Ladbrokes confirms Betdaq acquisition

[U.F.O]

No sure what to think of this news tbh,
on one hand it may give Betfair a much needed kick up the A***.

But on the other Ladbrokes is not a place where winners are welcome by any stretch of the imagination, so how long until they start banning / restricting winners.

[kiint]

Hmm, should be interesting.
If it stays as a pure exchange, then I doubt that Ladbrokes will start banning winners, and if they did, then they would soon have to be providing the liquidity themselves.
However, if they do start to inject a bit of cash into the markets, then we may start to see Betdaq becoming a more creditable alternative.

[U.F.O]

Fantastic news

http://www.betdaq.com/UI/

this is exactly what was needed,
Hope it stays this way for a long time to come,

Betfair will have to respond, we may even have a price war

[llama]

Betfair HAVE responded....They have disabled their Website......lol

[U.F.O]

A Classic Betfair response feck everything up

[negapo]

Very good news, we really need a good alternative to BetFair (that is right now down for example)

[U.F.O]

As you may be aware, Betfair suffered a site outage this afternoon, for which we unreservedly apologise.

To acknowledge that we failed to deliver an acceptable standard of service to our customers, and by way of an apology to them, we would like to announce the following:

-We will be refunding all commission on UK football matches today.

-All races will be commission-free at Cheltenham on Tuesday.

Once again, we would like to take this opportunity to apologise for today's outage.

well this is better for a start

[Captain Sensible]

Comm free is just lip service and a cheap way for them to look as if they're doing you a favour whilst hoping you'll up the stakes as it's 'comm free'. PC payers will still end up paying on Wednesday. Just how many UK football matches are being played today? And only 7 races on Tuesday comm free is hardly compensation for anyone who lost out, anyone not picking a winner won't even have a chance of benefiting.

[llama]

As you correctly say, it is a rather pathetic gesture seeing that over 95% of the UK Football matches that they are offering compensation on, took place at 3pm on Saturday, exactly when the outage took place.

Also the fact that they are giving money back to the people who actually WON on these matches, surely it makes more sense to compensate the people who LOST? i.e. The people who could not trade out their positions......

[U.F.O]

Whether it’s a pathetic gesture or not wasn’t the point I was making really.
There is no gesture that would please everyone anyway, other than never let the site crash which is lets be honest a pipe dream.
My point was for the first time there was a gesture at least.

For years and years they have done nothing in circumstances like this and generally treated there customers like dirt, you can afford to do that when you have a near monopoly, but maybe now they are beginning to realise the error of their ways.

All of a sudden their customer service has improved,
Myself and many others have had the first phone calls from them in years and years, they apologise for things when they have cocked,
it all does point to a slight change in attitude.

Coincidence ?, Maybe maybe not,
I don't really care tbh, but the more Pressure applied to them the more, they will start having to treat people fairly and with more respect.