AskGamblers, Casinomeister - old gambling whores

The AskGamblers website was created in 2005 by a web designer who wanted to make money from casino affiliates. Eleven years later, AskGamblers is worth millions of dollars, precisely for
Catena Media bought the site for that kind of money. The deal amount may have been deliberately inflated many times over, since everyone in the gambling world loves to greatly embellish the facts and create their own image at any cost.

After the site passed into the hands of this company, the resource began to be aggressively developed and promoted. The main idea was to make the most popular resource in the casino theme. Ratings and descriptions of hundreds of online casinos, games and bonus offers are the main focus of content management.

Casinos line up to get information about them on AskGamblers and be read by players. Here, casinos practice selling places in various tops "for a lot of money" and selling homemade quality certificates.



1) Fraudulent casinos can easily get into their ratings of trustworthy casinos.

Among their "winners" are fraudulent operators who should not be there at all. For example, Bob Casino - the casino had big problems when a player wrote that he was not paid a winning of more than 900 thousand euros. This case can easily become the loudest scandal of 2018, since Bob Casino openly blackmailed the player, offered to pay a smaller amount, and offered a car from another of their contests in addition. Then they called from a fake number and threatened that the player must agree to the offer or not get anything at all.

2) There is clearly something wrong with the open voting on AskGamblers. For example, the fake Bob Casino has a rating of 9.18, higher than the rating of VideoSlots, which has 9.01. In fact, purchased likes have long formed the lists of the best on AskGamblers.

It is known that Bob Casino openly "inflated" their rating, offering players a small bonus (15 free spins at a rate of 0.01) for liking their positions in the Best Casino of the Year nomination.

3) Selling "quality certificates" - anything is possible for money!

The AffPower casino group claimed to be an honest company, but their casinos used counterfeit NetEnt and Novomatic software. All advantage players knew about this sensational story and it was completely inappropriate to see the AffPower group with a quality certificate.

4) The popularity of the resource and the abundance of representatives of different casinos on it encourages all "offended" players to post their complaints in order to be heard and get an answer. AskGamblers are happy to try on the role of "court" in controversial issues - they "punish" the guilty casino by lowering its rating. So that over time, "at a high price", they can restore their positions. The problem is that all these theatrical performances have no legal force.

Disputes with players should be handled by certified ADR commissions, which follow a certain procedure, ensure a fair hearing and have leverage over casinos, including fines and license revocation.

After the transition to new owners, AskGamblers even announced their intention to register as an ADR (alternative dispute resolution) and get approval from the UK Gambling Commission. Then they would become an official intermediary between casinos and players and could be listed along with eCOGRA, IBAS and other services on the UK Gambling Commission website.



But the plan didn't work - the loud statements remained hanging in the air. It is obvious that such services should be financially independent from the casinos themselves. The UK Gambling Commission not only rejected AskGamblers, but also strictly warned market operators not to investigate player complaints on the pages of this corrupt resource.

There are a great many different types of websites on the Internet dedicated to land-based and online casinos, as well as all sorts of related topics.

The vast majority of such resources are worthless. These can be sites of an overtly commercial nature, one-day dummies, blogs with stolen articles. Everything is tied to referral links of casino affiliate programs and a % of commission from player losses.

But from this huge mass, we can single out several sites that deserve the attention of anyone who is even remotely interested in the gambling business. These include the Casinomeister portal, which has been operating since 1998. This brand has long been a registered trademark. It is popular in the casino industry.

The Cryptologic company even dedicated a slot machine "Casinomeister" (a friendly caricature of the owner) to him.



SloganCasinomeister- defender of justice and truth about online casinos since 1998. The best reviews of real casinos and real complaints. The largest and most active community of players.

In essence, we see the same processes as on AskGamblers. Casinomeister is an old casino-affiliated project.

I agree, everything around is permeated with affiliate programs.