The robots in Betdack having a night off by the look of things.

its like that most days mincer, pitiful place no doubt

liquidity is dire everywhere in last 3f

This isnt the last 3f roida, this is pre race.

Jun 3, 2015 -- 8:58PM, roida wrote:

liquidity is dire everywhere in last 3f

Must be bait..........................
pls lord let it be bait

im about to boil

I'd have thought most people initially went there due to the 3% commission and hoped that liquidity went up. Then when L@dbrokes took them over they also set up their own exchange and went 5% but leaving Betd@q at 3%, until they also seemed to sneaky in the rise to 5% too and that's when I stopped using them and came back here, as well as using a couple of other sites with 2% and 1%.

Betd@q then phoned me saying I'd not used them for a while and any reason, so told them about the commission and they put me back to 3% on agreeing to start using them again, as well as offered me 25% refund on any trading losses if I downloaded some of the third part software they are promoting.

its something i cant get my head around when the pc was introduced how there wasnt a mass exodus..still puzzles me

The purple place is ok if you bet just before the off, you will also struggle to get 100 quid on one on here in the morning (the glory days have long gone). You stick it up and a magic £2 jumps in front most of the time, you cancel and so does the £2. They are both poor early doors.

Ima - pretty sure the LADS exchange IS the purple one. It certainly was at the start as everything was exactly the same prices and liquidity, it was just running under the lads name. That may have changed but even they are not stupid enough to split one that isn't that great into 2 even worse ones (maybe they have though).

When the purple place was bought by lads they could have started something very good, loads of incentives to get people across, low comms, seeding markets, no PC etc etc. It is ran by idiots - par for the course when it comes to exchanges though.

Went to put a corners bet on the Cup Final last Sat at Bdq.
10mins before kick off not a single penny matched and stupid back and lay odds.
Even the match odds had a pitiful amount matched

bet daq is awful since they stuck comm up to 5%. no incentive for anyone to use the site any more. i don't bother with them now.

I expect former Betquaq owner Dermot Desmond still cannot believe his good fortune that Ladcrokes (2% of whose shares were at that time owned by Desmond) gave him 15 million euros in cash and 18.6 million euros in further Ladcrooks shares to take the loss-making business off his hands.

I mainly meant the racing markets. The football match markets will usually only get matched when the price is shorter than on here (obviously by a bot). I put a chunk up to bet barca for this Saturday last week on there, at the same price to back as it was to lay on here. 2 days later and still not a penny matched - it then all got taken when it drifted 2 ticks on here!

And you get plenty on here saying just bet on the exchanges as you don't need the books....

Magic....your 07:43 post is bang on.

I went over to purple due to the lower rate of comms.....mine as since been put back up....i emailed them stating i would most likely leave as the only draw of coming over to them was the lower rate.....didn't even get a reply.

The £2 thing is biblically annoying at times

For straight betting on football (not trading) think Matchbook is a better rival.  The commission is a bit odd though with losing bets paying as well as winners http://www.sportspreadsheet.com/matchbook.html

prices are usually the same minus 1-2 ticks depending on the odds.

the money may not be visable in the market , but if you put your bet up a tick or 2 below here , it will get matched , horse racing , a few minutes before the off

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for purple

@roida

"its something i cant get my head around when the pc was introduced how there wasnt a mass exodus..still puzzles me "

Easy enough.  PC payers are winners.  If you take a mass exodus of winners to Purple, who are they going to win from?  The thing any exchange has to worry about is a mass exodus of its losers, as the winners will follow them wherever they go.

A hell of a lot of losers have gone. Years ago you could easily get a couple of hundred on something at 10/1 the night before, it's now possible to crash a price from 10 to 6/1 for £200 - and the books follow suit without taking a bean on it.

Jun 4, 2015 -- 3:17PM, longbridge wrote:

@roida"its something i cant get my head around when the pc was introduced how there wasnt a mass exodus..still puzzles me "Easy enough.  PC payers are winners.  If you take a mass exodus of winners to Purple, who are they going to win from?  The thing any exchange has to worry about is a mass exodus of its losers, as the winners will follow them wherever they go.

Exactly.

Wot happens when Boyles pick up laddies irish estate for a snip?

longbridge - The thing any exchange has to worry about is a mass exodus of its losers, as the winners will follow them wherever they go.   

reminded me of the Eric Cantona quote - "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea...."