Purples last day

The Losers on BF (at least 98% of customers) had no incentive to go to BD as they were never going to face PC.
BF got in first and it's as simple as that

Its the classic VHS v Betamax scenario.

What's the story? Was **** losing money or did the (old) owners just want to cash out?

Why buy to shut down
easybet and matchbook......u can only join one

freddiewilliams -- I don't know why MB bought BD but the usual reasons for takeovers include:-

To gain BD customers.

To gain BD technology or other assets.

To remove a competitor from the market.

From what little I've heard, the third seems most likely, but that's a guess.

On a previous purple thread, someone mentioned that purple were losing money and I guess they had to cash their chips in. MB offer nothing for the inrunning player, their website is similar to BF's, its fine if you want to bet/lay pre race, but you couldn't be using their interface to try and bet their own bots who must hoover up anything that's the wrong price at that time.

Musta been cheap and to take on course boys business

They not takin customers. U must join and hoops to get good deposits
They're tech is p1sh
And when here goes down.....purple suffered

ribero1 13 Oct 26 14:07 
Yes and apparently it's been costing him a nice few quid to keep it going,They're also involved with RDT which provide the software and back up for over 50% of the on course bookmakers and also RBC which is the Bookmakers Admin site,Matchbook taking them over too.

From previous thread.

richgit - Purple had their own forum, lasted quite a while before they realised they couldnt police it without additional costs.

Limerick Mick,TT.

Does matchbook allow  any third party applicationsoftware

Geeks Toy for MB.

I liked Limerck Mick irons, a character and a half.

Yes

...Yep, they had a forum .....but not inhabited by quite so many as this one....I love it here.

....logging off the forum, and reverting back to the World outside of bleak realities is a bit of a downer.

Would BF have gone 2% without purple doing it first ?

Purple site was dreadful.

Riddance.

Limerick Mick still about.

TT - never used Geek toys - how would you compare it to gruss? cheers

uptheirons 21 Oct 26 11:31 
The Losers on BF (at least 98% of customers) had no incentive to go to BD as they were never going to face PC.
BF got in first and it's as simple as that


Absolutely, it's basic human nature, not just here but in all aspects of life, people moan but do nothing about it, whenever there is a downtime like on Grand National day a few years back we all moaned but as soon as it was back, so were we. Getting an organised walk out that everyone complies with is practically impossible, it's why the Glazers will only f00k off when they're good and ready.

Its OK Wicklow, ladder interface, one click betting etc, its actually free for Matchbook:

https://geekstoy.com/en/download-now-matchbook

uptheirons 21 Oct 26 11:31 
The Losers on BF (at least 98% of customers)

are ewe won of the 2%?

cheers TT, I will have a look at it later for kempton when things calm down. Always good to have another option if anything goes belly up here.

Seemed to be even more of an in-house cheat system than other exchanges (maybe just more noticeable due to lack of money on site)...

joins the other greats such as Play2Match (eurobet-coral) and sporting options...the less said about those the better...

oh and their customer service was awful...yes, worse than BF..

Some good lads worked at **** at the start they were very good at looking after you ,for two years they had a box on the rowley mile which I was lucky enough to be invited to whenever I was going ,I never understood how they couldn’t compete with betfair as this lot has never done anyone a favour,

BF were very good in the early days so I totally disagree with that..

it changed pretty rapidly when the ownership changed and plenty of people had days out on BF under it's original owners..

Trevor was fine on BD but saw the light and moved on

Brentford

Were sporting options around before betfair?

Brentford

Were sporting options around before betfair?

Still see Trevor uptheirons

pretty sure sporting options were later but would defer to others, Play 2 match were circa  1999

I haven't spoke to him for a couple of years,jimnast.
He was a "good egg" working for shysters

jimnast, Sporting Options were around roughly at the same time as betfair (november 2000) but didnt actually start up until 2002 and went bust a couple of years later.

also didn't ringfence client funds, BF honoured their accounts up to a few thousand I  think it was..

I was definitely betting on an exchange before betfair Brentford but can never remember the name but sporting options sounded familiar,which ever one it was as a layer you had to lay to lose a minimum of £200 which in hindsight is probably why it didn’t last long.

Spreadex was before betfair.

well original flutter was about, my original account was from them though different model and accepted low stakes ..early **** was a bit exclusive from memory..

purple equals stars

Guy from Sporting options used to ring me up to join dont know where he got my number from still see him at York.
Have a nice evening guys and gals.
Ronnie.

I never saw him Saturday but I spoke to someone who said he was at Ascot ,working for an American company now,he has been very lucky in his working life I mean that in a good way

Ronnie I think you will need a brolly tomorrow night if your venturing onto Montpelier.

there was a nice fella involved with coral/eurobet's P2M but it all ended in haste and the ownership model was such that plenty lost money..

Tiger

The company logo I seem to remember was orange and black ,it wasn’t flutter or spread ex

Nor is it the firm who offered 1 million if you won the fighting fifth,Christmas hurdle and champion hurdle in the same season

that was sporting, I Think..

Thanks Brentford I think your right

pretty sure I have one of their baseball caps in the loft somewhere

Yep - I can remember meeting Mr Piggott there at a BF function i was invited to  - admittedly when i used to bet decent amounts - not for a decade or two though!

Of subject are you a Brentford supporter?

Jimnast.
Stopping in Montpellier going out to a lovely taps bar Thursday evening Il Bobino top notch give it a try.

Love tapas Ronnie as the Indian I usually go to has closed I give that a go .

WBX

That’s the million pound bonus one Penzance

Which is the only horse to win the first two legs and go for the bonus at Cheltenham?.

**** didn’t give a monkies who they had in there box around a couple after the jockey who pulled a stunt at fontwell he was made very welcome

Harcibald?

Cuecard?

Neither of those two above

Tiger

Cue card went straight from novice hurdler to novice chaser

Kauto  Star?

No tiger

Looks a good menu Ronnie enjoy

? Are we talking about the million pound bonus for winning the Betfair Chase and King George VI Chase and then the Gold Cup?

Tiger

Wbx offered a million pound bonus for any horse who won the fighting fifth,Christmas hurdle and champion hurdle only one horse ever got to go for the bonus despite been no more than a decent hurdler he was sent of favourite for his failed attempt to achieve it.

The chase one was betfair I seem to think

In that case, it could have been Native Affair!!

The horse wasn’t called that tiger but you have the right one

Ooops, Go Native

Funny horse to remember native affair was an ok bumper horse for len lungo then pretty useless over hurdles

Well done tiger you redeemed yourself I didn’t have the heart to remind you kauto star never jumped a hurdle in the uk

It won a couple of bumpers I think.

When I think of the Million Pound Bonus I will just think of THE Million Pound Bonus, which will always be the chasers.

His uk debut was at Newbury in a novice chase where he was joint favourite with foreman he beat him a long way looking high class in his 2nd uk race he changed the rules of racing forever.

Understandable tiger the wbx one I think only ran for 1 or 2 years

Go Native, wouldn't of got him if I'd been guessing all night.

No Penzance not a very memorable name in the history of the champion hurdle to be fair though he did win the supreme novice hurdle it was the year sky bet first did that money back if the anti post favourite won ,can you remember the name of the horse that year ?

Does the closure mean that there will be less liquidity in Betfair markets?
Due to cross arbers on zero % commission on Daq that obv don't exist now?

I think it’s hard to be sure cuckoo unlikely the matchbook commission won’t rise and there’s must come a point when there are very few layers left but I have been saying that for at least 20 years

It would be difficult for Liquidity to get any poorer,JCM.

It’s very poor uptheirons

There’s a football match tonight  betting in play also which has had just £350 matched the team that’s winning is estudiantes who many old timers on here will remember

Jimnast.
Iremember the name 1968  winners of the 1968 intercontinental cup.
And yes i  looked it up.
Ronnie.

Ronnie they played united in the world club championships you have never seen a dirtier side I’m pretty sure for many years after the champions of Europe did not play the champions of South America ,I think eventually Liverpool played flemenco

Celtic fans may say the athletico Madrid side in the early seventies were worse

Jimnast.
I Know you are a wizzard on football trivia.here is one for you i was at wembley for the 1974 charity shield Kev and Billy got sent of the game went to pens who missed the final pen.
Ronnie.

Pretty sure the Leeds keeper David Harvey

Plenty of Scottish players in the Leeds side that day ronnie

You are correct.
May i ask will you be at Cheltenham if so hope to catch up with you..Ronnie.

Yes Ronnie travelling tomorrow morning I’m sure will bump into you both after all we are creatures of habit

Jimast.Can i ask you a favour do you know if your pal Gal will be there i have a book needs signing dont want to cart it about if he is not there.
Ronnie.

I doubt he will be there Friday but would be surprised if he wasn’t there Saturday I’ve just texted him so I’ll hopefully get you a definite answer ronnie

Jimnast.
Thanks for taking time to help me out.
Ronnie.

Absolutely no problem ronnie

I am sorry that daq has gone.
The customer service was good and never took long to get any problem resolved.

Was given a £1,000 month deposit limit after a while.

Never much liquidity Aussie racing but ok  (for me ) once domestic racing started.

I only ever made one deposit on matchbook and it lasted about a month until
they closed my account. I requested the reason why and was to check terms and conditions
and under those terms it states 'they do not have to give reasons'.

I attempted to rejoin matchbook this week to see the response


They state as any easybet customer I cant belong to matchbook as well but they 'referred ' me
to easybet without me asking them to do so  and I never joined so maybe easybet are paying them commission for this.

Good morning ronnie

Gary isn’t going either day due to the weather forecast there are 3 options,he’s in Manchester Sunday but I said that’s no good for you ,see him at the paddy power or he has very kindly (but that’s what he is like )offered to send you a signed copy obviously he would need your address but I could sought that out.

Jimnast.
Thanks for your very kind help i will take the book to Paddy Power meeting for him to sign
Looking forward to the next few days the only negative coming back on Sumday no trains from Leeds so a bus Leeds to Darlo.
Thanks again

Ronnie

Your welcome ronnie I use to go by train a lot more than I do now ,it’s like flying there’s always a tale of woe