Online casino deposit options and credit cards

Regular visitors to this site will know that one of our major objectives is to provide advice to potential new online casino games players. This advice ranges from our opinion on which are the best online casinos available to Irish casino games players to recommendations regarding the most interesting and rewarding casino games to play. However we also accept that our advice on certain topics is purely subjective and our opinions may not be the same as that of other observers, or indeed other casino games players. There is one topic however where we are absolutely certain that the advice we give will be beneficial to every new online casino games player, and that is the question of how to fund playing casino games at an online casino. All the online casinos we know of are Visa casinos and accept a Visa credit card as an online casino deposit option, but is a credit card a good method of funding an online casino account. Clearly using a credit card for this purpose is effectively gambling with borrowed money, which most people would agree is not a good idea anyway, but there are also more practical reasons why a credit card is not the best online casino deposit option. The banks which issue the credit cards do not like anything to do with gambling and almost all of them will apply a surcharge on any credit card transaction involving gambling, often as much as 2% of the transaction value. It is also considered to be a cash transaction in the same way as using a credit card to withdraw cash from a cash machine, and will therefore attract interest from day one at the high credit card rates. We all know that when we are playing casino games at an online casino or even a real casino we already have to contend with a built-in house edge, but there would have to be a very good reason for voluntarily further reducing our potential winnings by incurring unnecessary charges by using a credit card as a deposit option. We rest our case.