New Posts For Thread: Fixed odds betting even worse than expectedhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29133723/fixed-odds-betting-even-worse-than-expectedOn the golf you can before commission get 12 for Lee Westwood and 13 for McIlroy. Switch to fixed odds and you are offered 10 for eitherIt's not even the standard 1/2 6/4 rubbish margins, it's the worst in the industry and they don't even have the shop overheads of the likes of william hill or corals. How can you price a 2 way market 1/2 and 23/20. It's laughable.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29133723/fixed-odds-betting-even-worse-than-expected?post_id=521603227#521603227It's not even the standard 1/2 6/4 rubbish margins, it's the worst in the industry and they don't even have the shop overheads of the likes of william hill or corals. How can you price a 2 way market 1/2 and 23/20. It's laughable.Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:58:35 -0500The company have cast their net too narrowly for their traders.They've gone for the 'crap-price/arb-the-customers-or-else-discard-them' school of British fixed odds bookmaking. They shd have looked to people genuinely interested in pricing up risks fhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29133723/fixed-odds-betting-even-worse-than-expected?post_id=521599353#521599353The company have cast their net too narrowly for their traders.They've gone for the 'crap-price/arb-the-customers-or-else-discard-them' school of British fixed odds bookmaking. They shd have looked to people genuinely interested in pricing up risks fFri, 06 Jul 2012 08:19:40 -0500The company have cast their net too narrowly for their traders.They've gone for the 'crap-price/arb-the-customers-or-else-discard-them' school of British fixed odds bookmaking. They shd have looked to people genuinely interested in pricing up risks fhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29133723/fixed-odds-betting-even-worse-than-expected?post_id=521599351#521599351The company have cast their net too narrowly for their traders.They've gone for the 'crap-price/arb-the-customers-or-else-discard-them' school of British fixed odds bookmaking. They shd have looked to people genuinely interested in pricing up risks fFri, 06 Jul 2012 08:19:39 -0500wonder how they did with their standout price on Spain.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29133723/fixed-odds-betting-even-worse-than-expected?post_id=521570995#521570995wonder how they did with their standout price on Spain.Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:07:27 -0500why call it "fixed odds" anyway? What's that all about, there must be some clueless individuals behind this.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29133723/fixed-odds-betting-even-worse-than-expected?post_id=521569043#521569043why call it "fixed odds" anyway? What's that all about, there must be some clueless individuals behind this.Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:05:49 -0500Fixed odds on Williams Azarenka semi final of wimbledon. 2 sets 1.5, 3 sets 2.15That's shocking and shouldn't be allowed. Disgraceful, worse odds than ladcrooks. Can only be doing their reputation a lot of harm.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29133723/fixed-odds-betting-even-worse-than-expected?post_id=521568741#521568741Fixed odds on Williams Azarenka semi final of wimbledon. 2 sets 1.5, 3 sets 2.15That's shocking and shouldn't be allowed. Disgraceful, worse odds than ladcrooks. Can only be doing their reputation a lot of harm.Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:55:30 -0500We've got to hope for them that they're in the teething stages. Hope they pay out for you chewie.I'm interested in what they will do for horses. Will they offer early prices? Match early and PW box prices when they beat exchange prices? All my arbinghttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29133723/fixed-odds-betting-even-worse-than-expected?post_id=520082757#520082757We've got to hope for them that they're in the teething stages. Hope they pay out for you chewie.I'm interested in what they will do for horses. Will they offer early prices? Match early and PW box prices when they beat exchange prices? All my arbingSat, 26 May 2012 03:46:09 -0500Well I just got a fixed odds bet on o/u 2.5 goals in the Costa Rica v Guatemala game with score 1-1 for 1.72 when in the exchange odds it was 1.09. Bet has now won with Costa taking the lead so interested to see if they pay out or if they notify mehttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29133723/fixed-odds-betting-even-worse-than-expected?post_id=520077339#520077339Well I just got a fixed odds bet on o/u 2.5 goals in the Costa Rica v Guatemala game with score 1-1 for 1.72 when in the exchange odds it was 1.09. Bet has now won with Costa taking the lead so interested to see if they pay out or if they notify meFri, 25 May 2012 21:48:50 -0500* not seeing custom leak to a rivalhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29133723/fixed-odds-betting-even-worse-than-expected?post_id=520072751#520072751* not seeing custom leak to a rivalFri, 25 May 2012 18:04:31 -0500The mentality of the people they seem to have hired is that of standard books i.e. not substantially to lay winning customers or positive expectation bets.This doesn't work for bf, though. Customers' expectation is that when w/ bf, their bet is not thttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29133723/fixed-odds-betting-even-worse-than-expected?post_id=520072717#520072717The mentality of the people they seem to have hired is that of standard books i.e. not substantially to lay winning customers or positive expectation bets.This doesn't work for bf, though. Customers' expectation is that when w/ bf, their bet is not tFri, 25 May 2012 18:02:54 -0500