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At certain times of any year, some online casinos tend to organise competitions at their websites, but instead of offering cash or bonus prizes, they offer online vouchers instead. I'm totally not interested in such competition prizes, so I would simply watch, read and skip. Simple as that, hehehe. Whaaaat? Whyyyy? The competitions are quite good really, you might say, but only those who don't see the overall big picture would say that! Let me say out 3 excellent reasons why voucher prizes are actually quite USELESS to gamblers, but a great boon to online casinos and shopping websites. #1 Vouchers are usually in a fixed monetary value per voucher. They cannot be exchanged for real cash but can only be used to buy goods from their shopping websites. So once you start collecting their vouchers, you can expect a long period of 'collecting more necessary vouchers' before you can actually buy that something that you really want. Otherwise, you'd have to use those vouchers to buy UNNECESSARY things that you don't want, just to avoid that 'long collection period'. #2 Vouchers usually have expiry dates on them, so if not used within its validity period, they become void and COMPLETELY USELESS! This has happened to me once before, some years back, when I was staying in another part of my country. I had over RM100 in vouchers from a local shopping mart, which I haven't used yet, simply because I didn't know what to buy with them at that moment in time. Then came the time when I had to move to another part of the country, but that shopping mart was not available there, so those vouchers finally expired and I had wasted a good RM100 all for nothing! Yeah, yeah, I know, this is not the case with online shopping as per se, but those vouchers may still expire in time! #3 Vouchers may be from different companies, are not exchangeable and cannot be used anywhere else. That says everything! If its Amazon Vouchers, you can only buy things from Amazon websites. What? Your desired item can only be bought at eBay? So go get eBay Vouchers then, or look for competitions from casinos that offer eBay Voucher prizes! None that I know of, hahaha. There are more reasons why not to use any kind of vouchers, but I'll let you do the thinking for yourself.