Hollywood sportsbook deceptive advertising, please beware.

Concorde

EOG Member
I want to beware about the unacceptable deceptive advertising tactic used by Hollywood sportsbook in order to attract deposits.

After got an email promotion by them i went to their online chat and talk with Kathie.

I told her that i got that email and asking if i were eligibile to get a bonus ( i played with them one time only a while ago and did not won ).

She asked me who i am and i give them my details because i did not remembered my ID. After find out my details and who i was she put me on hold and when she come back she told me that i would have get a 15% Cash Bonus AND a 15% Free Play Bonus.

Today i deposited $5000 and i got "only" the cash Bonuses. I ringed and chat with their manager. He told me that my account is not eligibile to get any freeplay Bonuses because it is clearly stated on their website that they do not give Bonuses to professional players. He told me that yesterday Kathie made an Human error.

Why the SAME person that yesterday told Kathie to tell me that i would have receive a 15% cash AND a 15% FP did not told me that i would have receive "only" the 15% cash because they think that i am a professional player and that this is clearly write on thei site? Or maybe that you Hollywood have two accounts with the same name and last name "James White" and you misundertasnd who of the two was waiting the answer? If so why you did not tryed to figured out who of the two JW was? Or maybe that your "website rules" changed during the night between Sunday september the 4th to Monday September the 5th? If so why you did not emailed or ringed JW "correcting" your 15%+15% offer in to a 15% cash? Do you think that i am a little hironic or sarcastic? Sit down and think for a moment what you REALLY DO and the time that i have to loose to write this thread that it is not in my language too.

As about the fact that you sad that i am a professional player ... Panetteria Il Fornaio, Via Statale 22, Como ITA. This is the place where I WORK around 8 hours a day. This is verifiable by everyone. If you will visit it i will offer you a dinner but if i am saying you a dinner BE SURE THAT IT WILL BE A DINNER, not "just" a breakfast because unlike others i have the habit to mantain words ... .Question ... If i am a professional player WHY I HAVE TO WORK 8 hours a day as a baker? Can you tell me WHY?

When will Some Sportsbooks END to claim that someone is a Professional Player even when someone is not a one, just as "one of the most common excuse" to favour himself?

Or maybe Mr Hollywood manager that you think that i am a bonus whore? Yes, i am such a Bonus whore that you will know what i am going to do now? I will withdraw all my money and deposit elsewhere with a "non deceptive advertising" book. I am such a Bonus whore that i am going to give you back the $500 Bonus that i received. Word and sincerity ( honesty ) for me are one of the most important things of this life.


If Hollywwod sportsbook will reply on this thread they will they sad that this was an human error or admit that they voluntary lied me in order to be "more sure" that i would have make my deposit?

Human error -2000
Admit lie +1500


This thread will not give me what i should have got promised to get, i only hope readers that will decide to reload with them to not get caught in the same "human errors". Comment like "Hollywwod is not a book that do these things", they are an A rating" will fly ... . Yes even Roger Federer is a great player BUT sometimes ... . I am sure your "much better english" and much better "writing" than my will make you come out "right", "the winner". Remeber, there are no winners on this, we are all loosers.

Concorde
 

The General

Another Day, Another Dollar
Welcome to EOG Concorde. I will assure BJ sees the thread and I will repeat what I wish to see.


Loyalty bonuses only. No post-up bonuses. One mans opinion.
 

Concorde

EOG Member
General,

I know they have two type of accounts, one is their -107 program and another is their star thretment program ...


Dear Mr. ...

In reviewing your account, we noticed your account is not entitled to a free play, sincce you signed up for the LAY 07 PROMOTION, and not the start treatment program. You received a 10% initial deposit, and no further bonuses.



If you have any other questions, please feel free to call us at 1 800 220 0002, here at customer service.


Best regards,
Hollywood Customer Service.

The point is where they unaware about that when they offered me a 15% + 15%?

 

Dell Dude

EOG Master
The General said:
Welcome to EOG Concorde. I will assure BJ sees the thread and I will repeat what I wish to see.


Loyalty bonuses only. No post-up bonuses. One mans opinion.

Maybe BJ can explain how they calculate moneyline parlays, or even better yet, mixed moneyline and pointspread parlays. Must be some kind of new age math because for some reason Hollywood's payouts are 10-25% less than what everybody else pays. Why I don't play there. Well, also because I don't have any money to deposit.
 
I have called Hollywood to alert BJ to this situation...

He was out of the office, but I am sure he will call back...

THE SHRINK
 
Concorde,

I forgot to welcome you to EOG as I remember you from my old address...

Shoot me an email and I will get the ball rolling if you wish...

I assure you that The General will also get involved as I see he already has...

shrink@eog.com

THE SHRINK
 

Santo

EOG Veteran
Shrink,

If you speak to BJ could you suggest he clarifies on the site that their current bonus offer comes with a 7x WR... the only prose I could find referring to rollover suggests 5x...

Cheers

~S
 

Nimue77

EOG Senior Member
IMO, if he asked the clerk and the clerk asked someone else and they came back and told him he would get a certain bonus and then he deposited under that pretense, he should get the bonus regardless of whether it is not their normal policy. It wouldnt hurt their rep just to give him the full bonus because they made a mistake.
 
Hello Guys,

The incident in question is in regards to a bonus promotion that we are running. We advertise a 40% bonus on a banner at the top of our homepage which goes to this page:
It's very clearly stated that it's only for Star Treatment Loyalty Program customers.

The customer deposited this morning into his account which is a Lay -107 account, so he received our standard 10% cash bonus.

If any new customer wants the special promotion, their account needs to be -110. The customer was offered -110 lines and the opportunity for the full special bonus, but declined.

I now understand that the customer has since emailed our customer service manager and is requesting the -110 lineset and full bonuses, which works for both us and him and I consider it a closed issue.


If anyone has any questions, please feel free to email me bj@hollywoodsportsbook.com

-BJ
Hollywood Sportsbook
800-220-0002







 
Santo said:
Shrink,

If you speak to BJ could you suggest he clarifies on the site that their current bonus offer comes with a 7x WR... the only prose I could find referring to rollover suggests 5x...

Cheers

~S

Hi Santo,

Check out the bonus page http://www.hollywoodsportsbook.com/bonuses/ we have all the bonus rules listed in there.

We also link to the bonus rules page at the bottom of the special bonus page.

I hope this clarifies everything for everyone, :+thumbs-2

-BJ
Hollywood Sportsbook
800-220-0002
 
No problem guys, anytime an issue comes up I'll try to get it taken care of.

-BJ
Hollywood Sportsbook
800-220-0002
 
I'd like to point out that BJ telephoned US back within 15 minutes after I left him a message...

Thanks for clarifying everything...

HOLLYWOOD is a GREAT "out" and this example just shows how responsive they are when disputes or issues arise...

It's a pleasure dealing with someone such as BJ...:+thumbs-2

THE SHRINK
 

Santo

EOG Veteran
I edited my post above without seeing you guys respond, so I'll put it at the bottom so BJ can see it before the hordes of Firefox users arrive ;o)

BJ: I've checked three computers, and on all three it doesn't show up in Firefox, but does in Internet Explorer..

Your HTML creating the table with the text appears to be dodgy, so when firefox renders the html (correctly :smokesmal) it doesn't display that section..

Do I get a bonus for that? :)
 
Santo,

I think I understand what you're saying. That's pretty much at the ceiling of my technical knowledge. I will have somebody here that is way better at this stuff than me take a look at it.

-BJ
Hollywood Sportsbook
800-220-0002
 

Concorde

EOG Member
Hollywood just gave me the remaining $750 freeplay ( that is more than what they told me yesterday when they sad maximum $500! ). It is a close issue to me too.

BJ, just a note to clarify... The standard bonus is 10% cash with 5 times rollover. Why my rollover was 8 times instead than 5 if i was entitled to get "only" a 10% cash? Maybe it was 8 times roll because the offer was different than a 10% cash?

I was NEVER offered to switch to -110 prior than make the deposit, the offered was made AFTER i deposited.

Next time i will ring you and ask to talk directly with you if i have a question in order to avoid misunderstanding.

Concorde
 

Santo

EOG Veteran
Hollywood said:
But our baseball dimeline to -190 does :+waving-5


-BJ
Hollywood Sportsbook
800-220-0002

Correct... my point was if you prefer baseball, then the star treatment program makes more sense than the -107 program -- which is why I joined it today :+waving-5
 
Thanks for joining up Santo. I might start calling you Mr. October! Still working on the Firefox detail. Might go to straight plain text to make it easy for all.



-BJ
Hollywood Sportsbook
800-220-0002
 

Santo

EOG Veteran
It's a major factor for anyone with Firefox. I'm sure you can see with that section missing how it might mislead people as to the terms of the promo.
 

kidslick

EOG Dedicated
Hollywood said:
No problem guys, anytime an issue comes up I'll try to get it taken care of.

-BJ
Hollywood Sportsbook
800-220-0002


fwiw if anyone has an issue with hollywood , wouldn't it be wiser to email b.j. first without posting a thread:+thumbs-2
 

Stickie

EOG Senior Member
Tony, I agree. Some of these easy to take care of issues should never show up in a thread. Send the owner/manager an email or The Shrink/General first before making a big fuss out of a misunderstanding.
 

Concorde

EOG Member
tony27 said:
fwiw if anyone has an issue with hollywood , wouldn't it be wiser to email b.j. first without posting a thread:+thumbs-2


Correct sir and this is what i do before post this thread.

Concorde
 
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