I had no bets matched between 1643 and 1949 if that helps

It must be one of two things:

1)Betfair was still available in other countries (a possible contingency for big players?

2)The bets were matched by the multiples team.

Loads of Russians popped up in footy asking "what the feck is happening??!!" cant see it was country specific

Nothing matched between 17:04 and 19:59 for me.
I did have open bets, but I tend to bet in the direction of time decay, as I don't want to be cancelling bets all day, so that's why it wasn't very dangerous for me.

against the direction of time decay

yes a little ambiguous I agree.

I mean that if the score is 0-0 and you want to back 2-2 at 18, when you think the correct odds are 15 and then the site goes down but your bet stays up, it will become a value bet for whoever wants to lay it as the chance of 2-2 becomes more and more remote as time continues without a goal.

If instead you try to lay that same 2-2 at 14, you won't get picked off as the odds won't move against you.

i was lucky today because i had no bets when the outage started, i was on a coffee break but when i came back everything was totally screwed, but geeks toy was still alive and kicking and i made a small bet just to test, it was matched, so im not sure when the outage started but i'm sure of the time geeks stopped working because i posted on the other thread, its was...


By:
Lusitano71
When: 19 Jan 11 17:37
i can still do it through Geeks Toy


By:
Lusitano71
When: 19 Jan 11 17:44
now Geeks isnt working also Sad

The Investor     20 Jan 11 00:26 
yes a little ambiguous I agree.

I mean that if the score is 0-0 and you want to back 2-2 at 18, when you think the correct odds are 15 and then the site goes down but your bet stays up, it will become a value bet for whoever wants to lay it as the chance of 2-2 becomes more and more remote as time continues without a goal.

If instead you try to lay that same 2-2 at 14, you won't get picked off as the odds won't move against you.
__________________________

wouldn't that bet get taken fairly quickly though ? even if only a few folk are still online with i phones ?

I understand this outage mainly affected bot players ? no ? 
The worst that's ever happened with me as a manual player is not being able to trade bets at  crucial moments ,that has been costly .

I don't know which markets that was suspended( if any at all ), but the golf market was certainly not suspended as I found out I had many of my bets taken on several different times during the outage.
   I find it strange that Betfair don't suspend inplay markets during an outage and even stranger when they make an announcment after the outage saying these markets were suspended.
   I've asked for an explanation on this thread, but it doesn't look like they will give one and we all know they monitor and read this forum.

There was intermittent access to Betfair during the outage, sometimes the API was working, sometimes the website was working. Not all markets were suspended and I could see matched amounts increasing. Some people were still placing bets.

I can confirm the 6.00pm Lille-Nancy was not suspended.
when the site eventually went live at around 7.40pm, Lille were 3-0 up with just minutes to play...
and for those that logged in the quickest managed to cheerypick free money...

I don't care about my matched bets this time. That can go either way.
   What I would like though is to know why this happened and even more if we have to assume the same thing can happen in the futere.
  Come on Betfair, there must be several from your staff who have read this, can please anyone of you investigate the matter and give us an answer ?

The point here isn't that the site was down for a few hours. That will happen in the future too.   One thing that imo is not acceptable is that Betfair do not suspend inplay markets and cancel all unmatched bets like they say in the rules that they will do.
   Clearly that wasn't done this time.

By: brendanuk1 Date Joined: 12 Jan 02
Add contact | Send message When: 21 Jan 11 11:15 uptime costs money, things break and go tits up. These outages will still happen unless betfair spend money to prevent them


Not happened in ages sc

Both the website and the API went down at 13:28:28 and yet a bet was matched at 13:29:41

Got a time out on the web page, An error message stating that there were 'technical difficulties' on betfairs servers and that I should refresh my browser ( like thats going to work ).

Yet someone  still manages to match bets whilst its down for everyone else.

Surely someone must have direct access to the betfair machine if the servers have crashed and they can still place bets whilst everyone else can't.

Today I was playing Lingield when there was the 'disruption'.

I live in London.

I had bets on the race but was still monitoring for in-play possibilities.  The horse Alternative Choice moved out to 5.8/5.9 so I placed a lay at 5.4.

Since no heavy trades were in action, I was simply using the betfair platform.  The screen froze showing an offer of 5.7, 3 pts above my lay.

The race finished with my screen frozen and I assumed my lay had not been matched. 

I took a break and saw that the race was on my screen unsettled and showing the lay was matched and successful.

I brought up the graphs and saw that on several horses, including the winner, the graphs showed a steady rate of progression and liquidity/match and no sign of interruption.

It seems that the problems affecting betfair are not affecting "all aspects" of their operation. 

In general, I'm finding the regular interface/platform is like treacle these days on firefox (using a 1 second refresh). 

Too many flash billboards and garbage loading at the beginning.

Too many flash billboards and garbage loading at the beginning.

------

true. BF pages take ages to load in FF, so covering the homepage in crap is a real annoyance. especially when that stuff's plugs for the arcade/casino which are just plain evil anyway.

As the risk of tarnishing my reputation as a paid shill for BF, I have to agree with the last few words of Viva's last post.
The arcade/casino stuff is just plain evil.
Amd more to the point is apparently ruining the performance of the all-important sports betting activities.
How stupid can they be not to see or understand this vital matter.
If left unattended to, it could well be the ruination of BF, not things like the PC.

If you use firefox and hate pointless flash, I suggest the flashblocker addon. For slower computers especially, can be a real godsend, and it allows you with a simple click to see just the flash you actually want to.

I don't understand this at all. I'm from Croatia and I couldn't login until ten minutes ago, and my friend two blocks away put his bets without any problem...

But advice for further, install betangel free trial version, there are not many functions but even basic is enough... for basic :)