Bob, thanks for the reply. I guess what I find distasteful is that the Trop advertises this as through losing $100 will get you a $100 rebate. It won't. Either free play counts as freeplay or as part of the win/loss calculation. It shouldn't count as both. And picking up money either the same day or the next day should not affect the mailer but it might. If I play on day one, lose $100 out of my pocket and then pick up $50 in free play on day 2, turn it into $50 coin out, do I get a mailed rebate? I'm not sure.
I wholeheartedly agree that taking the issue up with NGCB for $50 is not cost effective. The only, only reason I would do that is to warn other people. Not everyone who plays belongs to VP Free or takes advantage of all the information available from fine gaming writers like yourself and a host of others.
Once I found out how the program is being implemented, I told my group of 4 other players and let them decide for themselves whether to continue or not. I told them to treat it as a 50% loss rebate and play accordingly.
By the way, my discussion with Lauren got a little bit heated and I could see the people in line listening to what happened. From what I could tell by their responses, they didn't like the way Trop was implementing the program either.
---In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, <vpfree@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Later you'll get another $50.
Not bad. The big problem is that they didn't explain it clearly to start with. Perhaps they thought they did, but the people in that casino were inventing the wheel all by themselves rather than using the design used by others. Johnny made some reasonable assumptions and that wasn't the way it worked. Now he has explained the situation to the rest of us, we can take advantage of it if we like.
with respect to taking it to Gaming, we're talking about $50 bucks here, Johnny, and you live out of state. Prudence tells you to kiss it off. You're still on the casino's mailing list, probably, and they may have a decent promotion down the road that you want to exploit.
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