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Reddit on Fanatics: 'Why they didn't go with GeoComply like everyone else is beyond me'
Source. Reddit + X/Twitter public posts. Monitoring initiated March 2026. March 24 weekly research sync.
The signal. Fanatics / OpenBet sentiment is highly negative — and openly pro-GeoComply. Players report:
- Multi-week geolocation verification failures
- Customer-service dead ends
- One user discovered they couldn't even withdraw funds without passing geo
A community post put it plainly:
"Why they didn't go with GeoComply like everyone else is beyond me."
Why this matters for sales. This is a directly-quotable peer endorsement in an operator conversation. Pair with the OpenBet HopToDesk + iPhone-mirror RDP findings (May 5) for a complete narrative on Fanatics's geo posture.