The subject company reports client's in (103) countries accepting bets
in (23) currencies.
Which countries and currencies are referred to?

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 12 Oct 2006 12:18 PDT

Dear jacjon,

I am doing research on this question, and I am quite certain that I
will be able to provide you an answer within the next few days. Please
be patient.

Regards,
Scriptor

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Clarification of Question by jacjon-ga on 12 Oct 2006 21:24 PDT

Thank you.
I will be patient.
Jacjon
10/13/06

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Clarification of Question by jacjon-ga on 16 Oct 2006 08:47 PDT

Hi Scriptor:
We are getting rather hard-pressed.
When may we expect completion of the project?
Many thanks
Jacjon
10/16/06

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 16 Oct 2006 13:20 PDT

I have rather unpleasant news. I have requested information from the
press department of the company owning Sportingbet.com, but they are
obviously arrogant enough not to reply at all yet. This is extremely
annoying.

I have just sent a second request to the company's press office.
Should they prove to remain uncommunicative, there will, alas, not
much else I can do since there seem to be no alternative sources of
information with details about those statements.

Regards,
Scriptor

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 16 Oct 2006 14:45 PDT

It may be of interest to note the listing at sportingbet.com of the
currencies they accept for account deposit:


British Pounds GBP
US Dollars USD 
Canadian Dollars CAD 
Hong Kong Dollars HKD 
Singapore Dollars SGD 
Swedish Krona SEK SK 
Danish Krone DKK DKr 
Euro EUR euro 
Swiss Francs CHF 
Australian Dollars AUD 
Japanese Yen JPY 



I wonder if their references to 23 currencies is outdated?  Perhaps it
harks back to the pre-Euro days, when there were many more currencies
afloat in Europe.

Just a thought...!


pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by jacjon-ga on 16 Oct 2006 16:51 PDT

Hello:
According to The London Stck Exchange, Sportingbet was launched in
1998 and welcomed by the exchange in 2001. Within their welcome they
stated that "Sportingbet was accepting wagers from 103 countries and
23 currencies."
The Euro was introduced in  1999 and launched in 2002 or one year
after Sportingbet went public.
Sportingbet could be referring to pre-Euro, I suppose.
We might as well wait for the press department to respond to your email.
According to our research, online gambling is only legal in 84
countries and NOT 103; then again, they could have been breaking the
law or blowing their exposure out of proportion?
Regards,
Jacjon
10/16/06

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Request for Question Clarification by guillermo-ga on 16 Oct 2006 17:45 PDT

Hello jacjon-ga,

Regarding your question above: "According to our research, online
gambling is only legal in 84 countries and NOT 103; then again, they
could have been breaking the law or blowing their exposure out of
proportion?"

Not necessarily: if your research refers to countries where online
gambling is explicitly legal, other countries may have no legislation
at all regarding online gambling -- a lack of legislation about a
practice doesn't make it illegal. This is suggested in keystroke-ga's
answer to your previous question:
"There are many more countries in the world in which there are no laws
governing online gambling (or even gambling, for that matter) at all."
(http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=772955 ) According to
a research I did about one year ago, that was the case in Argentina;
even if new legislation (which I didn't research to confirm) included
it amid the countries where it is legal (according to keystroke-ga's
list), it makes a good example of my statement about the difference of
it being illegal vs. not explicitely legal: "since there's absolutely
no legislation regarding online gambling in Argentina, a resident in
this country is committing no legal offense whatsoever by doing so.
Argentine law allows any person of age (21 years old or more) to
gamble in a legal casino or similar established in Argentine
territory, so in case that a judge decided to apply a territorial law
to an internet case, age should be the only restriction to consider."
(http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=554762 )

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Request for Question Clarification by guillermo-ga on 16 Oct 2006 17:49 PDT

(Sorry for a too quick posting) Bottom line: Sportingbet might be
receiving bets from more than 84 countries without infringing the law
in any of them.

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 19 Oct 2006 15:47 PDT

I must apologize; not even one of the company's departments I
contacted considered it appropriate to reply. This behaviour is
incredible and certainly not a sign of business culture.

I am very sorry for not being able to answer your question, and I hope
that one of my colleagues will do better than I did.

Regards,
Scriptor

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Clarification of Question by jacjon-ga on 21 Oct 2006 05:08 PDT

Dear Scriptor:
I believe we should continue to be patient; there is much going on in the firm!!!
Best regards and thank you.
Jacjon
10/21/06