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Date: 01 Dec 2006 16:57:23
From: Irish Mike
Subject: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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If you have unused Party Poker frequent player points, you might want to
redeem them. Party announced they are removing current merchandise within
the next few weeks.
Irish Mike
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 09:17:42
From:
Subject: Re: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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Luckily, they expired all my points. Nothing to worry about...
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 09:54:54
From: XaQ Morphy
Subject: Re: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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> If you have unused Party Poker frequent player points, you might want to
> redeem them. Party announced they are removing current merchandise within
> the next few weeks.
Yeah, I saw that. Sent them this email:
Dear once largest poker site that pulled out of the US market and is now a
joke:
If I have any points, you can have them. There's no way in hell I would
ever play there, and I'm certainly not going to buy any merchandise to do
any free advertising for you! Here's hoping you go the way of PokerSpot.
Fuckers!
XaQ Morphy
Morphy
http://donkeymanifesto.blogspot.com
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Date: 02 Dec 2006 02:38:11
From: Randy Hudson
Subject: Re: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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In article <es6644x592.ln2@recgroups.com >,
XaQ Morphy <a1c5905@webnntp.invalid > wrote:
> Dear once largest poker site that pulled out of the US market and is now a
> joke:
>
> If I have any points, you can have them. There's no way in hell I would
> ever play there, and I'm certainly not going to buy any merchandise to do
> any free advertising for you! Here's hoping you go the way of PokerSpot.
> Fuckers!
I think that's unfair to Party. They withdrew from the US market, but they
didn't keep your money. I'm unhappy they don't want my business (and
particularly unhappy that they don't want the business of all the US players
that made their games so soft), but that's business. It's far different
from a company accepting -- and seeking -- deposits that they know they
will not repay.
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Randy Hudson
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 19:28:38
From: XaQ Morphy
Subject: Re: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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> I think that's unfair to Party. They withdrew from the US market, but they
> didn't keep your money. I'm unhappy they don't want my business (and
> particularly unhappy that they don't want the business of all the US players
> that made their games so soft), but that's business. It's far different
> from a company accepting -- and seeking -- deposits that they know they
> will not repay.
Ok bad analogy. I couldn't think of another site that shut down due to
lack of money, so I used pokerspot. It was meant as a joke, and not
another RGP nit discussion.
Morphy
http://donkeymanifesto.blogspot.com
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Date: 03 Dec 2006 20:56:27
From: greatbrit
Subject: Re: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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Randy Hudson wrote:
> I think that's unfair to Party. They withdrew from the US market, but they
> didn't keep your money...
That's not entirely true. Many players left tiny amounts thinking they
couldn't cash them out. The web site withdrawal pages claimed you had
to have $1 or more for a withdrawal, but it turned out that if you wrote
to support they would do a manual withdrawal of less than $1.
Meanwhile, many other players had some amount more than $1 that they
didn't bother with, but Party has a bizarre policy, IMO totally
unjustified, of charging a fee to inactive accounts, so those accounts
left with small amounts eventually went down to zero. It might seem
like no big deal to each player, but when it's millions of players those
small amounts add up to a huge windfall for Party, of money that was
simply not theirs to take.
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 13:50:25
From: Omaholic
Subject: Re: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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On Dec 1 2006 9:54 AM, XaQ Morphy wrote:
> > If you have unused Party Poker frequent player points, you might want to
> > redeem them. Party announced they are removing current merchandise within
> > the next few weeks.
>
> Yeah, I saw that. Sent them this email:
>
> Dear once largest poker site that pulled out of the US market and is now a
> joke:
>
> If I have any points, you can have them. There's no way in hell I would
> ever play there, and I'm certainly not going to buy any merchandise to do
> any free advertising for you! Here's hoping you go the way of PokerSpot.
> Fuckers!
>
> XaQ Morphy
>
> Morphy
> http://donkeymanifesto.blogspot.com
Well, you could use the points to get a fair number of books or something
that doesn't have their logo. That being said, if you don't know if you
have points, they've probably expired (although I believe if you email
them asking to have the points reinstated they usually will do it).
The rest of your post, about hoping they go the way of PokerSpot and all
that, I agree with 100%.
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 23:59:40
From: Irish Mike
Subject: Re: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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"The rest of your post, about hoping they go the way of PokerSpot and all
that, I agree with 100%."
I don't understand why you would say that. PokerSpot cheated its players
out of tens of thousands of dollars they had in their accounts. Are you
saying you want Party Poker players to be cheated out of the money they have
in their accounts? If you are upset with Party Poker management, why take
it out on the players?
Irish Mike
"Omaholic" <omaholic@gmail.com > wrote in message
news:1mk644xab3.ln2@recgroups.com...
> On Dec 1 2006 9:54 AM, XaQ Morphy wrote:
>
>> > If you have unused Party Poker frequent player points, you might want
>> > to
>> > redeem them. Party announced they are removing current merchandise
>> > within
>> > the next few weeks.
>>
>> Yeah, I saw that. Sent them this email:
>>
>> Dear once largest poker site that pulled out of the US market and is now
>> a
>> joke:
>>
>> If I have any points, you can have them. There's no way in hell I would
>> ever play there, and I'm certainly not going to buy any merchandise to do
>> any free advertising for you! Here's hoping you go the way of PokerSpot.
>> Fuckers!
>>
>> XaQ Morphy
>>
>> Morphy
>> http://donkeymanifesto.blogspot.com
>
> Well, you could use the points to get a fair number of books or something
> that doesn't have their logo. That being said, if you don't know if you
> have points, they've probably expired (although I believe if you email
> them asking to have the points reinstated they usually will do it).
>
> The rest of your post, about hoping they go the way of PokerSpot and all
> that, I agree with 100%.
>
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 16:19:15
From: Omaholic
Subject: Re: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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On Dec 1 2006 3:59 PM, Irish Mike wrote:
> "The rest of your post, about hoping they go the way of PokerSpot and all
> that, I agree with 100%."
>
> I don't understand why you would say that. PokerSpot cheated its players
> out of tens of thousands of dollars they had in their accounts. Are you
> saying you want Party Poker players to be cheated out of the money they have
> in their accounts? If you are upset with Party Poker management, why take
> it out on the players?
>
> Irish Mike
Of course that's not what I'm saying, Mike -- use your head.
I said that because Party's management and customer service is inept and
simply found themselves in the right place at the right time. Party's
success is the result of good luck and not good planning or strategy. I
would prefer to see sites that put some effort into their customer
relations have more success than Party.
There, is that specific enough?
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 18:58:19
From: eleaticus
Subject: Re: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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"Omaholic" <omaholic@gmail.com > wrote in message
news:3dt644x8u3.ln2@recgroups.com...
> I said that because Party's management and customer service is inept and
> simply found themselves in the right place at the right time. Party's
> success is the result of good luck and not good planning or strategy. I
You mean they didn't INTEND for their customer service/help to be that
shitty?
It is SOOOO much nicer playing on stars.
--
eleaticus
ee-lee-AT-i-cus
eleaticus@bellsouth.net
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Date: 02 Dec 2006 03:14:33
From: ericpeter@ricochet.com
Subject: Re: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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party was the whip!! it's just too bad that they caved so quickly. we
all expected more backbone from the industry leader.
Irish Mike wrote:
> "The rest of your post, about hoping they go the way of PokerSpot and all
> that, I agree with 100%."
>
> I don't understand why you would say that. PokerSpot cheated its players
> out of tens of thousands of dollars they had in their accounts. Are you
> saying you want Party Poker players to be cheated out of the money they have
> in their accounts? If you are upset with Party Poker management, why take
> it out on the players?
>
> Irish Mike
>
> "Omaholic" <omaholic@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1mk644xab3.ln2@recgroups.com...
> > On Dec 1 2006 9:54 AM, XaQ Morphy wrote:
> >
> >> > If you have unused Party Poker frequent player points, you might want
> >> > to
> >> > redeem them. Party announced they are removing current merchandise
> >> > within
> >> > the next few weeks.
> >>
> >> Yeah, I saw that. Sent them this email:
> >>
> >> Dear once largest poker site that pulled out of the US market and is now
> >> a
> >> joke:
> >>
> >> If I have any points, you can have them. There's no way in hell I would
> >> ever play there, and I'm certainly not going to buy any merchandise to do
> >> any free advertising for you! Here's hoping you go the way of PokerSpot.
> >> Fuckers!
> >>
> >> XaQ Morphy
> >>
> >> Morphy
> >> http://donkeymanifesto.blogspot.com
> >
> > Well, you could use the points to get a fair number of books or something
> > that doesn't have their logo. That being said, if you don't know if you
> > have points, they've probably expired (although I believe if you email
> > them asking to have the points reinstated they usually will do it).
> >
> > The rest of your post, about hoping they go the way of PokerSpot and all
> > that, I agree with 100%.
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> > * kill-files, watch-lists, favorites, and more.. www.recgroups.com
> >
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Date: 02 Dec 2006 09:19:04
From: Mark A. Dudley
Subject: Re: FYI Party Poker removing merchandise
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On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:57:23 GMT, "Irish Mike" <mjostar@ameritech.net >
wrote:
>If you have unused Party Poker frequent player points, you might want to
>redeem them. Party announced they are removing current merchandise within
>the next few weeks.
>
>Irish Mike
>
Thank you for posting this. Just cashed in the rest of my points.
Less Christmas presents to buy.
Mark
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