Marko,
You will be contacted by BF to tell you that you have now qualified to pay the wretched charge and if you continue to so successful you will be paying it from the next week.

marko69 - there is no £ limit -


once you have played in enough markets and showing a + then as long as your commission rate is less than 20% todate  - then they will PC you to get to 20%

That was exactly my point. If we want to keep going with exchange betting, we have to pay up. BF have us over a barrel because of the lack of sizeable competitors.

However, the issue has nothing to do with 'honour'. It's simply a money-grab on the part of BF - and, in the case of the £250K rule and the subsequent 40%+ charges, a very unfair money-grab.

Your a winner, pay up or jack up ........................

Don't pay it, they can't do anything apart from close your account down, and they are dying on their arse anyway.

racingstar......they said they sent it.....and it was my fault that I didn't receive it.....and they were in no way culpable.....they say it bounced back.....and that its tough Shiite......

The first one is the important email,as it gives you the choice of whether you want to bother staying with the site.
Think your grand is going to go towards the cash out ad(the one where a group of reprobates throw crisps and stuff around the sitting room and yer man coolly presses the cash out button for a paltry £62 or something like that not realising he probably would have got more if he wasn,t too lazy to lift his finger and put the lay in himself). Wasn,t that BF,s initial explanation that the PC was brought in to attract new players to the site? Not sure does the test of time puts that in a good light.
If you had some proof that the site crashing frequently has cost you big time i,m sure they might have some sympathy,suppose it is too late now regarding the Voler la Vedette case if you got caught by her.
You are in a fierce moral quandary altogether Paulie and the question now remains "Do you or don,t you?" The email is a different matter entirely.

pa lapsy.....they actually wanted to take 3k.....but there was only 2k in the account so they just gobbled that......if I had known they were coming there would have been zero in it......
I might send them the grand by post......and yed never know.....it may just bounce back to me.....like their e mail did to them....

I think its a bit late for that big boss......lets just say things got a fraction heated when I rung them last.....I'd imagine leniency is the last thing on their mind......

I think this is actually a case for the Monopolies Commission - |Betfair taking advantage of their position in the market to charge what they like. Would love to see it challenged.

^ You're alright.... living on yacht ! 

Ocean going Dear Boy... do try and keep up !   

".....they actually wanted to take 3k.....but there was only 2k in the account so they just gobbled that......if I had known they were coming there would have been zero in it......"

Clearly,in reality you would have knocked BF for the lot if you could.
No further comment is needed.

HD , you mean his form is - refused/refused/ranout ?

Very god btw !

If you believe you have a system which works and will continue to work then pay up, fifty percent of something is better than 100% of nothing.

I can win at poker (not on here) I don't want to pay the site I'm on a fee every time I play but that's life, look at it as being a business expense.

If in reality your making a profit then its not really you whose paying anything to Betfair its the losers who are paying the fee to the exchange. All you'll be doing is  putting a figure  of money in every week and taking a larger amount out.

If in contrast your pretty certain you've just had a bunch of flukey results then doing a runner becomes a viable option.

it's been confirmed on this thread from regular PC payers that you have to have crossed the 250,000 profit line before you are considered for payment of PC

pw say's he's been a loser all his life and has recently hit a purple patch - does this mean that his recent winnings have cancelled out his lifetime BF loss and put him more than 250,000 into profit?

Blazing!

Calculating Potential Charges

Each week Betfair will calculate your ‘gross profits’* made, and your ‘total charges’** generated over the lifetime of your account. The details of these calculations are explained below.

You’ll only be considered for the Premium Charge if your account is in profit and only if the total charges generated since joining Betfair are less than 20%† of your gross profits.

The vast majority of customers, and even the majority of those whose betting on Betfair is profitable since they joined, do not meet both these conditions and will not incur the Premium Charge.

While those conditions accurately describe our most successful customers, they might also apply to new customers who have only bet in a few markets, or those whose accounts are in profit because of a significant big win. To ensure that those accounts are not inadvertently charged, we’ve added two further conditions: any single win that constitutes more than 50% of lifetime gross profits will be excluded from the calculation, and customers will only be considered for the Premium Charge after they have bet in more than 250 markets.

What about with a different ip address  .