18th June 2006, 02:47 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
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Originally Posted by crash
I've given up on on-line agencies completely and now use the TAB's only.
Advantages: Much more variety of bets any day of the week and all meetings covered. Easy cash withdrawal or deposit at any TAB outlet.
Disadvantages of betting with the TAB: Slightly lower payout [2 cents divvy mostly] but often more divvy bet payout during the week because of the 'smoke and mirrors' trick of 'better than 2 totes [only]' used by ALL agencies on all days except Saturdays. Often it is YOUR regular tote that is the 3rd. one that is paying more !!
Average it out at the end of the week and it is a bit of a con job for the smallish punter [they are 99% of the customers]. The $ difference is pathetic and absolute peanuts when considering an overall small weekly profit or loss % of turnover for a 12mth. period.
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HI!
Totally agree Crash.
I stated this very fact last year and was poo-pooed down. Yet I have two years of meticulously kept records, showing that you and I are right. the difference in return (if any) are so miniscule that the convenience of using the TAB far outweighs them.
Not to mention they don't restrict your bets!!!!!
Incidentally I started compering Vic and NSW TAB's long before the online agencies existed and the results were exactly the same, (didn't bother with the smaller TABs).
I think it is like the phenomenon, that we always remember a big win or bigger return but forget when we have been short changed. Only by keeping good records can prove this one way or the other.
And NO I do not have shares in any TAB
Cheers
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