Many items like the gift cards have had a sudden massive increase in price.

A BK $25 card went from 390 to 508 for an increase of over 30 %.

Now I am not trying to trash SBR, Look its a great site and I am not complaining about free stuff.

I am just saying this move in the SBR store certainly deserves this smilie



It doesnt make sense, not to me anyway.

Every time I log on, SBR is pretty much running stupid promos that are give aways if people know what they are doing.

Like the special lines during the NBA playoffs. There was Lakers series -225 while their opponent was sitting at +260 for the series in the book.

Now what kind of serious book runs a -225/=260 " Promo " ???


Then there was that stupid 3 card poker "guaranteed free points unless your a brain dead idiot " Promo.

HMM. Lets take a 2% House advantage game and quadruple the payouts on 1 bet while only increasing the payout on the other bet by 1 %. Yeah lets do that and see if any poster has the brains to JUST PLAY THE BET THAT WAS QUADRUPLED. Lets see because if you do that, YOU CANT LOSE.
But of course, a lot of idiots kept betting 5 on top, and 10 in the middle and then wonder why they didnt win. Many posters on this board are certainly not Albert Einstein.

But anyways, my real about all this, is why give away so many points on stupid stuff, then raise the prices on some items so drastically overnight without warning ?

This punishes the best posters here( and thats not me ) , you know the ones who allow their points to accumulate. The posters who dont just run to cash out as soon as they have enough for a pizza. It punishes those like fishhead who accumulate 8000 points and in doing so give SBR a chance to win those points back.

Inflation is just another form of taxation, a means of wealth confiscation.

I think SBR gets a lot of their points back by posters aiming for a higher prize in the store instead of just getting to 150 and getting a pizza.

Like I have never bought a Pizza because when I get to 150, I want to try and get to 390 to get a BK card, then If I get there, then I try to get to 781 for a Wal Mart card, and so on, then what happens is I usually lose it trying to get to the next level. Thats good for SBR.

I am just saying, now many posters wont want to hold on to their points, and try to accumulate and use them for day to day gambling in the book.

No, now posters are going to be afraid that the item in the store they are looking at might go up 40% overnight,so when they get 150, they will just buy a Pizza because who knows, maybe that Pizza costs 250 tommorow.

This is JMO, but I am saying if you need to find ways to cut back and save money in the store maybe stop the silly casino promos that are not really promos but instead are just flat out giveaways if you have half a brain.

That would be better than punishing the posters who have accumulated a lot of points and use the point system the right way instead of just getting 150 and getting the pizza and then doing that over and over again.

Im jusy saying, there are a few posters who had 5000 + and they really lose when the store prices explode like that.

SBR is a great site, and I appreciate the things I have gottein the store, but this is my honest opinion here.