New Posts For Thread: Can people now admit that the PC was a good business move?https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30235481/can-people-now-admit-that-the-pc-was-a-good-business-moveFrom a business perspective, betfair have made lots more money.They made a good business move, like the bookies limiting accounts. To be fair to them, businesswise it was a giid move.If you sell your shares in Betfair do you have to pay double on anything over £10,000, and 40%, in tax on anything above £250,000? And if you do will this get rid of the pro's in the stockmarket who are just trying to make a living out of speculathttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30235481/can-people-now-admit-that-the-pc-was-a-good-business-move?post_id=538748355#538748355If you sell your shares in Betfair do you have to pay double on anything over £10,000, and 40%, in tax on anything above £250,000? And if you do will this get rid of the pro's in the stockmarket who are just trying to make a living out of speculatFri, 04 Apr 2014 11:41:09 -0500Looks to me as though horse racing hasn't grown much for about 7 years, long before the Premium Charge was even a sparkle in someone's eye. It seems reasonable to suggest that the exchange model has a natural saturation point on that basis. When yohttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30235481/can-people-now-admit-that-the-pc-was-a-good-business-move?post_id=538747845#538747845Looks to me as though horse racing hasn't grown much for about 7 years, long before the Premium Charge was even a sparkle in someone's eye. It seems reasonable to suggest that the exchange model has a natural saturation point on that basis. When yoFri, 04 Apr 2014 11:07:50 -0500Looks to me as though horse racing hasn't grown much for about 7 years, long before the Premium Charge was even a sparkle in someone's eye. It seems reasonable to suggest that the exchange model has a natural saturation point on that basis. When yohttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30235481/can-people-now-admit-that-the-pc-was-a-good-business-move?post_id=538743693#538743693Looks to me as though horse racing hasn't grown much for about 7 years, long before the Premium Charge was even a sparkle in someone's eye. It seems reasonable to suggest that the exchange model has a natural saturation point on that basis. When yoFri, 04 Apr 2014 08:02:27 -0500From a business perspective, betfair have made lots more money.Nice fishing.... there is a thread on the premium charge that explains why the Premium Charge is bad for Betfair. Have a read if you have a spare few hours and then come back.To summarisehttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30235481/can-people-now-admit-that-the-pc-was-a-good-business-move?post_id=538741123#538741123From a business perspective, betfair have made lots more money.Nice fishing.... there is a thread on the premium charge that explains why the Premium Charge is bad for Betfair. Have a read if you have a spare few hours and then come back.To summariseFri, 04 Apr 2014 04:17:11 -0500not sure its a great move......................BF's handle has been the same for 3 years around 50billion, so they made more money off the same volume handle, but the big one is that EBITDA was down 19% last year, yeah I suppose a fix to stop the slihttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30235481/can-people-now-admit-that-the-pc-was-a-good-business-move?post_id=538737723#538737723not sure its a great move......................BF's handle has been the same for 3 years around 50billion, so they made more money off the same volume handle, but the big one is that EBITDA was down 19% last year, yeah I suppose a fix to stop the sliThu, 03 Apr 2014 20:18:21 -0500Plenty of markets are now like ghost towns ____________isn't that what bf want ? they must be rubbing their hands that a most of the new (unwitting) green punters are now on the sportsbook it's a loss to us ,not to them they couldn't care less ifhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30235481/can-people-now-admit-that-the-pc-was-a-good-business-move?post_id=538734501#538734501Plenty of markets are now like ghost towns ____________isn't that what bf want ? they must be rubbing their hands that a most of the new (unwitting) green punters are now on the sportsbook it's a loss to us ,not to them they couldn't care less ifThu, 03 Apr 2014 16:34:28 -0500Without knowing how much is collected,it's an impossible question to answer.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30235481/can-people-now-admit-that-the-pc-was-a-good-business-move?post_id=538729877#538729877Without knowing how much is collected,it's an impossible question to answer.Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:54:13 -0500In the short term, maybe, but what it's done for the long-term remains to be seen. Plenty of markets are now like ghost towns when compared to the situation before PC was introduced. That's not to say that PC is solely to blame, but it certainly hahttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30235481/can-people-now-admit-that-the-pc-was-a-good-business-move?post_id=538722391#538722391In the short term, maybe, but what it's done for the long-term remains to be seen. Plenty of markets are now like ghost towns when compared to the situation before PC was introduced. That's not to say that PC is solely to blame, but it certainly haThu, 03 Apr 2014 02:32:38 -0500From a business perspective, betfair have made lots more money.They made a good business move, like the bookies limiting accounts. To be fair to them, businesswise it was a giid move.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30235481/can-people-now-admit-that-the-pc-was-a-good-business-move?post_id=538719927#538719927From a business perspective, betfair have made lots more money.They made a good business move, like the bookies limiting accounts. To be fair to them, businesswise it was a giid move.Wed, 02 Apr 2014 19:01:04 -0500