Wow, that was a surprise … looks like Neteller funds have been freed up for US customers. Check it out:
We\’ll see if it actually arrives. But no reason to believe it won\’t. Quicker than I expected. Nice!
UPDATE: Money did arrive. Woo-hoo, pizza with extra toppings it is!
When it arrives, are you UIGEA-bait?
I don’t think so. But if I am, hey, so be it. Interestingly enough, this money comes from two places — neither of which are related to online gambling. Some of that money is from a text-link ad sold on old.pokerati.com, and some of it for a gambling debt incurred in a fully legal live-action home game.
I left a Batface home game one night owing adam $200. So I asked him if I could pay him via Neteller. He thought it was a dandy idea, so the next day, I uploaded some money into my neteller account and tried to send it his way. The next day the money was frozen.
kinda funny, because that was clearly a gambling-based transaction, but had nothing to do with the online poker stuff the gov was beefing about.