Originally posted on 01/14/2013:

Quote Originally Posted by numismatist View Post
I guess I don't understand what all the fuss is about, or the rude, persnickety answers from the likes of Duff85 just because people bought a membership to something and then the rules got changed afterwards. I can understand only shipping physical merchandise to the US-OK, no problem-totally understandable. But what is the difference between shipping a gift card to Canada and shipping it to the United States? Please don't tell me it's because it costs more to ship them-its a gift card. I can use American gift cards because I am within 1 hour of the border, and I know for certain there are no laws restricting me from using them.
I am just curious. A reasonable answer would go a long way towards me renewing, since the main reason I became an SBR pro in the first place was for the betpoints. Thanks.
I can only guess, this is because SBR is having financial struggles in this anti-gambling climate in the US. My guess is that it boils down to this, in the lovely free and democratic country of USA, gambling has essentially been outlawed. SBR does not want to lose the USA posters as they are the biggest group on SBR so they have to continue giving away the non-sportsbook stuff (e.g. ipads, gift cards....etc).

Given they cannot sell the sportsbook cash to the US players, they have to force the rest of the world to generate their affiliate/rakeback revenue to make the money for SBR and cover the US SBR Store costs.

The only possible way to try and make that happen is to remove everything but the sportsbook cash for the rest of the world, less cost and hopefully more revenue.

That is my guess...