So like many people who have subscribed to SBR in the recent weeks just to post on this forum, I figured I'd finally throw in a little story.
I've been playing online for about 5 years and like many people looked elsewhere with sportsbooks when Neteller went anti-US. I played on BetRoyal for about 2 years and even through last football season. I decided since I wouldn't be in Vegas for the NCAA tournament this year I would take a shot at a new sportsbook. I had used sportsbook.com once before, but it had been a while. So after turning down the 30% bonus offered to me from BetRoyal, I took the advice from a friend who uses SB regularly and told me about the SUPER FAST PAYOUTS and the CONVENIENCE OF ACCEPTED ************! WHOO-HOO I WAS IN! Then it got ugly...
First round of the tournament I placed one bet, a ten team parlay which hit 7 out 10 with 3 pushes. For God's sake, 3 pushes! Well a win is a win, so I decided to go ahead and take the few hundred and bolt. I guess you all know what happened next. As I began my payout procedure, I was told there was NOT a check option, only wire. Red flag #1. Well, okay, so I got the information and was perplexed as to why SB had a customer service telephone number, but no direct phone contact with the accounting department. Strange. Not to be deterred, red flag #2 was behind me.
Couple of weeks go by, I get drunk a couple of times and for shats and giggles cuss out the online CS people about the time frame. Runaround, runaround.
Red flag #3. Hmm, maybe I should have taken that bonus from the BetRoyal marketing rep.
Then last week, doing a google search, I found this post and low and behold, RED FLAGS #4-INFINITY!
I am a part of the now infamous March 21st batch. I have been entertaining myself reading these posts for about a week. My few hundred dollars are just a drop in the bucket compared to some of you guys, and I realize the urgency and anger you feel.
However, I am wondering why no one has created the anti-SB website, or some sort of petition against it. I know now wouldn't be the ideal time, being that all of our money is still in their hands, but after this is said and done, I think that it would be a good idea to petition together so that new players don't get mixed up with this outfit of jokers. Just throwing that out there!
Good luck all!