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No self exclusion allowed. No Licence held with the Gambling Commission to offer remote gaming in the UK.


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I have recently been playing at Casino Midas and deposited £200. I got my balance up to £650 and decided i would like to withdraw. The casino requested that i send in docs to verify my account so i sent in tje requested docs promptly. I chased this up and was told it would take 4-6 days to verify. As i am dealing with a gambling problem i requestwd self exclusion and was told it is not something that casino midas offer. So i asked for my account to be closed. I again was told this was not possible due to beimg in verification status. So, due to the gambling problem i have, i gambled the £650 down to £250. I complained and they offered me a bonus of 50% cash back on any loses for 24 hours. This came to a total of £200 -balance now £450. Due to still not being able to withdraw on the 5-6-7 business day and the fact they have now requested further id docs and back of debit card, both of which were not requested before hand, i gambled my balance up to £2075. Then on the Sunday evening, i lost it all. Then as if by magic, on the monday morning, i had an email saying the docs had now been verified. This seemed very suspicious due to it taking so long to verify. I feel they were knew about my problem gambling, as i was open and requested to be self excluded and were just waiting to verify my docs after i lost my balance.
Due to this suspicion, i decided to do some research into Casino Midas emailed the gambling commission. I discovered that from the 1st November 2014, it is a legal requirement for all casinos who offer remote gaming to players within the uk should be licensed with the Commission. The friendly Manager at ths Commission informed me that Casion Midas did not hold this license!!
For this reason i looked into the conditions of the licence that they should have held and it shows that all operations of remote gaming in the UK MUST offer self exclusion apon a players request.

For this reason i requested a refund of £2075 to be issued. After some discussion with an agent i agreed that this was not the correct amount as it was only winnings that happened after the self exclusion was requested. So i requested a refund of £650, the account balance when i asked for self exclusion as this seemed the fair amount.
After dealing with this for almost 3 weeks i was told it would be passed on to the financial department for authorisation and i would receive a reply yesterday and did not.
The Gambling Commission have been informed of everything and they will be in touch regarding no licence. I don’t feel that casino midas are there to help me anymore so the reason for this complaint is to try amd get an answer from Casino Midas regarding the lack of licence and to try and get the ball moving on the refund as they are not responding to any of my emails.
Disputed Casino Casino Midas
Reason Other
Amount £650

Discussion

User name loyalty-level-2
Dear forum Manager and Casnio Midas.

Thank you both for posting.

FYI, I have not received any refund from Casino Midas however if they were to get in touch and send me an agreeable refund, I will be happy to mark this complaint as resolved.

I look forward to seeing if Casino Midas are happy to try and resolve this issue.

Regards
User name
This case has been reopened upon player’s request and we would like to give it one last chance for a successful resolution.
User name
This complaint we consider unresolved. If player asked for self-exclusion, casino due the self-exclusion policy need to refund player's deposit or in this case amount that he had before self-exclusion.
User name
@Casino Midas,
Did you refund player's amount which he had before asking to be self-exclude?

Casino Midas Complaint Stats

Resolved 12 / 21
Avg. Amount $2,390
Avg. Complaint Duration 11 days
Avg. Response Time 4 days

Casino Midas Complaints

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Closed my account after I had used my but beforeI could redeem my three thousand five hundred dollars of comp points
I had an account with Casino Midas and was at VIP status and at one stage I had a large balance due to a win. Being a VIP I had a weekly cash out limit of $6,000. But after some weeks, I was only able to cash out $2000. When I contacted the casino, I was told that the system had defaulted my cash out limits to the standard as I had not made any deposits and not played enough. I had been playing the way I usually would. They told me it was a system algorithm, but they would see what they could do to help. After many weeks, they came back to me with a solution of, if I managed to play and earn 100,000 comp points a day - 700,000 in a week I would be able to withdraw more. With far too many hours playing and reducing my winnings substantially, I managed to do it once and was only able to withdraw $4,000. I contacted my VIP host again and explained how I thought it was a very unreasonable limit and that given I had managed to get to VIP status it was wrong to have this kind of limit. After more weeks went by, I received a response that they could offer that if I reached 500,000 comp points in a week, I would be able to withdraw a higher limit. I managed to do this, but at the same time used all of my winning and had a zero balance. I did have a comp points balance (which I was told not to cash in - so that they could see that I was reaching my comp points target) the comp points were the equivalent of $3,500 Australian dollars. I received an email a few hours later saying that my account had been closed and would not be reopened. They gave no reason.
I replied to the email asking when my comp points would be transferred to my bank and have heard nothing. I have also sent 2 emails to my VIP account manager asking what the reason for cancellation is and when I can expect to receive my comp points conversion into cash deposited into my account and still have heard nothing.
Can I please get some assistance with this.

Thank you in advance
Kristi .
Status solved Resolved
$3,405
Claimed I played my withdrawal amount when I did not!
I have deposited with Casino midas on Monday 26 September via Easy Eft and redeemed a 200% bonus coupon. Upon completing the playthrough, I had a withdrawal amount. I was thrilled so I decide to do a withdrawal. When I went to the withdrawal page, I was ask to contact customer service which I did on the live chat. I was helped by Richard and advice him that I wanted to do a withdrawal. He said to me that in order to do a withdrawal I will need to email them some documents and asked for my valid identification card, recent proof of address and photocopy of credit card. I advice him that I do not have a credit card and so he said identity card, bill and statement. I emailed the documents on Tuesday and I received a reply stating that they got my documents and also gave me a Ticket Number. On Tuesday evening, I received a email from Melodie congratulating me for my winning and confirmed having received my documents but request my credit card. I replied to her stating that I did deposit via eft and not credit card. On Wednesday morning I received a email from Richard whom I initially spoke to stating that they required my credit card as it was used for one of my previous deposits. I then got onto the chat and chatted to him explaining it was not a credit card but instead a cheque card and that card is now cancelled and has been replaced by the bank. He insisted it was still required and so after our chat I had emailed him the copy of my cheque card. I referred to our conversation in the email and as per our conversation he also requested my bank statement which I had attached and sent. I then got a reply that they will get back to me as soon as possible. At around midday of Wednesday, I sent another email asking for a progress on my payment & if it had already been done. When I didn't get a response, I then went onto the chat on Wednesday and chatted to Eduardo who then asked if he could call me which he did. He confirmed that he was going to chat to the relevant department and ask them to expediate my claim. On Thursday morning I sent a email back following up on my payment. I got a reply confirming that they received my email. I then went onto the chat and chatted to Eduardo again and he now tells me it will take 4-6 days but the emails all state 1 business day. On Thursday at approximately 7pm I now receive a email stating that there were missing documents and that they now required my proof of address. I replied immediately to state that it was already sent on the 27 September. At around 10pm I get another email stating that my proof of address is still required. On Friday morning I then send a email with my proof of address again for the 3rd time also explaining how many times I had sent it and that I was expecting to have received my funds by now not to be still sending documents. When I did not get any feedback, I then contacted the live chat and chatted to Eduardo who now advices me that I had R20000.00 and now no longer have that winning. I was shocked and asked questioned. He then asked if he could call me and I agreed. After a while I get a call from Melodie who had initially congratulated me on my winning. She was extremely rude and not polite. her opening statement was "This call is going to be very brief"......no good day or how are you....nothing at all. I replied okay. She then go on to say " you had R20000 and you then played that amount". I said no I didn't. She then say " listen I don't know what your situation is like at home or if you have kids that played with your phone but that R20000 had already been played and your balance is R1.19. I tried to explain but as I was talking she say sorry if you shout I am going to end this call and as I tried to say I am not shouting but try to explain, she then just say "have a good day" and the call then ends. So my problem is that she didn't know how to be polite initially but knew how to say have a good day when ending the chat. She didn't even listen to anything I was saying. She was too quick to defend the situation and throw the blame on my kids. This is not acceptable. My kids are have their own phone and we don't touch each others phones. So the way I look at this and my experience of all the delays and continuous request of the same documents over and over again leads me to believe that this was bound to happen.....that my winning will disappear and the several requests were all delaying tactics. From other reviews this is not surprising about this casino. All I am saying is that I want my winning of R20000.00.
Status unsolved Unresolved
R20,000
Failed to comply with my Self Exclusion agreement
This casino was clearly made aware of my Gambling addiction and was to close all accounts and block the CC. The casino failed to close both accounts that they allowed me to play on. One in my name and one in my husbands, They have continually let me deposit and receive bonuses on both accounts, they have spoken to me thru chat while playing on both accounts always allowing me to play on both accounts. Because the account was not closed and CC not verified or deposit hold or block put on it my addiction had me gamble. They also are not following IGC guidelines in respect to Set maximum wager or loss limits Require the use of software identifying potential problem gambling by gambling patterns Provide logs of play so that players know the time spent gambling and the cost Provide information to players either by link or through a gateway regarding problem gambling and problem gambling programs Require the use of a national or international database identifying and prohibiting excluded players While it took me a long time to admit to my problem and seek help I clearly showed the signs of an addiction long before my admission and was only encouraged again and again with calls, texts and emails to play. This is unethical, as a land casino never would have allowed the way I gambled to happen. Making smaller and progressively bigger deposits over such short periods at such odd hours, clearly show someone compulsive with an addiction and the amount I have lost to the casino is a clear sign as well. I have asked the casino numerous times for the records to provide as my evidence but they have continuously refused to give it to me. Once they provide me all chat history i can prove that they allowed me to play on both accounts with out any issues. Also Deposit histories would show fully that they did not follow IGC guidlines in watching for problem gamblers and are just fueling it. I am also still receiving emails although my account is closed. know that Casino Midas takes responsible Gaming very seriously as per my research. I have lost a great deal of money to your casino, The credit back of deposits totaling $6900 and complete closure and blockage of payments and IP/email address’s is the right thing to do and will close this matter.
Status unsolved Unresolved
$6,900
Casino Midas closed my account because I won too much, still owe me $4000+

l operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.

Hello, I am Richard, your Casino host. Are you ready to enjoy games and try your luck today?

Richard: hi

you: hi Richard..getting 2 messages..not accepting players from my country..and invalid user name or password now,,got to log in once

Richard: after verification your account was momentarily disabled by your manager decison

you: user name and password are correct

you: ?

you: what does that mean?

Richard: you are receive an email?

Richard: to inform you

Richard: your manager felix is not here for the moment

Richard: can you come back more later?

you: closing my account because to much winnings? and my payouts??

Richard: I ask him to contact you when he'll coming

you: what about my payouts?

From Felix LTK12178050048449X‏

From Felix LTK12178050048449X

CasinoMidas.com VIP

01/10/2015

To: ***@telus.net

Hi John,

Hope you are doing well!

I have really bad news, I am sorry to present you them.

From now, our Manager decided to close your account due to too much winnings on the casino.

If you have any questions or requests please email me back.

I wish you the best John!

Felix-Manager VIP MIDAS

They owe me $4000 plus 2916 comp points to be redeemed that I earned. I am only up about $1600 at this site? Hope my payout request they said was processed on the 29th of Sept find my account. And what are they going to do about my comp points? Met all verification requirements,,even had to resend my credit card scans a second time..then I thought that was odd.

Status solved Resolved