Posted by fishseller: i want to transfer some money from my PartyPoker account to Pokerstars one. What can you recommend as the less painful method with minimum losses?
I would like to know this too. I think in some countries (Canada) you can use instadebit, but in europe you can't use this to deposit to Pokerstars.
As far as I know, there is no way to do it without fees of some sort. I think 3% is way too much, especially when you get slapped with another 3% if there are currency conversions.
I think a bank transfer would be okay, since it's $3, which is better than 3% for withdrawals over $100; but this will require a currency conversion again (USD => EUR).
All of the above is why I never did a withdrawal from Party Poker either...
You could take a look at that goplay mastercard, but they charge dormancy fees when you don't use the card every 2 months, which would happen to me all the time...
IMO these hidden costs are the worst thing about Party Poker, worse than their software bugs...
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also, what i like about skrill is it has fixed fee when u withdraw to your credit card (and its just its a few bucks at that ) so it doesnt matter if you transfer $50 or $550 from skrill to your bank acc/cc, its always same fee :=)
neteller isnt that bad really but i had some problems with them in the past, switched to skrill and never looked back
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There is no chance of you cashing out from Party Poker without making a deposit first. So you will need to take care of this. Best way to do it, is Skrill or Neteller as they said above. But not having an account with them yet, it means you will have to deposit there, with a way of your choosing and then transfer the money to Party Poker, allowing you to cash out after.
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If you earned this money from a no deposit bonus from BRM , then I think you can withdraw without making a deposit first.I've always found that the money from BRM has no restrictions. so give it a shot and see if you can withdraw.
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If you have access to Skrill,...then THAT is definately the way to go...! No fees...! Although,...if you cashout from Skrill back to your bank,...they will gouge your A$$...!
Also,...you cannot cashout from ANY poker site unless you've previously made a deposit. That's so they can verify who you are, and establish a link between the site,...and your money handler,...whomever that might be...!
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Posted by marqis: I would like to know this too. I think in some countries (Canada) you can use instadebit, but in europe you can't use this to deposit to Pokerstars.
Just go in pokerstars cashier cash out you will see cash out policy. You enter your country and they tell you cards that are accepted for you.
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Hmm you could just create a skrill account and gets it verified it is so easy to get your account verified, just needs to verify a credit card to up the limits and then there is address verification which is easier as they will send you a letter with a code and once you get the letter just enter it and you are verified.
For neteller you have upload your identity, driver license , passport or national identity will do the trick, scan it, it you do not have go to a pub or a library and scan it and put it on your phone or pen driver i save it. This will be useful for other bookies verification too afterwards!
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Posted by demodawggy: ! Although,...if you cashout from Skrill back to your bank,...they will gouge your A$$...!
Yes but you also able to cashout to your credit card instead and it has fixed $4 fee (for me at least), doesnt matter how much you withdraw :=P
also i prefer skrill over neteller because of their more relaxed transaction limits (esp outgoing ones ). Only thing i like more about neteller is their support, which is by far better imo (or at least, it used to be, havent contacted skrill support for almost a year so things may have changed).
evil...but darn funny 
