Exhange back on front page!

No it's not.  Just deleted cookies and sent str8 to the Sportsbook.

But there's two tabs right next to each other now in same size? Or are you on a different version?

Two tabs yes, but defaults to sportsbook so not a lot different to before tbh

ok, maybe bit overstated as I went straight to exchange, but still a vast improvement in design.

yes much better. equal sized buttons for exchange and sportsbook

Just deleted cookies and now I'm back to the old format, where's the tabs gone??

I deleted cookies and there's no change.  Just a tiny tab at the top left which makes sense to only the current customers.

There should be a splash screen with options for new customers "Do you want the best odds, or worse odds and be banned from betting if you win."
Then buttons "Exchange / Sportsbook."

TP - there was a new front page a while back, really! Desperate munters post backs that up, but it seems to have gone??

yes i had it few hrs ago, gone now

Stu, I believe you.  Let's hope it's a sign they've seen the error of their ways.

HI! From my laptop I see new bf page. Sportsbo next to Exchange-not seperate. Accesing from my PC though i see the old version. How about you? I deleted cookies. Didnt help.

Everyone now getting the new page? Exchange given almost equal footing in the tabs options.

One question though - no forum in the new front page??

"Exhange back on front page"
I got a copy of the sun and couldn't believe it, the guy behind the new Exchange website and the guy behind the new sportsbook domination strategy were on Page 3! Then I did a double take and realised it was just another pair of

I deleted all Chrome history a while ago, now every day I get taken straight to the exchange  and even better the old version. No more sportsbook, no more "new site", it's wonderful!

This is great for me because I was always taken to the sportsbook before, then the new site, which pissed me off every day for months on end.

Um, this doesn't happen to me. If you delete cookies on IE then you go to the sportsbook with the exchange link in the top corner.

I don't think you chaps are seeing what a new customer is seeing.

Delete all cookies (not just history). Type in www.betfair.com and you go to the sportsbook.

Or try a different type of browser from your normal one, that's not been on BF before.

I'm getting the new front page mostly now, but variable...still the question of how no forum link on the new page though?

Personally, I couldn't care less about the forum.

What's interesting is this: www.betfairex.com  Is this the future site for the exchange?

3,815 posts and you couldn't care?

I can’t understand why betfair  push the sports book so much?  The only people that use it are the exchange members who can’t be bothered to go elsewhere or have no other accounts. betfairs sports book odds are that poor and are unlikely to attract any new customers.

Yep, kind of been my view for some time, but oddly them seemed intent on entering a market already flooded with competition, when they had a ready made (exchange) market all to themselves.

most people who use betfair probably use betfair cos theyre fed up with bookies voiding bets, limiting your bets to 50p or closing your account. betfair then turning round and becoming a bookie themselves is a bit like linda mccartney bringing out a range of real meat pies. ie utterly bonkers.

So you would think that in order to grow their, sportsbook they first need to maintain and grow the exchange first.

"I can’t understand why betfair  push the sports book so much?"
Nobody can. Its like Caterpillar or JCB who are making a tidy profit in their niche market deciding one day they want to compete with Honda Ford Renault Nissan Peugot Fiat etc in the already very crowded small family car markets, and throwing their main business down the toilet.

Nuts.

one straw in the wind - BF's bloke on Talksport used to bend over backwards not to mention the exchange. today he's mentioned it twice, including pointing out the 3 figure price villa touched on the exchange in play.

Betfair starting up a sportsbook makes a lot of sense, it's their execution which has been abysmal.