The Further Chronicles of My First Withdrawal Attempt(s) -OR- IMMERION & Me: Playing Mean to Take My Green
After being assured beyond doubt that my first withdrawal would finish processing within 48 hours, after the 2 days it hadn’t arrived at and was just told to wait.
And wait I did. When at last, 110 hours after I made my withdrawal request I was informed that the transfer had been canceled by my bank. I had asked for the transfer reference number to verify that’s what happened (since my bank has never shown such currency discrimination before), my request was ignored.
Since I don’t deal in crypto, the only other option available to me was a Skrill transfer. I had no prior experience with Skrill but they looked legit and gave the option to transfer money from a Skrill account to a personal bank account. So I requested a Skrill transfer. Imagine my surprise when it only took less than 48 hours for the “money” to arrive in my Skrill wallet but I say “money” because I was even more surprised that because IMMERION had used “BitPay” to make the transfer it somehow made those funds ineligible to be transferred to my bank account. Turns out there was only 1 destination I could send my “ImmerionBucks”…. That’s right: back into my IMMERION account.
And this is where the story gets real good….
My plan was to put Skrill wallet contents back into my IMMERION account and demand they get my winnings to me in a way that I could actually spend it (because that is the purpose of money and if you can’t spend it, it’s not money).
I made a trial transfer of $100 just to confirm my plan as valid and it arrived in my IMMERION account without issue. I gambled that $100 away because the was “wager requirement” (not sure exactly how much but it was negligible) before I could make another withdraw so I fulfilled that demand before transferring my remaining $900.
So I sent the $900 from my Skrill wallet to my IMMERION account.
Now up til this point I’ll admit to sometimes feeling frustrated and period of anger and more than once thinking I’d been purposely misled but what happened next made me feel certain that it was actually criminal……
Because before I transferred the $900 I had no withdrawal requirement on my account but by some sort of magic after I make the transfer I, for seemingly no reason DID have a wager requirement…OF $3300!!!!!!!!
Now, in order to even REQUEST a withdrawal (requests that might not even work, as my first 2 had proven) I would have to use my $900 to gamble, somehow make at least $2400 in profit and hope that I’m able to make $3300 in bets before my account hit $0, at which point this company would have essentially stolen my money back.
As you can assume, I make an ENRAGED accusation to a support agent that they are trying to steal from me, how is this fair, OR LEGAL, yadda yadda.
Now what the agent DID NOT do was confirm this as error or intent.
But, what he DID do was say he’ll look into it and I’d hear from someone which I did not.
For the next 5 days, I repeat the process:
Inquire/accuse, no answers/no help.
Finally, mentally exhausted, unable to discern what happened and why I just assumed since nothing had changed and no help was given they were actually rigging this game against me but I’d have to play, odds stacked against me to even get the option to ATTEMPT a 3rd withdrawl.
And as expected, in comically short time, my balance was $0.
They beat me. How could they not. They gave themselves control of MY MONEY and made the terms for how to (maybe) get it back.
I didn’t even argue with them after that. Didn’t seem much point. They had all the power and I had none.
But a week later, out of pure curiosity I decided to see just how far I had got with their wager requirement and, of course, there now was none. Yup, just an error. One that gave them control of my money and the stacked odds to keep it but hey at least they didn’t purposely try to cheat me (just accidentally). But it did seem to imply they knew it was an error (and quickly) and chose not to share that info with me because then I’d have a reason to wait for them to fix that error instead of lose hope and give up.
And for the first time, I started a support chat and I ABSOLUTELY LOST IT.
I accused them of playing intentionally dirty, ignoring me because it suited them to leave me in the dark and on and on.
The agent thoroughly apologized for my treatment then informed me they were aware of the blunder and my $900 was already in the process of transfer via “payment aggregation”.
This apparent “act of contrition” that they screwed up and I deserved my money back was good news but despite being ASSURED it will be transferred straight to my bank account. So my tale may get a happy ending, just not sure when.
But tell me this:
You assure me I’d get my money in 48 hours, which was a lie, so why do it?
If I hadn’t found the wager error myself, would they have admitted it or my incoming refund?
Lastly: is their promised refund actually ASSURED this time or more BS?
October 5, 2024
Unprompted review