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I was doing a bit of shopping this morning with a mate who has some interest in horse racing, not a fanatic like me and he said he fancied Mr Singh at Goodwood and with Corals offering the best price of 6/1 we popped in one of their shops for him to have his 25 quid on.
He was told by the manager that he would have to phone through to head office who told him he could only have ten quid on. My mate told them they could stick their odds and their horse racing. So no money for the levy there.
Surprisingly the manager didn’t seem embarrassed.How are parasites like Corals good for horse racing? They are turning people away from the sport.
Don’t Corals claim to lay any horse to lose upto around £2000 in their shops though I’m sure this doesn’t apply to “monitored” shrewdies. To restrict a new prospective regular customer is surely a poor way to operate a business
It’s one of those price boosts with a maximum stake.
Just let you mate put a tenner on, you put a tenner on and ask someone else in the shop to put a fiver on for you.Blackbeard to conquer the World
The price guarantee applies to retail bets placed from 11am.
Are you definitely telling us the full story there yeats?
It’s one of those price boosts with a maximum stake.
Just let you mate put a tenner on, you put a tenner on and ask someone else in the shop to put a fiver on for you.It’s nothing to do with any price boost, it was the advertised priced in the Racing Post. People won’t be arsed asking family and friends to put money on for such meagre sums. Most proper punters and some prospective ones have given up on so called “bookmakers” It’s not worth the aggravation, not good for racing though is it being dependent on parasites for an income.
Then we have the likes of Clare & Stevens being allowed to spout their crap on tv.
Ask your masters lostsoldier, they surely wont deny it, it’s a fact.
This wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that Mr Singh was a small arb at 6/1 mid-morning would it yeats?
You might be better off joining the MoneySavingExpert forum. I hear many frustrated arbers are switching their focus to buying bread two days past its sell-by date, downloading 5% off vouchers for Pizza Express and reclaiming PPI through the Small Claims Court.
Arbing ? for ponies ? you really are small minded Lost soldier. As for Coral, I wrote them off a while ago as ‘not fit for purpose’.
The depiction of arbers by some of the betting industry employees as low-life penny-grabbing gutter dwellers is laughable really.
Bookmakers make their profit and pay those same employees by effectively operating the same way (i.e. locking in profit by having the percentages on their side).
You can’t really blame them for not wishing to do business with people who they know will eventually scrape some of their profits away but the way they spout off on television and radio about the large bets they’ve laid, etc, is truly cringeworthy. Once you’ve had a £25 bet request knocked back with an offer of 70 pence on a big Saturday race then you realise that these lackeys are simply peddling spin to lure in the mugs.
Nothing wrong with arbing, nothing, don’t feel bad if you are a fellow arber.
Cormack15, if you abused any other industry in the way that arbers abuse the bookmakers and the exchanges, you’d find companies unwilling to do business with you. Your gripe seems to be with capitalism rather than the bookmaking industry in particular. Their is no difference between your argument and that of the person who steals a six pack of Red Stripe from Tesco but says “they’re a big faceless company – one six pack won’t hurt them”.
Large bets really are laid – I could testify to that under oath. If you have a clean account without any history of mischief, you’re odds-on to get a bet laid. The truth is that most people who whine about getting knocked back can’t satisfy that crucial condition.
@TimJames, you’d better believe it. Some will wake up at 8:30 on a Sunday morning to try their luck on an arb with a £1.50 yield.Their is no difference between your argument and that of the person who steals a six pack of Red Stripe from Tesco but says “they’re a big faceless company – one six pack won’t hurt them”.
*THERE, obviously
Surprisingly the manager didn’t seem embarrassed.
In his defence he doesn’t get paid enough to care. As long as there are mugs and machines he still has a job. I had the occasional punter storm out cos they wouldn’t let him have a tiddler of a bet on. My thoughts were basically ‘shoddy business practice yes but no skin off my nose.’
FAO LostSoldier3
Not sure if it’s correct netiquette to query previous cyber-soubriquets but I’ll ask anyway
Are you the reincarnation of The Dark Knight?
Your wordsmithery reminds me of him
Are you really equating arbing with stealing from a shop LS? Surely not. is perfectly legal, the other not so.
As far as I’m concerned it’s up to Corals to track a market and be aware if they are out of line with exchanges. If they are promoting or displaying a price they should lay it.
Abusing bookmakers!! You are having a laugh. Abuse is what bookmakers do to the poor unfortunates who cannot protect themselves and get hooked, to disastrous and sometimes tragic effect, on the highly addictive machines the bookmakers house in their shops. That is abuse.
I am not averse to capitalism, in fact I see arbing as a good way to exploit capitalist systems. Corals exploit poor buggers who can’t help themselves. We arbers exploit bookmakers’ inefficiencies.
It’s THEIR btw.Are you really equating arbing with stealing from a shop LS? Surely not. One activity is perfectly legal, the other not so.
As far as I’m concerned it’s up to Corals to track a market and be aware if they are out of line with exchanges. If they are promoting or displaying a price they should lay it.
Abusing bookmakers!! You are having a laugh. Abuse is what bookmakers do to the poor unfortunates who cannot protect themselves and get hooked, to disastrous and sometimes tragic effect, on the highly addictive machines the bookmakers house in their shops. That is abuse.
I am not averse to capitalism, in fact I see arbing as a good way to exploit capitalist systems. Corals exploit poor buggers who can’t help themselves. We arbers exploit bookmakers’ inefficiencies.
It IS THEY’RE btw.Also, I’ve no doubt Corals do accept large bets, but I’d wager either from habitual losers or people with an in that Corals want to see. Anybody with half a clue, who wins, arbs or regularly beats SP, will be closed or down to 70p in short order.
I have no beef with bookies, people have a choice to bet with them or not. That doesn’t mean I like their methods, but I do have a beef when they attempt to take the moral high ground and moan about people who exploit their weaknesses as I they were some form of pond life. If they were socially responsible and self-banned FOBTs then maybe it’d be a start. Until then I’ll wager my way to the odd pound, fiver and tenner til my heart’s content with an easy conscience.
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