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Do Ladbrokes think

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  • #32
    zarquon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,734 ✭✭✭zarquon


    robbie1977 wrote: »
    Whether you are right or wrong with your opinion of people backing on a event without knowing the current score you dont realy get
    the morally wrong thing Ladbrokes are doing here do you ? :confused::confused:

    Its like saying that a american tourist should check the quickest
    route to their hotel before getting into a taxi or otherwise if they get ripped off by the taxi man they deserve it.

    Your hardly a ladbrokes employee worried about your job or something are you other than that I honestly cant understand why someone would stick up for a bookie in a case like this.

    The real point is the event in question was an in-play one. It is ridiculously stupid for anyone to put a stake on a match in-play and not actually know what the current score is.


  • #33
    premierstone
    Registered Users Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    zarquon wrote: »
    The real point is the event in question was an in-play one. It is ridiculously stupid for anyone to put a stake on a match in-play and not actually know what the current score is.

    Exactly and therefore the original question that was asked ''Do Ladbrokes think their customers are idiots?'' It would appear that if they do think that they are correct to do so :p


  • #34
    Juwwi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭Juwwi


    Am I right in thinking the general feeling here on this is Ladbrokes are doing nothing wrong and if people are stupid enough to back on something in running that they dont know the score of they deserve to lose their money.:confused::confused:


  • #35
    BKC
    Registered Users Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭BKC


    robbie1977 wrote: »
    Am I right in thinking the general feeling here on this is Ladbrokes are doing nothing wrong and if people are stupid enough to back on something in running that they dont know the score of they deserve to lose their money.:confused::confused:

    Pretty much, yes.


  • #36
    okidoki987
    Registered Users Posts: 10,614 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    It is ridiculously stupid for anyone to put a stake on a match in-play and not actually know what the current score is.

    Is it as ridiculous as somebody offering a price on something where the punter cannot win on?


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  • #37
    BKC
    Registered Users Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭BKC


    okidoki987 wrote: »
    Is it as ridiculous as somebody offering a price on something where the punter cannot win on?

    Well that can be seen as ridiculously smart, depending on how you look at it.


  • #38
    okidoki987
    Registered Users Posts: 10,614 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    Hmmm, not the way I would put it.

    If someone organised a raffle, sold you a ticket but didn't put the ticket in the draw, what would you think then?


  • #39
    zarquon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,734 ✭✭✭zarquon


    okidoki987 wrote: »
    Hmmm, not the way I would put it.

    If someone organised a raffle, sold you a ticket but didn't put the ticket in the draw, what would you think then?

    Terrible analogy as you know exactly what you are buying, how about agreeing to buy a raffle ticket without knowing the cost of the ticket or what the prizes are and then not knowing what your number is to claim a prize. In a bet the onus is on the gambler to know exactly what they are doing. If you don't know or understand the stake you are better off sticking to doing the lotto.

    To emphazise the points made by others, if ladbrokes accidently have an incorrect offer in play and people stupidly accept it when its already lost then the blame lies more with the gambler.


  • #40
    Juwwi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭Juwwi


    zarquon wrote: »
    Terrible analogy as you know exactly what you are buying, how about agreeing to buy a raffle ticket without knowing the cost of the ticket or what the prizes are and then not knowing what your number is to claim a prize. In a bet the onus is on the gambler to know exactly what they are doing. If you don't know or understand the stake you are better off sticking to doing the lotto.

    To emphazise the points made by others, if ladbrokes accidently have an incorrect offer in play and people stupidly accept it when its already lost then the blame lies more with the gambler.

    PMSL at the above.
    accidently :pac::pac:

    The ridiculously stupid opions on this is laughable.


  • #41
    Juwwi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭Juwwi


    okidoki987 wrote: »
    Is it as ridiculous as somebody offering a price on something where the punter cannot win on?
    BKC wrote: »
    Well that can be seen as ridiculously smart, depending on how you look at it.


    BKC do you understand a bookie cannot offer odds on something that cant happen.

    there is a rule that if you cant win you cant lose.

    ie: in a horse race with say fences if every horse falls the bookie has to refund
    the money on every horse because there was no winner of the race even tho your fell .

    Ladbrokes cannot offer odds on something that cant possibly happen.


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  • #42
    BKC
    Registered Users Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭BKC


    robbie1977 wrote: »
    BKC do you understand a bookie cannot offer odds on something that cant happen.

    there is a rule that if you cant win you cant lose.

    Well that's fair enough I guess.

    Although it's up to someone who cares to take this to IBAS or whoever to get it sorted.


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