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This Question will Not just go away?

bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
edited January 2010 in Poker Chat
  
    Now I could be missing something or not able to find  the relative part in "My Account" ?
But the advert that comes up on 865   has the  lady definitely saying ,
"You can cash in your "PLAYER POINTS"  OR use them to enter free-rolls" !!

Now,  I can see the tournaments that come up for the relative 'free rolls' ! 
But as this question has never been answered by the 'suite's' or 'Sky DES' ..I can only presume they don't want to offer Cash for Points ?
  OR they don't realise their advert is misleading, and could possible fall  under the
"Trades Description Act" ?

So could someone at  Sky's account dept or management , please answer this thread, and give a clear definition  of what  the advert says and how these points can be cashed, or how they can be used to enter cash tournament's like other site's do..
(the advert  will appear again in the break on tonight's live TV show  !) "" probably""  

My feeling is,  this question  keeps coming up and some how gets swept under the carpet or left to  fade away .. and I can see that if we were allowed to use  ,
  example: 500 pts to enter  a 5 pound tournament the site would not get much revenue for a month as players would use their stock of points to play but other site's do just that,  'cash or points to enter" !

We  the  players deserve better than being ignored on this question !!  
 I  know I dont have as many points as most regulars here but if your advert says,
 "Cash for Points"  !   You should,  as a player be able to  use them to enter tournaments !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWOhw95IO2s

Than you in anticipation of your reply ! Barry (bennydip2)
 
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  • BlackFish3BlackFish3 Member Posts: 2,418
    edited January 2010
    cash for points means at the end of the month you cash them in... read the Ts and Cs or get crushed by the sky legal machine lol.
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  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: This Question will Not just go away?:
    cash for points means at the end of the month you cash them in... read the Ts and Cs or get crushed by the sky legal machine lol.
    Posted by BlackFish3
      I  KNOW THAT   ... hello    !!   thats  not what is being said !!
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  • freechips1freechips1 Member Posts: 861
    edited January 2010
    i have been with sky for 5 months and have 50k points, benny take a look at comunity sugestions, bigshann started a thred months ago
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  • freechips1freechips1 Member Posts: 861
    edited January 2010
    the question will not go away, that don't mean it will ever get answered
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  • BlackFish3BlackFish3 Member Posts: 2,418
    edited January 2010
    I would like to see a sky poker shop or something to do with them.
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  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: This Question will Not just go away?:
    the question will not go away, that don't mean it will ever get answered
    Posted by freechips1
    "freechips"  Thats the whole point, i know of Bigshann's post, and its been asked many times but Skypoker  just ignore it, hence  this one again ..

    It's time the suites stopped thinking  and doing something about it ..

    I blame the messengers for not getting the point over to the bosses ...
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  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: This Question will Not just go away?:
    I would like to see a sky poker shop or something to do with them.
    Posted by BlackFish3
    Well  yes  thats a good point some players would love that  ....  but also points should be able to be used for entering tournaments  ...

    Like I said   something like 500 for  a  5 pound tournament entry ..  there was a time if I remember when a player who won the open entered the tournament  with his player points,
    he was a phone in guest on A Players Journey , maybe  18 months ago ?
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  • freechips1freechips1 Member Posts: 861
    edited January 2010
    it has got to the point where everyone has so many points its going to cost sky a fortune.  if they open a store or give you the chance to exchange them for cash it will just cost far to much, a store should have been put in place when the site first opened, i have 47000 points any1 want em? what about the big guns ajs and gerrard9 i bet they have near 1 million.  the only way i can ever see this working is sky hold their hands up and say sorry, but we cant afford to cash em all in but we will wipe the slate clean (all points gone) and from now on we have a store where you can buy in direct to a mtt or exchange them for cash. i just cant see sky giving away soooo much money when they don't have to. i would love to see direct primo buy in for 2000 points but its not gonna happen.  sky you do need to sort this out soon as this problem will not be going away and the longer its left the more points you will have to deal with. poker points is the sky poker reward scheme then please reward me and give me somethig to do with them.
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  • philmenowphilmenow Member Posts: 617
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: This Question will Not just go away?:
    it has got to the point where everyone has so many points its going to cost sky a fortune.  if they open a store or give you the chance to exchange them for cash it will just cost far to much, a store should have been put in place when the site first opened, i have 47000 points any1 want em? what about the big guns ajs and gerrard9 i bet they have near 1 million.  the only way i can ever see this working is sky hold their hands up and say sorry, but we cant afford to cash em all in but we will wipe the slate clean (all points gone) and from now on we have a store where you can buy in direct to a mtt or exchange them for cash. i just cant see sky giving away soooo much money when they don't have to. i would love to see direct primo buy in for 2000 points but its not gonna happen.  sky you do need to sort this out soon as this problem will not be going away and the longer its left the more points you will have to deal with. poker points is the sky poker reward scheme then please reward me and give me somethig to do with them.
    Posted by freechips1
    wouldnt mind 10% of them..
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  • MICKYBLUEMICKYBLUE Member Posts: 2,035
    edited January 2010
    on most other sites isit not the rake which u pay in points?? ie £5 plus 50p or 500pp
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  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: This Question will Not just go away?:
    on most other sites isit not the rake which u pay in points?? ie £5 plus 50p or 500pp
    Posted by MICKYBLUE
    Hi Micky I think so,    but then Skypoker takes 'rake' the same as other sites.. the difference is the others DO let you use points to enter as cash  .. But the MAIN point of this initial post was that Skypoker advertise on the TV channel 865  that you can redeem your points for cash  ??
    ...So how do you do it ?   ...  or is this false  advertising ? ... or can cashing them in be done ?
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  • freechips1freechips1 Member Posts: 861
    edited January 2010
    i can see anne robinson (watchdog) tearing tikay to bits
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  • elsadogelsadog Member Posts: 5,677
    edited January 2010
    I agree
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  • apollo_11apollo_11 Member Posts: 969
    edited January 2010
    I never earn enough poker points in a month to get any cash back so my points just keep building up with no return unless you want to enter a shave fest freeroll to have a 70:1 chance of winning a tournament entry.
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  • DELTADELTA Member Posts: 639
    edited January 2010
    points for cash benny is the pionts u collect u get ie 10 for a sng or lets say 20 for an mtt the higher stake u play the more u get. i know ove some1 who got £3500 last month for there points. del
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  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: This Question will Not just go away?:
    points for cash benny is the pionts u collect u get ie 10 for a sng or lets say 20 for an mtt the higher stake u play the more u get. i know ove some1 who got £3500 last month for there points. del
    Posted by DELTA
    Delta  mate  I know that  as  I said to 'Blackfish" earlier !!   

    Your missing the point, what is said in the advert is "You can redeem your points for cash" .. ?
     So we all have points we cant get  access to !!!   What I want to know  is  how to redeem  those points to either enter tournaments  as a substitute for  cash or are we supposed to  write them off   ..
     
    The advert is clear in the wording and  in effect  misleading !!
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  • freechips1freechips1 Member Posts: 861
    edited January 2010
    cash for points playing mtt is not good, its 10% rakeback.  its not possible to work it out for cash games, but i think its 15-20% rakeback but im very unsure.  the current freerolls r a joke! will sky do anythig about this? i think not as i explained in my previos post.  philmenow if i could give you my points i would as i am almost certain they r as much use as a ashtrey on a motorbike.  how can we make sky give us somthing to do with the points? we cant.
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  • freechips1freechips1 Member Posts: 861
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: This Question will Not just go away?:
    In Response to Re: This Question will Not just go away? : Delta  mate  I know that  as  I said to 'Blackfish" earlier !!    Your missing the point, what is said in the advert is "You can redeem your points for cash" .. ?  So we all have points we cant get  access to !!!   What I want to know  is  how to redeem  those points to either enter tournaments  as a substitute for  cash or are we supposed to  write them off   ..   The advert is clear in the wording and  in effect  misleading !!
    Posted by bennydip2
    benny the ad should say you can redeem some of your cash for points
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  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: This Question will Not just go away?:
    In Response to Re: This Question will Not just go away? : benny the ad should say you can redeem some of your cash for points
    Posted by freechips1
    Haaaa haa  . What it should say and what it does say  are two different things !!  

    Maybe  Des will make a statement on Monday as to how we can get the  points into use ?

    Even he has to admit, it's an error and could be deemed as an 'X File,  ' the sort that shouldn't  come to the public notice !!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JZNJDChc1Y


    The Truth Is Out There !!
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  • Sky_mod2Sky_mod2 Member Posts: 5
    edited January 2010
    In Response to This Question will Not just go away?:
           Now I could be missing something or not able to find  the relative part in "My Account" ? But the advert that comes up on 865   has the  lady definitely saying , "You can cash in your "PLAYER POINTS"  OR use them to enter free-rolls" !! Now,  I can see the tournaments that come up for the relative 'free rolls' !  But as this question has never been answered by the 'suite's' or 'Sky DES' ..I can only presume they don't want to offer Cash for Points ?   OR they don't realise their advert is misleading, and could possible fall  under the "Trades Description Act" ? So could someone at  Sky's account dept or management , please answer this thread, and give a clear definition  of what  the advert says and how these points can be cashed, or how they can be used to enter cash tournament's like other site's do.. (the advert  will appear again in the break on tonight's live TV show  !) "" probably""   My feeling is,  this question  keeps coming up and some how gets swept under the carpet or left to  fade away .. and I can see that if we were allowed to use  ,   example: 500 pts to enter  a 5 pound tournament the site would not get much revenue for a month as players would use their stock of points to play but other site's do just that,  'cash or points to enter" ! We  the  players deserve better than being ignored on this question !!    I  know I dont have as many points as most regulars here but if your advert says,  "Cash for Points"  !   You should,  as a player be able to  use them to enter tournaments ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWOhw95IO2s Than you in anticipation of your reply ! Barry (bennydip2)  
    Posted by bennydip2
    Hi bennydip2,

    Thank you for your response.
    We will relay your message to the marketing and management team for review.

    Sky Mod
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