Update: Hi All, the winners will be announced on Tuesday, April 28th at 1pm EST – Good luck and thanks for taking part in the Treasure Hunt game

Are you all ready for another Treasure Hunt game? Hope you are, as we have another chests of bb’s to be won in this week’s Vega Newsletter Treasure Hunt Contest.

Once again, we’ll be awarding a set of 10 (ten) $50 Treasure Hunt bonuses for ten lucky BingoVega members that are read this week’s Bingo vega community newsletter.

How To Join the Fun:

This Week’s treasure hunt consists of two separate questions. Answer both questions correctly and you can win one of the ten $50 bonus gifts.

1. When is the $5,000 Guaranteed Game of the Month Scheduled? (Time, Date and Room)
2. On Which date, time and room can you play to win a $4,750 Coverall game in 50 51 calls?

All answers will be approved on Monday, April 27th before noon. Good luck and happy haunting.

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Our faces are still red…

Lately, it seems that every time we offer free $100 games, we get hit with one technical problem or another.

Last night around 11:00 est, we ran into an unforeseen problem, which slowed down the site considerably and made it impossible for players to log in. Our tech team again was in ‘code red’, and they did a great job of getting the servers back up and everything running smoothly as quickly as possible.

It’s only fair, and in Vega’s nature, to make this up to you. However, we need to get to the bottom of these issues before we can schedule another session of $100 free games. We think that you are more than worth enjoying our promotions and regular play without any type of interruption or loss of quality that playing online bingo at Vega provides.

On behalf of the Vega team, I’d like to extend my deepest apologies for these issues. Please trust that we’ll fix this issue, and we’ll provide a lot more goodies and freebies for all.

Please stay tuned to the Vega Vine for updates.

UPDATE: Fri, April 17:

Woohooo – we’ve decided to extend the free $100 online bingo games to Friday, Saturday & Sunday. Have a great weekend everyone!

What happened to the games on Wednesday?

Last night, we experienced some technical difficulties and endured some downtime while we tried to bring the site up as quickly as possible.  As bad as this situation might be during regular Vega hours; the effect of this downtime was even worse because it just so happened to coincide with our free $100 games.

We are truly sorry for any inconvenience that this has caused you.  I can understand everyone’s upset at what happened last night – and rightfully so.  No one benefits from server downtime. However, thanks to our fast acting tech team, they were able to track down the issue and repair it.  It should be smooth sailing from here.

What’s going to happen to the missed games?

Since the $100 games didn’t run last night, we would like to make it up to our players by scheduling the missed games for this Saturday.  That’s right, we’ll have a full weekend of $100 games on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Here is the updated schedule for the $100 free guaranteed bingo games inside the Big Dipper room:

Thursday $800 Free Guaranteed in cash Prizes

• Time: 11pm to 12am EST
• Games: 8 x $100 free guaranteed bingo games

Friday $800 Free Guaranteed in cash Prizes

• Time: 11pm to 12am EST
• Games: 8 x $100 free guaranteed bingo games

Saturday $800 Free Guaranteed in cash Prizes

• Time: 11pm to 12am EST
• Games: 8 x $100 free guaranteed bingo games

Again, we sincerely apologize for the disruption last night.  Thank you to all of our wonderful and understanding players for their patience!

Hi All, Over the past few weeks, with your feedback and the help of our CM team, we’ve been able to roll out some exciting changes (part 1 & part 2) here at BingoVega.com:

• Progressive Games on All Rooms and on every game:
  • Milky Way – minimum $750
  • Asteroid Room – minimum $1,000
  • Nickel Room – minimum $500 … complete details on the PJP improvements
• 1 TG Special
• Extended Chat Hours
• Extended Support Hours
• Wagering Requirements on Guaranteed Saturday Games
• New Promotions and many more as previously shared on the previous two posts.

Today we’re happy to announce another key improvement which we hope will have a positive impact on your experience here at BingoVega.com: new and improved chat policy.

BingoVegans love Chat game bonuses and rightfully so; being in chat and playing chat games are an important part of your fun factor here at Vega. However, we believe we can further improve your experience. So starting today at 5pm EST, the following improvements will be in effect:

Improvement #1: 200% bonus on last deposit

We found, majority of our members are being penalized by the current 200% bonus on last deposit offer and feel by eliminating the bonus on last deposit and extending it to TOTAL deposits made in last 7 days will be more rewarding for everyone… so as of April 15th at 5pm EST, you’ll receive “100% bonus on TOTAL deposits made in last 7 days.

Improvement #2: chat crediting

To ensure our wonderful CMs have more free time to attend to you in chat, now our support team will be responsible for crediting your BBs in 24 hours.

This will free up our CMs to host more games during their shift and of course be more available to you in chat.

Improvement #3: extended chat hours

To further improve your experience, earlier in the month, we extended the hours of chat for Asteroid and Nickel rooms.

Asteroids Room:

• Sunday – Thursday: 6pm to 12am
• Fridays & Saturdays: 6pm to 2am

Little Dipper Room  Extended Chat Hours:

• Mondays to Thursdays: 4pm to 12am
• Fridays: 4pm to 2am
• Saturdays: 8am to 2am
• Sundays: 8am to 12am

Milky Way Room:

• will continue as 24 hours hosted

More chat games, more chat bonuses you can win.

Improvement #4: better management of your BBs

One of your past suggestions have been the impact of non depositing members on the BBs that are taken away from qualified, depositing members. Now with the above changes, we’ll be able to better reward you with the BBs you deserve.

With support crediting, we’ll be able to keep a pool of BBs that were won by non qualified members and distribute that back to our chat games as double BB or triple BB days or even host weekly surprise draws for you to win the savings pot : )

Improvement #5: Double BB Days

With the above improvements we’d like to experiment with a super chat special day. That’s why, as of Monday, April 20th, we’ll be trying out double BB chat games between 6pm to 12am every Monday.

Here’s how it will work:

1. When you make a deposit on Monday
2. You’ll receive double BBs on all chat games from 6pm to 12am EST

Occasionally we might surprise you with triple BB days for even more excitement throughout the week : )

It’s my hope that you’ve been enjoying all the new improvements here at Bingovega.com and we’re super excited to roll out the following new improvements in the days to come:

• 2nd chance room – a free roll invite for BingoVegan’s that hit a unlucky loosing streak
• Exclusive Monthly free roll tourney for our valued members
• New Breakfast, Lunch and Late night specials
• New Bingo Room: Quick and short patterns with Progressive

Player Appreciation $2,400 in Free Bingo Games

Ah yes, how can I forget – we know how much you love the Free $5 player appreciation games in the big dipper from 11pm to 12am EST, so it’s out pleasure to shower you with more free games this Wed, Thur and Friday.

We’ll be hosting $100 free guaranteed bingo games for one hour on these days inside the big dipper:

Wednesday $800 Free Guaranteed in cash Prizes

• Time: 11pm to 12am EST
• Games: 8 x $100 free guaranteed bingo games

Thursday $800 Free Guaranteed in cash Prizes

• Time: 11pm to 12am EST
• Games: 8 x $100 free guaranteed bingo games

Friday $800 Free Guaranteed in cash Prizes

• Time: 11pm to 12am EST
• Games: 8 x $100 free guaranteed bingo games

Thanks again for being part of the Vega family and we look forward to further spoiling you in the days, weeks and months to come.

Happy Bingo Everyone!

A BIG congratulations to our FIRST Player of the Month drawing winner!

In case you missed it…. (drum roll)

The Winner is ….. Larkspur

Larkspur is the winner of a brand new Dell or Mac laptop!

Congratulations from all of us at Vega!

Hello BingoVegans!

Just wanted to wish you all a Happy Easter!

I also found some fun facts about easter that you may not know…

Beth

* When taking a bite into a chocolate bunny, 76% of Americans prefer to bite off the ears first. 5% eat the feet first and 4% eat the tail first.

* During the Easter season, Americans buy more than 700 million Peeps  making Peeps the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy.

* Adults prefer milk chocolate (65%) over dark chocolate (27%)

* 86% would prefer having chocolate bunnies instead of a live rabbit.

* Each day throughout the year, 5 million marshmallow chicks and bunnies are produced in preparation for Easter.

* 16 billion jelly beans are made specifically for Easter which is enough to fill a plastic egg the size of a 9-story building.

* The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.

* Solid chocolate bunnies are favored, followed closely by hollow chocolate bunnies, marshmallow filled bunnies, and other Easter bunny candy.

* The Easter egg roll on the White House lawn has been a tradition since 1878.

*After Halloween, Easter is the biggest candy consuming holiday.

Our sincerest apology for the delay with the “live” draw for the Player of the Month award. Unfortunately Beth has been experiencing technical difficulties on her side, so I’ll be doing the live draw!

Thanks for being such a great group of members for giving us the time to organize the live draw – this is something new to us, but we promise, future draws will go much more smoothly and on time

When will the draw take place?

• Sunday, April 12, 2009
• Time: 8pm EST

Where can you see the live draw?

You’re invited to tune in to the BingoVega TV channel

How will draw work?

1. each one of forty nominees’ name will be inserted into a draw box
2. I’ll show each nominees name going into the box for authenticity
3. We’ll give the box a good shake
4. Tease you a bit : )
5. and pull out the lucky nominees name out of the box

March Bingo Player of the Month Nominees

1. 14mary48
2. Angelpebs
3. Ariesewe412
4. barinbir
5. bewitched6567
6. BlkMajik
7. bluekitten
8. bobcat
9. cat007
10. Catdidit
11. cuinbingorehab
12. Clowns_Teapots
13. daisy
14. darcy211
15. dawnangel
16. elfinmagic
17. kateybell
18. Knickknack
19. ladylumps
20. Larkspur
21. leib
22. Iansmomm
23. Moejoe25
24. Mckeemom
25. Mysticpassions
26. nascar29
27. needynotgreedy
28. newklear
29. Princesspoo18
30. purplelover
31. Screamb
32. shaun25
33. Sixtieschild
34. skylinerlab
35. strobiak
36. Turkeygoose
37. twobits4
38. tuscany48
39. Wymyj
40. winsandra

This week, the treasure hunt has turned into an Egg-Hunt and we’re giving 20 lucky Bingo Vegans a chance to win a delicious and fun $5 bonus for participating.

What you need to do

1. In total, there are 3 Eggs scattered across the community. This means, an egg might be found on this week’s news to anywhere on the Bingo Vega.com site.
2. You have to find each of the three eggs and let us know on the Vega blog where they’re located and the colors of each one of the eggs
3. Then on Monday, April 13 at 5pm EST, we’ll announce the winners on the Vega Vine blog

Happy Egg Hunt : )

Hi all, this is an update on the new and improved Progressive Jackpots at BingoVega. As you all know, last Friday, we got trigger happy on the Bingo Progressive Jackpots announcement; we should have highlighted clearly that the only room right now that has PJP active on all games is Milky Way.

The Asteroid and Nickel room PJPs are being setup now. Just the amount of work involved to manual update each game is very time consuming. But we’re working around the clock to have all the PJPs setup for you. We then went on to update you:

because of not delivering on our promise of April 1st, we’ve decided to make it up to you with several extra guaranteed free bingo cash games the day the Asteroid and Little Dipper PJPs go live

Now, this past weekend, we had three lucky PJP winners just in the Milky Way – a big congratulatory shout out goes out to our three lucky winners:

1. RoziePozie $2692.09 Progressive on Sunday April 5th
2. marias5 $928.85 Progressive on Friday, April 3rd
3. prettyredbingo $568.28 on Saturday, April 4th

We noticed a few things that we’d like to tweak with the PJPs

Milky Way minimum $750 PJP

Right now, the PJP in the Milky way resets to $500 after a win. This needs to be updated on our end with the help of our tech team so that after a PJP win, the minimum PJ starts right back up at $750 (We’ll have this resolved soon)

Quick & Short Patterns Room

Quick and short bingo patterns are very exciting and fun. We think, having a stand alone bingo room at BingoVega for just quick and short patterns like the 6 pack, 4 pack, any lines, etc. with its own progressive jackpot would be VERY exciting. We’d open this room as a trial run at two or three times per week for a few hours. Each game will have Progressive and we can start the PJP at $100. Card cost could vary from nickel, dime, quarter and fifty cent.

Question: Would you enjoy a quick and short pattern bingo room with its own Progressive?