Best Skrill Betting Sites

Best Skrill Betting Sites

When it comes to another one of the commonly-spotted brands you’ll find headlining the payment options at the best online sports betting sites, Skrill is definitely a name you’ll soon get used to seeing. This company originally won players over with its convenient e-wallet service under the brand of MoneyBookers when it first launched in 2002. Now under its Skrill moniker it can boast of looking after more than ten million customers, and has become the sister company to another e-wallet legend, NETeller.

Like NETeller, Skrill can offer sports betting fans a fantastically convenient alternative to Mastercard and Visa bankcards for managing a player account at the majority of the best online betting sites. Creating a Skrill account is free and easy to do, with myriads of options to get funds into the e-wallet the account creates. You can even use credit and debit cards to do this, and although that may initially seem counterintuitive (why not just use those cards directly with your favourite sports betting site?) an e-wallet account funded like this offers a couple of advantages. We have mentioned these elsewhere, but it’s worth repeating that using an e-wallet like Skrill will (1) reduce the number of places who have your credit / debit card details (which you may be comforting to you), and (2) allows quicker withdrawals of cashable funds from your player account.

When it comes to withdrawing winnings out of your player account to spend on other stuff, Skrill – like NETeller – also offers its customers a prepaid Mastercard which is well worth investigating if you use its service. Why? Simply because it operates like a traditional debit card so let’s you make real-world purchases and withdraw cash from ATMs (there being a small transaction fee for this latter option), plus avoids a £5 processing fee if you want to transfer funds out of your e-wallet back to a bank account. In summary, more of your money is available to spend more conveniently using this card option.

Are there any disadvantages to Skrill to note? Perhaps just one at the time or writing. We have seen some online betting sites restrict bonus promotions to exclude deposits made with Skrill, so do check terms and conditions if that’s important to you. Don’t forget it’s only a deposit that might be affected, so taking advantage of Skrill as the tool for withdrawals shouldn’t be discounted in these situations due to the speed it offers over credit / debit cards.