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poker refer a friend

a11ina11in
edited February 2010 in Poker Chat

Just before i type this, i like sky poker alot and enjoy watching the shows on sky...HOWEVER, recently i refered my partners mother because i seen the refer a friend bonus and it looks like this..
REFER A FRIEND AND GET 50 POUND FOR YOU AND 25 FOR THE PERSON WHO SIGNS UP( probably asloing as they deposit funds and spend)

if you READ the tnc's its says the person who you refered has to earn so many poker points for you to get your bonus...HOW PATHETIC IS THIS, as i siad its normally if they sign up and deposit funds not for the person who you refer to earn your bonus, well im sure theres many more like me who thought "oh great refer a friend, sign em up and spend some money i get a bonus and so do they"

NOW heres the annoying part, we refered the friend last WEEK sometime, and the day after i spoke to someone on chat and they said we didnt refer the friend correctly( YEAH RIGHT ) and told me to email the promotions team in which we did AND GUESS what happened,"yep we didnt get the response" and there telling me now oh she needs to earn so many poker points b4 i get my bonus, i can understand it if it was for the £25 bonus there suppose to get....ANNOYYYYYYYYYYED TO DEATH,

This has done my head in, and its not as if you could draw the bonus out you cant, ya gotta spend on here anyway..

Anyway just wanted to know if anyone else having this or any other problems related....

Speak later POKERPEEPS..

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  • a11ina11in
    edited February 2010
    AND JUST SPEAKING TO THEM NOW AND AFTER SOME TIME OF COMPLAINING HE WRITES THIS...

    21:28:24 it would seam that they have got the offer wrong, my apologies for that.
    21:29:14 but that still doesn't change the fact that the offer is clearly stated in the terms and conditions.
    21:35:49 Can I help you any further?
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  • a11ina11in
    edited February 2010
    how bad is this...SORRY FOR MOANING...but this p****s me of....
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  • BlackFish3BlackFish3
    edited February 2010
    LOL! stop trying to free money jeeez... why would sky give you money for nothing? obviously you have to earn the bonuses... read the Ts and Cs, that's what they are there for... seriously its not hard to read the conditions you sign up to.
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  • torryboytorryboy
    edited February 2010
    Dont know what your doing wrong but I have been referred by a friend and got our money no probs.

    It does state in T an Cs that a certain amount of poker points has to be made so cant see what your moaning about.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10
    edited February 2010

    Sir,

    Almost all of these Sign Up Bonuses & such like, on ALL Sites, have "earn-out" criteria. It's standard. It's a mite unreasonable to describe it as a "legal SCAM", to be fair, imo.

    If they did not, the Site would get mullered, as folks would be serial-signing up, taking the money out, & running. Which is not exactly the idea.

    As to the other dispute you have, nobody on the Forum can assist you, your best route is Customer Care.

    Good Luck with it..
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  • webby234webby234
    edited February 2010
    what route is there to go with this? he's clearly seen this offer tried to sign up to duplicate accounts, realised he hasn't got any money in bank therefore he cant deposit and earn poker points, therefore no bonus, pretty simple standard stuff really but for some reason thinks sky are going to chuck money at him because he's "furious" about it all.

    good night sir and good luck with your next conquest
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  • IRISHROVERIRISHROVER
    edited February 2010
    didnt your mum ever tell you ,

    you get nothing in this life for free,

    mine did lol !
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  • emilyeggemilyegg
    edited February 2010
    It would be great if there WAS a site that gave a bonus which could be withdrawn without ANY deposits. Free entertainment and cash is a basic right, but it looks like terms & conditions apply in this case.

    Anyway, must dash. I have been promised 1,000,000 nectar points from Sainsburys if I buy some Donuts from the reduced section before 11pm**






    ** T&C`s Apply.
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  • schnooksschnooks
    edited February 2010
    Allin, i was referred by a friend and had to get 375 ponits in 30 days for me & my freind to recieve the bonus. don't know about u but thats a hell of a lot of games ( or money) especially if your just a biginner. It's like the lights of a fruit machines looks all good but not really worth it in the end, bit of a rip off me thinks.
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  • OMahonyOOMahonyO
    edited February 2010
    all this talk about summit for nuttin is wrong.

    i quite regularly get emails, or something through the post from party, to say they have given me a $50 bonus.  I dont have to earn it to play with it.  I have to earn a certain amount of points in the month to withdraw which i havent got time to do, so just stick it on a 25/50c hu cash table to try to spin it up and withdraw the excess.  I have done this quite a few times
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  • emilyeggemilyegg
    edited February 2010

    Joking aside OMahonyO, I know what you mean.

    Had one all but an hour ago from a high st. bookie offering £66 for nothing.

    The T&C`s on that one has still got me in knots.

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  • webby234webby234
    edited February 2010
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS:
    Joking aside OMahonyO, I know what you mean. Had one all but an hour ago from a high st. bookie offering £66 for nothing. The T&C`s on that one has still got me in knots.
    Posted by emilyegg
    fancy emailing it onto me emily?
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  • emilyeggemilyegg
    edited February 2010
    PM you now m8
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  • IRISHROVERIRISHROVER
    edited February 2010
    i once had a friend who referred me to his friend in turn i refer him to my friend,

    now his friend referred my friend to another friend who also wanted to be my friend,

    only right then for me to return the refer a friend to the friend that was referred ,

    by his friend who said i know of another friend who would like to refer the referred friend ,

    as a friend . so now i am mr lots of referred friends .


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  • emilyeggemilyegg
    edited February 2010
    the Rembrandts would struggle to sing that one Irish.
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  • a11ina11in
    edited February 2010
    Think you got me wrong here folks..... The offer clearly says "REFER A FRIEND" and get the bonus money right.....How many of you have read the terms and conditions..?? truthfully,,,,

    Its not that i need the money...hahaha, its the principle of it, and for some of your information, its not a duplicate account, and for some more of your info, the 50 pound you cant withdraw..??..you have to play it on here so its clearly not for the money, or your correct everyone would be doing it INCLUDING me....

    And if you read my earlier thread you can see the chatmasters statement.." they got it wrong " his words not mine......

    Didnt mean to p**S people of with this, i just find it annoying and i seen other post regarding the way they deal with it...... so thought i would throw my penny in....if thats OK...




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  • a11ina11in
    edited February 2010
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS:
    Sir, Almost all of these Sign Up Bonuses & such like, on ALL Sites, have "earn-out" criteria. It's standard. It's a mite unreasonable to describe it as a "legal SCAM", to be fair, imo. If they did not, the Site would get mullered, as folks would be serial-signing up, taking the money out, & running. Which is not exactly the idea. As to the other dispute you have, nobody on the Forum can assist you, your best route is Customer Care. Good Luck with it..

    Hi tikay,,,i agree a EARN OUT CRITERIA for when YOU sign up, not refers surely...??..probably more annoyed with the way the support team didnt respond, and the messing about we did....cheers for your post anyway....
    Posted by Tikay10
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  • emilyeggemilyegg
    edited February 2010
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS:
    didnt your mum ever tell you , you get nothing in this life for free, mine did lol !
    Posted by IRISHROVER
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  • a11ina11in
    edited February 2010
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS:
    didnt your mum ever tell you , you get nothing in this life for free, mine did lol

    its not for free really is it....and plus its not as if you can withdraw it is it....


    Posted by IRISHROVER
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  • beanehbeaneh
    edited February 2010
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS:
    Think you got me wrong here folks..... The offer clearly says "REFER A FRIEND" and get the bonus money right.....How many of you have read the terms and conditions..??

    I'm not going to read the rest of your post because this is stupid enough as it is.


    Learn to read. Nothing in life is free.


    Suck it up.
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  • a11ina11in
    edited February 2010
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS:
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS : I'm not going to read the rest of your post because this is stupid enough as it is. Learn to read. Nothing in life is free. Suck it u

    SO YOU READ ALL THE TNCS DID YA..?? i dont think so,,,and why is it stupid, it makes sense to me pal, probably not to someone as clever as you though 1 in how many that read the tncs of any website...YOU ALL CLICK NEXT....
    Posted by beaneh
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  • a11ina11in
    edited February 2010
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS:
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS :#


    oh and just for your info i NEVER said it was FREE,,,
    Posted by a11in
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  • BlackFish3BlackFish3
    edited February 2010
    what else is for our info a11in? Terms and conditions are there to be read and not ignored, when you sign up to something then you agree to the terms and conditions even if you have not read them or can not read them because for example you are blind.
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  • NoseyBonkNoseyBonk
    edited February 2010
    I've never read the T&C's for RAF but I do know they need to hit 300 odd points for it to qualify, so I presume it's mentioned in the ad (?) otherwise I wouldn't know.
    I'll have to find it again and check...
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  • Sky_RichSky_Rich
    edited February 2010
    Hi there,

    i'm sorry to hear that you are unhappy with the refer a friend promotion. i am editing the title of this thread as i think it's unfair to call it a 'scam'.

    i will forward this thread over to the department that control/ manage refer a friend and they'll hopefully look into your situation and post some advice for you.

    (please be aware that the team isn't likely to be back in the office until Monday)

    all the best,

    Rich
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  • loonytoonsloonytoons
    edited February 2010
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS:
    I've never read the T&C's for RAF but I do know they need to hit 300 odd points for it to qualify, so I presume it's mentioned in the ad (?) otherwise I wouldn't know. I'll have to find it again and check...
    Posted by NoseyBonk
    Plus i presume you mustn't be scared of heights, and if you've seen top gun it may help your cause.
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  • unknown_usernameunknown_username
    edited February 2010
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS:
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS : Plus i presume you mustn't be scared of heights, and if you've seen top gun it may help your cause.
    Posted by loonytoons
    Lol Loony - Well that's my flying carrier gone up the spout, I can't even do ladders.
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  • TRIP5TRIP5
    edited February 2010
    It's hard for a newby to hit the required 375 points...maybe there should be a reward ladder i.e.

    20 pts  = Sky Poker Mug
    40 pts  = Sky Poker T-shirt
    60 pts  = Sky Poker hoodie
    100 pts = £5.00 reward

    and so on, thus even the newbies get something for joining!!!

    x
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  • a11ina11in
    edited February 2010
    In Response to Re: SIGN HERE, poker refer a friend and other legal SCAMS:
    Hi there, i'm sorry to hear that you are unhappy with the refer a friend promotion. i am editing the title of this thread as i think it's unfair to call it a 'scam'. i will forward this thread over to the department that control/ manage refer a friend and they'll hopefully look into your situation and post some advice for you. (please be aware that the team isn't likely to be back in the office until Monday) all the best, Rich

    Hi rich, its not that im unhappy with the promotion at all, think its a good promotion, but the way they handled it was awfull, and then the chat master also saying they got it wrong put a bit more of a bite to it if ya know what i mean...i called it a LEGAL SCAM,lol...sorry if this has offended any of you there at sky, but it was very annoying to deal with...
    Posted by Sky_Rich
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  • a11ina11in
    edited February 2010
    In Response to Re: poker refer a friend:
    It's hard for a newby to hit the required 375 points...maybe there should be a reward ladder i.e. 20 pts  = Sky Poker Mug 40 pts  = Sky Poker T-shirt 60 pts  = Sky Poker hoodie 100 pts = £5.00 reward and so on, thus even the newbies get something for joining!!! x

    good idea trips...just another quick note for some people, everyone who joins dosnt read them tnc's and especially people who cant read properly, or struggle to read the small prints.... this is a good idea cause i refered my partners mother as i said earlier, and shes new to poker and would never hit them points...
    Posted by TRIP5
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