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Opened an online account over ten years ago.
Barely used it. Got a reminder there was money in the account and invited me to bet .
Placed 2 racing bets. Both won. Odds under 5/1.
No longer allowed to place racing bets at fixed prices at all. After 2 bets!
I then placed two football bets. Both at odds on. Both won.
Stakes limited to £1.30 on next football bet.
What is wrong with these companies? They pay hundreds of millions to advertise yet effectively shut you down after 4 bets. They all won but no body wins every bet.
Barely used it. Got a reminder there was money in the account and invited me to bet .
Placed 2 racing bets. Both won. Odds under 5/1.
No longer allowed to place racing bets at fixed prices at all. After 2 bets!
I then placed two football bets. Both at odds on. Both won.
Stakes limited to £1.30 on next football bet.
What is wrong with these companies? They pay hundreds of millions to advertise yet effectively shut you down after 4 bets. They all won but no body wins every bet.
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The lowest thing that happened to me is an Irish firm refusing to take a bet and then shortening the price without taking the bet.
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for information purposes it wasn't an arb or a palp. Prolly not company policy just a lazy or poor compiler trying to cover up his own incompetence.
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Wasn't even one selection. It was either 2 or 3 selections and they shortened the lot.
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Same with me. All prices were same or bigger on the exchange at the time.
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Same firm went to one of their shops..asked for 200 @ 5/2 or 2/1 and 100 @ 10/1 on 2 different selections in 2 different events. No one else was betting on them. If I'd asked for 50 @ 10/1 I'd have got both bets on but because one bet was over the limit they rang up and offered me 50 @ 5/2 or 2/1 and 30 @ 10/1. Got home and found out the 5/2 shot had withdrawn
 and they'd slashed the 10/1 shot to 6/1. |
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Both events were at a similar time. Same low life compiler imo
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That sounds specialist. Mine were confederation cup matches betting on odds shots. Surely these bets are ok to take?
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that is bizarre
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yours is obviously software related.
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if a is more than b and c is more than d and this happens two times in a row...computer says restrict
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a being stake and c being a derived price
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I don't get it! If the bookies balanced their books correctly, I wouldn't have thought it mattered what bets are taken?
With the use of the exchanges I would've thought this would always be achievable? Maybe the bookies need to employ better odds compilers! |
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bookies these days are nothing but shrinking cowards...no backbone
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hills took 200k on no for scottish referendum vote, in cash in the shop and only cut price from 1/5 to 1/6
taking 100k of the 200k at latter price despite it being the worst price ! you can just imagine tam trying to plaice his 20p rev fcast on millersfield dogs whilst the cashier was counting the 100k |
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yeah i saw that.. ''a glasgow punter with a scottish accent'' lol post ya bets mr billy
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hills wont let me have more than £20 on anything. id love to know how you get 200k on.
bookmakers dont take bets anymore, theyre a joke. i had an impossible to bet with baldfred account, maximum bet about £2. had a toootspoooort account where i was quite a big loser so could get decent bets on. when the first bought the 2nd ie in a takeover they didnt restrict my toooot account. but then when i placed a bet on my old fred account, magically within 30 seconds my tooot account was limited to buttons too. they obviously dont manage accounts personally and have a computer system that does it all. really wish id never placed that £2 bet on fred now. |
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Go racing, you will get on there.
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...or try Star*Sports. Old fashioned bookmakers.
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this is exactly the kind of stuff that should be front and centre of BF's advertising. Except of course it can't be, can it, because...
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Many of these so called Bookies arn't run by Bookies at all they are run by Accountants who go into mild seizure every time they see a minus sign !! Kenilworth has the right idea ... if you want to get on with a proper Bookmaker.
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the days of the betfair owners carrying the bookies coffin seem a long way off now
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