Maximum shop payout limits

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I wonder if any TRFers can help me. With the advent of the maximum £1m in-shop payout, does anyone know how this sum has progressed over the years? I.e. what were the maximum payouts for shops (thinking of the big companies like Hills, Laddies, Coral etc) in the 60s, 70s, 80s etc.

I did work for Stanley Leisure in the 80s and cannot remember their maximum payout (maybe £100k? – not that it was ever troubled where I worked) although I did have a fellow manager who insisted that they should raise it immediately to £1 million even back then, on the grounds that a) it would be great publicity and b) nobody would ever win it anyway!

I do remember many of the smaller shops having what now look like ridiculous maximum payout restrictions of £5k along with swingeing across-the-card and forecast-double limits.

Mike

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I’m sure I was in a Boylesports in Ireland 10-15 years ago and the max payout was less than 4 figures, £850 seems to ring a bell.

Nowadays it seems anyone who wins big, the bookies refuse to pay out citing some ridiculous rule

[darren83]

what type of rule that Homer

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I’m sure I was in a Boylesports in Ireland 10-15 years ago and the max payout was less than 4 figures, £850 seems to ring a bell.

£850 in 2004-2009? That cannot possibly be right. Largest bet I settled was for £17k and that was back in the mid 80s!

Mike

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