New Posts For Thread: penny betshttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29009377/penny-betsI just got matched on 15 of these bets in the space of 1 minute at 18:18BACK Sivasspor 9.2 £0.01 £0.08while my order for a larger amount sat there.I know I've been swindled out of 3p on the off chance Sivasspor do win... but is this really tNo risk penny bets, front running with £1.99 bets, trapping ....Betfair say they take a dim view of such things and come down hard on the perpetrators yet such bets are always still there. Maybe they don't like people encroaching on their territory.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29009377/penny-bets?post_id=517811825#517811825No risk penny bets, front running with £1.99 bets, trapping ....Betfair say they take a dim view of such things and come down hard on the perpetrators yet such bets are always still there. Maybe they don't like people encroaching on their territory.Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:41:36 -0500Perhaps if this money was coming out of Betfair's own pocket rather than that of their users, this problem would have been dealt with in short order...https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29009377/penny-bets?post_id=517808945#517808945Perhaps if this money was coming out of Betfair's own pocket rather than that of their users, this problem would have been dealt with in short order...Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:34:30 -0500Shirley, the guy in Ireland, probably had his account closed, which is why he was trying to flog it!https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29009377/penny-bets?post_id=517808905#517808905Shirley, the guy in Ireland, probably had his account closed, which is why he was trying to flog it!Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:33:46 -0500Haven't seen it Jesse, but seems similar, except that these guys aren't breaking the law, just the Betfair rules.Betfair should try to stop this completely somehow, not very difficult to do conceptually, but probablye expensive to implement.One way whttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29009377/penny-bets?post_id=517808873#517808873Haven't seen it Jesse, but seems similar, except that these guys aren't breaking the law, just the Betfair rules.Betfair should try to stop this completely somehow, not very difficult to do conceptually, but probablye expensive to implement.One way wThu, 22 Mar 2012 10:33:06 -0500Agreed. Somebody in Ireland was advertising the bot for sale a few years back. I thought that betfair acted fairly quickly to step on the 1p bot users.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29009377/penny-bets?post_id=517802745#517802745Agreed. Somebody in Ireland was advertising the bot for sale a few years back. I thought that betfair acted fairly quickly to step on the 1p bot users.Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:43:32 -0500Have you seen Office Space?https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29009377/penny-bets?post_id=517802567#517802567Have you seen Office Space?Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:37:15 -0500No it's not bots trying systems to small stakes, it's people systematically trying to nick pennies.I had one the other day where they matched nearly 1,000 bets like this, equivalent to stealing about £4.I'm sure a lot of the time this happens I won'https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29009377/penny-bets?post_id=517789305#517789305No it's not bots trying systems to small stakes, it's people systematically trying to nick pennies.I had one the other day where they matched nearly 1,000 bets like this, equivalent to stealing about £4.I'm sure a lot of the time this happens I won'Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:53:44 -0500Thx for the answer... sounds about right.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29009377/penny-bets?post_id=517775153#517775153Thx for the answer... sounds about right.Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:50:07 -0500Probably done by Bots trying out a new system.Thus you risk little.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29009377/penny-bets?post_id=517738887#517738887Probably done by Bots trying out a new system.Thus you risk little.Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:03:33 -0500I just got matched on 15 of these bets in the space of 1 minute at 18:18BACK Sivasspor 9.2 £0.01 £0.08while my order for a larger amount sat there.I know I've been swindled out of 3p on the off chance Sivasspor do win... but is this really thttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29009377/penny-bets?post_id=517737637#517737637I just got matched on 15 of these bets in the space of 1 minute at 18:18BACK Sivasspor 9.2 £0.01 £0.08while my order for a larger amount sat there.I know I've been swindled out of 3p on the off chance Sivasspor do win... but is this really tTue, 20 Mar 2012 13:28:25 -0500