bye bye BF

eh???

only accessable if you live in Great Britain, Malta, Gibraltar, Ireland, or Denmark from July 14th onwards

Source?

BF email

Copy paste content of the email?

it's German though

ABSCHALTUNG DER WETTBÖRSE IN ÖSTERREICH
Betfair 

WICHTIGE KUNDENMITTEILUNG

Liebe/r xxx,

Wir bedauern mitzuteilen zu müssen das Betfair, nach einer Geschäftsanalyse, die Wettbörsenprodukte für Kunden aus Österreich nicht weiter anbieten wird. Die Wettbörse und Exchange Games werden ab dem 14. Juli 2014 nicht mehr verfügbar sein. Jedoch können wir bestätigen das Sportwetten im Sportsbook (Festquoten) und ebenso alle Casino, Arcade und Pokerprodukte weiter vollständig verfügbar sein werden.

Bis zu diesem Datum empfehlen wir alle ausstehenden Wetten zu verkaufen/abzusichern sofern dies möglich ist. Alle angenommenen Wetten werden dann abgerechnet sobald die jeweiligen Märkte beendet sind und eventuelle Gewinne werden gutgeschrieben.

Wir bedanken uns das Sie unsere Exchange Produkte genutzt haben.

Beachten Sie bitte das Betfair die Wettbörse und alle anderen Produkte in folgenden Ländern weiter anbietet:
Großbritannien
Malta
Gibraltar
Irland
Dänemark
Sollten Sie weitere Informationen benötigen besuchen Sie bitte unsere Tipps&Hilfe Sektion oder kontaktieren Sie uns auf deutsch@betfair.com.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Das Betfair Team

http://de.learning.betfair.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/13500

link for help and tipps

eventually all countries will be frozen out

They really believe in this sportsbook

If its true that's a huge own goal

and an open door for purple

bye bye betfail, welcome purple site

Have you had the same email jin ?

Translated :

TURN OFF THE EXCHANGE IN AUSTRIA
Betfair

IMPORTANT CUSTOMER MESSAGE

Love / r xxx,

We regret to have to inform the Betfair, after a business analysis, betting exchange products for customers from Austria will not offer further. The Betting Exchange and Exchange Games will no longer be available from 14 July 2014. However, we can confirm the sports betting Sportsbook (fixed rates) as well as any casino, arcade and poker products will continue to be fully available.

Up to this date, we recommend all outstanding bets to sell / hedge if this is possible. All bets taken are then billed as soon as the markets are completed and any winnings will be credited.

We thank you that you have used our Exchange products.

Please note that Betfair betting exchange and all other products in the following countries further offers:
Great Britain
Malta
Gibraltar
Ireland
Denmark
If you need further information please visit our Tips & Help section or contact us on deutsch@betfair.com.

With best regards,
The Betfair Team

Is that the only places that Betfair exchange is running now Great Britain
Malta
Gibraltar
Ireland
Denmark

???

We'll see. It could be that it's just poorly worded in that email. I haven't heard anything (am in Sweden), neither has jin who's in Ukraine. When arrong asked them on twitter, they said it was only for some countries, not the majority of Europe. But either way, it's worrying that the exchange is shut down in one country after another, it certainly doesn't help liquidity.

bb, that sucks.

it was worsened step by step for me, starting with a worsened Rabatte ladder, then increasing comm rate from 5 to 6.5%, at last 2 weeks ago giving no rabattes at all, and now closing it completely. Can't understand the strategy behind

BB66 I know liquidity is poor in Betquack is that an option for you though

started to observe some markets, it is partially probably

ok hope it works out for you

Das ist sehr unmoglich.

Nicht unmoglich aber unglaublich! Wie kann jenmand Wettquoten spielen auf Tennis jetzt. Die bet daq ist nicht so gute fur Tennis.

the purple one is not too bad for uk racing. Sometimes you even get better odds than betfair in the place market for hot favorites. There is a weird bot who offers 1 tick higher than betfair sometimes.

Wettquotten

Move to England then

bl00dy awful decision if BF actually do this.

is there a good subsitute???

It will come down to math and the % that each of these countries are contributing to the betting pie.

....not to mention the % they need to give each of the governments they are taking bets from.

I am in Switzerland... still no email

Hello from Swwden

Cant find anything about that?

Sueden

But Betfair dont work in Danmark today?

Betfair Exchange is a regulated product in Denmark (source: Betfair 2012 annual report).  That's why Betfair report Denmark revenues in the 'sustainable revenue' bucket.

Sounds like another country applying the dreaded turnover tax to me

This is just for Austria, so rest of Europe (other than countries that have already been affected) is safe. For now anyway.

Hang on just a minute, are we saying BF exchange is FINNISH?

but why do they name the specific countries if only Austria is affected?

Don't know, you'd have to ask Betfair Austria/whoever sent you the email about that. Maybe they just listed some examples of countries where everything will be like before.

Betfair would like to make it clear that it presently accepts exchange bets from over 150 countries worldwide. The message below was aimed at Austrian customers in the context of switching off the exchange for commercial reasons on July 14th. There is no intention to restrict the exchange offer to the countries listed. Such countries simply represent some examples of jurisdictions we are currently licensed.  The message was intended to provide Austrian customers with suggestions as to  which jurisdictions they might bet from in the event that they decided to relocate.

that still leaves me not understanding how BF benefits to turn off the exchange just for Austrian users

well i imagine it costs them more to maintain a presence than they take in revenue.

personally, i never understood the approach of increasing commission in these territories. increasing rates rarely generates growth.

they abandoned the German hotline already when Germany was excluded due to legal reason, I could also live with abandoning the remaining German helpdesk and the German website, though I don't know if this will be abandoned too when Switzerland is not excluded. They never did advertising in Austria, so I don't see any specific costs.

Rejoice caramba and swebih, apparently Sweden was among the countries named as one of the cool and regulated countries in an email reply to an austrian customer.

Sweden was not mentioned in that mail

I meant in an extra mail on further inquiry by someone.

read in another forum Switzerland will probably be closed soon too

trading on tennis matches almost impossible on purple

You're all going to have to emigrate to England, we let anyone in

you log in through a portal with a uk ip address simple

that would be too easy, I'd need a verified UK adress too