Refer a Friend online bingo promotions

Online bingo is such a fun pasttime these days you should get all your friends involved and enjoy the great community spirit while you chat and gossip online and play exciting bingo games.

Many online bingo sites give you extra bonuses or special offers when you refer your friends, which makes it great for both you and your friend, as you can both cash in on the event.

Referral programs for bingo sites tend to vary from site to site, but as a general guideline, you should only refer your friends to sites that you are already familiar with, and that you know and trust.

It won’t take long to find some good RAF offers (RAF is short for Refer A Friend). Wink Bingo have a nice promo where you can buy your friend a special gift voucher as a warm welcome to the site, and Wink Bingo actually doubles the value of the voucher - a nice touch methinks!

Another good site is Sun Bingo, also with a cool referral program, once you’ve signed up your friend you’ll receive £10 and so will your friend!

So take some time and check out your fave online bingo sites, the ones where you enjoy playing bingo online most, and see what kind of a referral program they offer. It’s definitely a great way to earn some extra cash, along with introducing your friends to an excellent new hobby! Enjoy!

Online Payment Methods

It’s an interesting idea – the sort of idea you wonder why nobody thought of it before.

I’m referring to the Casino City directory that gives us all a pretty comprehensive rundown on most of the major online payment systems out there. Whether you’re an online bingo player or an operator of online bingo games, this is one directory it might pay to visit.

Why – because it may just help you understand what’s at stake in doing business with or as an online bingo hall in this post-UIGEA world.

For those of you not up to speed with what ‘UIGEA’ is, it stands for the US law called the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. It’s a piece of US legislation aimed at disrupting US players’ right to gamble with who they want – and has effectively shut the international online bingo industry out of the US market. UIGEA targets the payment methods used by players to play online bingo.

Getting around UIGEA, or simply just trying to understand how online payments operate in this environment is essential for all wanting to get involved in playing or operating bingo online. May I recommend you visit the directory by going here: http://online.casinocity.com/payment-methods/

Bingo Halls Get Zero Support

Exactly what great crime is it that our faithful old bingo halls in the UK have committed to deserve such unfair treatment by the government?

With Bingo Halls dropping like flies all over the UK, forced to closure because of Big Brother government moves to apply double taxes, take away their high jackpot slot machines, and to add insult to injury, apply a smoking ban to the whole of the UK. All these measures plus the general recession has forced our traditional bingo clubs to their knees, begging for a fair chance.

The 2009 Budget revealed yesterday by the Chancellor at first seemed to be heaven-sent for Bingo Halls, when they realised that VAT was going to be dropped for Bingo. Unfortunately the Bingo gaming tax increased at the same time from 15% up to 22%, basically meaning no change.

On the other hand, the online bingo business in the UK is positively booming. Perhaps leaping off the back of the apparently doomed land-based bingo industry, and bringing the game of bingo back into the limelight, with an increasingly younger generation of bingo fans, and tons of appealing free bingo games to get your teeth into.

So what does the future hold for our grand old Bingo halls? With all the pressure from our leading UK operators including Rank and Gala Bingo, you’d expect some backing from the government, but there appears to be none. Looks like the cards are on the table, and the Bingo Halls will have to battle it out for themselves.