Two different things get called a one dollar deposit, and the listings above keep them apart. The first is simply a cashier that accepts small amounts, where a dollar lands as ordinary cash with nothing attached to it. The second is a structured offer, usually a set of free spins released for depositing exactly one dollar, which comes with terms of its own. Sites in the second group are marked as such, because the value of that offer has little to do with the number of spins advertised.
What decides it is the spin value and the cap on winnings. Eighty spins sounds generous until the spin value is read as ten cents, which makes the whole package worth eight dollars in stake, and until the maximum cashout is read as twenty or fifty NZD regardless of what the spins actually produce. A smaller package with no cap can be worth more than a large one with a tight ceiling. Both figures sit in the terms rather than on the banner, and both are recorded here alongside the wagering requirement that applies to anything the spins win.
Plain cash deposits behave differently and are easier to judge. A dollar of real money carries no wagering, no expiry and no cap, so anything it wins is withdrawable once the account balance clears the site minimum. The trade off is scale: five spins at twenty cents will rarely reach that minimum, which is why the withdrawal floor is listed next to the deposit floor for every operator rather than buried further down.
It is also worth knowing why the option exists at all. A dollar costs an operator almost nothing and creates a funded, contactable account, which is the actual purpose of the offer. That is not a reason to avoid it, but it does explain why the follow up messaging tends to be heavier after a small deposit than after a large one, and why the second offer usually arrives with a much higher qualifying amount. Where a site is known for aggressive follow up, the entry says so.
