The choice of online casino deposit option is very important

As part of our objective to help new online casino customers through the initial stages of registering and preparing to play casino games online, we regularly revisit some of the more important topics. This month it is the turn of what many would consider to be the most important aspect of starting to play online casino games, and that is the question of how to pay for the stakes. All the major online casinos offer a wide variety of deposit options to fund playing casino games on their site, including most major credit cards, debit cards and one or both of the leading e-wallet operators. If you live in Ireland and have easy access to a Ladbrokes or Paddy Power betting shop, you can even manage your online casino account using cash, but for many of us that would be at best inconvenient.  The choice of online casino deposit option is far more important than many new online casino customers realise, so let’s have a look at the pros and cons of the options. Many of us automatically use a credit card for internet transactions because of the built-in insurance element should something go wrong, but that insurance advantage is clearly irrelevant when funding casino games. In fact using a credit card as an online casino deposit option has two major disadvantages, both of which would undoubtedly impact on your enjoyment of playing your favourite games. Firstly the banks will almost certainly charge you anything up to 2% surcharge for using a credit card for gambling, and then interest charges at high credit card rates will kick in from day one because it is equivalent to a cash transaction. Winning is hard enough as it is without starting to play your casino games in the red. Debit cards are clearly a better deposit option, but some banks will still apply a surcharge because you are gambling. We have said this many times before, but there is no doubt that an e-wallet such as Pay Pal or Neteller is far and away the most secure, private and cheapest online casino deposit option. Once you have opened an e-wallet account you can still fund that account in any way you like without additional charges, and it can also be used for many other online goods and services.