Skrill Withdrawal Option Dropped
Skrill is no longer a withdrawal option at Merge Gaming. Players with pending Skrill withdrawals were contacted this week by the network. They were told that the pending withdrawal would have to be requested again. The only cashout option offered to these players is bank wire. It is unclear if this decision was made by Merge Gaming or Skrill.
Loss of Skrill a Tell?
Skrill has been known to drop merchants that were not processing payments in a timely manner. In 2011, when Skrill was known as Moneybookers, the ewallet stopped processing payments for Absolute Poker and Full Tilt. Both sites were indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on Black Friday. That was not when Moneybookers dropped the two sites as customers. It took player complaints and action by Moneybookers in subsequent months for the ewallet to withdraw its service from these sites.
Full Tilt was dropped as a client by Moneybookers about 24 hours before the site lost its interactive gaming license in Alderney. Absolute Poker, which also did business as UB at the time, lost its ability to process payments through Moneybookers while it was still operating.
Both sites eventually failed. Full Tilt players were bailed out by PokerStars. Absolute Poker and UB players were stiffed.
Skrill stopped processing deposits for Lock Poker in November 2013. At that point, some U.S. players had been waiting one year for withdrawals. Payments to players outside the U.S. were months behind.
Skrill allowed Lock Poker to process withdrawals through its system, though none were ever made after the deposit option was dropped. Lock Poker shuttered on April 17. It had not made a payment to any player in over one year when it ceased operations.