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Thanks for quoting me on that Mike when I didn’t even say it
What’s so great about bookmakers for punters anyway? You can’t get a decent bet on at the advertised odds if at all and they close winning counts. Bookmakers on track are a joke offering under the odds, no each way.
What’s the point of having choice if you can’t get a bet on? Let weight of money decide the odds, then you can have as much as you want on with no restrictions, fair for everyone and more money for racing.
Sorry Eddie, not your quote!
I very much take your point about getting bets on/closing accounts but you are unlikely to be limited at SP (in effect the same as a Tote win) and can obviously take any exchange money that’s around if you’re happy with the price or bet at Betfair SP.
Most people have no problems getting on at early prices especially in multiple bets that aren’t particularly features of The Tote.
The first thing that Baldy Fred did when he snaffled The Tote from disinterested parties was lump the win percentage take up massively from 13.5% to 16.5%. The exotics nail an extraordinary 25% retention upwards.
Take a look at all the Cheltenham offers around at the moment, plus the long-standing BOG’s etc. A monopoly Tote would not bother with such bonuses as they have no competition. In fact, it would make more sense for them to make terms a lot
worse
ahead of a Festival that many want to bet on.
Mike
Coral have never been top price on Sprinter Sacre for the whole year since last Cheltenham, they have probably backed him themselves and are laying him off now for possibly not a lot of liability whilst creating new accounts and waking up dormant customers.
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You have to understand, it’s not designed for people who post on a forum. It’s designed for mug punters, who will then use the punters to do on multiples, and maybe a football bet afterwards. If you are on a forum posting about horse racing, it really isn’t aimed at you in the slightest.
Can’t really see what this has to do with it. Doesn’t matter who it is aimed at. If they say they are doing it to £20 they should hold to their promise. Interesting reply they gave to TRF tweet about it
Hi. Sorry you couldn’t stake more but this offer may be subject to restrictions. A tenner at Evens is still a great bet!
As I said before pretty shabby.
I saw that Tanya was at pains to promote this on CH 4 today, stressing that they (Coral) had taken bets of an average £18 on this. Corals have obviously had the calculators out as part of a PR damage-limitation exercise.
I don’t mind the fact that they are offering a tenner. What annoys me is that they are advertising it as £20 (albeit with small print which covers them in the event they restrict). If they are only offering a tenner to some people then they should only be able to advertise it as a tenner.
Clearly a ploy to attract new accounts, which is fine, but existing customers being treated very shabbily.
It’s not a big deal really, in the grand scheme of things, but it rankles with me. Increasingly so. Maybe it’s age!
I saw that Tanya was at pains to promote this on CH 4 today, stressing that they (Coral) had taken bets of an average £18 on this. Corals have obviously had the calculators out as part of a PR damage-limitation exercise.
I don’t mind the fact that they are offering a tenner. What annoys me is that they are advertising it as £20 (albeit with small print which covers them in the event they restrict). If they are only offering a tenner to some people then they should only be able to advertise it as a tenner.
Clearly a ploy to attract new accounts, which is fine, but existing customers being treated very shabbily.
It’s not a big deal really, in the grand scheme of things, but it rankles with me. Increasingly so. Maybe it’s age!
Agree with you David. Although cleary in another tweet from them their big print contradicts with their small print. They put the ‘EVERYONE’ in capitals.
We’ll be holding this for days, not hours and giving EVERYONE the chance to get up to £20 on. This could cost us millions.
We’ll be holding this for days, not hours and giving EVERYONE the chance to get up to £20 on. This could cost us millions
The key words are "up to" in that sentence.
I saw that Tanya was at pains to promote this on CH 4 today, stressing that they (Coral) had taken bets of an average £18 on this.
She hasn’t a clue and nearly everything she says or doesn’t say is pro bookmaker, she’s also an extremely moderate broadcaster.
Wouldn’t pay her out in washers.Surprised this has attracted so much criticism.
Every firm on oddschecker will restrict different punters to different amounts on virtually every single event they trade.
…and it is the same for marketing led pricing offers (which this obviously is). Paddy Power’s Money back offer if Hurricane Fly wins is for a maximum refund of £100 per customer, for example, yet I get offered less than £20 if try to back anything. Not moaning about that particularly or singling them out – it is just the way it is.
Agreed, tdk, that Coral aren’t the only culprits but it is misleading advertising IMO (albeit there is small print) and just because it’s ‘just the way it is’ doesn’t make it right.
It’s clearly a marketing-led initiative to elicit new accounts and I suspect the £10 offered to many existing account holders is done so through gritted teeth.
05/09/2006 £580.00 Steelers bts Dolphins 10/11 £1107.27
This was an offer I got from Mansion.com, was it that long ago. Hmm, an odd amount? I’m thinking maybe it was for $1000 or $1100 and 580 was equal to that back then. Anyway, there were no strings attached other than Steelers had to win else you just got your stake refunded. What you might call a proper offer not the tenners that are considered largesse today. Course Mansion sportsbook and exchange are gone now so maybe not that clever…
Anyone else on?
You have to understand, it’s not designed for people who post on a forum. It’s designed for mug punters, who will then use the punters to do on multiples, and maybe a football bet afterwards. If you are on a forum posting about horse racing, it really isn’t aimed at you in the slightest.
Can’t really see what this has to do with it. Doesn’t matter who it is aimed at. If they say they are doing it to £20 they should hold to their promise. Interesting reply they gave to TRF tweet about it
Hi. Sorry you couldn’t stake more but this offer may be subject to restrictions. A tenner at Evens is still a great bet!
As I said before pretty shabby.
Kate Miller tweeted similar to me. Apparently an average bet in the bookies is £9, so a max bet of £50 should be seen as a gift
You know she’ll be on tv next week claiming all sorts of bets have been placed. " We’ve just taken £60,000 on My Tent Or Yours to win "
Coral online is down.
The sh!t’s have legged it with my twenty quid……
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Can’t believe the Corals site has crashed and ruined their £10 free bet promotion, joke outfit
They better not have legged it – I had £0.93 on! That was all that was left in my account and I couldn’t be bothered to suffer their absymal website to deposit some more money in it…
Coral website working fine this morning, £40 back thanks Joe.
I thought this was a great offer and can’t understand the whingeing. Surely no-one is stupid enough to dilute it by putting in a multiple unless they were always going to do that and just see the enhanced odds as a bonus?
It’s just marketing, Paddy Power seem to have large inflated green underpanst at Cheltenham, Coral do evens on a 1/4 shot for small stakes, I know which I prefer.
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