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Betfair quite frankly is rubbish when it comes to these 'out' periods. Laid NZ early on and was trying to green up when the sytem crashed. Can't imagine Ireland will win so unless the site is up soon, looks like Betfair will cost me money. Can't understand why they don't have a back up server for this situation. Can't even do anything on the phone. Morons!!

back at last

That outage cost me my worst ever loss. It's a right pain when that happens. I can take normal losses but those beyond your control are always a right pain. Even worse, they always seem to go against you don't they!!!

scrip cant you have a word with them to put in a back up service when the main one fails?

Sorry to hear that Peter, fortunately one of my bets that I couldn't close won anyway; the cricket I have had to trade out at a loss having been in a position to green up. Overall a profit, but only 25% of what it should have been. Might as well have used a bookie :(

Sorry to hear about your pains with Betfair, Peter.

Any reasonable answer for the following situation, other than Betfair is happy to behave like a typical UK Bank and hang onto your money for as long as they can get away with it... :

League 2 Winner Market - only 4 teams can now possibly win this league, yet Betfair is still quoting on 10 teams. Not a problem unless you are green on the potential 4 (which I am) and yet have "liabilities" according to Betfair on other selections which in reality are now out of the running and do not exist.

Seems a teeny weeny bit of a con to me.

pinsticker the reason could be even though they cant win it on points at the moment one of the top teams could have points deducted between now and the end of the season,the chances of this are remote.

Betfair have now reduced the League 2 Winner Market to the aforementioned 4 selections, and my wallet has been suitably inflated as a result.
Thanks very much.

well done to the english teams last night

I was convinced last night that Roma would frustrate Utd to the nth degree, so much so that I backed under 1.5 goals. How wrong could one be? The loss was just about worth it to witness one of the best attacking displays ever seen on the European stage. Utd were quite simply awesome!

Me too on the under 2.5 goals.

Scrip

if youre about theres a thread on general betting in the forum calling you (or at least someone called scriptologist lol)

Thanks, Not sure why they don't send an email. I don't read forums very often now.

Just had an email from Amazon about Peter's new book, and in case he's too modest to mention it himself(:-)), here's the link - opens in new window:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1843440288/ref=pe_pe_3421_5599831_pe_snp_288

It's released next Weds.

Do YOO shareholders get a discount ?

:-)

... and Southampton fans.

Both defy logic :-)

"It's released next Weds."

Which would be remarkable as no publisher has it!