[tristan]

Yesterday when looking at my emails i had very bad news from AsianConnect. Their message said:

"Based on our recent review of your accounts with us, we realized that your business is not profitable for us due to the following reasons:

1. High cost of payment gateway

2. Commission earned from your turnover is not enough to cover the cost.

As such, we have decided to implement 1.5% fee on all your deposit/withdrawal in Skrill and Neteller while 2% deposit fee and 1% withdrawal fee for Ecopayz effective on 10th of September and also, we have removed free deposit/withdrawal privilege per calendar month."

Did many of you receive the same email about "Transaction fees"???

[Foosball Champ]

I could see that one coming. just wait until they raise your betfair commission to 10% like they did for me.

[Alfie White]

Hm, did they stop using the private accounts for their business?

[lucky_luke23]

I didn't receive the same email.

But I'm a little bit surprised about an error that occured to me and the support Asianconnect has shown last couple of days in this matter.
Wagered on 3ET odds almost a week ago through Asianodds88-website... won the bet... but the next day, while checking my balance, I was surprised to see the bet was evaluated incorrectly, counted as lost in my betting history... AO88 followed my concern up to 3et, but still waiting for their response.

Yesterday I wanted to know from Asianconnect if there's an update but they haven't answered yet. Very disappointing.

Did anyone have this same problem? Or ever heard someone go thru the same?

[HeeeHAWWWW]

Skrill is expensive, not too surprised they do something like this if dep/wd costs are more than commission.

Might be better from a PR side just to impose a 1 free per month rule though, or something like 5x deposit rollover .

[BrickJames]

Its getting more and more common.

[tristan]

Its getting more and more common.

Yes indeed more and more agents implement fees, but most of the time there are good explanations/justification for that. When, for example, a broker proposes Betfair, matchbook, betdaq..., i consider that their service can justify fees. But concerning Asian Connect, let's look at things objectively: what do they propose on their platform (Asianodds)?? PinnacleSports (all agents do so, that 's the minimum), 3et, and? what else interesting?? Not a single exchange...
Their offer is very poor. To me there are two main reasons why historically people use AC :
1-They have been established for a while and have a very solid reputation/reliability
2-They didn't apply any fee for deposit/withdrawal

Now that they apply 1,5 % fees for all deposits/withdrawal with skrill and neteller, one can imagine they'll lost lots of customers. How can they stand the comparison with other agents that offer exchanges ( Betfair, matchbook,...) ??

[tristan]

I could see that one coming. just wait until they raise your betfair commission to 10% like they did for me.

What agent make you pay 10% fees for Betfair??

[zikko]

Yes indeed more and more agents implement fees, but most of the time there are good explanations/justification for that. When, for example, a broker proposes Betfair, matchbook, betdaq..., i consider that their service can justify fees. But concerning Asian Connect, let's look at things objectively: what do they propose on their platform (Asianodds)?? PinnacleSports (all agents do so, that 's the minimum), 3et, and? what else interesting?? Not a single exchange...
Their offer is very poor. To me there are two main reasons why historically people use AC :
1-They have been established for a while and have a very solid reputation/reliability
2-They didn't apply any fee for deposit/withdrawal

Now that they apply 1,5 % fees for all deposits/withdrawal with skrill and neteller, one can imagine they'll lost lots of customers. How can they stand the comparison with other agents that offer exchanges ( Betfair, matchbook,...) ??

Exact. These fees are not justified because their offer is very poor. I withdrawed all my money. Bye bye Asianconnect.