Betfair announce end of trading then delete tweet

[ec0n0mist]

I wonder if £200 is their upper limit for ''good will gestures''

During Aussie Open (tennis) I also received £200 but had to lose 5 figures to qualify! They were losses from multiple events.
But in 2018 I lost around 2k in horse racing due to an outage but received just £100.

Complaints were required both times.

In incidences, where I have lost smaller sums on outages where I haven't bothered to complain, no 'good will gestures' nor any form of an apology were offered

[NickH]

Here we go again?

[greenmark]

Impressive. Twice in a week. Amateurs!!

[NickH]

It is a shame I accepted the 200 haha. My claim would have been cristal clear by now at IBAS

[Derek27]

Impressive. Twice in a week. Amateurs!!

Don't forget what this thread is about.

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We were warned.

Perhaps next time they will replace the words "there can never be a guarantee" with "don't expect".

[brimson25]

...Definitely not on a Saturday...

[Dallas]

They posted this one last night then quickly removed in place of one saying 'Problems with our exchange and sportsbook'

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Did anyone notice if the SB was down, or did they just realise how bad that first tweet sounded?

[Kafkaesque]

They posted this one last night then quickly removed in place of one saying 'Problems with our exchange and sportsbook'

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Did anyone notice if the SB was down, or did they just realise how bad that first tweet sounded?

Didn't check myself, but others were writing in the other thread that the Sportsbook was down as well, for the first of the outages at least. Whether they got the SB up faster than the exchange, I don't know though.

[LeTiss]

They posted this one last night then quickly removed in place of one saying 'Problems with our exchange and sportsbook'

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Did anyone notice if the SB was down, or did they just realise how bad that first tweet sounded?

Yes, I saw that tweet and so went to the Betfair website. At that very moment, everything was gone, but the Sportsbook was quickly restored, whereas the exchange.............

[Kafkaesque]

You would imagine there is some sort of symbiotic relationship between the Exchange and the Sportsbook from Betfairs point of view. I (am guessing) but they surely use the Exchange the hedge off their SB liabilities and because they won the exchange they can front run the market. So what I am trying to say is that they need the exchange imo

Moved this here from the Betfair down thread to avoid any unneccesary heart attacks.

They don't need it for that. Might use it on occassion, but need no. If all of the several hundred bookies in the market place used the exchange for that, there'd be some serious liquidity.

With the overrounds they're running on 99% of their Sportsbook markets, they'd need to be seriously asleep at the wheel for it to be anything other than an automatic and huge cash cow as long they keep average joe punters coming through the proverbial door.

[Dallas]

You would imagine there is some sort of symbiotic relationship between the Exchange and the Sportsbook from Betfairs point of view. I (am guessing) but they surely use the Exchange the hedge off their SB liabilities and because they won the exchange they can front run the market. So what I am trying to say is that they need the exchange imo

Moved this here from the Betfair down thread to avoid any unneccesary heart attacks.

They don't need it for that. Might use it on occassion, but need no. If all of the several hundred bookies in the market place used the exchange for that, there'd be some serious liquidity.

With the overrounds they're running on 99% of their Sportsbook markets, they'd need to be seriously asleep at the wheel for it to be anything other than an automatic and huge cash cow as long they keep average joe punters coming through the proverbial door.

Its surprising how many on-course bookies do rely on it
https://www.racingpost.com/news/betfair ... ers/381646

[Crazyskier]

Yes, I apologise for my inaccuracy in the "tabloid" headline.

I am very sorry to have to been the first person to post in a sensationalist way on this forum.

An apology followed by sarcasm is not a sincere apology.

CS

[Kai]

Well this clickbait trolling thread did eventually lead to a half decent discussion so no real apologies needed. It does serve a purpose, without it the main outage thread would probably get spammed even more so these days.

[Atho55]

It is possible to connect the SP odds from Sky to a spreadsheet that also contains the odds from the BA Excel template making it possible to see the changes on each and how they "appear" to be in an offset or delayed synch creating what looks like a bit of predictability.

SP fractional odds can be factored to another value akin to a BSP value to act as the interface between the 2 odds types.

[Archangel]

Well this clickbait trolling thread did eventually lead to a half decent discussion so no real apologies needed. It does serve a purpose, without it the main outage thread would probably get spammed even more so these days.

Unfortunately geniune posts get removed also which is unfortunate