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[Timbobs]

I get "not available in your location".
Google told me that they withdrew from UK/Ireland in March 2019.:

188Bet withdraws from UK and Irish markets

Online gambling operator 188Bet has ceased all operations in the UK and Ireland, citing a high level of competition across both markets.

igamingbusiness.com

Anyone in a different country or on VPN want to have a look?

March 2019

Online gambling operator 188Bet has ceased all operations in the UK and Ireland, citing a high level of competition across both markets.

Effective from today (March 26), the decision applies to all customers based in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar, as well as the Republic of Ireland.

Annatar Limited, 188Bet’s parent company, said that the move is a “commercial decision in a very competitive marketplace”. Annatar reiterated that the 188Bet brand continues to operate in other jurisdictions as normal.

“Annatar Limited is solvent and fully able to meet all its financial obligations which includes its customer funds that remain ring-fenced and safe,” Annatar said in a statement.

“We have provided advance notice of this to our regulators and we will manage the closure of our Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, Gibraltar and Ireland business and return customer funds in an orderly manner.”

188Bet is no longer accepting new customers in any of the affected markets, nor is it taking any new bets.

The operator has said that it will honour all ante post or pending bets for events occurring up to 23:59 hrs (GMT+1) on June 30, 2019, but single bets for events after this deadline will be voided and the stake returned within 48 hours.

Multiple bets with selections for events up to this date will be settled as normal, but bets with multiple selections as of the cut-off time and remaining unsettled specific selections for events after this date will see those selections voided and the bet settled within 48 hours.

Customers with any funds left in their accounts have until midnight on August 30 to login and withdraw their outstanding balance.

188Bet launched in the UK back in 2006 and went on to strike a number of high-profile sports partnerships in a bid to promote its services. These included front-of-shirt sponsorship deals with then-Premier League football club Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic.

The operator also, at one time, had lower-tier partnerships in place with Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool, as well as a shirt deal with English Super League rugby league club Wigan Warriors.

 

[Dribble]

Interview with Cheesman here.

Very interesting... No wonder the Red Mafia are shitting themselves. If this goes through, they'll lose control of the Premier League & if it's true that clubs who join a European Super League won't be able to compete domestically, this will kill off any resultant threats to join a ESL from the Red Shirts.

No wonder they're apoplectic with rage... \0/

 

[dario2739]

March 2019

Online gambling operator 188Bet has ceased all operations in the UK and Ireland, citing a high level of competition across both markets.

Effective from today (March 26), the decision applies to all customers based in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar, as well as the Republic of Ireland.

Annatar Limited, 188Bet’s parent company, said that the move is a “commercial decision in a very competitive marketplace”. Annatar reiterated that the 188Bet brand continues to operate in other jurisdictions as normal.

“Annatar Limited is solvent and fully able to meet all its financial obligations which includes its customer funds that remain ring-fenced and safe,” Annatar said in a statement.

“We have provided advance notice of this to our regulators and we will manage the closure of our Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, Gibraltar and Ireland business and return customer funds in an orderly manner.”

188Bet is no longer accepting new customers in any of the affected markets, nor is it taking any new bets.

The operator has said that it will honour all ante post or pending bets for events occurring up to 23:59 hrs (GMT+1) on June 30, 2019, but single bets for events after this deadline will be voided and the stake returned within 48 hours.

Multiple bets with selections for events up to this date will be settled as normal, but bets with multiple selections as of the cut-off time and remaining unsettled specific selections for events after this date will see those selections voided and the bet settled within 48 hours.

Customers with any funds left in their accounts have until midnight on August 30 to login and withdraw their outstanding balance.

188Bet launched in the UK back in 2006 and went on to strike a number of high-profile sports partnerships in a bid to promote its services. These included front-of-shirt sponsorship deals with then-Premier League football club Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic.

The operator also, at one time, had lower-tier partnerships in place with Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool, as well as a shirt deal with English Super League rugby league club Wigan Warriors.

Annatar - the parent company listed here was disolved in 2021 too...

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Annatar - the parent company listed here was disolved in 2021 too...

Owned by Cube Limited now, based in the Isle of Man (or was last year)

 

[NZBlue]

I get "not available in your location".
Google told me that they withdrew from UK/Ireland in March 2019.:

188Bet withdraws from UK and Irish markets

Online gambling operator 188Bet has ceased all operations in the UK and Ireland, citing a high level of competition across both markets.

igamingbusiness.com

Anyone in a different country or on VPN want to have a look?

This is what I get here in NZ

 

[Jacko1956]

March 2019

Online gambling operator 188Bet has ceased all operations in the UK and Ireland, citing a high level of competition across both markets.

Effective from today (March 26), the decision applies to all customers based in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar, as well as the Republic of Ireland.

Annatar Limited, 188Bet’s parent company, said that the move is a “commercial decision in a very competitive marketplace”. Annatar reiterated that the 188Bet brand continues to operate in other jurisdictions as normal.

“Annatar Limited is solvent and fully able to meet all its financial obligations which includes its customer funds that remain ring-fenced and safe,” Annatar said in a statement.

“We have provided advance notice of this to our regulators and we will manage the closure of our Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, Gibraltar and Ireland business and return customer funds in an orderly manner.”

188Bet is no longer accepting new customers in any of the affected markets, nor is it taking any new bets.

The operator has said that it will honour all ante post or pending bets for events occurring up to 23:59 hrs (GMT+1) on June 30, 2019, but single bets for events after this deadline will be voided and the stake returned within 48 hours.

Multiple bets with selections for events up to this date will be settled as normal, but bets with multiple selections as of the cut-off time and remaining unsettled specific selections for events after this date will see those selections voided and the bet settled within 48 hours.

Customers with any funds left in their accounts have until midnight on August 30 to login and withdraw their outstanding balance.

188Bet launched in the UK back in 2006 and went on to strike a number of high-profile sports partnerships in a bid to promote its services. These included front-of-shirt sponsorship deals with then-Premier League football club Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic.

The operator also, at one time, had lower-tier partnerships in place with Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool, as well as a shirt deal with English Super League rugby league club Wigan Warriors.

Their just operating in Asia unfortunately doesn't mean they've gone bust but seems a con to advertise in a country that your punters can't put bets on so why waste money sponsoring a club in that country ? Perhaps the scousers are under contract to do this but seems very dodgey need to see their agreement and when it began !

 

[Shirley]

I got a warning that the website is impersonating 188 and trying to steal my personal or financial information ?

 

[Shads]

Told our disclosure stuff will fill a decent sized skip.

That should keep people busy.

That’s the way I would do it. Paper them out of the case…

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I'm expecting some headlines about this over the next couple of days. Nothing new, just the press taking the heat off the rags and tent peg. Either that or Haaland to Madrid again.

 

[JGL07]

Their just operating in Asia unfortunately doesn't mean they've gone bust but seems a con to advertise in a country that your punters can't put bets on so why waste money sponsoring a club in that country ? Perhaps the scousers are under contract to do this but seems very dodgey need to see their agreement and when it began !

Chevrolet didn’t operate or sell cars in the UK but carried on sponsoring United?