Betfair no longer paying greyhound levy

I find it annoying that they say i need to pay Premium Charge because i use their product and they give me a platform to make money yet they dont seem to think the same rules should apply to them with greyhound racing.
What i will say is ALL the firms with the exception of 365 welch on the online side of their levy which is unnacceptable imo and it should be made compulsary and point of consumption.

So the said firm should be Greyhound fans first choice, particularly where they match the best price available. Punters need to vote with their feet.

stow if they let us,most greyhound lads would close every other account and just keep a 365 account,chance would be a fine thing

a very good point mm

I suspect lots of people did not realise that the firms weren't paying levy on online bets. I wonder what the shop/online proportions of bets are now.

i didnt realise it stow,just assume when you see lads,joes n billies paying it was from the entire business and not just the shop estate,how that welching fkin dwarf can sleep at night i dont know given the shops they have now

Yes, don't bet with baldy!

disgusting how can they not pay when they are the only people in the whole of betting who are guaranteed to make a profit on a race whats their reasoning ?

just read stows comment ,I didnt realise firms no levy ,coz bets laid online .wtf is that about ?

Pathetic Betfair... the way they are goin it's all yours Lad Daq!

purple dont pay either

Betquack never paid anything as far as i can see but simply put because they sponsored that Premier League GOBATA where pushing they decided to turn a blind eye to it and instead constantly whinged about betfair on other forums.

awful stuff. a real chance for someone at one of the firms to use this if they have the balls

and whoever made the levy voluntary is to blame, like seriously did they think a bunch of greedy money grabbing ****s where going to put their hands in their pockets to pay something they don't have too it should mandatory if you want to be taking bets on and showing greyhound racing [shops and online]

cant be enforced pf thats when the bookies went offshore

where has pomps opening post gone?

big bruver is watching

very close family member got a job with them last jan
six months to the day got called in
"your probation is up ....
we don't quite think you are fitting in !"
not even one warning
clueless the pair of them

I find it annoying that they say i need to pay Premium Charge because i use their product and they give me a platform to make money yet they dont seem to think the same rules should apply to them with greyhound racing.

good point!

Few thoughts.

Surely its inevitable tracks will now be closing (by 2030). Logic: Cant keep 140 races a day, £100 to the winner, madness.

Lets say BF take 30K , 10 times a night twice a week on any given card.

600k taken and for the sake of the argument exactly 1% commission taken is profit (yes some people will pay PC but lets say that covers running costs)

Making 6K a week.

If a track then said look we are nearly making ends meet but not quite, we will have to close.

This place faced with the option to pay 1-2K "levy" a week or lose the profit...would they seriously let it close down?

And yes others hold responsibility to keep things going too...but surely the majority of "the money" is on here.

Dont you just get the feeling having time to reflect, possibly with a bit of a hand from antis, we are about to lose a few tracks?

Swaddle.......In the past Betfair used to hold Q and A sessions where members could submit questions online. Twice I raised this very subject with them but unfortunately nobody else bothered so they could easily ignore the points raised.