GLO to test online lotto sale next year

[webfact]

GLO to test online lotto sale next year

 

   

BANGKOK(NNT) - The Government Lottery Office (GLO) will begin to trial online lottery sales in Q1 next year. The GLO board is now determining the draw format, claiming online lotteries will help prevent overpricing and better reach target groups.

 

The GLO’s chairman Patchara Anuatasilpa says the office has considered opening an online lottery game as a trial product where the general public can purchase digital lottery tickets online starting in Q1, 2020.

 

Prizes could be drawn based on the traditional lottery’s 6 digits, 4 digits, last 3 digits, and last 2 digits, or in a new game format such as the zodiac lottery. The GLO will decide on the format to be used in the online trial within 1-2 months.

 

Subject to board approval, the online lottery will be offered on a website or an application for a period of time to test the system and determine the effects on society and related persons.

 

After the trial, information collected from the trial will be analyzed by a work committee who will decide whether the scheme should proceed. The GLO has ordered its committee to consider suitable game formats, prizes, and other conditions that will not affect society.

 

The GLO chief said an online lottery has its benefits as it can restrict the sale of lotteries to eligible persons and target groups aged 18 years or older, while the sale of each ticket will be regulated to prevent overpricing.

 

The system will be able to require buyers to be properly registered in the tax database, which will allow the GLO to allocate some revenue from lottery sales to support persons in need, such as employees registered in the social security database.

 

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[bluesofa]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Subject to board approval, the online lottery will be offered on a website or an application for a period of time to test the system and determine the effects on society and related persons.

They already know what effect it has on society - it encourages gambling.

Oh sorry I forgot, when the government are running it, it's officially referred to as 'a game of chance'.

 

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

The system will be able to require buyers to be properly registered in the tax database,

In that case I can see it being a flop. They won't sell much online with both the people who are registered in the tax database.

[dave s]

They need to be sure and employ the same people who wrote the online TM30, online TM6, online 90-day reporting, etc. That will guarantee that the system will work perfectly from day 1.

[ezzra]

53 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

They already know what effect it has on society - it encourages gambling.

Oh sorry I forgot, when the government are running it, it's officially referred to as 'a game of chance'.

 

In that case I can see it being a flop. They won't sell much online with both the people who are registered in the tax database.

Like it or not, gambling is part of society's necessary evils much like allowing people to partake in dangerous sports, smoking and drinking, almost every country around the world permit one form or another of controlled gambling and wagering it's what the people need and want and it's a good revenue earner for the government as well where some of the proceeds are put to good use...

[faraday]

I just hope Scratch Cards aren't ever introduced; used to see people in the ..ahem 'local Asian retailer' aka p*** shop, frittering money away on them, as well as buying lottery tickets.

 

Never really bought lottery tickets - waste of money, I much prefer to invest in alcohol.

[Thaiwrath]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

claiming online lotteries will help prevent overpricing and better reach target groups.

The people who buy the actual tickets from the Government (the influential middlemen) , are rich, affluent people, who buy in bulk, selling them on for an easy profit,, to people who cannot afford to buy in such quantities.

When the tickets eventually reach the not so rich street sellers, they try and charge the more than the 80 baht, in order to try and make some kind of reasonable profit, to make up for the extra costs incurred in buying their allocation from the middlemen.

The online lottery will not happen if these middlemen lose their easy slice of the cake.

[bluesofa]

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

Like it or not, gambling is part of society's necessary evils much like allowing people to partake in dangerous sports, smoking and drinking, almost every country around the world permit one form or another of controlled gambling and wagering it's what the people need and want and it's a good revenue earner for the government as well where some of the proceeds are put to good use...

I'm not against it at all. Just against the hypocrisy of gambling being illegal in law unless the government are making money out of it, then they change the definition to suit themselves.

[Assurancetourix]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The GLO’s chairman Patchara Anuatasilpa says the office has considered opening an online lottery game as a trial product where the general public can purchase digital lottery tickets online starting in Q1, 2020.

If I understand correctly, they ultimately want to replace the hundreds of thousands of national lottery sellers with machines like those that have existed for a very long time in Europe.
And so make a few hundred thousand additional unemployed people.
If it doesn't add fuel to the fire, it looks very like it.

 

I still haven't understood why Thailand refuses casinos on its soil.
The Thai not being able to play with the casino go either to Cambodia or even to Macao for the most fortunate or in clandestine casinos which are very numerous in Thailand.
There is even, in the light of the authorities, a parallel lottery which works on the same numbers as the official one.
This leads to air or land trips which would be useless if the casinos existed here.
In addition, everyone knows that the big winner is always the State.

[Assurancetourix]

15 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

The people who buy the actual tickets from the Government (the influential middlemen) , are rich, affluent people, who buy in bulk, selling them on for an easy profit,, to people who cannot afford to buy in such quantities.

I would like to know at what price they buy these tickets by the thousands ...
Tickets which must be resold at a unit price of 80 baht but which very quickly returned to 100 baht (unofficially, of course).
Anyway, when the police closely monitored ticket sellers and they had to sell them for 80 baht, almost everyone left a tip of 20 baht.

My wife would like our last daughter to be a ticket seller because no Thai employer wants to hire her because of her autoimmune disease.
And as this young woman is very active we are looking for an independent job;
She told me that to enter this "profession" you must agree to let go of 35,000 baht ...
I do not think it is to be a reseller on the street but more to be part of the intermediaries ...
But anything is possible in the country whose god is money.

[Orton Rd]

Probably the worst value lottery in the world

[madmitch]

33 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

Probably the worst value lottery in the world

Agree. But the format makes it very easy for the underground lotteeries to run on the back of the official results. And the underground lottery is lucrative for many. Thais are happy to bet on two digits, a 99/1 shot, at odds of 65/1. This leaves enough to give a guaranteed profit to the organiser and all thos that are paid off (police and local Government officials). The losers are always the poor local punters.

[mrmicbkktxl]

2 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

If I understand correctly, they ultimately want to replace the hundreds of thousands of national lottery sellers with machines like those that have existed for a very long time in Europe.
And so make a few hundred thousand additional unemployed people.
If it doesn't add fuel to the fire, it looks very like it.

 

I still haven't understood why Thailand refuses casinos on its soil.
The Thai not being able to play with the casino go either to Cambodia or even to Macao for the most fortunate or in clandestine casinos which are very numerous in Thailand.
There is even, in the light of the authorities, a parallel lottery which works on the same numbers as the official one.
This leads to air or land trips which would be useless if the casinos existed here.
In addition, everyone knows that the big winner is always the State.

You have the answer already in your question.Now only the 'fortunate' can travel to Macao or Cambodia.If there are casinos on Thai soil every Somchai will go gamble.I don't think this is a good idea

[Orton Rd]

5 hours ago, madmitch said:

Agree. But the format makes it very easy for the underground lotteeries to run on the back of the official results. And the underground lottery is lucrative for many. Thais are happy to bet on two digits, a 99/1 shot, at odds of 65/1. This leaves enough to give a guaranteed profit to the organiser and all thos that are paid off (police and local Government officials). The losers are always the poor local punters.

It's a stupidity tax

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15 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

I would like to know at what price they buy these tickets by the thousands ...
Tickets which must be resold at a unit price of 80 baht but which very quickly returned to 100 baht (unofficially, of course).
Anyway, when the police closely monitored ticket sellers and they had to sell them for 80 baht, almost everyone left a tip of 20 baht.

My wife would like our last daughter to be a ticket seller because no Thai employer wants to hire her because of her autoimmune disease.
And as this young woman is very active we are looking for an independent job;
She told me that to enter this "profession" you must agree to let go of 35,000 baht ...
I do not think it is to be a reseller on the street but more to be part of the intermediaries ...
But anything is possible in the country whose god is money.

60 Baht a ticket at GLO in Nonthaburi.

[30la]

This is good news that makes sense, after the PM in 2014 clarified that the price of tickets must be up to 80 Baht, the smart sellers have found a way to cheat, most of the tickets are sold in packages of two or more tickets for the price of 100 Baht each!
Thailand is a country that offers a law / rule for everything, but nobody respects it!
Long live the country of contradictions, today yes, tomorrow no!

[cyril sneer]

My partner plays the daily Vietnam lottery on some app that works well. Even allows you to bet just 20 baht