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Originally Posted by suppersready
I played of Full Tilt for years, username horseplay, and i can tell u that their forum had a huge amount on negative posts as well. Well before BF, and all similar. You have no idea, years before BF how hard it was getting a check from them. Also if u did get your check, the chances of it bouncing. I had a few.
Dont leave a lot of money here, wow u r jus frekin brilliant.
You're on the money with the FTP thing. I still remember in October and November, the year before BF, me and my room mate both were trying to get checks from FTP. He had waited about 40 days and I had waited about 20 days before I decided to simply withdraw everything other than a few buy ins via Usemywallet (quicktender) and eat any fees for the sake of getting my funds. I know many others who experienced issues with FTP back then.
It's definitely going to happen for U.S. players with the current climate, and obviously was going on pre-BF as well. U.S. players can't bitch too much about the current payout durations, but ROW players have a legitimate gripe when they're waiting more than 2 weeks for Skrill/Neteller withdraws that typically take 1-2 days elsewhere. It could be that they have cash flow issues. However, it could be that their payment processors are handling all payments and showing no preferential treatment towards ROW players who's payout methods are by nature, much easier to process. Either way, that is the only place Lock is really making themselves look bad. (Other than the leaderboard being ROI-based).
Some gripe about the software issues, and it is a legitimate concern. But to keep this in perspective Cake software has never been that great, and there aren't exactly many options if you want to pursue poker as a full-time endeavor. From what I have read and heard, they're trying to improve the software.
Bottom line: If you're a U.S. player, suck it up and deal with the issues. Sell your funds at current market rates in the 2p2 xfer threads. If that isn't good enough for you, then find employment elsewhere and hopefully use that college degree that you still obtained despite thinking poker was going to be a forever thing that didn't require a safety net.
BTW, to the OP, afaik Cake Poker (the site) when I played there, had a similar no deposit option while you had a pending withdraw. There isn't a conspiracy theory going on there, its the same policy as before on the same network. I believe the no deposit while a withdraw processing issue is more to do with preventing fraudulent activity than anything else.