Tampa's Perspective (533 Views)
Posted by:
BitPlayer (IP Logged)
Date: March 12, 2004 08:51AM
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One way to describe the Tampa Bay Downs approach is that they've decided they can make more money by fleecing the customer themselves than by selling the right to do so to someone else.
In a similar vein, when Oaklawn announced that they had cut off some of the batch-betting rebate shops, they also publicized it as a protect-the-customer move. They mentioned, however, that they had first offered the signal to the rebate shops at a higher price. Only when the rebate shops declined to pay more did Oaklawn cut them off.