[bigboydan]

Pointbet drops to D-. Players from around the world are reporting failed promises to pay on a daily basis. Some report having made their payout request over two months ago. The sportsbook is now telling users they must continue to wait but have not committed to a date or provided an excuse for not paying. Pointbet blames a recent earthquake in the region for intermittent website downtime over the past two weeks.


Player:

You can add my name to the lsit of people who are owedd money by point bet They owe me $7500 for a couple of weeks. There website has been down all week. Have they disappeared? Do you know if anyone else has been paid?

[noyb]

if you look around the various betting forums they do appear to be paying some people every day, it's just there's some sort of strange reverse chronological order in it. some people report even getting paid within two days.
apparently, they seem to have put a prioritity in paying off people who asked for a withdrawal recently, and pay off at random one or two people who have been waiting longer with what's left for that day.
it's a pretty sound strategy from the sportsbook point of view, but obviously not very customer-friendly to people who have been waiting for weeks (but i guess they think they've lost most of these people as customers already, which definitely makes some sense). i am still confident they will pay eventually, could be a very long wait for some though.

[JoshW]

Lots of complaints piling up to us. If I was waiting two months to be paid and they were paying off people who just put in w/d requests I would be pissed. As it is large balances seem to be the slowest to be paid.

[noyb]

i think "pissed" is putting it mildly.. not much anyone can do about it though (except pray you're somehow next on their paylist). anyway, if they were going to dissappear, i'm pretty sure they would have done it by now. after all the troubles with their website because of the earthquake, they finally seem to be back online on a more or less consistent basis.

[deltanovember]

They have confirmed to me via live chat that active members are being paid first. The operator intimated that if I started betting again, I would be paid more quickly but if I continued to abstain from betting, my payout would be delayed.

[Bill Dozer]

We had a few reports of small and partial payments after last night's wire but more complaints of large no-pays. Now they are trying to maintain a source of revenue by keeping new and active players happy. I hope we get some reports of 5 figure payouts soon.

[winning2007]

Pointbet must pay for player. If not, nobody play with them

[bigboydan]

first off, welcome to the SBR forum

Even if they pay the players I still would never play there! Who's to say they wouldn't do this again to another player.

[winning2007]

please sent me new dealer with hight ration same same pointbet

[wack]

I would seriously recommend to everyone that they pull any balances as soon as possible. I had over 70k there (they had never slowpayed me at any point before, even on bank wires of 25k plus) - now I have withdrawals of 21k backed up and only a very small balance. I am not wagering with them any more and will not do until they have paid me in full.

They refuse to give any answers on their live chat, will not specify any dates for payments and will not give any reason for the slowpaying. They were saying moneybookers was unfunded, but now even they realise they can't keep saying that after 2 months.

I am almost resigning myself to the fact that they are not going to pay. I have been waiting for 38 days now and I could wait 380 more, that's how I feel about their whole operation.

Please, don't anyone else get themselves in this situation with this book which is now operating as a serious slowpayer/scam book.

I got my money from internet 1X2 many years ago (before I discovered SBR) by contacting the Belize government and they intervened on my behalf (they were very helpful). May have to try the same with the Indonesian government or whatever.

Wish me luck....I will keep you posted. Wouldn't be surprised to see them go "F" in the next few weeks.

[deltanovember]

Hi wack I would advise you to proceed with caution regarding the Indonesian government. The legality of operating an online sportsbook in Indonesia is questionable at best and alerting the government to Pointbet's delinquency may just cause them to come in and shut down the entire operation.

[Lucas]

Originally Posted by wack

I got my money from internet 1X2 many years ago (before I discovered SBR) by contacting the Belize government and they intervened on my behalf (they were very helpful).

wow
how did you do it?

[wack]

Thanks Delta advice taken on board. Have you considered betting small sums such as 25 or 50 $/£ a couple of times a week? I think that is what I am going to do, to stay "active"

With regards to 1x2 I actually did some research on Belize and found out a bit about the place, a lot on the internet about them being up and coming and it was very easy to contact their minister of finance who quickly sorted something out for me by contacting the infamous Mr Raviv himself who paid within days (after i had waited 3 or 4 months).

[winning2007]

Oh Dear.
Help Me.

[wack]

I don't suppose anyone has been paid?

[Gr8Scott]

I am still waiting

[wack]

Apparently their chief investor has pulled out, and they are looking for more investors. No-one is going to take on that project in the current climate (although I don't suppose the US situation has affected them THAT much to be honest, nothing compared to other sportsbooks), so they must be operating essentially as a scam.

Any deposits will just be paying their staff and lining dishonest pockets, I will be surprised if anyone gets paid out ever again from what I have just read and heard. Time to move on and get on with it.

If anyone gets paid, please let us know on this thread, even if it is only a couple of hundred dollars.