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Most online casinos are Visa casinos but …..

By admin on 2014-02-06 09:54:45

All the online casinos accessible to consumers in Ireland offer a wide range of deposit options to make it easy for us to fund playing our favourite casino games. These range from cash at high street betting shops operated by Paddy Power and Ladbrokes, to debit and credit cards and e-wallets such as Pay Pal and Neteller. Whilst we appreciate the wide choice of online casino deposit options offered by our online casinos, we feel obliged to point out some of the drawbacks associated with some of these options and in particular the use of credit cards. Often for very good reasons we automatically reach for our credit cards when purchasing goods and services online, but is our credit card the best way to fund our casino games. A Visa credit card is probably the most widely used card in Ireland and the UK and all our favourite online casinos are Visa casinos and accept a Visa credit card as a deposit option, but let’s look at what happens if we use a Visa credit card for this purpose. In common with some of our politicians most of the banks feel justified in penalising their customers for using their money for gambling. As a result they will almost certainly apply an additional surcharge of up to 2% on any transaction involving gambling. If that was not enough using a credit card to deposit funds into an online casino account is considered to be the equivalent of taking cash from the ATM machine, leading to interest being charged from day one irrespective of how meticulous you are in clearing your balance every month. Many would argue that we should not use credit cards for gambling purely on moral grounds because it is gambling with borrowed money, but even if you choose to ignore that opinion the cost of using a credit card at a Visa casino is also an important disincentive. If you must use a credit card use it to fund an e-wallet and use that to play your online casino games.