Kalshi-Kunden, die auf den Tod des iranischen Ayatollah wetten, erhalten keinen der 54 Millionen US-Dollar, die sie gesetzt haben, so das Unternehmen
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kalshi-bets-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-death-b2932018.html
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They should refund all money paid, whether it’s a loss bet or not. Refund to the penny everyone, including fees.
Thieves and charlatans.
Why they take the bet then?
I’m not a gambler so I don’t understand exactly how the prediction markets are allowed to operate but if they are going to pick and choose winners afterwards they won’t have to worry about anymore customers
Kalshi has no business in death markets. When you open up the door to insider trading on murder, you open up a public market for assassinations for hire.
„The predictions market says promotion was ‘grammatically ambiguous’ and misunderstood by customers, reiterating that it ‘does not offer markets that settle on death’“
Ok, then give their money back. All of it.
Kalshi is an awful company
But we were the odds he would be 86’d at 86?
The money launderers got robbed.
Since I want everyone involved to get fucked, I don’t know how to react. On the one hand, get fucked for betting on his death and other egregious shit. On the other hand, I’m upset that Kalshi isn’t getting fucked for constantly skirting the death clause and then getting away with other egregious shit.
Too bad no government (The US) will do anything about it cause they’re just as corrupt.
I pulled my money out and deleted the app. They really fucked a lot of people. I’ll put them in the scam category now
This company should be sued out of existence
Best quote in the article.
>“This is American commercial immorality on steroids,” he said. “Once events that involve good and evil simply become a financial product, I don’t know how right and wrong matters any longer… People shouldn’t be rooting for people to die because they placed a bet.”
Reneging on a contract? I think lawyers are going to have a field day.
People are actually betting on others dying?!? What the actual hell
Everyone except Trump and his close friends of course.
On one hand, this is vile. On the other hand, so are the people being grifted here, so I have zero sympathy.
Maybe you should have thought about that before making a trading app on world events, assholes. I say they should pay.
Can’t feign ignorance or pretend to have any moral substance NOW. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Probability markets are end runs around laws protecting people from sport gambling. Especially kids
It’s so bad that draft kings and fan duel are now using them to get around state laws
Prediction Markets are a cancer
Ethics notwithstanding, anyone who bought this contract had the opportunity to read it. It clearly stated that if the Ayatollah died instead of being removed from office, the contracts would be valued and cashed based on at the time of death. From my understanding, that’s exactly what happened?
I could be wrong, but a lot of people probably didn’t read the actual contract for what they were buying.
I’m shocked that online gambling doesn’t pay out losses. Shocked.
Poor Baron. /s
TBF, anyone proposition betting on anything at this point without insider information is a complete idiot…
If YOU don’t have the insider info, YOU are the sucker.
Idiots who bet on wars get what they deserve.
They took the bets, pay the winners
They should be forced to pay out to those who won their bets. Corrupt as shit.
There are no good people in this story. We got a company pocketing money from his death and a bunch of people clamoring for payouts from it too. It’s only a matter of time until people who aren’t evil become targets of this too.
Can we place a bet on how long kalshi will last b4 they get shut the fuck down. Our society is turning into a fkin casino.
Our market has reached new depths of moral depravity. Public betting on killings is absurd in and of itself.
So they welched on a bet?
aka they got caught allowing government employees to bet on intel
Fucked up people died betting on it is immoral
Lmao this company is such a fucking sham. Every single time something like this happens that would cause them to pay out huge they come up with some legal mumbo jumbo to make it so they never have to pay out. Shit is hilarious. Imagine using this dogshit
Burn that place down then. Dont ever wager again. Who renigs on a bet?
Way to kill your business. Now customers know you are not reliable and can’t be trusted to deliver.
Incoming lawsuits in 3,2,1…
I knew a few „high roller“ bookies in a past life… Very foolish of Kalshi, especially with anything over $1M on the line…
How do we bet on Kalshi collapsing because it can’t be trusted?
That company is a fraud. Shut it down
Kalshi knows only those „in the know“ would make this bet. They’re betting 54 million smackeroos that these ‚customers‘ won’t take them to court cause they’d have to reveal themselves (working for the gov.) thus making them ineligible [insider knowledge]. It’s kinda scummy, scammy, and genius.
While Kelshi is an inheriently evil company that should be dismantled, they do not take sides in bets and only make the market.
Its also good policy to not allow bets on deaths.
It’s time Kalshi gets shutdown. They’ve pulled this shit of taking peoples bets and then changing rules and refusing to pay out more times than I can count.
They got me good a few months ago with a billboard charts bet. I never gamble but thought i discovered a sure thing. They changed the rules, resolved the market 3 days early, and I lost my money with no recourse.
Changing rules at the last minute to avoid payouts or resolving markets ahead of their slated resolution date has fucked sooo many people on that site.. but Kalshi always makes their bag.
They’re criminals fleecing their customers and getting away with it because of lax regulation.
Betting one guy dies ? Nope, cant have that.
Betting a war starts and causes thousands to die ? Yeah, no problem.