Bethard review: Is it scam? Is it legal? Warning: Blacklisted

Bethard offer a few shocking bonus offers for anyone daft enough to sign up and their wagering requirements are astronomical. That €50 bonus you thought was so generous? Get ready to have to wager it four times on events with unfavourable odds within 60 days in order to see any withdrawals. The casino bonuses require you to wager your bonus 20 times before you can even think of the word "winnings". Live casino? It keeps getting worse - 20x wagering amount and only 20% of your bet will count towards that amount. In short, don't waste your time with their bonuses, because that's literally all that will end up happening.

Their website tries hard to look glamorous but in actuality, it is cluttered and difficult to navigate. Get ready for a lot of scrolling. Their graphics don't load half of the time and if they do they like to buffer. We're not asking for a lot here! When you consider what we found in our Fun88 review and Pots of Luck reviews, Bethard does not meet the standards.

Users have also reported the website encounters multiple daily outages, which is not what you want from an online bookmaker.

Bethard will rinse you of your deposits then pretend to pay you your winnings through Visa, MasterCard, Neteller, Skrill, Trustly, and PaySafeCard.

However, they will not let you make use of the bonus if you use Neteller or Skrill - probably for the best if you accidentally end up depositing money with them. Withdrawals from Bethard seem to have most of the negative press online and rightly so. Customers have reported waiting days upon days for withdrawals only to be told they can't withdraw their money because of withdrawal caps.

There should never be withdrawal caps on your money. If you have won it, it is yours. Operators should never withhold your money from you.

Bethard's customer service department is there for show only it seems. Live chats are unhelpful, customer service agents are often rude and short-tempered, and their email address seems to only want to deliver emails to them if it's about them getting money from you. We can't endorse a site that doesn't care about its customers.

Bethard used to have licenses from both Malta and the UK Gambling Commission. They recently gave up their license in the UK. We could find no explanation for this online anywhere. That caused them to be banned from operating in the UK. We do not know what the issue was. What we can say is that if a gambling operator self surrenders its licence, it's never a good thing. An unregulated casino that is avoiding stringent commissions should always be avoided. You should check out our 10bet review if you want to use a betting site that isn't a total waste of time.

Bethard has an invitation-only loyalty VIP program. They will not say on the site what the program consists of. That seems to be for the VIP players only to know. As far as we can see, no-one is telling anyone what it consists of. It's almost like there is no VIP programme and it's just a way to get you to stick around - which you should not do.