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What point or purpose do these serve?
I went into a well-known and popular Irish bookmaking chain yesterday, I spotted a bet (ante-post) and noticed their price a bit higher. I asked the girl to just check what price England to win the rugby World Cup? I showed her my phone, their mobile site said 12s, 'no look,' she said 'it's here it's 11/1'. What's the point in having a website showing erroneous and wrong information - there's NO point at all and it's hard on the poor staff who have this going on. If a price fluctuates surely the webmaster has a facility that the price changes on all the sites, mobile site, main website, surely the technology is there to do this? And not have the staff being driven demented by wrong information showing. This same bookie on my phone showed their mobile page showing an 'outright' Sam Maguire winner market indicated Dublin, Kerry, Cork, Mayo and so on. I wondered as the match was just on could I have gone up to the clerk and put bets on at 7/2 for Dublin to 'win the Sam Magure' and the game just starting.......
Surely the technology is there as a price fluctuates, that the indicated price changes on all the systems.
I feel they're all unreliable if this is the case and they're more trouble than they're worth especially to the shop staff.
What point or purpose do these serve?
I went into a well-known and popular Irish bookmaking chain yesterday, I spotted a bet (ante-post) and noticed their price a bit higher. I asked the girl to just check what price England to win the rugby World Cup? I showed her my phone, their mobile site said 12s, 'no look,' she said 'it's here it's 11/1'. What's the point in having a website showing erroneous and wrong information - there's NO point at all and it's hard on the poor staff who have this going on. If a price fluctuates surely the webmaster has a facility that the price changes on all the sites, mobile site, main website, surely the technology is there to do this? And not have the staff being driven demented by wrong information showing. This same bookie on my phone showed their mobile page showing an 'outright' Sam Maguire winner market indicated Dublin, Kerry, Cork, Mayo and so on. I wondered as the match was just on could I have gone up to the clerk and put bets on at 7/2 for Dublin to 'win the Sam Magure' and the game just starting.......
Surely the technology is there as a price fluctuates, that the indicated price changes on all the systems.
I feel they're all unreliable if this is the case and they're more trouble than they're worth especially to the shop staff.
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I agree, i don't know what to say about their technology, but i know no price is deemed valid until it's in your betslip and they're accepting a stake on it, waving a mobile phone at a girl in a shop is only going to point you in the direction of their rules on palpable/clerical errors.
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betpack are the worst for this
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betpack are unreal..have they thrown in the towel or what?every price on the website isnt available in the shops..its not the staffs fault just a general disintrest by whoevery coordinates the whole thing..
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Betpack site down tonight for maintenance-maybe they are doing a bit of updating. Doubt it.
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They always said online prices have to be more competitive and will offer differing prices on events particularly sports events.
Very much in the same way if you walked into a Ladbrokes shop in Ireland, compared to a Ladbrokes shop in the UK you will recieve better offers and prices in Ireland, the football coupons are all nearly better prices. The Irish retail betting shops are more competitive here then in the UK. Not trying to justify it, I think it is nonsense that the same company offer different odds, on different platforms. |
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Sometimes it depends on the shop next door , who owns/ runs it and what their offers are eg BOG .
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another example today of nonconformity as they said they were going to do..fav in 2.20 folks 8/11 on their web site.8/13 in the shops.whats the point of them if they dont do as they say they will?
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that so you think race a few weeks back
website so you think 1.3, snow fairy 7.5 shop so you think 1.33 snow fairy 6 |
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I see ppl agreeing with me, there's no point in these websites.
I dont see, personally dont see how where a betting operation has a website, mobile phone app, in-shop screens, staff screens, that if a price changes on (lets say) a future greyhound race at Wimbledon, if a relevant prices changes from 8s to 7s, that someone in-house presses a button and all the prices - online, mobile app, shop screens and in-house staff all change to 7s. Is that too much to ask that such a system could be set up? It must be possible. Otherwise it's self-defeating having all this muddle as I see it and as people mention here where they've witnessed this carry on with betting prices. I beginning to not believe them anymore. |
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It isn't a muddle and has been discussed on here before. Some companies have different prices for different markets- online and offline. Simple.
The reasons behind this different pricing may differ between organisations. |