Betfair closes doors to Greek

[alrodopial]

Dear Alexandros,

We regret to inform you that, as from Monday 3rd December 2012, we will no longer offer gaming and betting services to customers located in Greece. This is due to a decision by the Greek Gaming Commission that includes provisions for financial penalties and criminal sanctions against gaming operators that continue to operate in the market. Our products will therefore be unavailable to customers located in Greece. This impacts all products across all platforms. Betfair will continue to work with the Remote Gambling Association (RGA) to lobby for legislation that allows fair competition in the Greek market.

What does this mean for customers located in Greece?

From approximately 11am GMT (1pm local Greek time) on 3 December 2012 customers in Greece will be unable to access any Betfair gaming and betting services. If you normally access the site from Greece and you hold positions on exchange markets then we encourage you to trade out as a matter of urgency prior to 3 December.

Bets on the exchange which have already been placed or fixed odds bets (e.g. Greek football champions 12/13) will be settled in the normal way once the result is known. After 3 December all bet placement functionality will be disabled. You will still have access to your account for purposes other than betting and gaming activity and your deposits are safe. This will allow you to make withdrawals from your account as usual for the time being.

If you have any further questions please refer to: Frequently Asked Questions.

Alternatively our helpdesk will be pleased to assist you. We’d like to ask for your patience when contacting them as they are expecting to receive a high volume of enquiries in the first few days. The best way to contact them is via email to hellas@betfair.com or our hotline: 80 1300 3230

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Best regards

Betfair Service Team

[alrodopial]

Garry,
the way I read it I see that I will be able to login into my account but not be able to bet from it.
The question :

What will BA do?

1. Will it be sending odds to excel/receiving orders from excel (com, -1 etc)

2. Will it be sending bet placement orders to BF (which will not been accepted?)

3. Will not work at all?


(please answer the 1. )

[alrodopial]

Now guys, (German, Italian, France, Spain and whoever else have the same problem)

Any ideas about solving the betting problem?

my mail if needed: alrodopial@yahoo.gr

[negapo]

This is getting bad... Will betfair end with just uk costumers? Hope not.

[GaryRussell]

Garry,
the way I read it I see that I will be able to login into my account but not be able to bet from it.
The question :

What will BA do?

1. Will it be sending odds to excel/receiving orders from excel (com, -1 etc)

2. Will it be sending bet placement orders to BF (which will not been accepted?)

3. Will not work at all?


(please answer the 1. )

I imagine you will be able to login to your account from the website so that you can manage your account, but I am pretty certain that the API will block your access. It will return an unauthorised error to Betting Assistant which will result in BA informing you that you subscription has expired. This is exactly what happened with German customers recently.

[mak]

Very Bad news...

I don't know if they will block ip's only.
or Greek accounts

al
please let me know if you find any kind of soloution

[U.F.O]

Not sure what exactly is going on here ?
or why Betfair are being such dicks about it ,
they really do seem to have their head's up their arses,
As if a country is going to change there legislation just to suit them ???.

As for alternatives then Betdaq will be excepting bets from greek customers so just have to use them.

Betfair will lose alot of revenue if they dont get a grip of the situation soon.

[ddaann]

Maybe you can access Betfair with UK based VPS.

[RJM]

Be, very careful because if Betfair suspect anything they will immediately close your account and they will never reinstate it.

This has happened to a few people.

[six gun]

I am in Spain right now.
I cannot access betfair.com without going through a proxy.
I just cannot get to the site there is an automatic redirect to betfair.es.
I cannot even log into this Spainish betfair website.

BA is not working.
I fire it up. Log in and then get a screen about paypal subscription. When I ok this BA shuts down.

What the devil do these bureaucrats think they are doing?

[six gun]

Sorted.
A VPN does the trick.
BA working and no mucking around getting into betfair.com