Tips for Tikay

[exstream]

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/powerplay
Chelsea clean sheet 5/2 amongst others
Until 3pm

[redarmi]

The Everton - MU game looks a stone cold over game to me....The two teams have played 12 games between them and there have been 46 goals in those games.  Obviously Rooney being out does matter and is a negative but with Falcao, Di Maria etc all there now they should still be able to score.

[Karabiner]

When I went down to collect from the betfred shop in town for my bet on Rose to be top Euro scorer with 7/1 clearly circled in the clerk's writing under the bet I was informed that "it should have been 6/1", although I was offered 7/1 without prompting the girl for a price on Thursday.

Do I have a leg to stand on or can they simply do as they please here?

[redarmi]

When I went down to collect from the betfred shop in town for my bet on Rose to be top Euro scorer with 7/1 clearly circled in the clerk's writing under the bet I was informed that "it should have been 6/1", although I was offered 7/1 without prompting the girl for a price on Thursday.

Do I have a leg to stand on or can they simply do as they please here?

Were they 7/1 at the time or 6/1?

[Karabiner]

When I went down to collect from the betfred shop in town for my bet on Rose to be top Euro scorer with 7/1 clearly circled in the clerk's writing under the bet I was informed that "it should have been 6/1", although I was offered 7/1 without prompting the girl for a price on Thursday.

Do I have a leg to stand on or can they simply do as they please here?

Were they 7/1 at the time or 6/1?

7/1 on oddschecker when I left home and ten minutes later the girl in the shop said they were 7/1.

I said "Justin Rose to be top Euro" she said "Rose 7/1" I said "fine". I couldn't see her screen as it was behind the desk.

Today the guy says that the price had changed half an hour before I placed my bet so I'm assuming it hadn't been updated in the shop.

[Bad Beat]

 I do remember it changing from 7/1 to 6/1 in one hit (was never 13/2) on Thursday afternoon, not sure what time.

[Karabiner]

I do remember it changing from 7/1 to 6/1 in one hit (was never 13/2) on Thursday afternoon, not sure what time.

My bet is timed at 12.01pm and they're saying the price changed at 11.35am.

Customer services got all arsey and says it must have been a palp, tossers.

[BigAdz]

I do remember it changing from 7/1 to 6/1 in one hit (was never 13/2) on Thursday afternoon, not sure what time.

My bet is timed at 12.01pm and they're saying the price changed at 11.35am.

Customer services got all arsey and says it must have been a palp, tossers.

Ralph.

Take the £7k, and be happy.

My Life!

[Bad Beat]

 I think they are probably right, it had changed and you were given the bigger price in error. They do piss me off with the use of "palp" though. Palpable means easily perceptible and clearly tangible. The rule is in place, very reasonably, to stop collusion between employees of the bookies and the customers, that would make the running of the business impossible and to absolve the firms from the responsibility for the major errors of their imbecilic staff. Sadly the PR/middle management/customer services people jump to use the rule whenever it suits them in all sorts of situations.

 I think you were laid a price you shouldn't have been in error and they could pay you out at the "correct" price or they could pay you at 7/1 as a gesture but to start getting arsey and quoting the palpable error rule really gets my goat.

[Karabiner]

The point that I tried make was that if 6/1 was the "correct" price then my bet was taken under false pretences as I could have taken 13/2 50 yards up the road in laddies which I mistakenly thought might get me a goodwill gesture.

Anyhow I swallowed my pride and went down and collected, but they had the last laugh paying me out in tenners!

[Tal]

Sick brags ITT

[redarmi]

I think they are probably right, it had changed and you were given the bigger price in error. They do piss me off with the use of "palp" though. Palpable means easily perceptible and clearly tangible. The rule is in place, very reasonably, to stop collusion between employees of the bookies and the customers, that would make the running of the business impossible and to absolve the firms from the responsibility for the major errors of their imbecilic staff. Sadly the PR/middle management/customer services people jump to use the rule whenever it suits them in all sorts of situations.

 I think you were laid a price you shouldn't have been in error and they could pay you out at the "correct" price or they could pay you at 7/1 as a gesture but to start getting arsey and quoting the palpable error rule really gets my goat.

Yeah this.  It is clearly not a palpable error or they would be voiding all bets that they had taken at 7/1 but it is a battle you can't win because the people you will talk to have no idea and the traders will never talk to you and will just hide behind it.  Its sad really because the decent firms never get the credit.  A couple of years ago when I was in Jamaica I put up a halftime line on a college basketball game at -3, about 5 firms copied me and then pinnacle came up at -6.5.  I realised my mistake and moved the line but had already layed it at that point for about $6k but let the original bets stand because it was an error of judgement on my part not something that was a palpable error.  Of course the firms that copied us all cancelled the bets.  Laughable really.

[JoeBeevers]

It's not palpable at all and quoting that really annoys me. If they claim palpable then they don't know what it means.

I don't see how they can insist it was the wrong price. It's not your responsibility it's theirs. The fact it was 13/2 in the shop next door and they insist on paying you at 6/1 is ridiculous.

You did everything that could be reasonably be expected of you and I don't think I would have accepted it as easy as you did. I would have inisted they pay me at 7/1, or IBAS or even legal action.

What about if everyone else was still 7/1 and they cut it to 4/1 just before you walked in the shop. How are you supposed to know? The cashier marked 7/1 which was the general price, would you accept it then?

Palpable error, traders decisions, makes me sick.

/end

[JoeBeevers]

The point that I tried make was that if 6/1 was the "correct" price then my bet was taken under false pretences as I could have taken 13/2 50 yards up the road in laddies which I mistakenly thought might get me a goodwill gesture.

Anyhow I swallowed my pride and went down and collected, but they had the last laugh paying me out in tenners!

Next time you want £500 or more on something pay them in £1 coins

http://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/legal-tender-guidelines

[tikay]

The point that I tried make was that if 6/1 was the "correct" price then my bet was taken under false pretences as I could have taken 13/2 50 yards up the road in laddies which I mistakenly thought might get me a goodwill gesture.

Anyhow I swallowed my pride and went down and collected, but they had the last laugh paying me out in tenners!

Next time you want £500 or more on something pay them in £1 coins

http://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/legal-tender-guidelines

Ralph could probably pay them in 10 bob notes, he's got a sack of 'em under his bed I'm told.