Coinbet was able to put a muzzle on players because of their rules. They were able to sneak up on us players because of this. In the future if a book puts in a rule where they can confiscate funds due to negative press, they will be rated "F".
Better late than never.
But you should go beyond this.
Anytime a book in relationship to questionable rules says "Yes, we do have that language in our T&C but we never enforce it", they should be asked to remove it if they never enforce it.
When Jetwin tells you "Yes, we have dozens of rules that allow us to steal player funds. But of course we will never do that", your response should be to tell them they're downgraded until they remove that language.
Instead you upgraded them when they told you that. (I know, you subsequently downgraded them due to time in existence).
Likewise Anonibet Michael - Your website states that all funds deposited should be rolled over one time, or will be charged 5% to withdraw.
When I questioned this, you stated that you never charge the fee, but that it is there because you don't want people using Anonibet as a bank and leaving many btc there that they don't intend to play.
If this is the case, why not remove that language from the website, and when you get someone you feel is parking a lot of btc to store at Anonibet, give the person individually a warning, and threaten him with that next time.
I really can't imagine that this scenario comes up very often.
Having that statement of the 5% fee hurts your business.
It's also a non-standard rule for a btc sportsbook, yet it's hidden in the T&C which most don't read.
It should be in bold letters on the deposit page if you keep the rule. But why would you keep the rule if it's never enforced?
Dear Gogo ppp,
Thank you for your comment. As I have already explained, we do not want to become a safe box. We have never applied this rule so far. I do not understand why this disturbs you. Since 2011, none of our customers has ever complained about not being paid. We have however experienced time to time delays in processing withdraws in our early days, but this was purely technical problems.
In 3 years time we never gave out a BONUS. the only time we did it, it was to apologize for an outage we had for few days. It was not a bonus to attract more customers, it was 0.1 BTC that we gave to all our active customers and with no betting requirement. That means our customers could immediately withdraw that amount without placing a single bet. Peepsplace can testify about that.
I understand your skepticism following bitcoin.cc disappearance but Anonibet is the wrong address to look into.
