Yes, I saw snow on the ground this morning. Other than that, it’s going to be a great week.

Starting us off in the week before the Easter holiday is our fabled Second Chance room. Here players that might have been on the ugly end of the luck scale in the last week can have a chance to recoup some of their losses. The room opens up at 6pm for players who are invited to this room. Best of luck, second chancers!

Currently rounding off the third week in our monthly promotion “Spill the Beans”, we’re pumped (no pun intended) to see some happy winners featured on our leader board. Week 3 runs until this Thursday (April 21st), followed by the last week of this promotion. Take a look at our monthly promotion page to get caught up on how we can save you some bucks at the pumps!

How would you like to have an extra $1000 in your account – or better yet – in your wallet? Join us in the Special Events room this Saturday (April 16th) at 11pm est for your chance to become a thousandaire and join the ranks of our 1k Winner’s Circle. Not only can you take the pot of $1,000 home with you, but we’ll make the chances even sweeter by giving you 3 free cards when you buy 7. I can’t wait to hear your about your experience in winning!

Stay up to date on all things BingoVega by visiting our promotions page and by subscribing to our newsletter. Not receiving? Check out all the latest news by grabbing yourself a copy over at BingoVega.com

Best of luck to all players, let’s hear about some big wins!

Joel

Second Chance April 18

300% deposit bonus today

Psst, I’m going to let you in on some exciting news. Today, being Tuesday April 5th, we’re having a massive bonus giveaway when you make any deposits until 11:59pm EST. Any denomination that you want to deposit, we’ll match with a colossal 300% in bonus. With our simple funding options and a 300% bonus, today is the best way to join in on all the fun and prizes and to make your dollar stretch a little further.

It’s okay to Spill the Beans

Speaking of dollars stretching further, it seems that gas prices are steadily climbing with no end in sight. That’s why at BingoVega, we wanted to give prizes outside of the ordinary that are practical as well as exciting to win.

Our monthly promotion, “Spill the Beans” does exactly that! We’re giving away a total of $2,100 in free gas cards this month. All you have to do is play bingo in our Asteroid, Milky Way, and Little Dipper room and claim bingo on our “Car” pattern. The top winners in each respective room will earn a gas card, with the highest valued card coming in at $100. How’s that for a little relief for rising prices?

Check out our monthly promotion page over at BingoVega for a full write up and details on how you can get your hands on a gas card for yourself!

A quick post to update everyone on a sticky note about Bingo Vega aliases. During our migration, we merged our system with a more robust solution. Unfortunately some aliases are being rejected by the software’s back end when creating the account.

Because of this, some accounts have a “_BVA” suffix added. So what we’re seeing is that, for example, an alias of “ILoveWinter” that was migrated to the new system was changed to “ILoveWinter_BVA”. I realize that it is rather unsightly, but it was necessary so that the transition was to be smooth and successful.

So in the case that you cannot login using your usual alias, please try using the “_BVA” suffix at the end of your log in name. Please feel free to contact support so that they can change your alias to one that you’re happy with, yet also unique in our merged system.

We’re very sorry for the inconvenience of having to do so, and hope that everyone is satisfied with any name changing resolutions that support can offer.

Joel

Hi everyone.  As we try to put this week behind us and gear up for the weekend I would just like to give you another update on an issue that we’re working around the clock to fix.  For the folks that love to play at night, we have had some problems with the crediting of the Night Owl tournaments.  This is an issue that we’ve been putting a lot of energy and attention into to try to get everything working as intended.

We have been in contact with our software provider to help with a fix, and we’re proud to say that we should be able to credit all winners of this tournament by the end of the day today.  We are also going to be implementing a very handy tool that our support can use to credit these in a more timely fashion.

Our apologies to all those winners that were affected by this, and I’d like to assure you that this will we rectified as quickly as possible and we can look forward to a better experience with receiving Night Owl tournament winnings.

Sincerely,

Joel

We’re so sorry for the delay you have experienced with your payouts as a result of EwalletXpress no longer processing payouts for US and Canadian Customers.

The lack of EwalletXpress service for payouts has certainly caused an uproar in our industry and here at BingoVega we have been impacted as well and are very sorry for the all the inconvenience this has caused you.

We would like to reassure you that we’re doing everything possible to launch our new check solution in the next couple of weeks and in the mean time, to ensure there are no further delays with your winnings and upcoming winnings, we’ll be processing all payouts via Money Gram.

We completely take responsibility for this inconvenience and thank you for giving us the opportunity to make this right for you.

If you have a payout pending, accounting will be in contact with you shortly with an update as well.

For some of us, spring is just around the corner.  It’s the time where the flowers come out, where we can kiss the snow goodbye, and where we clean out our garages and basements in the spirit of renewal.  We thought that in this same vein we should do something that would add to Vega’s transformation and perk things up in time for spring.

So, let me be the first to announce that we will be updating the look and feel of www.bingovega.com.  All the goodness and things that you love about the site will still be there, but you can look forward to a different theme as well as improvements in usability.  We’re working hard to keep up the momentum of offering you the best experience in online bingo, and this is another change that all us of here at Vega are excited to deliver to you.

Just to give everyone a heads up, we’re planning to make these changes live in March.  We want you all to be part of the process and not feel surprised when we fully change over to the new layout.  There will be another blog post closer to our launch date so we can all celebrate together and we can show more of the new improvements.

One of the things that we’re very grateful of from our players is the excellent feedback that you’ve given us.  So again, I’m asking everyone – what do you think of the new site layout?

A huge congratulations goes out to Aimeez for yeseterday’s win!  Aimeez just kickstarted her 2009 year by being the sole winner of $5,000 in our gauranteed coverall game last night – in only 56 calls!  Aimeez is still reeling from the shock, no doubt, but did offer this to say.

“I would like to thank everyone who gave me a congrads on my big win on sat night. I was in a state of shock when that card went red. still am. thanks to the chat hosts and all the team members at vega. you made my holidays.” – Aimeez

I’d like to personally thank everyone for coming out and participating in last night’s game.  It was great to finally talk to some of you and join in on the fun.

We’re proud to be able to offer big games like our $5k game hosted last night, and I’m looking forward to watching and sharing in the excitement of your win to come.

Best of luck to all, I’m sure that YOU will be our next big winner!

In our efforts to enable our community to stay connected, we’ve implemented email alerts as well as the ability to track posts by RSS.

Now you can keep on top of posts by having updates to the Vega Blog sent directly to your email.  On the side of the page you’ll notice there’s a text box to enter your email address.  After pressing “submit”, you will be sent a confirmation email.  Once you’ve confirmed that you would like to receive updates, that’s all there is to it.  Every time the blog is updated, you’ll be notified.  If there are no updates, you will not be sent an email — it’s as simple as that.

Another way to stay connected is to subscribe to our RSS feed.  What is an RSS feed?  RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and it’s basically a way to have frequently updated works sent to you in a standardized format which contains the article headline, summary, and a link back to full-text articles on the web.  To use RSS, you will need a special news reader or aggregator that displays the RSS content.  There are many free programs widely available to view RSS feeds; my personal favorite is Google Reader.

By using email alerts and RSS feed you will be provided with an easy way to be alerted when content appears on our blog.  Now you’ll never miss the contests, polls, or postings that matter most to you!

Is this thing on?

Welcome everyone to the Bingo Vega Blog.

Launching a blog is just one of the many exciting changes that we’ve been working on at Bingo Vega.  We understand you want to be kept up to date and be part of the process of change, so we’ve made it easier for you to communicate with the Bingo Vega team through the new community blog. We hope that this will be a good way to keep on top of the weekly changes and to allow everyone to join in by giving feedback, suggestions, and questions.  As well as documenting and sharing changes at Bingo Vega, we will also use this blog to host contests (BB’s anyone?), announce changes to policies and rules, and to tell you about our awesome promotions and tournaments.

But it’s not all going to be strictly shop talk.   We want you to come to this blog and have a nice cozy feeling.   Our blog writers will be posting items like recipes, stories, testimonials from players, and congratulations to future winners.  If we happen to stumble upon a funny video on the net, we’ll post it for all to see and comment on.  Basically, we’re hoping that we can connect.  We’re hoping that we can bridge the gap between you, the players, and us.  We’re hoping that we can become friends.

So with that in mind — my name is Joel.  It’s a pleasure to meet you.  Again, welcome to the Bingo Vega blog.  It might look a little lonely here for the time being but I’m sure we’ll give this blog a little weight in no time.

Thanks for visiting, hope you come back soon.