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It's A Bit Pink At Bingo4Her.Com

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Site rating: 2 / 10

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First Impressions & Ease Of Sign up

I have to say when I first saw this site I practically hurled. Taking the Bingo is a "women's game" nonsense to the nth degree, the site screams ladies so much I was actually tempted not to sign up as a fella. But, in the name of Playing Bingo I had to jump in.

Whilst it doesn't say gentlemen are welcome other than asking gender on the registration form, it doesn't exactly welcome blokes either. It's quite off putting to see the 'Login Here Girls' message on the homepage and the pink pages.

Fair enough though, if they want to specifically target lady players then that's up to them - it just seems a bit stereotypical. Given the bright new market of upwardly mobile and intelligent ladies, this stereotyping could actually be a turn off. Then you have to wonder where the sense is in actively excluding 50% of your potential market. Plenty of blokes enjoy a game of Bingo - I'd be amazed if many signed up here.

The FAQs seem a bit scant, and some of the stuff I wanted to know was away in the terms and conditions, which is not easy to get too. Otherwise, everything you need to get you going is there and easy to get to. It's part of the Globalcom network, so many of the pages and offers were familiar from my other encounter with a site of the same network.

Sign-Up Bonuses

You get a free £1 to play with before you even start or have to register your payment methods. You have to redeem your bonus loyalty points to get that money and initially I had problems, it kept telling me I didn't have loyalty points, then after logging out and in again ten minutes later it worked without a problem. A minor quibble but worth noting.

You get a 100% match bonus on deposit, up to a £100, but, as Bingo4Her is part of the Globalcom network, you'll have to deposit at least £20 to get it. Shame really, it hurts smalltime players and frankly, smacks a bit of greed - we will make you deposit maximum money. What's more, whilst the sign up bonus is mentioned briefly on the homepage, there's no further detail. Knowing this was a cookie-cutter Globalcom site, I had to manually type the generic URL in to get to the bonus page to confirm the details.

Ease Of Use

To be frank, t his is ghastly, making up URLs myself is not good navigation. Many of the boxes on the homepage that look like they should be clickable aren't, and I often got blank pop-up boxes with error messages from the homepage. Not a good start. Finding the Terms and Conditions proves a challenge, which is probably a good thing, as people might spot that the £1,000,000 prize they have on offer when you log in to the game will be paid over 30 years!

I was looking forward to seeing if they'd done anything different with the Globalcom software to make the problems I have with it any better. Nope - we're in default mode here. Frankly the Globalcom software is not user friendly and has serious usability issues. It's also misleading and cares little for the normal mechanics of the Bingo game.

To compound the problems, there's no feedback on the purchase you're about to make, and their wording is misleading, referring to tickets as cards in the pricing and tickets in the buying causes confusion. First time I tried it (on another Globalcom site) I thought I'd bought a strip of cards for a pound, but it turned out I had bought a strip at £6 - which frankly, for the prize money was ludicrous - a total and confirmation would have stopped this error.

Getting around the game console is a chore, the icons are small, there's no obvious way to but game tickets in advance some of the colour schemes make reading difficult. The tickets are hard to read, there's no autosort (on the 90 ball game) and there's no pause to announce the line had gone. This software needs a lot of work. It's my belief that they quickly reworked the 75 Ball software to get a 90 ball version, missing lots of the things that make playing other gaming software more fun. It would also explain the slipshod wording on the tickets and cards.

Now, I realise that with the Globalcom network these sites are like franchises, you put your branding into a template, I don't have a problem with that, this is how most Bingo sites operate. However, it worries me to see a different URL on the actual game window. According to the title tag, I'm actually at online-bingo.net, and if that's not disconcerting enough, I'm pulling data form bingoballroom.com! Whilst these sites are running off one server, I wouldn't expect to see errors like that happening as the game plays.

Community Spirit

Good, but the layout of the chat window makes taking part a chore, and with big splash messages being posted by the CMs every few minutes, it tends to make scrolling and seeing what's going on the tiny window a chore. Other than that, the CMs are helpful and welcoming.

Prize Money

The worrying thing is the prize money seems to stay about the same no matter what the card prize. This seems people are playing on budget rather than by cards. Given the changing prices of the games, it can be confusing. Some of the games seem very overpriced as well - £1 or 50p a ticket games crop up all the time, they're not good value.

The times I played there were around 40 people in, and the money was around the £8 line and two lines, £14 for the full houses. Not what you want to be playing for on the expensive tickets.

Security

Payment and that side of it is fine, it's all padlocked off where it should be, and you login at the site which logs you into the game window. They send the password you choose together with the username, which is not ideal as email is not a secure method of such things.

Overall Feel At Bingo4Her.co.uk

I can't in all good consciousness recommend this site - the site itself is passable as the support to the main game, but they do need to work on the availability of the small print. it's fair to say the very pinkness of the site adds to my disapproval of it.

Their main fall down is the network they're playing on. The Globalcom offering needs a lot of work to make it even a shade of some of the other software out there. It's clunky, ugly and at times, misleading. If you're a lady, and want a site specially catered for you feminine ways, this one looks like it could deliver, but you will be disappointed. Overall rating - 2 /10 (October 3rd 2006)

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