Bimbo

Actually I was top of the class in mathematics and won an award once. My mother still has the certificate to prove it. Anyway I don't mind being proven wrong and enjoy learning new ways of thinking so if you could explain how 19 cents in the dollar off a dividend differs from 19% off, that would be great.

Isn’t 19 cents in the dollar just the same as 19 percent?

It’s only one bet per race with a measly $100 maximum plus they can cut you off from the offering if you consistently make a profit from it. if you just add these bets to your other bets while you churn through your bank it’ll work fine for both parties.

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You'll be taking prices in markets sitting around 130% and multiplying your losses over and over.

TAB NZ made up a number to suit their argument would be more like it. If they're betting with an offshore operator they would be looking for a better price or not wanted by the NZ TAB as they can't easily skin them of their money. TAB NZ already has the tipster followers and take any price punters who think that one day studying form guides and picking winners will miraculously make them a profit.

Say you try to put a bet on to make 10k profit. They can offer you a bet to make 2k profit and reject the remaining amount of your bet so the minimum possible amount you can win is supposedly guaranteed to be 2k. It isn't much. A little more than the average weekly wage and it's pathetic that you can only win a maximum of about a weeks wages.

Yeah right.

Could talk underwater with a mouthful of marbles (not a criticism).

Racing and Sports

$10 for a racebook is extortionate. When we were young and poor we just waited until after about the second race and would go and fish one out of a rubbish tin. There always seemed to be punters who had done their money quick and gone home early. You could take a hip flask of something to conserve your punting money as well, but don't take much and bet small as drinking and betting can be a recipe for disaster.

1987 Lotto and pokies came along and then in 1994 casinos.

What kind of ROI are we talking or is it just entertainment value you're referring to?

They're not looking for a new tea lady. Recruitment can get very stressful and can take up an enormous amount of time. When you do your own you can end up with people on big salaries so effectively big hourly rates doing stuff that they're not always that good at, when it would be better and cheaper to leave much of it to an expert. Don't know how expert Talent International are, but hopefully they know what they're doing.

If they get them to do all the stuff in the advertisement and do it well, then it's going to be money well spent. Way cheaper than paying contractors for all of that.