No more refunds...

Fik (omsider) denne mail fra Party:


Dear Thomas,

Thank you for contacting Payments and Resolutions Team.

As per Master and Visa regulations, from 01/01/04, we are unable to
refund to your credit card. Since you requested the cash out to be sent
through check, we sent you checks.
...

Siden de skriver at det er “Visa regulations”, går jeg ud fra at det ikke kun er Party Poop der ikke længere laver CC-refunds?
Nogen der kan bekræfte det, og ved hvorfor?

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Det er vist rigtigt. Der er rigtig mange amerikanere der har lagt sag an mod VISA fordi de har tabt penge i udenlandske internetcasinoer, som de ikke mener de burde have haft adgang til. Derfor har VISA valgt at indføre specielle regulationer imod online casinoer. Men nogen internetcasinoer er ikke registreret som sådan hos VISA og kan derfor stadig lave cc-refunds. Over tid bliver alle internetcasinoer nok forhindret i at gøre det. Men kan du ikke bare bruge NeTeller?

Mail fra PokerStars:

Hello Thomas,

Visa does not allow online gaming winnings to be credited back to Visa accounts, but they have allowed credits back to Visa accounts up to the amount purchased, until recently. Visa decided to reinforce this policy to not allow any gaming cashouts back to Visa accounts any longer beginning January 1, 2004.

Due to this change in Visa"s policy, we can no longer credit any cashouts back to Visa accounts. You may receive your cashouts via any of the following methods:

Cheque in US dollars
Cheque in pounds sterling
NETeller (http://www.neteller.com)
CentralCoin (http://www.centralcoin.com)
FirePay (http://www.firepay.com)

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