Recently a group of people ticked off at Neteller seizing their funds has launched a coalition which they called the Neteller Customer Coalition. I don’t know if you can say the group was officially launched via 2+2 but there seemed to be a lot of talk about an activist group on 2+2 prior to this group appearing.
I applaud their efforts in a general sense but I think they’re a little misguided and uninformed about what they’re getting themselves into. I say that mostly because everything I’ve seen come out of them sounds more like people thumping their chests than it does an action plan. As Lou Krieger quotes from a PokerPages interview with the founder of the group regarding the $750,000 current coalition members have locked up at Neteller, “These are the kinds of figures that can keep a killer legal team motivated.” Translation: We don’t have a lawyer but we’re hoping this interview will attract a swarm of class action lawyers to start contacting us. Further Translation: We also don’t understand that in order to get our $750,000 back that killer legal team that is kept motivated by our money is going to end up with more of our money than we are.
But, like I said, I applaud their efforts. At least someone has begun to take some sort of action here. Well, to be more exact, I applauded their efforts until they spamed my comments with the message below.
Author : yahboohoo (IP: 63.228.107.226 , 63-228-107-226.tukw.qwest.net)
E-mail : yahboohoo@xxxxxx.com
URI : http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=63.228.107.226
Comment:
Over 425 members at the NETeller Customer Coalition.
More than $2.3 million frozen.
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Note: Certain information above has been edited for what should be obvious reasons.
Sorry, but once you begin spamming blog comments I have to withdraw even the mediocre support I afforded your organization. If the same person would have even gone to the trouble to email me and ask me to write something about them I would have but spamming is amateurish. I mean they even went to the trouble to find a story about Neteller fund seizures. How much trouble would it have been to make a semi-intelligent post on the topic and then include information about the organization? And with a situation so highly complex and involving foreign corporations the US DOJ, pending criminal cases, and possibly millions in unclaimed earnings by US taxpayers, the last people who should be representing the interests of players are a group who can’t even find a way of articulating their message without resorting to comment spam.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.