New Posts For Thread: Premium Charge has delivered the profits required for the sale / listinghttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23495054/premium-charge-has-delivered-the-profits-required-for-the-sale-listingBetfair, the online gaming exchange, has selected two investment banks to advise it on a £1.5 billion stock-market flotation.It is understood to have chosen Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to weigh up options for its future, which include a possibldlarssonf = city boy wanabee (NAP).https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23495054/premium-charge-has-delivered-the-profits-required-for-the-sale-listing?post_id=419718254#419718254dlarssonf = city boy wanabee (NAP).Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:44:15 -0600Exactly. If price competition worked perfectly why havent BF got close to 100% of the market?!!https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23495054/premium-charge-has-delivered-the-profits-required-for-the-sale-listing?post_id=419718246#419718246Exactly. If price competition worked perfectly why havent BF got close to 100% of the market?!!Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:10:49 -0600The key is the exchange with the monopoly does not abuse that position to the point where it destroys itself .https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23495054/premium-charge-has-delivered-the-profits-required-for-the-sale-listing?post_id=419718242#419718242The key is the exchange with the monopoly does not abuse that position to the point where it destroys itself .Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:10:39 -0600Liquidity is the lifeblood of an exchange , competition dilutes liquidity , so a monopoly , however undesirable , is the natural order of things.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23495054/premium-charge-has-delivered-the-profits-required-for-the-sale-listing?post_id=419718238#419718238Liquidity is the lifeblood of an exchange , competition dilutes liquidity , so a monopoly , however undesirable , is the natural order of things.Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:08:14 -0600feck change the record please , your boring irate ramblings have ruined enough threadshttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23495054/premium-charge-has-delivered-the-profits-required-for-the-sale-listing?post_id=419718234#419718234feck change the record please , your boring irate ramblings have ruined enough threadsSun, 24 Jan 2010 05:07:59 -0600No reason at all why exchanges should be a natural monopoly. Price competition should move them over to purp if only purp had a plan.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23495054/premium-charge-has-delivered-the-profits-required-for-the-sale-listing?post_id=419718230#419718230No reason at all why exchanges should be a natural monopoly. Price competition should move them over to purp if only purp had a plan.Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:05:20 -0600You just don't get it - how can** take Betfair's market share without drastically increasing an exchange's lifeblood - LOSING money. Exchanges are a natural monopoly. Get over it.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23495054/premium-charge-has-delivered-the-profits-required-for-the-sale-listing?post_id=419718226#419718226You just don't get it - how can** take Betfair's market share without drastically increasing an exchange's lifeblood - LOSING money. Exchanges are a natural monopoly. Get over it.Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:38:39 -0600PC may deliver short term profits, but if competitors like purple had any sense at all, they should have a plan to take half BFs market within the year.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23495054/premium-charge-has-delivered-the-profits-required-for-the-sale-listing?post_id=419718222#419718222PC may deliver short term profits, but if competitors like purple had any sense at all, they should have a plan to take half BFs market within the year.Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:35:34 -0600let's hope they use some of the money raised on creating a low-maintence, stable platform:^0 :^0 :^0 It will go straight into the back pockets!https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23495054/premium-charge-has-delivered-the-profits-required-for-the-sale-listing?post_id=419718214#419718214let's hope they use some of the money raised on creating a low-maintence, stable platform:^0 :^0 :^0 It will go straight into the back pockets!Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:51:33 -0600Just another step on the path from Fantasic innovation/product to oblivion via greed.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23495054/premium-charge-has-delivered-the-profits-required-for-the-sale-listing?post_id=419718210#419718210Just another step on the path from Fantasic innovation/product to oblivion via greed.Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:48:49 -0600