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You moaned about the lack of retail promotions. I explained very clearly that ENTAIN can't be blamed for that. Why spend money promoting wagering on aged equipment that you entended to replace. It appears most people understand that that approach makes sense yet it escapes you.

Sorry I don't get the Manawatu Standard delivered so can't comment.

ENTAIN has only been here for just over two years. They inherited a broken retail model with equally broken and aged equipment. They have been steadily upgrading all the equipment. I don't think you can blame for that. No point promoting something that was broken!! Who is bloody stupid? You "laundered the money" so you will be the first contact!

Desperate? Or making punting more accessible?

I doubt they ever dropped them completely even when data storage was significantly more expensive than it is today. I image they also had AML requirements to retain all the details of an account. They may after a certain time flag them inactive. The data is useful as you pointed out for future promotions. Also the data is useful if someone is playing the system. An account can be open but inactive. I remember always keeping a $1 in my account so I could stream the races!!!

You don't have to go to the TAB to authenticate. To get the sign up bonus you HAVE to authenticate. That might be delayed if you decide to do the hard copy documents process of authentication. Well that was the process I experienced with the first time BETCHA sign up.

Brilliant - they inflate dividends and help fund racing at the same time! By the way you have to authenticate your account to get the bonus cash so I think you might be a bit confused. Depends what you define as "ACTIVE". I know people who are seasonal with their wagering. They don't bet late autumn through to early spring. Be through Spring until about now end of November. Stop -t hen start again late Summer through to mid autumn. That aside I would consider an acount active that bet during the OZ and NZ spring carnivals but not at any other time.

It was mentioned in an article where ENTAIN said there were so many thousand new accounts from people who hadn't bet before.

There was one about two or three weeks ago. Not sure if it was Cup week. From memory it was a bonus type cash promotion but they float around in one form or another all the time. Interesting that the oncourse % to Clubs is 25% higher if through a digital device. Does that mean betting on you phone oncourse or using one of the pods that they put on course now?

@Huey believes there is a relatively small group of owners, trainers and breeders that control every aspect of NZ Thoroughbred Racing. He has at various times labelled them the Old Boys Club, the Mafia and the Cartel amongst other things even though the labels he uses are not that interchangeable. Basically anything wrong in Racing is the Cartel/OBC/Mafia's fault and if you don't have have any success it is because they are stopping you from doing so. Quite frankly it is conspiratorial BS.

Well you don't need to be a Chartered Accountant to read and interpret a set of accounts.

What do you call a "retail promotion"?

Well there is a story in their accounts too.

LOL!!! Are you saying the published financial statements are false?

Well aside from @Freda doing your homework for you @Huey you are both wrong. Neither was earning enough from core activities to maintain core racing assets. Hokitika was doing exactly what the big Clubs have been doing - selling assets to fund operations.