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Message: [QUOTE="dmorris68, post: 1797802, member: 40397"] People, you need to realize that when you withdraw from the poker cashier on Carbon (or Lock, BlackChip, or any other Merge skin) the skin doesn't process your withdrawal -- Merge does. 3-4 weeks is average for Merge withdrawals on ALL skins right now, so it's not a Carbon/Lock/et al problem, it's a Merge problem. For non-US customers withdrawing via, say, MoneyBookers, they're average 2-3 days to get their funds. Post-BF when Merge was hit with new traffic and overwhelmed with processing withdrawals from panicky players, their lead time bloomed to 6-8 weeks. In the meantime some skins like Lock who had a casino or sportsbook operation were allowing poker players to transfer money to that side of the operation and bypass Merge processing. My second poker withdrawal from Lock came from their casino and I got it in 2 weeks vs the 6+ weeks Merge was taking at the time. Of course then they got overwhelmed while Merge caught back up, so now it's entirely the opposite. But don't expect faster than 3 weeks to get a paper check from pretty much any US site or payment processor -- it just isn't happening, and blaming one skin or another is being blind to the reality of the situation in the US. It ain't getting any better in the current environment. So Merge isn't trying "F anybody." They're simply forced to work within the confines of the hostile US environment, where the processor market has contracted greatly since Black Friday. Cut 'em a break. They attempted to make things better by issuing gift cards instead of checks for awhile, but that backfired on them too, so now it looks like they're back to finding workarounds for paper check processors. And occasionally those checks are bouncing, but so they did with Stars and FT as well, so that's not very alarming. So far they're quickly making good on the bounced checks. Amount of withdrawal has nothing to do with it either -- you go through the same process to withdraw $120 as someone does to withdraw $2500, all things being equal (verification documents sent in, etc.). So not sure why you expect $120 to be handled any faster -- I can assure you the regs who are withdrawing 10x or 20x that much on a regular basis would not be happy seeing your $120 take priority (nor would you, in their shoes). [/QUOTE]

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