jayw4862:If Top Golf knew how much money they lose every single day from black market credits being sold, they'd kill the gifting and gambling. And probably limit (or closely monitor) CC tourney purses.
Unless there really is such a thing as a credit generator or some such then this can't really be true. As far as I know all credits originate at WGT; the vast majority being bought or earned and a small percentage through their own tournaments. The tournament credits are paid for in ball use so encourage more of the former. Anyone that's selling credits got them, through a rg or whatever, from someone who bought them from wgt.
There really can't be that many that earn enough credits to sell them in massive quantities and wgt have to know who they are. How hard can it be to monitor their accounts?
The gambling aspect; they make bundles from the take, 20% from RG's for example is massive, and they're not going to give it up.
jayw4862: Maybe leave the Amazon cards and add a Visa Card ...even up the cost to buy the cards to 200,000 or so.
It occurs to me that if you want to discourage black market selling this is the worst way to go about it and would only encourage more. Currently 165k credits gets you a $250 gift card, thats 660c to the $ and you'd increase this to 800c. In the pro shop you'll get 100c to the $.
I'd say the space for a black market is there because of the massive difference, if someone buys/sells credits at 250-350c to the $ that's much better for both parties and what you propose would make it even more so. What they could do to stop the black market is massively cut the price of the gift cards etc, maybe make then 75,000c or even 50,000c, and tighten the margins making the reward a lot less worth the risk.
When someone is winning credits they have come from another player directly in a rg for example (and wgt already has a 20% cut there) or indirectly through ball use in a wgt tournament. So wgt have sold them at 100c to the $ would buying them back at 200c to the $, and probably destroying the black market, really be a bad idea. I wonder how many gift cards we're talking anyway?