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What to include when you write in

The messages that change pages are the specific ones. A term change worth recording is a wagering multiplier that has moved since the page was written, a minimum deposit that has shifted, an expiry that has shortened, or a payout window that no longer matches what the terms say. A figure that moved covers the same ground in numbers: a cap, a percentage, a count of spins, a number of days. A clause this site misread is the third kind, and often the most valuable: a sentence in an offer’s terms read the wrong way round, a condition attached to the bonus rather than to the winnings, or the other way about.

Make any message easy to check. Name the page, quote the phrase as it is printed, and point to the primary source where you saw it: the operator’s own terms, the Gambling Commission’s public register, or the legislation itself. You do not need to be certain. If a clause reads oddly, say so and the desk will look at it.

Never send account details. No correction needs a login, a password, or a copy of an identity document, and nothing of that kind belongs in this inbox.

How a correction is handled

Every correction follows the same three steps. First it is verified against the primary source: the figure is checked on the operator’s own terms page, on the public register, or in the legislation, and a screenshot alone never settles the question, because screenshots travel badly and pages change under them. If the primary source disagrees with the message, the page stands and the reply explains why.

Second, the model is updated wherever the figure feeds it. A wagering multiplier that sits in a worked example also sits in anything calculated from that example, so both move together. Correcting one and leaving the other would leave the page contradicting itself, and consistency is part of the fix, not a separate job.

Third, the change is dated. The page carries the date the correction was made, so a reader returning weeks later can see what is new and judge the rest of the text in that light. Quiet edits, made without a date, are not how this site works.

When to expect a reply

Expectations here are set in days, not hours, because that is what a proper check takes. The working aim is a first reply within a few working days. A correction that turns on one plainly printed term is quick to settle. One that needs a register lookup, a read of licence conditions, or a comparison against the legislation takes longer, and a week is not unusual for those.

What the desk will not do is promise a reply inside twenty-four hours. That promise would be hollow, and a hollow promise is worse than an honest estimate. If nothing has arrived after ten working days, write again. Messages do go astray, and a second message is read with the same attention as a first.

Where this desk stops

Some requests fall outside what this desk can do, and it is kinder to say so plainly than to let a message sit unanswered.

No account help. The desk cannot look into an account, chase a deposit, hurry a withdrawal, or clear a verification check. It has no access to any operator’s systems and no standing to intervene in one.

No dispute representation. If a complaint with a licensed operator stalls, the desk cannot take the case up on a reader’s behalf. The route that exists runs through the operator’s own complaints process and then, if it remains unresolved, to an approved alternative dispute resolution provider, of which IBAS is one. The desk can point at that route. It cannot walk it for anyone.

No personal gambling advice. Whether a particular offer suits a particular person is not a question this inbox answers, and no message should ask it to.

What the desk can do is say where free support actually lives. The National Gambling Helpline, run by GamCare, is free and open around the clock on 0808 8020 133, and offers confidential support to anyone affected by gambling harms in Britain. BeGambleAware publishes self-assessment and self-help tools, and GAMSTOP is the free self-exclusion scheme covering all Gambling Commission licensed online operators serving Great Britain. Those routes are staffed and funded for this work. This desk is not.

The rule the inbox works to

The inbox runs to a short editorial standard, and it is worth stating so a correspondent knows what a correction buys.

Figures come from primary sources. Each claim on this site traces to a numbered entry in a fact file, with its source and the date it was checked, and nothing reaches a page that cannot be traced back. Where a number is a modelling assumption rather than a measurement, the text says so, rather than dressing the assumption up as a finding.

Checks carry dates, and dates age. A figure checked months ago is treated as a prompt to look again, not as settled, and anything a build relies on for a number is re-verified first. That habit is why a reader’s dated observation carries real weight here.

The right to publish the correction is real too. A message sent in good faith gets read, and where it survives verification it gets published, with the change dated on the page. The desk would rather print a fix than defend a slip. If you have spotted a term that moved, a figure that drifted, or a clause read the wrong way, write in.