TAB Bet Deposit Match?

[curious]

12 minutes ago, Newmarket said:

Anyone else get survey from TAB? Asking for views on promotions…. or lack of, I gave them my honest opinions🤣. Me thinks they should be worried, been told from those in the know, TAB figures show no gains since overseas punting stopped

Yes, I got it but haven't responded. The other news doesn't surprise me or if it does, it's that there are NO gains, rather than disappointing gains.

[curious]

I've done it now, though I think they could have asked better questions if they want a fuller picture.

[mikeynz]

26 minutes ago, Newmarket said:

Anyone else get survey from TAB? Asking for views on promotions…. or lack of, I gave them my honest opinions🤣. Me thinks they should be worried, been told from those in the know, TAB figures show no gains since overseas punting stopped

Betting figures may be the same or no gains as you say, well are they letting large punters on?

Same for sport, I've stopped  but are they letting the large head to head punters on there, I'd say no.

And no survey for now but I sent them a email yesterday regarding the sports betting but I suspect they won't take notice anyway.

Edited 4 hours ago by mikeynz

[Shab]

2 hours ago, Newmarket said:

been told from those in the know, TAB figures show no gains since overseas punting stopped

Betting is not like other things.  Its hard to get along not buying food or petrol for your car but you don’t have to bet on sport or racing to get along unless you’ve got a problem.  The punters betting with overseas operators were doing it because they didn’t want to take rubbish odds from TAB/Entain.  I would always happily bet with the TAB if the odds were the same and they were prepared to take the bet at odds shown for the amount I wanted.  They weren’t very often but if they were I was always happy to bet with them.  Withdrawals from offshore operators can be a pain.

Now I just won’t bet at all.  No POC tax from me.  Racing needs as many punters as it can get not as much as it can get from a small group of punters with a problem.  Long term what they’ve done will be detrimental to the game.

[PeterLambFan]

2 hours ago, Shab said:

Betting is not like other things.  Its hard to get along not buying food or petrol for your car but you don’t have to bet on sport or racing to get along unless you’ve got a problem.  The punters betting with overseas operators were doing it because they didn’t want to take rubbish odds from TAB/Entain.  I would always happily bet with the TAB if the odds were the same and they were prepared to take the bet at odds shown for the amount I wanted.  They weren’t very often but if they were I was always happy to bet with them.  Withdrawals from offshore operators can be a pain.

Now I just won’t bet at all.  No POC tax from me.  Racing needs as many punters as it can get not as much as it can get from a small group of punters with a problem.  Long term what they’ve done will be detrimental to the game.

Good post. Totally agree, absolutely fanciful to think the bulk of turnover would just transfer to the TAB while ignoring the reasons it wasn’t bet with them in the first place. Unless of course every person betting overseas was a problem gambler which would then fall foul of there problem gambling rules (which is apparently one of the reasons the legislation change was needed).