I see that Real Madrid have just announced their new shirt sponsor, Emirates have paid £26m for a five season deal. A massive reduction on the £19.7m a season they've been getting from Bwin. We'll probably have the worst paid sponsorship deal in the Premier League next season, it's unusual for anyone to sponsor a Premier League club for less than £1m a year.
no offence to people that visit bookmakers . . . but isnt that a similar demographic equally found at the local Bookies ?
No. I'd place a bet(most people bet online nowadays anyway), but I'd never walk into a Cash Converters. The fact that nobody cared about Totesport being our sponsor, yet almost everyone hates having Cash Converters as our sponsor, should tell you everything you need to know about demographic, perception, association and any other angle you want to look at it from(not forgetting the fall in shirt sales).
im in town tomorrowill pop in CC then ill take a look at the folk in the bookies and ill see if there is a marked difference , because all we are doing is judging on the stereotype , im pretty confident that they will possibly be very similar - infact i may inadvertently follow someone from CC selling "their" DVDs to William Hill where they place a bet :/
I used to work in a bookies,and what with the use of forged notes,the various ways customers would try to fraudulently deceive staff,not to mention the robberies and money launderers(SOCA anyone?),I would say there's equal if not more of the more unsavoury elements of today's society inhabiting your local branch of William Hill's than in Cash Converters.... That said,it's hardly a glamour sponsor,and although their sponsorship doesn't bother me personally,I can see why some fans are up in arms about them.
There's not really any need, you're happy with us being sponsored by a company that convert stolen goods into cash and most of us are not. That won't change, whoever you see in the bookies. They say you get the politicians you deserve, the same is obviously true of shirt sponsors.
To be honest, you could have issues with the ethics of ANY company. Personally, I don't care who sponsors our shirt, because it's only a shirt sponsor.
Come on OLM, you can't say that CC simply peddle stolen goods. If you said that you could also say that everyone who uses a bookies gambles all of their pay packet away on pay day leaving their family destitute all month. Both statements are inaccurate. If the figures you quote for the sponsorship are accurate then that is indeed a ****ty deal, but the fact it is CC is no reason in itself to seek to get out of it. The last season's shirt is the first one in years that I havent bought for myself. But that was down to the ****ty design rather than the name of the sponsor.
I made have made a slightly sweeping generalisation there, but there is no doubting that Cash Converters have a very negative image and a very poor reputation. Ironically, the OFT have today slammed payday loan companies and threatened to close some of them down, sighting examples like this... Cash Converters ... a young 'care worker' taking home £1,000 a month said she needed a loan to pay her £800-a-month rent after her boyfriend walked out. She was told she could have the cash even though repayments would mean she was left with £4 a day to live on. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...e-Brits-so-they-can-GAMBLE.html#ixzz2Ur3wyunB They also pay **** money for goods, as they're buying them from people who are so desperate to raise some cash immediately, that they can't afford to wait to sell goods for a decent price... PAWNBROKER-style store Cash Converters pays sellers as little as a QUARTER of what goods are worth, a Sun probe found. And the firm — which is enjoying a boom as hard-up families bring in unwanted Christmas presents to pay off their festive debts — sells the items for up to FIVE TIMES its offer price. Customers selling goods can buy them back within 28 days if they pay 30 per cent on top. The formula has helped Cash Converters grow in the downturn. It now has 204 UK stores — up from 115 in 2006. And last year’s profits rose 24 per cent to £26million. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...nverters-measly-valuations.html#ixzz2Ur6B5bRN I think it's perfectly reasonable not to want to promote, or be associated with, a company who's business is fleecing the most vulnerable in society. Fortunately, I think the managing director of Hull City thinks exactly the same and as a consequence, we will have a new kit sponsor next season.
Really? That's totally at odds with what we've been led to believe on these forums in recent discussions about this. I hope its either Siemens or Allam Marine tbh if we are changing it.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear, I meant this coming season will be the last for Cash Converters. If there was anything we could have done about it, last season would have been there last, but it seems there was nothing we could do about it.
In theory, but it's unlikely we'd actively go out looking for someone to buy them out, it wouldn't look very good.
I wouldn't expect what I believe to be a wealthy businessman like Lambrettaman to want to go into a Cash Converters in any place. Bookies on the high street seem to exist for the purpose of the roulette machines now and I can't see that being any more morally supportable than Cash Converters. The sponsors not ideal, we all want a better one but lets not pretend they are any worse than a high street bookie with its fixed terminal machines.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/27/roulette-machines-crack-cocaine-gambling Don't get me wrong, I like to bet myself but this is an interesting article.
