advise needed, do they need to honour the bet

[sweet potata!]

Whole thread is just a brilliant needle to Matt50, SweetPotato, Milligan84 and StuHopkin.

I dont geddit !?!

[pokerfan]

Whole thread is just a brilliant needle to Matt50, SweetPotato, Milligan84 and StuHopkin.

I dont geddit !?!

opposing BH's bets innit.

[Horneris]

Nah not that, the thread is about a bet on Djokovic to beat Ferrer and on the other thread you all backed Ferrer.

[Josedinho]

SportingBet voided my bet of Yaya Toure to score Man City to win at 9/1.
I asked what the error was and was told "internal system crash so odds were not updating".
This suggests the prices were correct but they had not updated/shortened as bets had been placed.

Any thoughts?

[Longy]

SportingBet voided my bet of Yaya Toure to score Man City to win at 9/1.
I asked what the error was and was told "internal system crash so odds were not updating".
This suggests the prices were correct but they had not updated/shortened as bets had been placed.

Any thoughts?

This is a case you should be able to win imo, it is not a papable error and the fault is at their end. Just hassle them with emails and if you aren't getting anywhere start mention IBAS.

[redarmi]

Don't understand this one at all.  Assuming the bet was listed on their website and you bet it and the price was available at some point then it really isn't your problem if they had a system problem.  Presumably they can't give you examples of prices that moved in the other direction where the bet lost but they also voided it because the punters got the wrong price.  I would take this one to IBAS.  Did they inform you before the event and give you a chance to place the bet again at the "correct" price?

[Josedinho]

Also had some other score wins that obviously lost and they were all voided too. I wasn't contacted before the event to tell me they would be voided or to be offered the "correct" price.
Just on live chat at the moment but they've not comeback with anything since I asked things like how many bets were accepted how many voided, what time was the last accepted bet placed etc

[Dubai]

Never gonna be 9-1, chances are system was working it out as a win double on City and Toure to score, when they are obviously a related contigency. Should get paid out at whatever price Toure was to score x1.3-1.4 imo, so about 5-1

[Josedinho]

Never gonna be 9-1, chances are system was working it out as a win double on City and Toure to score, when they are obviously a related contigency. Should get paid out at whatever price Toure was to score x1.3-1.4 imo, so about 5-1

Does it affect your thinking if they have accepted and paid out bets at 9/1 placed earlier in the day? (not saying they have or haven't yet but that seems to be what they are suggesting)

[redarmi]

If it was ever 9-1 then they should honour it but, if as Dubai says, their system has been accepting related contingencies then they can't pay out on those kind of bets.  I would say his real price to score at anytime is about 5/1 so the actual price would be about 7/2 and that should be multiplied by City's chance to win if Toure scores which is in the 2/5 region so the price I would expect is about 11/2 so it does seem wrong but bookies get prices wrong all the time.  That doesn't mean they can just go around cancelling bets when someone has the best against them.  I think the key is whether they ever offered that price intentionally or whether their system error meant that they were accepting bets/offering prices they wouldn't normally etc.