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ONLINE BINGO LEADS TO INTERNET TRUST
14/04/2005Whatever the market, whatever the product or service, a business needs to be able to win the trust of the customer. In fact the biggest barrier to gaining new customers can be having to convince a customer that you can be trusted. When an online bingo player is looking for somewhere to play bingo online, she might be attracted by the look and feel of a site, or the promise of huge jackpots but the factor that will make her want to return to the bingo site again and again is probably the sense of comfort and community she feels - and this is provided not by the bingo site itself but by the other bingo players.
We are of course talking multi-player online bingo sites here, but the primary reason why online bingo sites can be trusted is because players are playing against each other and not against the house - the provider stays neutral and the bingo players know this.
Online bingo is a departure from anything that has come before because while it falls under the banner of gaming, it is more crucially a social experience. Bingo players come together in a trusted environment, interact and thus have to remain accountable. An online bingo community is like a self-contained society and if someone steps out of line, it is not uncommon to see social sanctions imposed!
The effect for the wider online experience is that online bingo demonstrates the humanness inherent in the internet and reminds people that the internet is fundamentally about people and not software.
And if you feel comfortable in one part of the internet, what's to stop you exploring further and making the same judgment calls about other online services.
