Sports betting agencies fined for illegal advertising in NSW crackdown
Sports betting agencies Sportschamps and Pointsbet have been convicted and fined for illegal gambling advertising in a blitz on online gaming companies launched by the NSW government.
The crackdown by Liquor & Gaming NSW, follows the state government passing laws last year making promoting inducements to gamble subject to fines of up to $55,000 per offence and making company directors open to criminal charges.
The infringing Sportschamps’ advert which cost the company $2,000 in the NSW courts
Absurd laws. Offering punters a better deal than the competition, a deal that lessens the likelihood of the punter losing his money, cannot be promoted? Instead, the uninformed punter can just bet with a legacy company like the TAB, who don’t offer this deal, and who offer vastly inferior odds to new betting companies in the market, like those referred to in the article. And that’s supposed to in some way mean a better deal for the punter? It’s the same logic as stopping shops advertising specials.
People who want to bet will bet. At least let them be exposed to special offers that lessen the chance of them losing.
OK. I admit I don’t bet, but I do object to the crass style of betting adverts, and the scheduling of these bad boys before 8.30pmin the evening when younger family members are watching.
During last years Melbourne Cup, build-up we had the TV sports report sponsored by a betting company. Off-field betting has such a bad reputation worldwide affecting so many many sports, and here is a TV station having their sports report sponsored by a betting company, so for upholding community standards.
I was new to gambling in 2016 and signed up because of those various inducements. They were great, I won heaps. Never once did I become a mind-numbed zombie addicted to gambling. It was my own money and I could do what I wanted with it. But then along came the wowsers and the government listened to them. I stopped betting because the fun went out of it. Another example of the fun police wrecking everything.