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Hickster74
Davey Langan Joined: 20 Oct 2015 Location: Depends Status: Offline Points: 931 |
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True.
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horsebox
Robbie Keane Born n bred in darndale. Joined: 03 Feb 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Online Points: 34723 |
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It was far across the sea,
When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
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Roberto Baggio
Robbie Keane UNBELIEVABLE JEFF Joined: 28 Jan 2010 Status: Online Points: 37153 |
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Was just about to say that, I heard years ago that there is no contract with a bet and that the bookies don't have to pay you a penny of any bet
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Hickster74
Davey Langan Joined: 20 Oct 2015 Location: Depends Status: Offline Points: 931 |
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Madness...
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rossieman
Roy Keane Joined: 01 Apr 2011 Status: Offline Points: 14254 |
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Always the case,can tell you to get f**ked but they obviously aren't going to last long doing that. |
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Borussia
Roy Keane Joined: 14 Oct 2010 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 10608 |
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The bet I had with PP was a novelty one - When Letterman announced he was leaving The Late Show, they opened a market on who the new host would be. Wouldn't normally be my type of bet to be honest, but then I saw rumblings on Twitter that Stephen Colbert was getting the job. Knew PP had a market open and saw the price was 5/1 or something like that so I backed it. An hour later and still no official announcement from CBS, but obviously people started to hear the same rumblings and had backed him also as PP had cut the price and he was 7/4 or something similar. So, I had a second bet. I did check the CBS website and Twitter accounts and no official announcement.
Anyways, he was duly announced as the host later that day but PP didn't pay out and voided the bet. The pulled up a rule saying they had the right to do that if the outcome of a market was known and they had made a mistake in not closing the market. I challenged them on the result being known and a day later they came back with a story posted online about this which was time stamped a few mins before my first bet.
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Bob Hoskins
Moderator Group Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Status: Offline Points: 20175 |
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Whatever about their rules their staff are even worse, not the ones in the shop, the other ones. Horrendous people altogether
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Romario 2016: And the ticket mafia gets caught! Well, four years ago I had already told the government.
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Borussia
Roy Keane Joined: 14 Oct 2010 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 10608 |
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coyne
Paul McGrath Joined: 17 Aug 2013 Location: Sunderland Status: Offline Points: 15881 |
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PP aren't really helping themselves by continuing to ignore it and try go about their Social media nonsense as usual. It's just raising public awareness of what happened.
Today they tweeted "How are you all doing this Friday" And about 30 people responded with "Probably better than the guy you refused to pay out to"
Edited by coyne - 21 Apr 2017 at 3:48pm |
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OnTheOneRoad
Ray Houghton Joined: 06 Nov 2014 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 4190 |
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It falls under the heading of unilateral mistake. If, say Real Madrid are playing Ballinamallard's U17s and Madrid are listed as 3/1, It will be assumed that you either know or ought to know that this is a mistake made by the bookies then they have the right to pay you out at the odds they should have applied, that being something like 1/100. This is the rule that applies in all businesses so its not just bookies that get away with cock-ups - if a car dealership advertises a Nissan Micra for 30 cent by accident they can get that set aside. Of course, that'd be contingent on them agreeing that there's a contract there. They could just decide not to honour the bet at all and say there's no contract there, and they'd win. But on the other hand that's very bad for business
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No thank you Turkish......I'm sweet enough
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Hickster74
Davey Langan Joined: 20 Oct 2015 Location: Depends Status: Offline Points: 931 |
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Once money changes hands there's a contract no? If the Micra was advertised for 3k and some part timer sold it for that and the customer had a receipt there'd be no way back for the garage? |
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Sham157
Moderator Group Joined: 17 Jul 2009 Location: Monaghan/Dublin Status: Offline Points: 33195 |
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That would be covered by te sale of goods and supply of servivces act , gambling is not.
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Hickster74
Davey Langan Joined: 20 Oct 2015 Location: Depends Status: Offline Points: 931 |
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A gambling contract should be no different of course. They're making enough to swallow their mistakes.
Edited by Hickster74 - 22 Apr 2017 at 1:36am |
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flick
Ray Houghton Joined: 04 Jul 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 3674 |
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I got 3 numbers and 4 numbers up in the lotto 375/1 and 3800/1 a few weeks back. Account was suspended until I provided proof of ID and address even though they had this on file. Once they got what they needed, I won on a €10 bet at 6/1 and they restricted my account. Joke of a bookmaker, as if I had inside knowledge of the lotto results never won more than a few hundred on horses/football so absolute no need to restrict the amount I could bet
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GWAN YBIG
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newrynyuk
Liam Brady Joined: 29 Mar 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1546 |
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Remember that Paddy Power were the one accepting bets on the next Liverpool player to be burgled when the Reds were suffering a spate of robberies.
Paddy Power also offered odds on Obama being assassinated before the end of his presidency. Utter scumbags. |
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nvidic
Moderator Group Joined: 03 Aug 2010 Status: Offline Points: 18938 |
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Don't think that Obama one is true? Any link?
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rossieman
Roy Keane Joined: 01 Apr 2011 Status: Offline Points: 14254 |
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I dont think they specifically said assassination,It was more that he wouldnt finish his first term and I think it may have added in some nonsense in the adds about "for any reason". |
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newrynyuk
Liam Brady Joined: 29 Mar 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1546 |
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Not shortage of links from a simple Google search
http://sportsintensity.com/news_dtls.php?news_id=121 http://www.gambling911.com/politics/obama-assassination-bet-bad-taste-odds-still-offered-110708.html http://www.casinocitytimes.com/news/article/paddy-power-offering-odds-on-obama-assassination-175808 |
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