Betfair £200 Refund

I didn't get the e-mail either. A free £200 bet would be lurvly.
But hey, I've got a score to be earned on the betfair treasure chest due out in 6 months probably.
Whoop de do

Only the crap ones here.

There is a part in "My Account" "My Profile", a setting to receive info on offers/promotions. If you have that set at "yes" then I'd be interested to find out what they say.

Mines is set at no by the way, so I haven't heard anything about it.

they asked me to do questionairre that would take ages..if you did this you went into a draw for a poxy £25
i didnt bother.

It's in that cloud thing next to current bets at the top of the screen.

Mine is set on "Yes" and I have not heard anything. Betfair, hello?

I think the last offer I got was that I only had to bet another £13k before the end of the month to receive a £200 TV.

(I didn't bother)

I had that outpost, I was about 8k off an ipod.

mine is on yes too but i haven't heard either.

I didn't get an email either, but it's in my cloud thing.

I had to lose a couple of grand before i reached my target last time too, but i pushed myself hard and managed to lose it in time phew!!!

Yes Brother Mouzone, it's in that "bubble" thing on my friends Betfair screen, but it sure as 'eck isn't on mine.
Consider yourself one of the "chosen ones", dude, and enjoy the windfall with my best wishes.

I thought that "cloud thing" was a droopy bosom..

The big problem with a lot of the offers is that you have to "OPT IN". Many times you may in fact have qualified for something but you did not know.

The sooner everyone who participates is automatically OPTED IN the better.

I think the more you use your account the less offers you'll get. I had a couple of weekend footy betting mates getting free bets this winter and I was betting daily and got feck all, I've mostly been using the daq lately and voila.

which kempton meet does it refer to?

However Trusty, it would be "nice" to be offered the opportunity to opt-in.
For me there is no invite whatsoever in this instance. Nothing, nada.
I'm not happy.

This is a genuinely good offer, and I'm excluded from it.

I don't care if the Betfair police are reading this ...............
Anyone fortunate enough to have been invited -- just chose option B; pick 4/1, 5/1 etc selections on a race-by-race basis; lay 'em at a close match on ****/Smarkets; stop at a loser or when you reach £200 worth of losers if your float allows; go and collect £200 from nasty Mr Betfair.

Betduck, that is.
(censorship on here, ffs.).

this offer came up on my screen for few mins yesterday, and afterwards thought it had gone couldnt find the offer anywhere, until i read on here about the cloud         , anyway thanks ive pressed the cloud and its there along with a chance of free tickets to the euros

They've taken your cloud watchit but I suppose you do get answers to your emails after ten minutes, it's still no good tho if it's a question you need answering immediately.

i got it and layed the favourite in the first at 4/7. ive done 2k in commission this year fwiw

next to my account/ current bets just above where your balance is. little cloud like shape, didnt know what it was myself till read this thread, if youres not there give them a ring, maybe you havent asked for offers on my profile

I got it - but i have been having a dreadful run for the last 6 months so that could explain it. I also started a thread about it yesterday.

May 22, 2012 -- 3:41PM, minardi wrote:

I got it - but i have been having a dreadful run for the last 6 months so that could explain it. I also started a thread about it yesterday.

coincidentally, the last time they gave me a similar offer it was at a time when I hadn't bet on here for about two months.

lucylucky id make sure you put a qualifing bet of 20 quid on a win bet as well i think if you leave it with a lay only bet they might not pay back your 200 quid. if im reading it right :)

lucylucky id make sure you put a qualifing bet of 20 quid on a win bet as well i think if you leave it with a lay only bet they might not pay back your 200 quid. if im reading it right :)

definitely back or lay, says stake on a back bet or liability on a lay bet in t&c's .

hope so, ive layed fav in the first for £350

I got an email from them today. All i can say is BAD BETFAIR...VERY BAD BETFAIR...I Excluded myself a year ago or whenever they started from the games or arcade on Betfair not because i have a problem but because i can't be giving FOBT's a hard time on the forum and then playing similar on here. But i banned myself from it for that very reason. Suppose i did have a serious problem with gambling on the arcade games and i did ask to be excluded because of a problem i would expect Betfair to help me or even ask me once a year if i was ok with the exclusion that i can have it lifted anytime but no that's not what i got, this is what i got.

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Thanks for pointing this out, never knew what the cloud thing was for. Had already backed Lucifers Shadow for £250 in the 9.00 so happy to take up their offer.

Never been so gutted to have won hear, I should off been positive and gone for the 10% bonus

I can't see any cloud symbol. Is it something to lure people onto the beta site?

all i can say is, the way things are going so far...glad i went for option B

panics now for 3 days, hoping they refund

Have you read anywhere when they put the refunds through, good job went for option B

within 72 hours I read on here

Thanks John

well annoying thing is - walked away from Kempton money intact but lost £120 at towcester .... grrrr I hate that track

Horse Racing     Showing 1 - 20 of 25 markets
Market     Start time     Settled date     Profit/loss (£)
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 21:00     22-May-12 21:06     -21.21
Horse Racing / Towc 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 20:45     22-May-12 20:50     -20.23
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 20:30     22-May-12 20:38     78.36
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : 7f Hcap     22-May-12 20:30     22-May-12 20:37     4.77
Horse Racing / Towc 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 20:15     22-May-12 20:21     22.59
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 20:00     22-May-12 20:08     148.30
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : 1m4f Hcap     22-May-12 20:00     22-May-12 20:07     312.90
Horse Racing / Towc 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 19:45     22-May-12 19:53     89.52
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 19:30     22-May-12 19:35     -100.51
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : 2m Hcap     22-May-12 19:30     22-May-12 19:34     0.00
Horse Racing / Towc 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 19:15     22-May-12 19:24     -14.83
Horse Racing / Towc 22nd May : 3m Hcap Chs     22-May-12 19:15     22-May-12 19:23     0.00
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 19:00     22-May-12 19:06     200.34
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : 6f Mdn Stks     22-May-12 19:00     22-May-12 19:05     0.00
Horse Racing / Towc 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 18:45     22-May-12 18:53     -110.00
Horse Racing / Towc 22nd May : 2m3f Mdn Hrd     22-May-12 18:45     22-May-12 18:51     -15.00
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 18:30     22-May-12 18:32     -95.00
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : 5f Hcap     22-May-12 18:30     22-May-12 18:32     -28.00
Horse Racing / Towc 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 18:15     22-May-12 18:20     -2.00
Horse Racing / Kemp 22nd May : To Be Placed     22-May-12 18:00     22-May-12 18:04     -179.23
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went for option A when is the bonus settled?

Shud end up 73.20 back mayb punters who dont usually bet £100 in a race didnt recieve the offer as the rule was u had to stake at least 100 in the race to be eligle.

icebreaker, the liquidity is not there on other exchanges to do that more than once... You are not going to be able to get   a matched 2500-500 lay on in one go and get the same price on bf on a Tues. night AW meet.

The offer is a good one for bf and for genuine liquidity providers / opinion players in that it is difficult to arb.

I am paying bf (a low) tens of thousands a year in commission. It's right they invite me to their offer. And I'm pleased that they didn't invite everyone--the bookie needs to win off losing punters or when you win, you don't get paid out!

if they had invited everyone then they would have made lots more commission.

And given back lots more 200GBP parcels. The comm. wdn't cancel this out.

Quote Askari:
"icebreaker, the liquidity is not there on other exchanges to do that more than once... You are not going to be able to get   a matched 2500-500 lay on in one go and get the same price on bf on a Tues. night AW meet."

Fair enough, Askari,
But I was thinking more along the lines of drip-feeding £50 bets on a race ( I did say "on a race-by-race basis").
The thing is, I would have probably punted it straight; it's just I was feeling angry at being excluded when I suggested  the arbing angle in my second post.

And I do accept that you were justified in receiving the invite considering the significant commission Betfair have trousered from you over the years. I'm not begrudging anyone who got the offer; best o' luck to everyone is my default position. It's just that I'm quite annoyed that I didn't get it, and if there is an arbitrary selection process by Betfair, then, I would like to know what it is. I've been a customer of this place for 9 years -- punting every single solitary day; I've answered every bloody questionaire they requested from me; and I've donated a fair amount in commission too. Yet, when a decent offer/promotion like this one comes around, I get the cold shoulder.
Not to happy about it at all.

nickel and dime

You tell em ice!!

Already done so, Gigilo !
I spun off an email to 'em around 8 hours ago, raising hell about it.
(Yet to receive any reply or even an acknowledgement, tho').

form a union m8

icebreaker--eight years and betting every single day and you didn't get the offer?

If you had hit the winner of the second race at 8-1 for 50 quid you'd have been 400 down and wd need to have lost 600, wh/ still wd have meant you needed to avoid every other winner. At those kinds of betsizes you wd also be giving up 20 quid per race even if beating the spread.

I've lost money this yr on bf so may have qualified on that basis.

I don't need the exchanges to win (in fact, they're actually the last thing I need) but use them too heavily as a smoothing mechanism. The advice I'd give to anyone starting out is to have some way of keeping yr accounts going e.g. through cultivating relationships w/ losers or placers b/f you start and to learn to win w/out any reference to trading or the prices on here at all.

What did you get out on wily fox 7.6 for moiwent even lower!!And west leake!!

"If you had hit the winner of the second race at 8-1 for 50 quid you'd have been 400 down and wd need to have lost 600, wh/ still wd have meant you needed to avoid every other winner. At those kinds of betsizes you wd also be giving up 20 quid per race even if beating the spread."


Askari, in truth I wouldn't have the float at Purple or Smarkets to cover that methodology.
But -- and I'm being genuinely upfront and honest with you here -- what I was going to do was choose Option B and bet £200 on the 2/1 fav in the third race ( the Maiden Auction). That was while I was still hoping that Betfair would relent after they received my email and grant me a last-minute bit at the offer. It was not to be of course.
Then I would have layed the horse at the other exchanges.
I would have been up approx £190 after commissions, as it turned out.

Giggsy, The Wily Fox proved to be a sweet little earner for me.
Backed it with Victor at 14's; Layed it on here at 8.2
I missed the Boyles 16/1 about West Leak, so backed it on here at 15.0. Got out all-green at
11.5 ( after the reduction factor of 7.3% for n/r Spitfire).

Nuffing in the fens

I sent off an email to betfair yesterday asking if I qualified for this promotion and received an answer this morning (too late) telling me that I wasn't eligible for this promotion but there were lots of other promotions that were open to everybody.

anyone received any refunds yet ?

not yet,

Quote Outpost:-
"I sent off an email to betfair yesterday asking if I qualified for this promotion and received an answer this morning (too late) telling me that I wasn't eligible for this promotion but there were lots of other promotions that were open to everybody."
Charming, innit !
I sent off an email yesterday also.
The reply this morning contained a link to last night's Kempton promotion. Yeah, fat lot of good that is. Talk about rubbing salt in the wound.

No refund here either

Says it can take up to 72 hrs

no refund here either, but they did say 72 hours, but seriously why some were eligible and others not, doesnt seem fair at all. ,

Ha, just got mine so shouldn't be too long for you guys.  Thanks Betfair.

Settled , 15.17 .  Thanks B/F .

yes just under £200 refund, thanks betfair

settled , thanks betfair

me too - great offer

just had message off betfair for selected customers only
bet on 7 races(haydock and goodwood) min £20 a race and get 10% bonus
on your winnings.only allowed £200,will have to win £2000

what a great offer

£200 refund now on account, thanks Betfair, much appreciated.

Quote Elisjohn:-
"but seriously why some were eligible and others not, doesnt seem fair at all."

Aye, it's grossly unfair !
FWIW, I believe these style of promotions -- where some people get invited and others are excluded -- are quite self-defeating. Okay, the chosen few are pleased,obviously, but you risk alienating that other segment that has been excluded. I've never understood it as a marketing ploy, and I never will. What's the advantage of giving half your customer base the hump ?

TBH, I'm a bit tee'd off at my treatment by Betfair in this particuar instance, and I'm seriously considering if I should migrate all my business over to Purple/Smarkets.

just had message off betfair for selected customers only
bet on 7 races(haydock and goodwood) min £20 a race and get 10% bonus
on your winnings.only allowed £200,will have to win £2000

what a great offer



yes, i got that poxy offer as well.

And have to place the bets via mobile too !
Yes, I got that crap offer also.
Crap offers is all I seem to have ever received since I joined this place many moons ago.

Ellis,ive got the same as you,bit of a random one isnt it.

Anyone ever placed a bet via mobile ?  If its just talking to someone at Betfair I could do that , but you need a specific reference for that activity , and I think its a minimum bet of " £50 " .  Otherwise its using a different type of phone with internet connectivity , and as I am not familiar with that sort of thing , dont think I will be betting that way tomorrow .

Is this "mobile" concentration anything to do with fostering addiction / availability ?

neither am i kelly, there is all sort of offers in r post these days betting via mobile, apps,android, havent a clue personally whats an app/android

i wouldn't be bragging if i got £200 back.
it means you're a losers you mugs

you're losers

Tambhoy, clearly you don't "get it"
The fella's who got the £200 refund employed a calculated strategy to ensure they lost ............. ON HERE.
If they are "losers" and "mugs", I'm not sure what term could be used to define you.
( Out of interest, 't'would be interesting to know your own profit/loss on that particular Kempton card? If by some unlikely chance you won, then you have diddled yerself out of £200).