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By Thinah
6 years ago
Hello,

I am an experienced online casino player that has experience from many online casino. Never have I come across such an unprofessional and rogue casino as Unique.

So, I have a history of problem gaming. I started to feel that I was not going to be able to control myself and asked the casino to close my account in accordance to their terms and conditions section 9 (Responsible Gaming) paragraph 3. They did not answer at first. After a day I got assigned an "account manager" that tried to call me (when I was at work) and wanted us to "solve this". I continued to be very clear that I only wanted to close my account. The said I couldn´t. The reason for that was that I had an active balance, due to that according to their terms you are only allowed to withdraw 1500 euro/week.

9.3. says "You can choose to close your client account for an unlimited period of time. We will then remove you from mailing lists and return any balance to you. Once the account is closed, contact us to reopen the account."
Uniques responsible gaming pages says "Freeze Account: If you want a break from gaming, you can put your account on hold at any time. Contact us and we'll freeze your account.".

I claim this to the casino but they still refuse to close my account and refer to the 1500 weekly withdrawal limit. I am very clear that I don't care if they pay out my balance this week or any other week, but I want my account closed due to gambling problems. Nothing happens.

So what I feared would happen, happens. I cancel my withdrawal and play until I have nothing left, 1500 euro. Very annoying. I immediately e-mails my account manager Chris to tell him how disappointed that I am and that they have achieved their goal -now my money are gone. He answered with giving me 200 euro in bonus money.

So. For a gambling addict, it is impossible to refuse to try to win money back and not accept a bonus that can make that happen. I activated the bonus. That started a very bad spiral for my addiction and during a couple of days, I deposited and lost additionally 1950 euro. Every day I hoped my account would be closed that I had requested so many times at this point, but nothing happened.

After a couple of days I came to my sences and stopped gaming, and contacted Chris again. I read through my communication and realize how they have been so aware of that I am a problem gambler and tried to keep me playing, ignoring to close my account and bribe me with bonuses so I should lose more money. I e-mailed again a polite e-mail that I would like to discuss with them why they arent following their repsonsible gaming policy and their own T&C:s, and how disappointed I am that they refuse to STILL close my account, when they know I am a problem gambler. My account manager Chris answered very shortly an tried again to give me 200 euro in bonus money.

It took Unique casino 11 days and over 10 e-mails (and additional chats) to close my account. Now when I ask for a refund of my deposits made after I started to beg for them to close my account, Chris just says "you accepted bonus money and deposited". Yes! Of course I did -I am a problem gambler! That is why I wanted my account to be closed" And that is exactly why the casino kept it opened.

What I request is to get a refund of only the deposits I made after I requested closure of my account. I would love to get the 1500 in winning I played for refunded to, but I can live with that. But the 1950 euro that I deposited after that, should never have been deposited if they had accepted my request -and there were no "active balance" on my account that stopped them from doing so either.

Please help me to get justice in this case. I have really tried to have a direct communications with Unique, but it is impossible.
Disputed Casino Unique Casino
Amount €975

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Based on submitter's last post AskGamblers Complaints Team consider this case as Resolved and it is officially closed now.

Thank you all for your cooperation.

User name loyalty-level-2
Me and Unique casino has now reached a satisfactory agreement. I want to thank AskGamblers and Unique Casino for taking action on the matter.

Regards,
Tina
User name loyalty-level-2
I just want to add, that it is very easy for Unique to solve this. Just reply on my e-mails or here if you agree to AskGamblers and refund 975 euro (50% of the total amount). You have my bakning details since I have withdrawed at you before. I do agree to the verdict which I noticed you several weeks ago both her in and by e-mails without getting a response. It is not rocket science for you to manage to get this case closed.
User name loyalty-level-2
I do not understand why Unique Casino lies about this when it so easy for me to prove. They have called twice - Tuesday at 14.04 and Monday at 10.41. See attached e-mails where I have both responded and asked them to contact me by e-mail since it is impossible for me to answer private phone calls when I work. They have not responded on the latest e-mail and on the first only responded with a suggestion of time slots where they can call. I would also prefer to have any agreements in writing since Unique hasn't really proven to be trusted, which I have asked for and they have not responded on that. See everything in the attached documentation.

Unique Casino Complaint Stats

Resolved 50 / 53
Avg. Amount $1,099
Avg. Complaint Duration 6 days
Avg. Response Time 2 days

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Unique Casino refused to process full balance due to gambling issue now attempting theft of remaining balance

On June 17th I requested my account closed and full balance sent to my skrill account due to severe gambling issues.

The casino refused to send the full amount and said they would instead let me withdraw 500 euros week. I agreed. They locked deposits on my account but still allowed me to play if I wanted to (warning sign). *Note the email sent on the 20/06 the agent specifically states they will refund the remaining balance!

Each withdrawal took 10 days to process and then I was not allowed to request a new withdrawal for 7 working days. Meaning I have only managed 1 withdrawal per month.

My recent withdrawal of 500 euro took long than the 10 days. When I emailed to check I was told I had reached max cash out and could not request anymore (see evidence). I explained the term they refer to says this is only applicable if lifetime deposits are 500 euros. Mine have been 600 euros.

When I conveyed this to the support they said my last 50 euro deposit did not count and the winnings are from my deposit of 250 euros. I think at this point the agents maths had gone wrong and they thought they had caught me out as they thought 300 euro plus 250 euro equalled 450 euro. It equals 550. When I responded and said the 250 euro deposit put my lifetime deposits to 550 euros they stopped responding. My ticket has been closed and my account has now been blocked as I stated I would be contacting you.

Unfortunately it appears the casino is simply attempting theft and also operates with no license.

All evidence has been attached or emailed to askgamblers.

There is 1500 euro left in the account

Thank you

Status unsolved Unresolved
€1,750
Refusal of partial payment

Hello,

I am faced with a serious problem. I have been playing at Casino Unique for several years and like any self-respecting player I win and I lose. But it is I who decides to play and I am the sole decision maker. But as I pointed out to you, I often play, I am a VIP Diamond class and the amount of my withdrawals has increased from € 1500 to € 3200 per week. What was to happen happened.

I won a pretty good amount but since I could only withdraw € 3,200 every 10 days or so, I requested a withdrawal for this amount and I continued to play with the rest. As it was my lucky week my winnings increased dramatically. I asked my manager if there was no way to make a compromise by increasing my withdrawal requests, given the large amount (approximately € 250,000). He replied that it was not possible and that I had to stay active otherwise I would find myself without a manager. So I took his advice and continued to play. And I ended up with a gain of € 500,000.

I made my withdrawals every 10 or 12 days for an amount of 2500 € then we lowered the maximum amount to 1500 € then we went down to 500. € when I ask the reason for this decrease, I am told that I was not not active. I must not quite understand the meaning of the word active. Because I made my withdrawals regularly and I had to play the sum of around € 300,000 on this account.

I called my manager several times in the meantime to let him know of my dissatisfaction and each time I had the answer "I can't do anything it's not up to me to do that".

And today I learn that I no longer have a manager. I hope you will study my claim closely and find a positive solution for me to be paid the original withdrawal amount. Because at the rate of 500 € every day I would have more than 100 years for the balance of my gain.

On the other hand, I lost € 300,000 in addition to the € 300,000 listed above. I asked to put me in touch with a manager. I sent her an email and after several reminders she designed to answer me. And that she was not my surprise to see the indecent answer she offered me. See attached.

I offer you several possibilities:

  1. For every 10,000 € played, I increase the limit for every 100 €.
  2. For every 25,000 € played, I increase the limit for every 250 €.
  3. For every 50,000 € played, I increase the limit for every 500 €.
  4. Payment in 3 installments of 10,000 € (total 30,000 €) and cancellation of the rest of your balance.

Take the time to think it over, and tell me if any of the proposals

Today I got a follow-up from a manager who insisted that I accept the offer made to me by his manager. Because I wouldn't have anything more if I didn't deposit and keep playing. And he insisted, telling me that it is better € 30,000 than nothing at all.

If you can take care of my worries.

Regards.

Status rejected Rejected
€250,000
5th business day withdrawal still pending
Hi Aksgamblers team,

I really need your help and your support with my pending withdrawal. I made the request on 26 of September (1500 euro), this is my second withdrawal in Unique Casino, though things now are totally different. I contacted customer service many times and I got really at least five different answers about the reason why my request is still on pending situation. I was told from Monday that the request will be processed within the next business hours then I was informed about three business days then I was informed about five business days and yesterday I contacted the customer service again and the agent informed me that all his previous colleagues were new at the job, still learning and provided me with the wrong information and withdrawal timeframe.

In my request to speak with a supervisor obviously he informed me that there was nobody, and the service was running on it’s own without supervision. In previous contact an agent trying to help me, he insisted that I should send a contact via the website using his name so that the task can be assigned to him to escalate it further, something that I did and of course nothing of this ever happened.

Except for the pending 1.5 K withdrawal I have 3K in balance and I’m really wondering isn’t there someone to protect the players in such cases? How can a Casino act in such a way?Isn’t there any auditing authority to check and protect the players in such cases?

Can you please ask gamblers help me with my request? As you understand in order to withdraw all my balance, I don’t know how much time all this gonna get.

Thank you very much in advance for your support.

Stefanos
Status solved Resolved
€1,500
Withdrawal still pending day 5

Dear sir/ madam,

I have made a withdrawal request on the 8th of August and the reason I am contacting you, is that it is still pending. According to the website it says that it won’t take up to more than 24 hours to process a request, mine was made on the 8th and it is still pending.

This is my second withdrawal and the first was processed (approved) within 24 hours and I received the payment a few days later. That is normal, because of my bank.

I have contacted their support multiple times and they are all saying different things which aren’t in line with their own information on their website.

I have complained multiple times, they also said that their financial department is looking into it, that was since the 10th of August and no one is able to tell me how long it takes.

I believe that they are stalling my withdrawal for two reasons. One, because I have complained due to the fact that their withdrawal limits are low compared to other casinos and that they are slow regarding payments. Secondly, you can make 1 withdrawal per week. They don’t count the 7 days from the moment that you made a withdrawal request, but the moment they have approved your payment. Which means that a withdrawal can take up to one extra week.

I have played at a lot of online casinos and I have never experienced something like this. My documents were approved before my first withdrawal, so that has nothing to do with it.

Please, I would like to receive my payment as soon as possible.

Thank you in advance.


Kind regards,

Buse

Status solved Resolved
€1,500