Hello, everyone.
Firstly:
Peter - to respond to your last two questions:
1) Tim didn't win his balance from Welcome bonuses. But from our point of view, this is irrelevant.
2) We can't claim with certainty that the customer did or didn't play after the password change. We would need to request a detailed analysis from the tech department, which could take some time. Even if we grant that he didn't play after the password change - why this nuance should impact the most basic violation: having three accounts with the same password/IP/device is not allowed and won't be tolerated.
Secondly:
I will try to make a complete summary of this matter and what implications are set upon us for future cases with similar Terms and Conditions violations.
I want to start by pointing out statistics that Tim had with us before "his friend changed the password", as is claimed by Tim himself.
Deposits: 2156.00 EUR (15)
Withdrawals: 8000.00 EUR (4)
Customers' net gain from Tsars is 5844.00 EUR and this even doesn't include refunds for the last two deposits, which were made as a loyalty gesture.
One was for 451.00 EUR and the second for 201.00 EUR.
Unfortunately, the 'fairness argument' won't apply quite so strongly if we are analyzing customers whole history on Tsars.
Facts are as follow:
We have three accounts in our system with the same password, IP, device - Elke, Patrick, and Tim.
There is no rational explanation in our mind, that could explain these duplicate matches. From our standpoint there even shouldn't be any rationalization/discussion.
Tim can try to justify it as colorfully as he wishes, but these types of decisions are not made on a "customers explanation" basis.
If this sort of decision-making would be implemented in future cases, then every duplicate match case needs to be dismissed.
Customers will come up with any fiction just to get the money back.
Furthermore - I want to zoom in and analyze Elke and Patrick more specifically.
- They are mother and son who have the same password.
This fact by itself is very suspicious and fraudulent. Why would mother and son have the same password?
In our long experience with cases, where children play with their parents + have the same password, more often than not
son or daughter takes parents card/ID and creates an account in their name. This of course is speculative analysis, but it could easily be true. And we are more than confident in claiming that most likely this is the case.
And then we have Tim - who has also the same password. By any online gambling community standards - this type of behavior is not acceptable.
I want to emphasize that if three customers have the same password; all of them have access to each other's accounts and at no point, we can clearly deduct who is playing from which account and when.
Furthermore - we can't also deduct who is the owner of the money, even if the depositing method belongs to the corresponding account. Nowadays when online payments are easy and quick, money could be swapped back and forth between bank accounts without any problems.
To conclude:
Duplicate match by IP, Password and Device is a serious violation of our Terms and Conditions. We are not willing to make an exception, just because Tim (or a related person to Tim) found a decent enough rationalization. We can't just throw away hard facts and believe customers' words. For all we know, this could be one person that is using three accounts with our without the other person's approval. Our bonus/loyalty/cash-back system is very comprehensive and detailed, and it can be abused, exploited very easily if one person has access to three different accounts.
We completely understand your case-by-case individual thinking model, but this, in our opinion, doesn't apply in such straightforward cases.
I hope that my explanation helps to understand why we made the decision we did.
Best regards,
Andrei
Hello, everyone.
Firstly:
Peter - to respond to your last two questions:
1) Tim didn't win his balance from Welcome bonuses. But from our point of view, this is irrelevant.
2) We can't claim with certainty that the customer did or didn't play after the password change. We would need to request a detailed analysis from the tech department, which could take some time. Even if we grant that he didn't play after the password change - why this nuance should impact the most basic violation: having three accounts with the same password/IP/device is not allowed and won't be tolerated.
Secondly:
I will try to make a complete summary of this matter and what implications are set upon us for future cases with similar Terms and Conditions violations.
I want to start by pointing out statistics that Tim had with us before "his friend changed the password", as is claimed by Tim himself.
Deposits: 2156.00 EUR (15)
Withdrawals: 8000.00 EUR (4)
Customers' net gain from Tsars is 5844.00 EUR and this even doesn't include refunds for the last two deposits, which were made as a loyalty gesture.
One was for 451.00 EUR and the second for 201.00 EUR.
Unfortunately, the 'fairness argument' won't apply quite so strongly if we are analyzing customers whole history on Tsars.
Facts are as follow:
We have three accounts in our system with the same password, IP, device - Elke, Patrick, and Tim.
There is no rational explanation in our mind, that could explain these duplicate matches. From our standpoint there even shouldn't be any rationalization/discussion.
Tim can try to justify it as colorfully as he wishes, but these types of decisions are not made on a "customers explanation" basis.
If this sort of decision-making would be implemented in future cases, then every duplicate match case needs to be dismissed.
Customers will come up with any fiction just to get the money back.
Furthermore - I want to zoom in and analyze Elke and Patrick more specifically.
- They are mother and son who have the same password.
This fact by itself is very suspicious and fraudulent. Why would mother and son have the same password?
In our long experience with cases, where children play with their parents + have the same password, more often than not
son or daughter takes parents card/ID and creates an account in their name. This of course is speculative analysis, but it could easily be true. And we are more than confident in claiming that most likely this is the case.
And then we have Tim - who has also the same password. By any online gambling community standards - this type of behavior is not acceptable.
I want to emphasize that if three customers have the same password; all of them have access to each other's accounts and at no point, we can clearly deduct who is playing from which account and when.
Furthermore - we can't also deduct who is the owner of the money, even if the depositing method belongs to the corresponding account. Nowadays when online payments are easy and quick, money could be swapped back and forth between bank accounts without any problems.
To conclude:
Duplicate match by IP, Password and Device is a serious violation of our Terms and Conditions. We are not willing to make an exception, just because Tim (or a related person to Tim) found a decent enough rationalization. We can't just throw away hard facts and believe customers' words. For all we know, this could be one person that is using three accounts with our without the other person's approval. Our bonus/loyalty/cash-back system is very comprehensive and detailed, and it can be abused, exploited very easily if one person has access to three different accounts.
We completely understand your case-by-case individual thinking model, but this, in our opinion, doesn't apply in such straightforward cases.
I hope that my explanation helps to understand why we made the decision we did.
Best regards,
Andrei