epassporte....Anyone get verified yet?

[gdaviet]

Alright, I'm officially using epassporte now. Here's the trip report I posted on 2P2. I'll try to keep you all posted here too.

My Epassporte Success Story

Signed up for Epassporte on Jan 20.
Registered my Bank account and 1 Credit Card.
Bank account Micro depsoits recieved Feb 1.
Bank account 'verfied' Feb 4.
No micro deposits made to Credit Card ... attempted load on Feb 12 ... declined with message to contact Customer Support.
Customer support contacted ... Total hold time approx 15 minutes.
Customer support indicates that issuing bank is not accepted (Citi Corp). I told them I'd try another card.
New Credit Card added Feb 12 (Chase bank).
Micro 'transaction' arrived faster than I could get a CS rep from Chase on the phone. CS rep gives me transaction amount.
Micro 'transaction' verfies credit card.
Loaded $100 ($95 after fee).
Deposited $20 to UB.
Deposited $45 to FTP.

I've asked UB to waive my 48 hour hold so that I can try a withdrawal. I'll edit this message when I get that done.

Overall, I'm sufficiently satisfied. The $5 load per hundred is only $1 more than neteller charged if I recall correctly. The $2 EFT to your bank account charge isn't horrible, though the $600 limit bites.

My plan is to use Epassporte almost exclusively for moving $$ from one site to the next depending on where I'm playing at the time.

For 'out of pocket' loads to pokersites, I plan on using the Visa/Mastercard debit card issued to me by my bank for my checking accounts. There are no fees for using this for 'Purchases' and these cards have worked in the past.

For withdrawals, my plan is to use the direct withdrawal methods from the pokersites themselves. UB is offering wire transfers for $50. My bank will probalby charge me another $15. If you are withdrawing sufficient amounts, this isn't much of a percentage charge for fast, secure money transactions. If you aren't withdrawing that much, then the $600 epassporte limit is really no big deal (and $2 is less than .5%). Hopefully other sites will start offering wire transfers as well. Wire transfers were common place until Neteller became so huge. No one used them after that, so they disappeared. I'd expect them to come back.

Another deposit alternative that I've found is Deluxe-Cards pre-paid Visa cards. I saw them offered while I was in the bank today. For a full trip report see

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[Big_Leon]

[Pok 7's]

To the best of my knowledge UB takes epassporte.

I Mecosking checked WPX a little while back for me and at that time they didn't.

[Big_Leon]

Confirmed tht UB takes epassporte and WPEX does NOT take epassporte. Still not sure what I'm going to do there but it's not a huge deal at this time.

Ok I requested a withdrawal from FT last night and it hit my epassporte account in about 4 hours. I'm not going to bother with a withdrawal to my bank account right now but I'm pretty confident it would take 3-5 business days to hit.

All in all I think this will work pretty well. Seems to take a lot of time to get it set up initially, probably because of the huge increase in new customers. I'm still not planning to keep any cash on this thing for more than a day or two while I move it from place to place.

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[poker2006]

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[poker2006]

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[EscapePlan9]

[redhouse]

I just made a deposit and transferred $100 of it to AP so i can use it as a withdrawal option on there. No issues so far.

[poker2006]

Looking at the website, it looks like $2 fee per atm withdrawal. The initial limit is $300/transaction, with upto 5 per day. If you verify two sources of deposit (bank and credit card probably), you can get select status, with a limit of $600/transaction, so reduce the fees by half.

I think it's worth it for me, the atm fees look pretty much like neteller. I prefer using atms rather than bank transfers with all these gaming regulations.

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