Pitfalls for South Africans

April 26, 2009

Online Casino gaming is plenty of entertainment if you love to be at home and tour the world’s casinos online. There is so much to AMUSE yourself with and so many to pick and choose from. The only snag in this is that, as a South African, I am rejected at many many casinos because of my SA nationality! At first I thought it is just a small problem with one casino, but as I went through my list of casinos, I was rejected at almost 95% of them.

True to my style, I did not succumb to their rejection and started sending e-mails to the administrators/customer service departments. This was my e-mail to them:

“Hi there, I came across your casino site via internet, and was interested to play as you opening bonus is really attractive. Upon registration, my account could not be activated due to the fact that I live in South Africa. I do not understand this, as we have no Laws outlawing gambling! Can you please tell me what the problem is, as I do not accept rejection with regards to this matter! Hoping to hear from you soon!”

And so the replies started pouring in:

“Thank you for your email and interest that you have in …… but due to the following reasons we do not accept any players based in South Africa. Firstly our software cannot be supported if you are based in South Africa as it is not setup for IP addresses registered in S.A. Also our Gaming provider which is Micro Gaming will not be able to provide you with the support required once a casino account is registered. We do appreciate your feedback and hope that we will be able to make the casino available in South Africa soon.”

Now I ask…is this discrimination or just bad luck? Why have an internet casino on the www and exclude SA? So, in the end I had no choice to only play with online casinos that are South African friendly! Even if the writers of the response email do decide to allow SA to play in a few years from now, I will not join them. Their loss in my opinion!

The purpose of posting this you think? To inform you of the pitfalls out there in the online gaming world and what you can expect. Now, as I went through the time of downloading the software, and provided them with all my details, do I receive a refund on my MB used to download useless software? No, this is what you loose! And to make matters worse, now I receive spam from them as they are now in possession of my e-mail address and details! Sounds like complaining, but this is the reality and I want you to be aware of what is going on out there!

On AMUSE, we will post SA friendly casino sites for you to visit and that you can trust. This will save you time and software downloads in MB, as it is costing you to install it.

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