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Originally Posted by Santo
If they're stiff, why pay the rest of the world?
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Because the circumstances differ.
Neteller has decided that as things stand now, when they calculate the money they get to keep, the impact what they are doing will have on the fate of their two former owners, the impact what they are doing will have on their reputation amongst the individuals and businesses they intend to continue to service, plus whatever else they are factoring in, on balance they will gain more than they will lose by stiffing their American customers. If and when the circumstance change to where the calculations come out otherwise, they will presumably change their present course of action.
When they calculate their self-interest on the question of stiffing their non-American customers, they have concluded that at present they are better off not doing so.
Thus they are crooks like ESB rather than crooks like Aces Gold. They choose to stiff some of their customers but remain in business and continue to service others.
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Originally Posted by Santo
Why do companies like Betfair happily continue to use them, presumably exposing themselves to risk when they have little to gain (most people who use NT would still use BF, just with another funding method)..
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The individuals and companies that continue to use Neteller have presumably done their own risk/reward analysis and decided that the circumstances are such that the risk of their being treated by Neteller the way Neteller’s American customers have been is low enough that it is surpassed by the reward of continuing to use Neteller. I don’t know enough about Betfair, its customers preferences in funding methods, etc. to know if the cost/benefit analysis they’ve done to continue doing business with thieves is a wise one relative to their self-interest.
It may well be. Just as if I move to another country it’s possible I’ll decide to use Neteller (very, very carefully, leaving as small as possible balances there for as short a period of time as possible).
That doesn’t change the fact that they’re able to pay some or all of their American customers and, for now at least, have wrongfully chosen not to.