Skrill Casinos NZ

What is Skrill?

Since its inception in 2001 as Moneybookers, Skrill has developed enormously. According to a report from 2010, the firm was the most rapidly expanding private equity-backed company overseas. In 2011, Moneybookers served 25 million customers and over 120,000 businesses, a considerable increase over 2010.

How do I use Skrill with Casino?

Skrill is an e-wallet service, much like you get when you play Paypal casinos. To use this payment option, you will need to create an account with Skrill and deposit money into the account by bank transfer, bank card, or a prepaid option such as a Neosurf voucher. When the funds are available on your Skrill account, you can use it to make payments to any gambling sites that accept it as a deposit method. 

When you use Skrill or any other e-wallets to make a payments to a gambling site, you don't have to provide your personal bank details. This is some welcome news to those who have played at NZ instant bank transfer casinos, due to gamblers' constant fears about theft or identity fraud, many of whom have experienced it previously.

Now, it's important to note that while Skrill itself doesn't charge you transaction fees for depositing money into your casino account, the casino site itself does get charged from Skrill. This means that, more often than not, they will pass these charges onto their player. Depending on the casino operator, these charges will be anywhere from 0.5% up to 2.5%.

Skrill Casino Bonuses

Due to the charges on the casino's side for accepting Skrill payments, it often results in them sending a lack of bonuses to the player. Some bonuses like the first deposit match bonus often exclude deposits made via Skrill, which is probably mentioned in their terms and conditions. Likewise, this is also the case for some of the lucky players who would normally expect to receive ongoing weekly cashback bonuses. You might still receive these, but if you do, you probably won't be able to grab them if you are depositing via Skrill.

Final Thoughts

Skrill gambling transactions are definitely popular among players and it is easy to see why. The payments are quick and secure. Furthermore, Skrill's focus is on the gambling sector, so they are as good, well, as good as you would expect them to be.

One issue though is the number of online casinos outside of Europe that have this option as a payment method. While some NZ casino sites do offer it, most currently don't. This is quickly changing though and the number of Skrill NZ casino sites is increasing every month.

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Dale Shelabarger Author

Dale is an author for InsideCasino and an expert in the iGaming sector, with his specialist areas in casinos, online pokies and bingo. dale has written hundreds of casino reviews and iGaming articles over the past 15 years.