Topic: A costly gambling mistake - page 7. (Read 819 times)

Does anyone read the terms and conditions of an online casino?

Most gamblers are too lazy to read this. They strive to start playing faster and not waste too much time. It is boring and not interesting, which is understandable, leads to unpleasant consequences. Well, here are 2 options to solve this problem. Or overpower yourself and read the rules, as well as abide by them. Or be prepared to be punished by the casino and in no case complain if they themselves were wrong.

And don't forget that any casino wants to earn money, not to enrich its customers.

This kind of thing is not too much emphasis and another thing I guess it's for the user's responsibility to make research before making a deposit and gameplay to that casino the casino just does it to make their advertisement we know what their focus is the marketing to gain more users and players to their platform but again the player's responsibility take an action with this kind of thing they are the one who play, sometimes the casino now is prompting their faqs and terms and conditions but sometimes players just keep it check and proceed to play.

Outside newbies old-users are not excluded from this behavioral pattern, there is this tendency of feeling like it's time wasting going through the terms and conditions but it's something of necessity so to avoid any regrets thereafter. And these gambling platforms ain't helpful at all with how much of a lengthy T&C's they put down having understood the laziness to ready among many gamblers.
Clicking on the check box✓ of T&C claiming you have read and understood when you haven't it's like signing a contract document without having idea of what the laid down conditions of the do's and don'ts of the contract is all about and that simply is just an act of foolishness.

Newbie often not read ToS due to the fact that it’s too long to read which even old players failed to read it. Only newbie that is too careful or previous history on gambling has the time to read it but the rest of the normal gambler don’t mind reading it and casino is aware on this that’s why some casino put a very unfair terms so that they can use it against the player in case he/she won a huge amount like jackpot.

In general T&C and ToS are indeed the most important thing to read in advance before creating an account of making our 1st deposit, but in fact most people do not really care about it. Most people start to read it when they are experiencing an issue. Honestly, I do the same thing most of the time as I do not really like to read a huge wall of text but I do not skip it at all because I will always try to find the most important things first such as blocked jurisdiction and about KYC.

I'm guilty of this, but I know the risks. That's why I mostly gamble on reputable gambling sites because I'm a bit lazy when it comes to reading the terms and conditions. Once a gambling site is reputable, that means many gamblers love to play with them because they agree with their TOS, so that's the benefit of a lazy gambler like me.

But you are right, newbies should read the terms so they will not complain and destroy the reputation of a gambling site, despite the fact that it was their mistake that cost them money.

The ToS and terms and conditions are very important to go through in whatever registration we are doing online but we seem to neglect and not read them. As for gambling, we know the anxiety that involves in it as we are always wanting the process to go very fast so that we can start gambling immediately like all the money would have been made if we are not fast enough to get in. The worse of it is where money is involved, we always seem to push the right things behind and that is the problem. It is not only newbies that neglect that important aspect of registration.

it seems that not just beginners, even some of us in this thread don't have time to read the FAQ or the rules and requirements there, register directly at the casino, maybe it's too long and too much to read so it will make people lazy to read it, after all, as long as you play well without do something strange, I think everything will be safe, depending on how the beginners play, sometimes they try to cheat by taking advantage of bonuses at the casino or other cheating. the rules should be put on the registration board as a warning and when you have finished reading it will be redirected to the registration form I think that's a good way. 

Sometimes as a human with don't even bother ourselves of checking the terms and conditions of a casino since we know that there terms is not going to be too harsh for users and if so many gamblers would not be using the casino. It is right for us to check terms before using a casino but I don't find that as important. I just play bets and make winnings.

For many online casino players, the welcome bonus on the first deposit may be of paramount importance and some ignore the other aspects of T&C, but we will only learn about any incident if payment is refused or blocked. Also, on many platforms, there is simply no FAQ section, where some questions are usually disclosed in more detail, but we still cannot say with certainty whether one or another T&C player read before starting the game, in many cases the online casino itself also abuses, moreover, the rules may not be static and may change by adding restrictions.

This is commonly experienced by majority of the users in different gambling platforms. Even the experienced gamblers while getting into new gambling sites never mind the terms and conditions. They just agree without reading the terms and conditions. When some problem arises, users just request help from the support team and starts reading the terms and conditions. Not only with cryptocurrency gambling platforms, with each and every service being used online, it is mandatory to read terms and conditions to use the service without flaws for long term.

Sometimes due to excitement specially when there're people hyping the site or promoting it, newbies tend to forget that not sometimes but every time you need to value your security first before doing the act of gambling. I have seen several gamblers online/offline doing the same thing as you've said OP and it makes me feel bored listening to them and trying to explain what they had joined. Some just ignore the ToS and would click the "I agree" button on the terms of agreement without even reading the important details.

Whenever I try to register to some sites, I usually ignore the unimportant details or skip it, but when it comes that it involves personal information and bank information, I won't skip the terms without fully understanding it, sometimes I even use google to simplify the terms coz sometimes there're sites that uses complicated words in their terms and conditions.

Way back it almost bit me when I did try to bet on an online E-sports tournament on a betting platform, I was a total newbie at that time and I only wanted to have fun by supporting my favorite team at the same time earn a quick few bucks. It was then I didn't expect that the withdrawal fee is relatively expensive, while I only put a little amount. That time it was my first time betting online on platform using cryptocurrency, and then I was shocked that my initial balance cannot be withdrawn coz there're limits as to how much is the withdrawal, so I have to bet more if I wanted to withdraw, what's more funny is that, I need to reach a certain betting threshold before I could unlock the withdraw button.

The problem is not reading the rules before registration, the real problem is that casino sites change those rules all the time without informing the customers.

Stake for example added a lot of stuff to their rules , like new banned regions, reloads are not permanent, alle the KYC stuff and so on.

But the users did not get 1 email about those changes. I am with stake for years and was never informed about changes of the TOS but when I read them now, like Germany is now banned, guess what, I am German, then I can only wonder wtf is going on.

If you aim to gamble responsibly, you should always take caution in every step you want to take, like reading and understanding the TOS first and reading on the reviews made by gamblers who have experienced playing in the site, that way you will be guided properly before you make your initial deposit. That is also one way to avoid filing complaints on the site and giving them negative feedbacks since you are the one who is at fault by not reading and understanding the terms and conditions of the site.

Large portion of the blame goes to the player who is so lazy to read terms and conditions of the casino, take for instance a situation where a player failed to notice the wager requirements on deposit and bonuses.

-This cases have course a lot of problems, which have lead to players accusing the casino of abusing their right, not knowing that is their own fault, the casino made all the rules and they're there to enforce them and no matter what your feelings are they don't care.
So is important to read all the terms and conditions.

    There is no perfect gambler, but of course as a player in a casino we must first learn to read the rules and policies of a gambling platform.

In the end we have no one to blame but ourselves because of our lack which causes problems in the end when we play gambling in a crypto gambling. So it's really good to read before we gamble.

I've seen a lot of gamblers make this kind of mistake(not just newbies). a lot of these gamblers intentionally ignore the gambling site's terms and conditions because they are too lazy to read them. online gamblers really should make it a habit to read a casino's ToS(or at least parts of it that the gambler think is important), it can save them a lot of trouble and headache if they do.

in the end, those who make false accusations get nothing. because the casino representatives on the forum can also provide evidence, and users like that won't get anything.
mistakes like this are common, not only on gambling platforms. people take the rules of a platform too lightly. and on any platform related to our money, I hope that everything is checked carefully before we finally calmly deposit our money for a game.

One of the risks of playing in a casino is not knowing its terms of service, I've read one story where one guy from a restricted location not knowing that those who come from that location are not allowed to sign up or even play it's allowed on one casino and not from other casinos.
A good gambler read the terms and checks what he can do legally and what is allowed, it's your money you have to protect your money, and reading the terms and knowing your restriction and what you can do is the best way to protect your money and your account in case you get lucky and win.
There's nothing like being able to withdraw your winning because you read the terms and follow them.

But even if the casino poping up the warning it would be very rare for a player to click on the warning notifications and read the entire lengthy text of casino rules.
Actually players don't need to read the whole long and boring text, just look for important things like KYC, deposits, withdrawals, and areas that are prohibited from playing at the casino, and if we intend to claim a bonus then read about the bonus rules, for I read and study this carefully enough for us to avoid all unwanted possibilities in the future.