I owe around $1000 to an online poker site based offshore (will remain nameless, but one of the big ones like Absolute Poker, PartyPoker, PokerStars, Pacific Poker, etc.) I have owed this debt for many months, with no correspondence from the company asking about when I will pay it (after the initial e-mails stating how much I owed). Now I am reading about the possibility of these offshore companies soon not being allowed to accept bets in the United States.
The company did state in an e-mail to me after I inquired that they could employ a collections agency and report the debt to credit bureaus...which would suck. But the thing is...I've owed this debt for so long and they haven't done anything...so I don't know whether they'd actually do this.
Of course the moral thing would absolutely to pay. But I'd also like to save the $1000 if I were to pay it and a few weeks later the company was banned from doing business in the U.S. and thus unable to collect from me.
Any thoughts?
2006-08-15
04:29:20
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DesiPoolGod
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