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Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy [message #847705 is a reply to message #847699 ]	Wed, 01 October 2025 18:33

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Adam wrote on Wed, 01 October 2025 13:49

bigEfromGP wrote on Wed, 01 October 2025 13:35

Not defending them, but my understanding after reading a bit is that it costs significantly more to run now because they've gone online, they market/advertise it more, etc. Although I can see how adding an online component to this degree would be expensive, I don't know if it's so expensive that it accounts for the increase in costs they claim it does.

It is definitely possible that they have had some increased operations costs. But to think that it's 25 times higher than what it was pre-online is preposterous. It's also backwards to how almost any company tends to work.

If you have a company and you go and buy a large piece of machinery that increases your operation costs to pay for increased utilities, labour, etc. you are expecting that it will increase your output and allow you to grow revenues. We've seen that what the Oilers have done HAS dramatically grown the revenues too so that investment has done what it was expected to do.

Economy of scales suggest that while costs overall may increase, that costs per unit if you're selling way more should theoretically come down.

But if the Oilers are playing this straight, then it's costing them WAY more money to process every single entry, and their costs per unit have DOUBLED from that infrastructure investment. That doesn't make sense.

If, as Greg mentions, the Oilers are paying themselves for "image rights" well, that's clearly unrelated to the shift online other than the cost of a couple images on the website. Here's the website: https://www.nhl.com/oilers/community/5050-landing. There isn't even a photo of a player on it.

FWIW, I think there's a good chance that other teams are running some similar things with their foundations so it may not just be a Katz thing, but that doesn't really excuse the behaviour.

The entire selling point of that lottery is that the proceeds will go to charity.. everyone might accept some operational costs.. but few would have believed the percentages that are being charged.. and syphoned away from the actual charities.. doesn't align with the public's perception.. its almost fraud-like.. it shouldn't be a percentage of the lottery funds anyways.. the operational costs should be relatively flat.. regardless of the amount of money it collects.. especially since it primarily digital.. I think the Oilers should be doing an investigation on this.. maybe shop for a different management company.. these guys smell like freaking TicketMaster.. who are scum of scum.

Maybe there should be legislation whereby any charity has to divulge the percentage of the funds it collects going to the actual charity so its not a secret.. i.e. transparency

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Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: HamBlaster on Tue, 30 September 2025 09:19
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: g2k on Wed, 01 October 2025 12:19
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Adam on Wed, 01 October 2025 13:00
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Kr55 on Wed, 01 October 2025 13:33
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: bigEfromGP on Wed, 01 October 2025 13:35
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Greg on Wed, 01 October 2025 13:38
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Kr55 on Wed, 01 October 2025 21:09
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Adam on Wed, 01 October 2025 14:49
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Skookum Jim on Wed, 01 October 2025 18:33
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Adam on Wed, 01 October 2025 20:57
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Adam on Wed, 01 October 2025 17:37
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: mightyreasoner on Thu, 02 October 2025 10:58
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Rutuu on Thu, 02 October 2025 17:47
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Skookum Jim on Thu, 02 October 2025 18:48
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: CrusaderPi on Fri, 03 October 2025 10:46
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Dragon_Matt on Fri, 03 October 2025 16:35
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Adam on Fri, 03 October 2025 17:32
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Skookum Jim on Fri, 03 October 2025 19:13
Re: Katz, Win50 and the 50/50... something looks slimy	By: Adam on Sat, 04 October 2025 14:54

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