EVENT_RECONCILED ?

[honest guv]

Hi,

I've had an error message - EVENT_RECONCILED - several times over the last couple of days, when placing bets through Excel.

These are all placed about 5 seconds before the official off time in UK or Ire horse racing, on win markets.
Bets are being placed without error in races before and after the ones where I'm getting the error.
Anyone got any ideas on what may be causing it?

e.g. from the BA Diagnostics log - 17:09:56:552: placeBets error, ref: 0,selection id:2657314, result code:EVENT_RECONCILED

Thanks,
Guv

[GaryRussell]

This message is generated by the API. The following description is from Betfair's API guide. I am sure BA couldn't generate this message unless it actually was returned from the API.

The market has already been reconciled and you attempted to place an SP bet.

Are you using BACKSP or LAYSP? If so could it be that your PC's time isn't exactly right so that if the race starts on time then you are actually trying to place bets just after the off?

[honest guv]

Thanks Gary.

Yes, my PC time was a few seconds off, so I guess this must have been causing it when races went off exactly on time. Haven't had the error for the last few days.
So, just so I understand, the time (cell c2) and time to off (d2) are based on pc clock time rather than server time?

thanks

[GaryRussell]

Thanks Gary.

Yes, my PC time was a few seconds off, so I guess this must have been causing it when races went off exactly on time. Haven't had the error for the last few days.
So, just so I understand, the time (cell c2) and time to off (d2) are based on pc clock time rather than server time?

thanks

That's correct.