{"id":1386,"date":"2020-04-10T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2023-10-25T17:08:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:08:39","slug":"bonus-or-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/casino\/bonus-or-reward\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus or reward?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The problem with casino bonuses<\/h3>\n<p>Fortune Palace has always insisted that casino bonuses were a bit of a con &#8211; a way to get new players into the casino by offering headline-grabbing figures like &#8216;\u00a310,000 FREE&#8217; which were always a bit too good to be true.<\/p>\n<p>As we discussed in our article &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortunepalace.co.uk\/the-true-cost-of-online-casino-bonuses.html\">the casino bonus trap<\/a>&#8216;, the wagering requirements were always set against the player. So unless you were a particularly lucky Slots player, chances are that you&#8217;d lose your entire deposit before you had any chance of making any profit, never mind the \u00a310,000 advertised.<\/p>\n<p>Many a player has been caught up in opaque terms and conditions, not really understanding how or why they fell foul of the rules, just knowing that they weren&#8217;t able to withdraw what they thought they&#8217;d won. Cue lots and lots of disgruntled players, complaints on message boards and widespread media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the UK Gambling Commission had to step in, insisting that operators advertised their terms and conditions clearly wherever the bonus figures were mentioned. Easy enough on a 30 second TV advert, not so easy on a website table listing 20+ casinos on a mobile device!<\/p>\n<h3>Going bonus-free 2018<\/h3>\n<p>As a result of the tighter regulations, Fortune Palace decided to back our original opinion of bonuses by just not pushing them! We&#8217;d always felt that casino reward schemes and loyalty bonuses were a better way of promoting casinos, as it was more in line with the &#8216;comping&#8217; strategy of bricks and mortar casinos (&#8216;comp&#8217; is short for &#8216;complimentary&#8217; i.e. free, like drinks or chips)<\/p>\n<p>Although a lot of the competition are still pushing the big figure sign up bonuses, we&#8217;re happy that rating our casinos on criteria like variety, quality, banking, customer support, reputation and loyalty rewards gives long term, serious players a much better way to assess what&#8217;s out there.<\/p>\n<h3>Rewarding loyalty<\/h3>\n<p>At the same time as going bonus-free, a new casino came to our attention &#8211; the very aptly-named No Bonus casino (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortunepalace.co.uk\/no-bonus-casino-review.html\">read our review here<\/a>)! They had a similar ethos to us, in that they weren&#8217;t offering a sign-up bonus, but rewarding players with\u00a0<strong>10% cashback on losses &#8211; every day!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The process couldn&#8217;t be simpler:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When a player deposits real money into his\/her account and loses all that balance, he\/she is entitled for cash back which will be approved the next day between 10.00 and 12.00 (CET).<\/li>\n<li>The refund can be used for withdrawal and for play.<\/li>\n<li>Cash Back will be received once the full deposited amounts of any particular day are lost and a balance of less than \u20ac10 is showing on the player\u2019s account.<\/li>\n<li>Cash Back refunds are calculated upon a 24 hour game session time frame.<\/li>\n<li>Cash Back has zero wagering requirement. All refunds through the cash back offer are instantly available for withdrawal or for play.<\/li>\n<li>NB cash back rewards do not apply if player has funds in their account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taking the decision to move away from the standard sign-up bonuses &#8211; with huge wagering requirements and slippery terms &#8211; is a brave move, and one which we think deserves much more exposure.<\/p>\n<h3>Get rewarded<\/h3>\n<p>Sign up at No Bonus and you won&#8217;t receive any sign up bonus or free spins. What you&#8217;ll get is a great selection of the best games from the best suppliers like NetEnt and Evolution and the promise of 10% of your deposits back <strong>every time<\/strong> you hit a losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of your playing lifetime, that will give you back much more than a \u00a3xx,xxx bonus with impossible terms and conditions!<\/p>\n<p>Give them a go &#8211; and join the trend away from the bonus trap!<\/p>\n<div class=\"aio-button-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/nobonus-general\" class=\"aio-green\" title=\"Register\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i class=\"glyphicons glyphicons-check\"><\/i>Register<\/a><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with casino bonuses Fortune Palace has always insisted that casino bonuses were a bit of a con &#8211; a way to get new players into the casino by offering headline-grabbing figures like &#8216;\u00a310,000 FREE&#8217; which were always a bit too good to be true. As we discussed in our article &#8216;the casino bonus trap&#8216;, the wagering\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/casino\/bonus-or-reward\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}