if BoDog let you get away with this, they'd have tons of folks submitting $100 deposits based on account numbers with subtle errors. It's just the reality of the situation.

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Like I said, I made no attempt to try and cash out my winnings. I simply made an honest mistake and they should have honored my mistake after I gave them the information they requested which proved my account number was one digit short and not a bunch of randomly made up numbers.

Plus no one who was intentionally trying to scam them could ever cash out since their initial withdrawl would never clear.

They even state on their website that it is their sole discretion as to whether to return the funds which I interpet to mean that it is a case by case basis.

I played there in good faith and made the 100 withdrawl available to them the minute I found out about the error.

This is just bad business as who in their right mind would continue to patronize a site that wiped out your winnings?

Sorry but I am not a crook and should not be penalized for my innocent mistake of omitting the very last digit in an 11 digit account number.

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