William Hill - Sign Up for Bonus problem

[VinnyTheFish]

To conclude my Crytpo-whoring, I sign up at William Hill last week. The idea is to add the 5 hour bonus and get the max bonuses from Crypto.

They give you a choice of Currency. After a bit of research, I see that people from UK cannot use Nettel (which is what I use). But I do figure out that they will give £25 or $25. As well all know, they are not equal in value. So, I choice the GBP method.

Stupid ass me – GBP method does not accept Nettlel. There is no way to simply change your currency option to USD. I email them, but yet have gotten no response. Conclusion – I did not whore in January to the best of my whoring ability.

** Beware if you use Nettel or are a US player.

[UncleDuke]

It turns out that WH gives you the equivalent of 25 GBP bonus even if you use US$ as your default currency. And on the other hand, even if you use the GBP version of the casino, they still give Americans a flat $40 casino match bonus rather than 25 GBP (right now the 25 GBP is worth about 7 bucks more, but oh well).

P.S. Is there an easy way to type the GBP symbol using a U.S. market keyboard?

[wmmathguy]

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[Templeton]

Yep, I did exactly the same thing for the same reasons.
I emailed Will Hill & they got back to me & said they can't do anything about the problem as such, but that I could create a new account in USD & let them know so they can cancel the first account I had created.
See email reply below

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Response (Anthony) 23/07/2004 03:50 AM
Hi
Thank you for your email
Neteller is only a deposit option available to clients using US dollar accounts
Your account is in pounds sterling
If you wish to use Neteller please register a new account in US dollars where the option will be available
Also contact customer services to have your account closed after having withdrawn any funds
We hope this answers your query
Thank you for choosing willhill.com

[Radio]

Im in the same boat, But when i seen that it was only a $25 bonus for USD accounts i thought it was'nt worth it. But let me get this streight. So if i sign up with a USD account I will get the equivilent of £25 in USD's So the bonus will be about $45 even tho it says only $25 on the web site? Im not talking about casino bonus here, only what i can cash out after my 5 hours play.

[UncleDuke]

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Im in the same boat, But when i seen that it was only a $25 bonus for USD accounts i thought it was'nt worth it. But let me get this streight. So if i sign up with a USD account I will get the equivilent of £25 in USD's So the bonus will be about $45 even tho it says only $25 on the web site? Im not talking about casino bonus here, only what i can cash out after my 5 hours play.

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I set mine up with US$ as the default currency, and yes, I always get the equivalent of 25 GBP in dollars (currently $47 and change) for the 5 hours of poker.