Bye bye Blue Square...

No loss. They weren't useful in the slightest.

Press Release
Betfair acquires customer database of Blue Square
02/04/2013

Betfair Group plc ("Betfair") today announces that it has acquired certain assets, including the customer database, of online bookmaker Blue Square Bet for £5m.

From today, all Blue Square customers will be automatically redirected to Betfair where they can access a full suite of sports betting and gaming products and receive a promotional welcome offer.

The acquisition is consistent with Betfair’s strategy of focusing on regulated markets and growing its sportsbook and gaming operations alongside the exchange.

For further information, please contact:

James Midmer
Betfair Corporate Communications
Tel: +44 20 8834 6843
Mob: +44 (0)7801 133 510

So they've "purchased" the customers.

Fkin fantastic...

My Betfair balance has disappeared, and I'm left with the few quid that I had in Blue Square..

Can't theses fkin muppets get anything right ?

Thanks to this takeover, how long will it now take before I receive an abusive email from Betfair, accusing me of opening a second account in violation of their terms & conditions?

Great - anybody know where you can see any open bets you may have had?

my new account violates t's & c's, and bluesq balance not transferred.

Betfair won't recognise my Bluesq username/password when trying to transfer account

Trying to phone the helpline is pathetic. Been waiting for over 20 mins with no answer.

Had over £100 in Bluesq. ffs Betfair this is so annoying

My account balance for some reason was transferred to Mecca Bingo. So at least that is sorted now

im confused, arent we meant to only have 1 betfair account

great - so that'll be loads of new customers for the exchange, right?

will the newcommers be allowed on the forum ?

did bob vegas have a blue square account ?

no, not allowed on the forum

Exclusive club

Seems a little **** to take clients money from blue square and deposit it in a new betfair account.

Surely Blue Sq should have offered clients a chance to withdraw their funds first.

Card details have not been transferred over. I wonder if they will be requesting ID before allowing Blue Sq customers access to funds.

This was a bit weird.  If I was some casual who hadn't been to Betfair before I would be a bit confused

I can't even access my account as they're not accepting my birthday!  I don't have any money in the a/c as was limited to pennies but all seems an odd way of doing it.

What happens to ante post bets with Blue SQ?

qu ee r is a banned word. Really?

I wanted a second forum account to go with my second BF account but they still haven't re-enabled forum access for new users.

I guess they are hoping forum users are a dying breed, just like the exchange users.

ante post bets will be honoured by BF thought annoyingly they have not come over into "current bets"

There was a problem migrating your account to Betfair. Please call our helpdesk on 0844 871 0000.

anyone else been given a free £10 to use on the sportsbook?

Yeah got a free £10 on the sportsbook too.

my max bet on there has been about 50p for 5 years, havent logged in for at least 2 years so i wont miss them.

even if they let me bet actual money, ive no interest in using betfair fixed odds anyway. im 100% done with internet bookies and the stupid game of restricting your stakes to buttons. however much they paid to "buy" me as a customer was wasted.

strange way to do business, never known anything like it before. id imagine most accounts they bought are people who already have a betfair account or opened a blue square account years ago just to get a free bet and wont even know about this as theyve changed their email address 50 times since they last logged in!

GOOD RIDDANCE

They were atrocious and deserved to go.

Now I too have a second accnt., wh/ will no doubt be unavailable at exactly the same times the first accnt. is unavailable.

Templeton Peck 02 Apr 13 22:08
I can't even access my account as they're not accepting my birthday!  I don't have any money in the a/c as was limited to pennies but all seems an odd way of doing it.

Same here mate. Won't recognise me birth.

is there no way to simply transfer the balance from the 'new account' to the existing one ?

Thing is Coachbuster you 1st have to log in at Blue Square, 2nd confirm details (where I fall flat as it won't accept my d.o.b) and third activate your account.

Same here mate. Won't recognise me birth.

same here and they will not respond to my emails, seems very fishy to me

Blue Square

Simply the worst betting firm on the net. Bets limited to miniscule amounts and refusing to respond to emails, promising to return calls then failing to call.

Total dissatisfaction with them.

cheers bandit
- farcical stuff as always

Betfair seem hell bent on p1ssing folk off these days - dunno what's got into them ?

Greed was the 1st thing that comes to mind unfortunately Coachbuster.