I see lads betting on the livescore app a fair bit now and there doesnât seem to be complaints. No idea where the registered entity is
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You havenât many protections with the legal ones either
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I wouldnât be surprised if Boylesports didnât exist in 5yrs time. They are a terrible outfit. They have the most physical betting shops by some distance in Ireland and they foolishly expanded heavily their footprint in the UK in recent years buying shops that were previously William Hill shops. Anyone with a brain knows that the only people in shops NOWADAYS are OAPs/unemployed/druggie types. This has been the case for the last 10 years and anyone under 30yrs old theyâre not really going into a shop for a bet. So all the while their core of old men are dying out and not being replaced.
On top of that you have the UK hugely increasing betting tax in the last 12 months plus people are put off with the affordability checks over there where youâve to put forward every piece of paperwork imaginable to prove that you can afford to bet, to the extent itâs totally put people off and they just go to the black market instead who take their money and donât ask questions. Boylesports arenât even in the US yet and itâs probably too late now to enter (too far behind, will be too costly to gain a foothold, website and product too shit anyway to compete).
So their main focus is UK and Ireland, which has collapsed due to increased taxes and affordability checks. And even with that they are more of a shop presence in that region than online, and thatâs collapsing even more for same reasons as online + due to demographics reasons (old dying, young not coming in).
No one in their right would touch them IMO and I actually think they will come under pressure now soon to survive - could be a Celtic Bookmakers type situation.
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Naive question.
Do bookies own those buildings or just lease them. Assume latter.
Lease them.
Was this Icyâs mate?
Scandanavia going to destroy them here imo
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No Scotty tips I believe - ridiculous staged carry on
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