Forums

We want to share an important update with our Betfair Community users.

Over the coming months, the Betfair Community platform will be winding down. The final active day for the platform will be December 21st. From December 22nd, users will no longer be able to access the platform.

Your discussions, insights, engagement, and, most importantly, feedback have helped shape the platform and guided innovation. Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels, as well as through product testing and innovations.

To share your feedback and experience, visit: https://support.betfair.com/app/home

There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
bix
09 Jun 14 11:23
Joined:
Date Joined: 08 Dec 02
| Topic/replies: 4,058 | Blogger: bix's blog
There must have been a business reason behind it but nothing really has changed there. I think some of us were expecting it to provide some competition for BF but it hasn't happened.

Post your reply

Text Format: Table: Smilies:
Forum does not support HTML
Insert Photo
Cancel
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 9
By:
The Leopard
When: 09 Jun 14 11:28
UKIP ?
By:
Eeternaloptimist
When: 09 Jun 14 12:23
Probably at least partially in the hope that they could put a dent in exchange betting.
By:
G1_Jockey_4
When: 09 Jun 14 12:57
To get a leg in whilst betfair send a  slow stream their way
By:
thebandit
When: 09 Jun 14 19:37
Maybe so Eeternaloptimist and G1 but I can see where bix is coming from. It's as if they shouldn't have bothered really as they've made no attempt to advertise it from where I'm sitting.
By:
bix
When: 09 Jun 14 20:22
Exactly. They probably thought, rightly, that there was undeveloped potential there but have done precisely nothing to make it more attractive to users.
By:
curious-cat
When: 09 Jun 14 20:55
They don't want to promote an exchange even one that they own as they are afraid of taking trade away from their core business of taking money off gamblers.
By:
Burton-Brewers
When: 09 Jun 14 21:28
it's more reliable than these ****s
By:
screaming from beneaththewaves
When: 09 Jun 14 21:45
Ladbrokes revealed in its interim results that it has bought Chronicle, a leading on-course book maker.

The deal comes just months after Ladbrokes agreed to pay up to €43m to buy Mr Desmond's **** betting exchange.

Chronicle is owned by Justin Carthy and Mr Desmond. The company and Mr Desmond also teamed up in 2005 to launch the Sporting Emporium casino in Dublin.

Apart from its on-course betting presence, Chronicle operated a website, BetChronicle, which was closed last October.

Mr Desmond was already a sizeable shareholder in Ladbrokes prior to the sale of ****, with a 2pc stake.

- See more at: http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/desmond-cashes-in-as-ladbrokes-buys-bookies-29485384.html#sthash.2Mgr6wTd.dpuf
By:
screaming from beneaththewaves
When: 09 Jun 14 21:46
**** = Purple
sort by:
Show
per page

Post your reply

Text Format: Table: Smilies:
Forum does not support HTML
Insert Photo
Cancel
‹ back to topics
www.betfair.com