Betfair login

[sjaak1943]

This weekend could not login with BA into Betfair.
What was wrong? My account was closed.
I use Betfair only for fun and try to make some money with no luck anyway!
Asked them why and this was the answer:

Thanks for contacting us.

Your Betfair account has been closed in accordance with the following clause from our Terms and Conditions, details of which can be found under ‘SECTION 1: Betting - General Conditions’ via http://www.betfair.com/aboutUs/Terms.and.Conditions/

‘6. Cancellation, Termination, Suspension and Breach

We may restrict your access to Betfair, suspend or terminate your account, withdraw your offers for bets, void any bets outstanding to your account, cancel any unmatched bets or cancel and void any outstanding or matched bets in our absolute discretion without cause at any time including if:

v: ... your account’s ‘public market data’ usage (‘public market data’ includes market prices, traded Volumes and market depth) could represent ‘business usage’ (‘business usage’ includes any use by a betting operator or any use by an individual or organisation supplying data or services to a betting operator)’

Your account represents a commercial usage profile. That is, ongoing reading of live Betfair market data.

If you wish to access Betfair data for analysis or testing purposes you should use the Historical Data services available via http://data.betfair.com/ and or http://www.fracsoft.com/ rather than the live system. This is a more efficient way for Betfair to provide the level of data that you require.

Note that business usage requires a specific license, so if you are interested in using Betfair data for business purposes please let us know so that we can license you appropriately.



Kind regards,


Kirsty


Who's next?

[Ian]

What were you actually doing ?

How many hours or markets were you reading their data ?

How many bets were you placing ?

[sjaak1943]

First of all, did not use Betfair for about 6 month, restarted about 3 weeks ago. Only use GB horseracing linked to an Excelfile, triggering a few bets a race for 5 days a week during the last 6 years.
I have never been charged for data request!!