Cashing out from bingo sites

[wjb316]

It appears that every major bingo room has terrible cashout policies. It's like they don't want their players to cash out ever. They have high minimum cashouts, playthrough requirements on the initial deposit itself, etc etc. When writing reviews, it seems kind of irresponsible to leave these things out. Are there any bingo rooms worthy of promotion that have non-predatory T&Cs for their customers?

I have always considered adding a bingo section to a casino portal of mine, but this issue has bothered me from the beginning. I can only imagine how they treat affiliates.

Here are a couple of lines from USA Bingo:

Deposits may not be withdrawn except on closure of account.

Accounts must have been funded with a cash deposit within 15 days prior to requesting a withdrawal.

Withdrawals are not permitted within 10 days from initial registration of an account

All deposits must be fully cleared prior to a withdrawal being processed.

Management reserves the right to delay payment of any large winnings while you provide a picture or story for promotional purposes.

Casino game wagering requires a 20 X playthrough requirement before being eligible for withdrawal.

Minimum withdrawal amount: $75.00.

Maximum withdrawal amount $5,000 per 30 day period.

When you withdraw winnings, any BBz left in your account cannot be more than 50% of the cash left in your account.

Now I can understand some withdrawal rules, but this looks like a minefield.

[Prenut]

It appears that every major bingo room has terrible cashout policies. It's like they don't want their players to cash out ever. They have high minimum cashouts, playthrough requirements on the initial deposit itself, etc etc. When writing reviews, it seems kind of irresponsible to leave these things out. Are there any bingo rooms worthy of promotion that have non-predatory T&Cs for their customers?

I have always considered adding a bingo section to a casino portal of mine, but this issue has bothered me from the beginning. I can only imagine how they treat affiliates.

Here are a couple of lines from USA Bingo:

Deposits may not be withdrawn except on closure of account.

Accounts must have been funded with a cash deposit within 15 days prior to requesting a withdrawal.

Withdrawals are not permitted within 10 days from initial registration of an account

All deposits must be fully cleared prior to a withdrawal being processed.

Management reserves the right to delay payment of any large winnings while you provide a picture or story for promotional purposes.

Casino game wagering requires a 20 X playthrough requirement before being eligible for withdrawal.

What the fuck, is that standard in bingo? You cannot withdraw your deposit? The whole lot of those is stealing.

[wjb316]

I'm not sure if it's standard across the entire industry, but i've seen predatory terms in a few places. Some bingo sites do not really list any withdrawal T&Cs.

After looking around, Bingo Gala does not look nearly as bad.

Neither does Foxy Bingo. Well, Foxy Bingo does reserve the right to confiscate your entire account balance if you don't log in within 180 days. And they also state they cannot retrieve lost passwords.

Vics Bingo - Not as predatory but still a minefield.


Bingo Hall - Same rules as above.

South Beach Bingo - Same as above

123 Bingo Online - Looks OK

Bingo-Millionaire - Look good until you get to the bottom of the withdrawal rules page.

Bet365 Bingo - Probably safe knowing Bet365.

Bingo on the Box - Wagering requirements on all withdrawal requests.

Desperate Housewives Bingo - Theft.

Look like World Bingo Network is the biggest group of offenders.

[daniels25]

I have players telling me they can't withdraw from bingo hall because they don't have a landline phone. Are you kidding me? I looked and it's in their terms. Needless to say, I will never promote bingo hall or any other program that revenue giants deal with.

Warn all players to stay away from bingo hall!

[MJ]

Wow that's amazing, I'm glad I saw this post.

I would say best to promote stronger brands then like Bet365, Party, 888.

[wjb316]

Old bump but anybody know of ANY decent US bingo sites? I'm about to add a bingo section to one of my sites but not even sure where to start. Looking for a place that treats players fairly.


Edit - Was about to consider Break the Bank Bingo until I saw this line in their terms:

• You can request a withdrawal if you wish to close your account.

WTF is your problem online bingo?

[MJ]

I don't know a lot about bingo but maybe just build your section towards UK players for now, make note of it above the fold somewhere and come back to it.

[wjb316]

MJ, I am considering doing just that.

I did find 123 Bingo Online, though. Their rules look reasonable. The affiliate program is run by bingo4affiliates.com. Anyone know anything about these guys?

[pokerprop]

The search volume for bingo is incredibly small in the US and highly competitive. Seriously, as there's heeps more money in other gambling niches (US bingo being smallest and most scam ridden) I wouldn't even bother with it from an SEO perspective unless I had a lot of existing leverage. In the UK on the other hand its much different. The search volume is MASSIVE, and there are tons of popular rooms. I haven't finished but in doing research on ones to promote these are ones I hadn't disqualified yet, all operate in GPB and use UK english on their sites:

Numbers refer to their exact match search volume according to Google keyword tool

foxy bingo - 201K
gala bingo - 201K
mecca bingo - 165K
Wink Bingo - 110K
Costa Bingo - 110K
Cheeky Bingo - 90.5K
Sun Bingo - 60.5K
Tombola Bingo - 49.5K
Ladbrokesd Bingo 40.5K
Moon Bingo - 27.1K
Sing Bingo - 22.2K
888 ladies - 14.8K
Bet365 Bingo - 12.1K

Note to MJ: Good advice, just fwiw/fyiy: Party Bingo does not seem anywhere near as popular, ranks less than #30 in terms of search volume, and I read several places when researching tbat the player value sucked. 888 ladies and Bet365 are not even top 15 for bingo specific volume. However the only bingo site I ever promoted successfully (was small scale) was 888 and did really well from it, and have also heard Bet365 is solid for conversion too.

[wjb316]

Yup, the bingo section on my site will not make me rich any time soon. I just want to give readers a well-rounded resource with information that's actually useful. Thanks for the numbers and input prop.