Visiting Gala Bingo website lately, I surprisingly found that no free bingo bonus is offered at the moment. In fact, I couldn’t even find the deposit bonus of £10 they used to offer. Are the recent financial troubles at Gala that bad?
Dropping their bingo bonuses is not the first sign of cuts at Gala… We’ve heard a lot of news lately about Gala Bingo closing down their land based bingo halls, the latest in Leven which is in Scotland, and we’ve also heard of Gala’s plans to sell the recently closed club in Upper Norwood, London to be used by the KICC Evangelical Church, which is upsetting quite a few of the residents in the area.
In addition, the hall recent closures have led to 300 jobs being cut as a result. These recent steps were said to be taken in order to deal with Gala Bingo’s huge debt of 2.7 billion pounds (!), and meant to free up an amount of 550 million pounds to invest in the company and avoid closing down. If their debt was not problem enough, the recent “bingo tax” planned in the UK is yet another blow for the bingo giant – the tax on profits from bingo is to be increased from 15% to 22%, scraping another 7% from their future income. All this only a year after we’ve seen them splashing big money on expensive TV ads featuring celebrity Sharon Osbourne (see bellow).
I’m not sure if this new bingo tax is to affect online bingo sites as well, but even if not – for companies who operate land based bingo halls as well this will surely be a negative effect, and Gala’s drop of the free bingo bonus might very well be the sign of that, and it’ll be interesting to see how the tax increase affects other bonuses given and the near future – you can check out the Bingo Slots blog for more updated info on online bingo.

Gala Bingo’s TV ad featuring Sharon Osbourne:

In their reasons for the adjudication, ASA explained that a complaint was received regarding an advertisement promising a bingo bonus of  “15 pounds free” & “no deposit required”, while in reality the 15 pounds are just practice money, and cannot be withdrawn, therefore are not an actual bonus. Bingo Hero in response quoted their terms and conditions, stating that the bonus and any winnings from that money cannot be withdrawn. Based on that ASA stated the advertisement is misleading and will not be able to run in it’s current form.

A little explanation on that: A lot of online bingo sites are giving a free bingo bonus where you don’t need to deposit any money – Wink Bingo gives a £15 bonus, Bingo Cafe gives £20 free and so does King Jackpot – £20 free – these are just a few examples. You will be able to withdraw your winnings in these sites – off course, under some constraints, but your winnings are real money. Bingo Hero’s bonus is actually just practice money – you can play with it to test their system, but you can’t win anything with the bonus.

You can check out this good resource about no deposit bingo bonuses for more information about free bingo offers.

Hope this was helpful,

Dianne

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Susan.

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