So, how hard is it to hang out in Mexico, and get a max Skrill payment for those of us in the US? What would one need to do

which is why the situation is worrying.

i don't think there are many people who are both knowledgeable about processing payments for grey market sites and willing to post about it.

maybe Skrill is usually as simple as company account -> company Skrill account -> player. maybe there are many more layers, similar to US check processing, and finding and/or setting them up can be a legit reason for delays.

right now the only actual information we have is payouts have slowed down for everyone, the rest is just conjecture. a site saying "problems with processors" is essentially no information.

http://news-me.com/2015/03/25/paymen...rill-takeover/

What are your thoughts about the Skrill/Netellet merger causing delays? Could the be backed up?

I like the way you think. If I lived in SoCal I'd be grinding the same ax in my mind.

I am prob paranoid, but I wonder how big there player pool from Mexico is, and if they said they can still process Skrill to Mexico because they don't believe players would actually relocate nor have a big player pool their requesting withdrawals. Maybe it was a good place to say. I could be wrong. Just putting that out there.

I keep hearing people saying to relax because payment processing can be such a shady thing, and I agree, but if its all the processors not just one. If it was one payment processor there would still be a slow trickle of withdrawals. We are at a stalemate.

A few years back I think all I did was send in a passport and foreign utility bill to open an account. To receive a cashout from Merge from skrill you have to deposit via skrill first. And your limits are super small unless u have a foreign bank account also so you'd probably still have to sell off ur skrill at 96 cents in the marketplace if your limits are even big enough to transfer that large amount of money off

It still baffles me how we still apparently have this never ending "economic crisis" in this country yet the FedGov could easily just have us all playing on ROW Pokerstars and taxing us like crazy on withdrawals and yet we'd still all be happy because we know we'd have cash in hand in minutes.

Thanks for the reply!

What about a Canadian bank account, I have one of those. I assume that would count as foreign? I guess I could just deposit $100 to get the rest of my roll off, would be a small price to pay.

I'm not real familiar with how Skrill works, but if I could get Carbon to pay me to Skrill. I wouldn't necessarily even need a foreign bank account or a bank account at all because I could trade with people on the market place? .96 is pretty strong.

then every other gambling site and about 90% percent of Skrill/Neteller would be effected. So no i don't think they would be dumb enough to slow payments because of a potential merger.

Only 1 option for Canadians which is a 2500 cheque , SOme Canadians (not all) have a 5K wire option

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Yes, you will be paid in full all of your money, there is a bit of delay which we never experienced before, hopefully this can be understood. Those withdraw requests that are taking longer than expected will be submitted to a follow up list to be released as soon as we can. So no need to worry we will pay you, I just need to ask you a bit more of patience for us to release the funds. We have never missed a payout and this time it will not be the exception.

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They should grow some balls and just tell you the reason for the delay.

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Okay the main reason we are having this delay is because we handle several poker and sports sites, so basically at the end of the Super Bowl, we had several winners making the cash out, we review them as first come first served, and a lot of them where done on February, which are still pending.

We are constantly sending checks out, however I cannot assure an specific date of when they will be processed, that will be taken cared within the time frame.

"We are constantly sending checks out". Good one lol!

Oh I get it cause their competitors don't have sports books......... Come on

Lol we will figure it out within the time frame....

20K overlay in the merge 150K today, that probably doesn't help matters

How do you guys in the USA get wires of more than $2500? That would really be nice, it seems like those with that option get them the fastest. Would they wire money to a canadian bank only? Even if you have a account located in USA?

By the way, I dont know how true this is, and I wont name names but Ive reached out to a couple Carbon affiliates (not my affiliate) so they have no real incentive to lie to me. But they indicated they arent real worried as of yet, and indicated there has been indeed delays in the past with getting affiliate commissions.

As others have said, if we go another full week without ROW getting payments then i will start to get real worried.

Supposed to be quicker, yes but I'm going into the 5th week and I read someone else saying they're going into the 7th week of bank wires and they claim 2-4.

Right, but you asked what people mean when they refer to problems with payment processors. I don't know of any problems that should exist other than those with payment processors for US players, so I assume that's what they're talking about.

Are just Carbon withdrawals delayed or also PO?

you can't get bank wires, or at least they won't do it for me

Yea, when I asked a Carbon rep about other withdrawal options, she said those options aren't available for US players (she lied to me).

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Unfortunately, at the moment the only payment option that we have available for USA players is via check.

We are working on providing more withdrawal options in the near future, thereby making the payment process much smoother and faster. Please rest assured that as soon as we get any new withdrawal method we will offer it to you.

I would also just like to point out that many posters ITT are using inductive reasoning to support the belief that 'Merge will pay.'

The general thought process seems to be the following:
"Merge will pay, because Merge has always payed in the past."

In inductive reasoning, one makes a prediction about the future based on 'relevant' past events.

Here are some examples of induction:

A.) "This pen has fallen off of my desk hundreds of times, and it has always hit the floor. The next time my pen falls off of my desk, it will hit the floor (it will not float upwards towards the sky).

B.) "No human has ever survived an entire year without food, therefore, no human ever will."

C.) "The Detroit Lions have never won a Super Bowl, so they probably never will."

My guess is that you're very willing to accept A, you're somewhat willing to agree with B, and you think C is weak, or untrue.

Given the precedent of online poker, I think it's optimistic to suggest that Merge's history of paying out will somehow influence its current state.

I would compare this type of thinking to:
"My drug dealer has never robbed me, so I don't think he ever will."

We're dealing with a foreign company in a quasi-illegal marketplace. If Merge decides to stop paying US players, there's nothing we can do.