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Old 5th August 2012, 02:14 PM
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Default Strange Happenings on Betfair

Something with betfair is screwy, yesterday i had a couple runners that i should have backed with my bot but failed to get taken, these were not for large stakes and i have not had this happen before.

Also yesterday i placed a bet on Said Com at Canterbury, it went off on unitab at $1.50 yet the price i got was $5 and this bet was placed 5 seconds before the starting time.

Today Seymour race 5 i had 3 runners.


2. Pull No Punches
4. Zanzidar
3. World Domination

2 were backed the fav was not and should have been a saver bet for me.

This is not every race it is random so something is going on for sure.
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Old 5th August 2012, 03:25 PM
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When BF works...

That saver bet on the FAV(<$3 ?) is a simple strategy but looks sound Shaun Would've thought the lower stake on other 2 is balanced out with longer odds on offer given that the FAV has been pushed into 'unders territory' ?

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Old 5th August 2012, 04:40 PM
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Something with betfair is screwy, yesterday i had a couple runners that i should have backed with my bot but failed to get taken, these were not for large stakes and i have not had this happen before.

Also yesterday i placed a bet on Said Com at Canterbury, it went off on unitab at $1.50 yet the price i got was $5 and this bet was placed 5 seconds before the starting time.

Today Seymour race 5 i had 3 runners.


2. Pull No Punches
4. Zanzidar
3. World Domination

2 were backed the fav was not and should have been a saver bet for me.

This is not every race it is random so something is going on for sure.


One reason is late scratchings clear out all bets and you sometime pick up a wild price in the mean time.

Another reason is that the times may have changed for the race and your bot has not adjusted for it.

Another reason is the race went into play (you were too late getting the bets on) and the figures you are matching against is the in play figures.
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Old 7th August 2012, 07:30 AM
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I had issues with BFSP bets going unmatched some time ago but no problems recently.
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Old 7th August 2012, 03:29 PM
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I had issues with BFSP bets going unmatched some time ago but no problems recently.
OH DEAR, B.F.S.P is where i was going to head,
Later on down the track if need be.

Wouldn't mind an update from time to time N/R,
If this scenario repeats, this is why i left Betfair,
Years ago but i was not using B.F.S.P. back then.

Cheers.
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Old 7th August 2012, 05:19 PM
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garyf, my issues were around 14-18 months ago when my bot missed a few winners with no logical explanation as to why other than there must have been an issue with BF, BF support could shed no light so I spat the dummy & stopped using BFSP & just took whatever was on offer at the time I placed my bets.

Recently started using BFSP again after discussion with others that have not experienced any issues & so far so good.
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Old 7th August 2012, 06:19 PM
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I havent had a bet on betfair for a few months.

Something that concerns me is that i notice they now don't publish BFSP on their results pages anymore. Why?

Their SP product would be easy to manipulate, particularly if there is no public record to compare actual SP given to.
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Old 7th August 2012, 09:49 PM
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Something that concerns me is that i notice they now don't publish BFSP on their results pages anymore. Why?


Because generally on fancied runners after commission and the 1.5% levy, their SP is worse than best tote.
Also their software is full of errors, missing results, wrong prices, scratchings missed etc etc.
They can no longer publish the SP advantage because with the levy, there ain't much on all but the outsiders.
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Old 8th August 2012, 03:45 PM
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People can say what they like but i know something is going on, in the last week i have had 5 bets not placed, in the last 3 years of using bots to place my bets this has hardly happened, now 5 in a week.
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Old 8th August 2012, 05:58 PM
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Shaun, you have described exactly what happened to me a while back, your using Betting Assistant I assume?
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