Racing Post Replays

Ridiculous decision by them. They have always come across as incredibly money hungry, wringing their customers for every penny they can, but this is a huge mistake in my opinion. They are hugely dropping the quality of their service to save a few quid.

I have no intention of staying on the top package and will be downgrading. I'm sure many(most?) will follow.

They either can't or won't pay the fees that RUK and ATR are asking for the pictures. Obviously I don't know the full facts but I can't help feeling they are shooting thmselves in the foot by providing their customer base with a worse service.

There's a big drop in sub prices from 'Ultimate' to 'Essential' membership (£21.67 to £12.08 a month). The only extras were the videos and some tips. I have no interest in their tips and I'm sure most won't either.

I'll happily drop to the £12.08 plan and get my vids elsewhere but I've no doubt at all that the money grabbers will rearrange the package offerings or simply increase the prices.

I was only on the essential as you can obviously get the ATR replays on their site ,I try and record the ruk replays but used the essential when I missed some or in the winter as I don't record much NH so its no use to me whatsoever now.

A truly shocking decision

Maybe I am doing something wrong but when I go to the Sportinglife results for horsereacing, it asks for me to log in to Skybet account.I do...no result videos I can see?

For those who did not get the email and/or would like to see it, here is the content.


RACE REPLAY REMOVAL

Dear x,

Following your recent telephone call with Racing Post I can confirm race replays will unfortunately be removed from Members' Club on July 31, 2015. This is because we have been unable to agree a satisfactory, long-term commercial arrangement with the rights holders following a reduction in usage of the service.

Although we wanted to keep the replays feature, a significant increase in the cost of the service and declining usage meant it was no longer commercially viable. We would have had to impose a substantial rise in your membership fee from August to retain replays and we faced the prospect of being asked to pay even more for the pictures in the future.

As one of a small group of frequent users of replays we have applied a 25% discount to your subscription, meaning you now have three months access free - effective for the three payment dates that follow removal on July 31, 2015.

We are pleased to announce that we will shortly be adding daily Signposts for members. Signposts provide you with a huge amount of valuable pointers for a day's racing and betting - everything from Hot and Cold Trainers to Training Debutants. Over the next year we will be delivering more significant enhancements to your Members' Club service through a range of great new features.

Our commitment to ensuring your membership pays for itself is unwavering and, despite the loss of archive pictures, we will continue to strive for ways to improve your Members' Club package. Racing Post invests more than anyone else in high-quality news, tipping, data and analysis so that we can provide you with the sport's best website.

I hope you will enjoy these features as they are released and would like to apologise on behalf of Racing Post for any inconvenience caused by the loss of race replays.

Yours sincerely,

James de Wesselow,
Head of Subscriptions

PS. You may be interested to know that race replays can be viewed free on bet365.com - an account with this bookmaker is required. A guide to finding replays on their site is here.

working ok here porterline

The ONLY thing worth paying for on the RP is the replays,the rest is worthless

jm You are better off doing your own analysis,taking note of someone else is just their opinion and if their opinion was any good they wouldn't be working  at The RP,they would be on here full time

There are too many races TRD - good luck with that venture. I watch every NH race! My brain cannot remember five years of races! The only reason we all pay is because time will always beat us.

ged - Yes I do pay monthly and I am an Essential member.   All of which makes the wording of the 25% reduction total bollo cks as it is written as though I paid annually.

I'm Essential Ged and have heard nothing.  I'm looking forward to my free three months.

jmdc - do you pay monthly or annually?

Annually ged.

jmdc, tom, thanks for the replies. That changes the picture then. I'll write and see what sort of an answer I get.

i did earlier ged,only paid in may...5th time in a month i've had to contact them,fed up now

my allowance is 50..that's why i don't use them much because you never know the monthly count as you go along

That figures tom - 50 per month.

I think I do TRD.