Online casino deposit options and credit cards

Further to our recent article detailing how we try to help new online casino games players get started and hopefully continue to enjoy playing casino games online, it is perhaps time to take another look at the question of how to fund an online casino account. All the major online casinos offer us a wide range of deposit options designed to make it as easy as possible for us to transfer the funds necessary to play their casino games, but experience tells us that some of these options may not be the best choice. Since the internet started to become a major platform for purchasing goods and services we have become used to the idea of using a credit card for online financial transactions and there are often very good reasons to do so, but is a credit card the best online casino deposit option?. Almost all the online casinos are credit card casinos and willingly accept most credit cards as a deposit option, but we must remember that playing casino games is a form of gambling even if you are playing for minimum stakes. Using a credit card as an online casino deposit option is therefore effectively gambling with borrowed money, which is never a good idea. On top of that the banks also object to us using a credit card for any form of gambling, and will almost certainly apply a surcharge of up to 2% on any transaction related to gambling using a credit card. In addition to that anyone using a credit card as a method of funding playing casino games will find that it is also considered to be a cash transaction and will therefore attract interest from day one at credit card rates irrespective of whether or not you pay off your credit card bill every month. A credit card is a very useful payment method for most internet transactions, but it is not the best way to fund an online casino account. We would always recommend using an e-wallet account as the best and cheapest online casino deposit option.