Party! You've banned them all, stop using USA time

[Roy6]

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our super sleuth research has identified the $USD as the most recognized and trusted currency in the world.

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Is this a joke?
EURUSD graph

Losing value constantly - enjoy! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[cardcounter0]

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our super sleuth research has identified the $USD as the most recognized and trusted currency in the world.

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Is this a joke?
EURUSD graph

Losing value constantly - enjoy! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Obviously it is a good example to never pay attention to MikeO. The answer is probably because now without the U.S. most players want a different currency, giving Party a good chance of ripping off most of them on conversions. ENJOY!

[Josem]

PP deserves a great deal of criticism - but for using US Dollars?!?!

You've gotta be kidding.

courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar

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The dollar is the most important international reserve currency, followed by the euro. The euro inherited this status from the German mark, and since its introduction, has increased its standing considerably, mostly at the expense of the dollar. Despite the dollar's recent losses to the euro, it is still by far the major international reserve currency, with an accumulation nearly three times that of the euro.

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The USD represents almost two-thirds of Foreign Reserve currencies.

The IMF's data on this is available here: http://www.imf.org/external/np/sta/cofer/eng/cofer.pdf

[Arnfinn Madsen]

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Some of us would like the opportunity to have a direct input with our online poker room manager. I just ask other posters to consider other users on this forum.

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What's the point of having direct input with the online poker room "manager"? He behaves on this board like somebody who has been given a title without authority, since he constantly avoids discussing any subject with substance. Sending only him here is negative PR, it is a typical mistake of companies that have started thinking they do not need to interact with their customers to stay on top of the game anymore, they just hand somebody a fancy business card and send him to small talk with the customers instead of gearing their whole organization towards real interaction. I don't think he deserves personal attacks though as it is not his fault how their PR-strategy is made up.

[BluffTHIS!]

Arnfinn,

Good response and a little nicer than mine. The key is party only uses these forums in a one-way manner to discuss very narrow issues of their choosing, and won't discuss anything else. But they promised differently and turned out to be liars re same. There is just no reason to show them or their reps here any respect at all. They're all take and no give.

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Arnfinn,

Good response and a little nicer than mine. The key is party only uses these forums in a one-way manner to discuss very narrow issues of their choosing, and won't discuss anything else. But they promised differently and turned out to be liars re same. There is just no reason to show them or their reps here any respect at all. They're all take and no give.

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Actually it is worse.

For instance this very thread contains this gem from Party:

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Josem, expect to be able to clear bonuses by accumulating points in the very near future.


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Anyone want to take bets on this? Unless you define "very near future" as something like "as soon as monkeys fly out of MikeO's azz".

Any statement from Party Minions should First be looked at as a mistake, Second as a lie, and Third as a misleading statement. Finally, it may turn out to be true by accident, sometimes they get lucky.

[NoMeansYes_]

Hey Mike, when is Party going to move over to UK soil so that they can run the PartyGaming buisness with a huge backing from the UK Government and allow your site to explode with a huge amount of players?

[sandycove]

Well, Josem, I wasn't kidding, for purely practical reasons...

...Since dollars direct from the U.S. are no longer welcome at Party Poker, and since there are more Euro in circulation than dollars and since converting my international currency into dollars and back into Euro again adds two more rakes I must overcome.

I do accept the Party line that the dollar is still the international financial "language," although I'm sure you would allow, from Down Under, that confidence is slipping.

[adi]

yeah enough with american symbols on party, your largest market by far now is the european union so get the cet and euros on your site, the dollar is weak as [censored] and will probably continue to fall plus there's the conversion since most of us will be using euros now. you don't serve americans anymore so there's no need to keep sucking their [censored] for god sake.

[MadMat]

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Considered it. But with scheduled tournaments it becomes a nightmare. The website, emails and CS inquiries would make the players confused. If you had your clock on GMT and the tournaments were listed in EST, it would only cause you a headache.
There might be a better solution and we will look for it.

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Storing each players chosen timezone in thier account pofile as an offset from server time, and then calculating the times shown in each players lobby/emails etc to be local time seems a fairly trivial programming issue me!

Mat