What is a boycott?

Boycotts are a tool for holding company's accountable for actions against workers, consumers, communities, minorities, animals or the environment. It is marketplace democracy in action - consumers voting with their money for social and economic change.

Boycotts directly threaten sales so company boss’ take them more seriously than letter writing campaigns or lobbying.

Any concerned group or individual can call a boycott. Groups have been more successful in calling and executing boycotts than individuals because there is strength in numbers.

I would like those who are knowledgeable about internet gaming, internet poker, and specifically anyone who has anything to say about lock poker to speak out. We need all the facts about this company and their policy and action, Information, anything relevant, any ex-empoyee's willing to "spill the beans" and annual reports (anywhere they may be reported) to obtain important company information such their environmental report or workers rights policy, the president and/or CEO's name(s), and addresses and phone numbers.

then...we need to write the company to voice our grievance, and ask to meet with them.

Indicate that if the policy or action is not changed, we intend to initiate a consumer boycott. Some organizers attempt to negotiate with the company first and use a boycott strategy only if negotiations fail to bring about the desired changes.

Hopefully the threat of a boycott can make this company yield to our demands.

Lock poker hast to be corrupt everything about their site smells illegitimate. Their representative Shane is nothing more than a joke.

We can make a change guys if we work together. Let's bring everything up on the table as a whole and start an official boycott against Lock Poker we can do some damage to their shady operation. We can spread the word, send emails, Skype friends, do some advertising or even create a website. Let's organize this! It's time to bring them down!!! Power in numbers! I'll be here putting in time, energy, and money into this with full force! With your help, we will prevail!!!

BOYCOTT LOCK!!!

Twoplustwo can do their part by taking down all Lock Poker banners. That would be a great start.

Their system is designed to collapse it's only a matter of time. The best we can do is start a boycott and not contribute any more money to their scheme.

You made a Gimmick to start a boycott? You aren't even going to go first?
How will anyone know if you're playing or not? How will Lock know how much they're losing?

Lol, way to stand up to the man, while hiding in the dark.

+100000 again.

Count me in for boycott.

Normally I would call anyone saying such a thing a noob, but I totally agree with you here. Many people have made it extremely obvious they are unhappy with a lot of the services for nearly a year now and nothing is being done.

1) **** delays in payouts
2) **** unreliable servers
3) Incompetent staff due to incompetent management
4) Not enough customer service because they don't want to confront problems because they from what seems obvious cannot solve.
5) Game integrity included, yeah the scammers that have been about and collusion

Thanks for your interest I hope to have more people chime in with their feedback and concerns with Lock similiar with what you have just mentioned.

If this site is legal, why can't shane tell us who their payment processor is?

Whether the idea has merit or not, the combination of a gimmick account and highly inflammatory verbiage comes across as little more than trolling.

I support this thread.

After waiting 63 days for a WU, and being lied to by Email Support several different times...I vowed to not play at lock. I have deleted there software and have not looked back.

I still come on this site just to make sure things haven't changed with the Company. I can see they are as bad now as they were 2 months ago. Sad really, when a business knows their flaws (all listed above) and does nothing to improve them.

Ehh not going to boycott completely but only going to play until I win $2k between cashouts then spend the rest of my time grinding on another site. Can't get more than $2k off every 6 weeks anyway so no point in grinding to win more than that.

Thank you!

A new account does not make it a "gimmick". highly inflammatory? where? please point it out!

It only seems to be getting worse, shane and his comments/answers etc just continue to dig himself a deeper hole one which he and lock won't be able to climb out of soon.

sell it in the transfer thread for bank wire or trade it for cash on another site. The integrity of this site is 0 zero, I will be taking my business elsewhere. No poker for me at all for now, until I find a more permanent healthy solution.

I'm not willing to spend time pointing out what is perfectly obvious. For the record, I stopped playing on Lock months ago and cashed out my entire roll, but I do not support you or this thread in it's current form.

okay well cool man glad you're not playing on lock

down for this been playing carbon for maximus and i def miss the software and think its a better option to wait 1month for a check and get one every week with good software than this site tbh

I wonder how many of these Lock haters are affiliates/reps/regs with Carbon, BlackChip, etc.?

Lock still ranks pretty high on traffic and game selection. I will continue to play where the games are soft and the player pool is deep.

Not that I'm a huge fan of Lock, but these posts are becoming out of control annoying. EVERY site is having cashout wait times that are aggravating. It's not like Lock and all the other sites were getting checks out in a week and then suddenly Lock begins taking 2 months. It's been 2-8 weeks across the spectrum for the last two years. Some better at times and some worse at times.

Quit bitching and go play somewhere else if you don't like Lock.

How do you explain the wait times for non-U.S. payouts?

ive made 10 cashouts from bovada in the last year by check and the longest one was 4 weeks and the shortest 2 weeks...check your facts

It's not that I just do not like Lock. I see very shady things going on with the site that questions their integral part in the poker community, and poker has become a game/sport in which has kept it's standard due to the players themselves. Here I believe it's our responsibility to do something about a case in which we feel a poker site may not be following the rules of operation.

i will boycott lock starting nowwwwwwwww. but if shane gives real answers i will go back but not until then.
shane if u read this the question i want answered is why cant you guys pay ROW players as quickly as other us facing sites (merge & winning network). Until i get this answered I will not play on lock anymore

This is absolutely not true.

I now play on 2 other sites and have recieved cashouts in less than half the time Lock took to pay me. It is not across the board. It may be that the other sites have smaller player pools, but I believe it is something else.

Lock is the worst in regards to cashouts, customer support and stable software/hardware.

I started on Lock just after black friday and it has only gotten worse in all these regards. The software/hardware issues have gotten worse and it wasn't because of the migration to Cake, as it has gotten extremely bad in the last 2 months.

Lock is just a horribly run site. If it weren't for the rakeback and players in the US having few options, then Lock would have gone under.

The thing about Lock is that its currently a cancer and it should die for the betterment of the US poker ecology (ucwidt?). I say this because from April 16th, 2011 till today every single facet of their business has started as meh/bad and only become worse. Unless we want another Full Tilt type fiasco to take place and dent an already fragile industry we really should be proactive in either forcing their hand in improvement or walking away completely.

If we continue down the current path, based on all indications Lock has shown towards faster payouts, fixing software, proper handling of incidents/security there are basically two outcomes. Best case scenario is the status quo holds and we continue to wait 100+ days for US payouts and 50+ for ROW payouts, ****ty customer service, ****ty security, ****ty software. The other outcome is the house of cards collapses and every single person with a penny on Lock ends up ass'd out. We try to pick ourselves up from the mat again, bloody, staggering, hoping we can somehow continue fighting the slow death that is US online poker.

Unless major improvements are made Lock has to go, imo. I'm in for the boycott!