The online casino deposit option is your first important choice

For regular visitors to this site this article is hopefully preaching to the converted, but for potential new online casino customers looking to play casino games online for the first time we think this advice is vital. One of the first things a new online casino customer has to do is decide how they are going to transfer money into their online casino account so that they can play the casino games. Unfortunately it is also the first opportunity to make a costly mistake. All the major online casinos offer a wide range of deposit options and all are what we term Visa casinos, in that they accept deposits by way of a Visa credit or debit card. There are however a number of reasons why using a credit card as an online casino deposit option is not the best option. First of all using a credit card to fund playing casino games is effectively gambling with borrowed money, an option which can never be recommended, but it is also an expensive option. Rightly or wrongly the banks do not like anybody using a credit card for the purpose of gambling either, and will therefore apply a surcharge of up to 2% on any such transaction. On top of that transferring money to an online casino account is also considered to be a cash transaction equivalent to taking cash from an ATM, and will therefore attract interest from day one at credit card rates. All these negative aspects of using a credit card as an online casino deposit option can add up and of course put you in a losing situation before you have even started playing casino games. It is also unnecessary because all the online casinos also accept deposits through an e-wallet account such as Pay Pal or Neteller. Using an e-wallet account as an online casino deposit option also increases your security in terms of your bank details, and of course your privacy because your bank will not actually know what you are using that account for. You can even fund your e-wallet account using a credit card without a surcharge, but you would still be gambling with borrowed money and paying interest from day one.