Food For Thought
In Australia, we have long had registered Lottery tickets. The process is simple, you complete a form with your contact details and you are issued with a player registration slip, you use this slip each time you purchase a ticket from a retailer (News Agency) and the result is your winnings remain secure as even if you lose the ticket - the Lottery will still be able to contact you.
Over the years the slip of paper evolved into a plastic card, much easier to keep in the wallet and a more durable product.
Then along came online puchase of Lottery Tickets !
From a player perspective, this is the ultimate in convenience - you never need miss a draw. There are no queues and no irritable children to deal with, interuptions that often saw players keep walking rather than purchase a ticket.
But alas at the end of the month you are confronted with a credit card statement - where once players were oblivious to their weekly Lottery spend, as it consisted mostly of small change in a purse or wallet - all of a sudden - the amount outlaid on the purchase of Lottery Luck is now paraded in front of us in the form of a credit card statement. It is hard to ignore the amount - it may be small or in many cases large - and this brings me to wonder how many players will now start questioning their Lottery spend.
Certainly talk around the water unit in the office, indicates people are noticing their outlay more than ever before. In fact online lottery accounts even have a tab that can give the history of your Lottery spend, the small change is not so small an amount at the end of a year.
The competition for the player dollar is large - apart from the usual choice of Casino's where you can also be entertained with a wide array of food and or concerts and so forth - there are also the smaller market player choices - for Australia it may be the RSL Art Unions or Boystown Art Union - as well as the numerous raffles and online competitions, an ever increasing choice.
With the rise in the cost of living, more and more players are now questioning exactly where they will put their dollars when it comes to games of chance - the botton line is - everyone wants to win, and whether that win consists of a luxury house complete with watercraft and gold bullion, or a chance at a million or a couple of hundred thousand dollar lottery prize - the montly spend on the ticket will be questioned as more and more players see the exact amount in black and white on a bank statement at the end of the month.
So is Online Ticket purchase the golden grail at the end of the day for Lotteries -
food for thought !
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Update on Privatization of Holland Casino................
Manila primes for casino boom despite graft spotlight
MANILA, Philippines (December 26, 2012) – The two most richly valued
companies in the financial and consumer discretionary sectors in Southeast Asia
share two things in common - both are controlled by Filipino tycoons and both
are building casinos by the azure waters of Manila Bay.
Competition Grows For Mass. Slots Parlor Location
BOSTON, Massachusetts (December 26, 2012) -- Long before any glittering
resort casino opens its doors in Massachusetts, patrons could be pulling
handles on slot machines at a less ambitious gambling venue.
The commission appointed to oversee the state's
year-old casino law recently decided that it would award the single slots-only
license allowed under the law before it approved any of the three resort casino
licenses. While the difference in licensing may only amount to a few months, the
difference between when the facilities open could be far greater because the
more compact so-called slots parlor would be quicker and cheaper to build..
SC asked to scrap TRO on Installation of Online Lotto
Terminals in Luzon
MANILA, Philippines (December 27, 2012) -- Lottery equipment and service
provider Pacific Online Systems Corp. has asked the Supreme Court to junk a
lower court order restraining the state-owned Philippine Charity Sweepstakes
Office from installing and operating any of the former’s online lottery
Terminals in Luzon.
European Commission Publishes Action Plan On Online
Gambling:
Europe’s Lotteries Welcome Many of The New Proposals But Deplore Lack
Of Initiatives for Law Enforcement Against Illegal Operators
BRUSSELS/STRASBOURG, (December 23, 2012) -- Today, the
European Commission has adopted its Communication on online gambling. The
European Lotteries (EL), the umbrella organisation of national lotteries operating
games of chance for the public benefit, welcomes many of the initiatives in
this new ‘Action Plan’ but deplores in particular the lack of initiatives to
enforce the existing legislation against illegal operators.
EL stresses that the objective of protecting consumers, a
declared aim of the actions proposed by the European Commission, is first and
foremost met through efficient law enforcement measures to protect European
consumers from a harmful and illicit gambling offering.
https://www.european-lotteries.org/data/info_2938/23_October_2012_EL_press_release_EC_Action_Plan.pdf
Live Television Broadcast Gives New Jersey Lottery Players
Even More Ways To Watch The Winning Number Drawings.
TRENTON, New Jersey (December 26, 2012) – The New Jersey Lottery
announced that it will begin airing its live evening game draws on CBS-owned
television stations, daily, beginning Jan. 1, 2013 at 7:57 pm. The daily
drawing will air on CBS-owned stations WLNY-TV 10/55 in New York and The CW
Philly 57(WPSG-TV). Viewers are asked to check their local cable listings for
channel numbers.
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24, 2012
LOTTERY NEWS
1. Spain’s
'El Gordo' Lottery Hands Out $3.3 Billion in Prizes, Lightens Economic Gloom.
LEGAL, LEGISLATIVE, POLITICAL & GOVERNMENT
1. New
Jersey Can be Sued to Stop Sports Betting, Judge Rules.
2. Trade
Group Slams National Lottery Bill.
3. Lotto
Receivers Lose Maltco Injunction Bid.
4. William
Hill Rejects Playtech Claim on Sportingbet Deal.
5. ‘Lottery
Row’ Continuing to Evoke Anger in Neighbouring Areas.
6. Lottery
Text Message Firm Fined £250,000 by Phone Industry Authority.
7. Benefits
of Legalizing Web Shops Outweigh Those of Establishing A National Lottery –
Consultant.
8. Novomatic
to Appeal Decision to Grant Casino Licenses in Austrian Cities.
MARKETING and SPONSORSHIP
1. Colorado
Lottery Now Broadcasts Amber Alerts on Advertising Monitors Throughout State.
2. D.C.
Lottery Presents $15,000 Shopping Spree Sweepstakes Promotion!
3. Tennessee
Lottery Nabs Local Cow, Huff's for New TV Commercial.
VENDOR NEWS
1. SPIELO
International 100% Successful in Bids for Canadian VLT Replacement Cycle.
2. First
Interblock Installation in Republic of Djibouti.
3. IGT
Extends Relationship with Ladbrokes to Launch Entire Games Portfolio by IGT.
REMOTE GAMING
1. Mobile
Gaming Market to Hit US$100 Billion by 2017 – Study.
2. Gambling
Industry Predicts That Virtual Money Can Become Real.
MARKET WATCH
1. Lottomatica
Group Announce Change in Share Capital.
2. Tipp24
Buys Stake in GeoSweep.
3. Zynga
Shares Retreat as Legal Internet Casinos Move Closer to Reality.
4. Churchill
Downs, Partner Complete Purchase of Licenses and Assets for Planned Ohio
Racino.
CASINO NEWS
1. Pinnacle
to Buy Ameristar Casinos for About $869 Million.
2. Lottery
Told Extra Workers Needed to Regulate Expanded Casino.
GAMING MACHINES (VLTS)
1. OLG
Announce Tentative Lease Agreements for Slot Operations with Western Fair and
Kawartha Downs.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
1. Paddy
Power Announce Senior Management Changes.
2. Governor-elect
to Retain Hoosier Lottery Director.
