How are they still getting away with this for so long in this day and age, its pure gambling. They must be making a fortune from this as its going nearly a year. Its putting me off the GoLoud stations with he constant plugging of it.
Anyone know what todays amount is ?
51963.48
The prize amount earlier today was Euro 30,588.67. It was not won. Does anyone know the new prize amount?
Thanks in advance
DM
€50,832.54
you would, yeah... 🤣
and if you did, they'd ask you to react again and edit the better reaction in to the call that they actually broadcast 5 minutes later.
If I won something like that and I was on air I'd love to say I'll be spending some of it on coke and blowjobs just to hear the re action.
why wouldn’t you be spending it all on coke and BJs?!!
I've mass on Sundays so I've only 6 days a week to BLOW the money on. Seriously a friend of mine came into about 100 grand and it was gone in about 6 months on coke,hookers and gambling fuckin dope.
"I'll be spending some of it on coke and blowjobs"
and the rest you'd just squander, I suppose ..
Is today the last day of the Cash Machine? Was it won yesterday?
it was won 7 times in a row
They don’t tend to do it on bank holiday weekends
They never replied to my email asking how many people enter each day
Why would they?
To let you know even roughly what chance you have of winning. Lotto and even scratch cards give you the odds, as do most raffles you enter into. This €2.50/text with no idea of how much chance you have of winning or how much of the ‘pot’ goes towards the prize is sneaky and underhanded by the organisers.
But they’re a business. You wouldn’t email your local coffee shop asking how much coffee they sell.
What Bauer are selling is the chance to win. I’m almost certain Ryanair don’t disclose the chance of winning with their scratch cards either.
Openness and transparency is really important when it comes to something like this. If they don’t start providing more information about probability etc. I have a feeling it will become a problem in the future.
Also, the constant promotion of it must be irritating for regular listeners who have no interest in participating. The odd time I listen to Spin the presenter usually talks about it for 2 minutes after the news.
Irritating is an understatement. Don't know what it is about the cash machine but I find it to be the most annoying thing on radio.
I entered it once one day, for the craic. It was a round number, it was guaranteed to be won that day and I was going to be beside the phone all day so I said I'd give it a shot. Didn't win, heh, but that was grand and for me, that was the end of that.
However ... the minute I sent the text, this is what I got in response:
"1 entry confirmed, Unlock more entries! Reply PLAY (EUR2.50) & add 2 more entries for the price of 1! Ends 3pm" Included in this message was the option to opt out of getting the text too.
I didn't bother opting out and just ignored it. But every day until I texted STOP (which also cost me money) they would message me with the cash machine amount and prompts to text them to enter.
The cash machine is WAY MORE insidious than the lottery. I don't have a gambling addiction but it made me very sympathetic to those who do.
All true. And never mind whether or not this kind of gambling is a reasonable use of a licensed public resource.
The minister for justice is getting a lot of criticism for her focus on the hate speech bill, as opposed to dealing with other issues like garda retention and street crime. But, there are serious gambling related issues like this one, and others like "loot boxes" in online gaming targeted at children that surely deserve a higher priority.
It seems Ryanair refuses to give that info too but I don’t remember saying they were the bastion of integrity and their policy should be followed.
I do think though that with the massive reach, and constant selling of this draw, they could be more up front with it. Who hasn’t sent in one text, gotten the reply letting you know the next text gets you 2 entries, and sent it without really stopping to think.
There’s a serious and silent problem with gambling now that even the betting companies have to run ads telling you to stop when it gets too much, but I don’t see anything from Bauer media telling you to tap the brakes if you’re spending money on this every day. Quite the opposite in that they start to text you that day’s sum on the cash machine to tempt you back in. And they also charge you for those texts as the icing on top! It’s only 8c but still!
In fairness it says in their terms and conditions you’re limited to 12 entries (€30) per week
Going by what people said earlier in the thread, it doesn't cost anything to text STOP
I'm looking back on the message thread in my phone now. You are right - it's not the 2.50charge I thought it was to reply STOP. But, it's not free. It is the standard network rate though, so yeah they aren't making money off it. The free messages are the ones they send you back.
An item on problem gambling on Sean Moncrieff show last week, was a good segment. The only issue, it was shoe horned in between many mentions of the cash machine. The irony. They came back from the break after the interview and did the cash machine.
they said the 'cash machine' paid out €150000 last week.
any transparency of the amount of money they are taking in VS paying out ?
Serious volumes of money involved at this stage
They had someone on Newstalk giving out about it again during a gambling addiction segment. They seem to have no problem with people pointing that out how it's pervasive but then doing absolutely nothing about it
I would imagine they could be taking in double what they are paying out. €75000 per week. no wonder they are doing nothing about it. But without actual figures it's just a guessing game.
I only entered twice near the start of it, but used to get texted the amount every day even if I was not entered. You did not even have to listen to the radio. They were giving you the answer to get you to enter.
Suppose the Christmas cash machine will be starting soon
Getting so fed up of the cash machine. Entered it a few times at the start but now I would not bother my a**e as the chances of winning are slim to none even with the smaller amounts.
