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4th July 2019 at 11:50 am #72777
4,500 jobs to go with that as well, we all knew this was coming when the FOBT’s were reduced in stake to £2.
It’s sad in a way as not all the guys and girls who played these machines were degenerates and many would happily still play, there should’ve been a middle ground with a higher minimum stake and greater jackpot wins as well.
Feel sorry for those who now face unemployment as a result of this whole sorry mess
4th July 2019 at 1:00 pm #72786It’s sad for the workers who face losing their jobs, but it was only the introduction of high stake FOBTs which caused hundreds of new bookies to open up every year on every high street and created these jobs in the first place. In my city, there was a road with seven betting shops including multiple branches of the same brand within a couple of hundred yards of each other. Many of them were tiny premises which existed solely to have four FOBTs crammed in.
The slots with £50 “mega spins” and a capped £500 jackpot were, in terms of odds against return, absolutely disgusting exploitation of players and deliberately engineered to prey on the vulnerable. This is a long overdue correction in my opinion.
4th July 2019 at 1:21 pm #72790This is a good thing, and it’s time the bookies got back to its routes, with football and horses.
Leave the casino side to the casinos. The shops that will close where only opened to get more fobts on the high Street. It wasn’t about betting it was about greed.
Sad about the jobs yes. But them jobs shouldn’t of been there in the first place.
24th July 2019 at 1:25 pm #72792Shame for anyone to lose their job but for me I just hope that means more online offers to compensate ?
4th July 2019 at 2:40 pm #72802Stop blaming the FOBT reduction and try taking a bet above £4.12p might be a start.
14th July 2019 at 4:58 pm #72809Those jobs were primarily funded by the exploitation of addicts who used the FOBT’s.
Although its sad that lots of people will lose their job, it is better than having those dangerous FOBT’s with high stakes still in operation to ruin the country further.
24th July 2019 at 7:45 pm #72837I thought that the “FOBTs” had similar games to the arcade cabinets, but what was the deal with £50 mega spins? I’ve not played those myself. Guess it was similar to a feature buy on the online slots?
Also, the number of bookies in the UK peaked in the 1970s and was in decline after that. What made them so successful back then, and could they go back to that business model? Or is that business model out of date now?
On a separate note, were people allowed to smoke inside a bookies before the smoking ban? I remember people used to smoke in arcades and the smoking ban did hit the trade a little bit.
4th July 2019 at 9:28 pm #72897Shame for the workers, hopefully they will find another job soon. As for the shops closing, good riddance. 🙂
15th July 2019 at 9:34 am #73215Unfortunately it seems these shops were almost opened solely to rake in more from FOBTs and now with the new stake regulations, they just aren’t quite the cash cow they once were, it is sad to see from a job loss point of view but also a town centre appearance point of view, i wonder if it will head back towards there only being 1 bookie per town instead of 856?!
5th July 2019 at 7:03 pm #73304I would like to thank William Hill for Mega Pots and the weekend some idiot decided to roll out Reel King Potty to every FOBT set at pot values of £500.00 Bronze £500.00 Silver and £500.00 Gold
17th July 2019 at 2:14 pm #73626Sunday morning just went to the supermarket on way back called at ladbrokes packed out with 5 people all on the slots. I want to get back home
and watch the moto gp from sachsenring Germany but want a bet. At the counter they have no betting for the race i am told try the betting terminal, fuck me ladbrokes have 6 betting terminals , i have a choice of all the terminals because no one is using them. Now get this 21 riders
and marquez is 1 to 4 on and they don,t take each way bets on the rest of the riders, no forecast betting no combination betting, no nothing
what a fucking joke. Do we need high street betting shops, we do not, close the fucking lot. Thank god for online betting sites.
darkhand
7th July 2019 at 2:19 pm #73627Is it not just gonna be betting terminals soon . Where u swipe a card to get in . And put u bets on the terminals . No staff needed.
7th July 2019 at 4:40 pm #73649The jobs where created on the backs of the misery that the fobt’s created so I’m not in the least bit sorry about this …. look at how damaging these things are
8th July 2019 at 4:07 am #737014,500 jobs to go with that as well, we all knew this was coming when the FOBT’s were reduced in stake to £2.
It’s sad in a way as not all the guys and girls who played these machines were degenerates and many would happily still play, there should’ve been a middle ground with a higher minimum stake and greater jackpot wins as well.
Feel sorry for those who now face unemployment as a result of this whole sorry mess
Not nice when jobs are lost,
But these evil machines should never have been put in bookies in the first place, I bet tens possibly hundreds of thousands of lives destroyed the only shops that will close are the extra one’s that were opened to get extra machines in.
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