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Still down for maintainance from 17th November apparantly!

Phones busy!

Oh well, I may get lucky.

lite.betfair.com still works, but you can't see your orders.

And it appears you can see the prices either!

Subject Line: Settlement Delays 19/11/2005

We are experiencing extremely high volumes of traffic to Betfair.com this afternoon, and as a result we anticipate that there will be some delay in the settlement of bets. Wed like to apologise to all affected members as we fully appreciate that this can be extremely inconvenient. Please be assured that we are working to minimise these delays as far as possible.

Iim open on football, rugby and a horse race getting the right hump, time to open a beer methinks!

I guess the publicity at Haydock is driving much larger volumes.

Ironic that it first broke during the race they sponsor!

I was thinking that too, a great piece of publicity!

Oh well, the footy is in the lap of the gods now!

Its semi working here now but getting going

Yep, seems to be back I am logged on again.

Afternoon All,

Bit late today but seems I've missed out on betfair going down again. Not sure whether to trade or not now?

Seems to be peforming ok at the moment.

Just hope it stays that way

Playing around with the dutcing facility on the ManU game but could't get the draw to fill. Almost immediately ManU score and now green.

More luck than skill!

Skill no doubt.

Try dutching or bookmaking the correct score market if there is enough volume and the spread is tight enough. Practically printing money unless there is an outrageous scoreline.

Did OK in the end on all the open positions I had and the horse markets were OK today so time for some quality time with the kids now.

Just looked at the footy scores, Saints 3-0 at half time. What's going on there? Pahars scored as well, you mean he is actually fit enough to play for the first time in three seasons?

Maybe it's cos this Clifford bloke has left and they're playing and training in the traditional way!