Complaint Review: Prestige Bingo (party bingo)

When you buy in for whatever amount of cash at this site, they use the "incentive" of adding play money bonuses. For instance, you buy in for $100.00, you get $150.00. The catch is, they use your real money first when you play, and you can't cash out bonus or "play money," nor can you cash out *anything* for the first 48 hours after you buy in. Therefore you can never win! And if you think you can, just try cashing out. It's a bit of slight-of-hand...

Example: You paid $100.00, they gave you $50.00 in play money. If you play and don't win, you're spending down your cash buy-in amount. If you *do* win, let's say, $50.00, then that is added to your "real money" amount, but again is used first. Since it is used first, you have to "go broke" before you can actually win something to cash out. Every time you buy-in for more money, you get an extra "bonus" which seems good, but it only makes it that much harder to win.

In fact, the only time you can win is if you hit their near-impossible to win jackpot amount.

When I first contacted them that I wanted to cash out, they told me I couldn't because what I had left was all play money (I had bought in for $350.00, and had won a few small amounts, and was asking to cash out my last $50.00). When I threatened to write articles about their site, lo and behold, I *could* cash out, but had to send a request via paypal. I did so. Didn't hear anything for two weeks, so sent a reminder thru paypal. Prestige wrote and claimed they never got the request. I sent another one - again, they claimed not to receive it, even though paypal said they got it.

This is one of the biggest online scams I've yet come across. I wish there was a sure-fire way to make people aware of this bingo site.

Thanks,

DJ Curtiss