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I sold up at 154 and bought in quite big at 128 last week. What do ya think? Am I onto a winner? Good luck
Why when ladbrokes bought betdaq did they claim they done it to add to their online offerings and to stand out from their competitors? Having an exchange is the only difference I can see. And unlike william hill they have a single wallet. Unlike bet fair you can collect your winnings in cash within minutes. If they wanted to stand out then they are doing a great job of hiding it. I have no idea but you think the commission based exchange made a loss?? Seriously if your such a professional who knows the industry so well then please explain how the exchange made a loss as I don't get how it could have.
Where can you play a hand of poker, play one of x amounts of live casino games, place a football long list bet, place a bet against ordinary people on an exchange, enjoy an afternoon game of bingo AND pick up your winnings that evening and splash the cash with your pals that same evening?????? There's only one place that's LADBROKES GAME ON!! Simples no other establishment offers all that so why not bloody say so??????? Any one got any better ideas?????
Ladbrokes unique selling point is it's betting exchange along the top of their website under exchange! Along with their poker casino sports book. William hill doesn't have that? Any online ladbrokes punter knows the exchange is there! Do they use it much?? Who knows? If I'm a paddy power or william hill punter who also uses bet fair how great would it be to have a poker win or casino win and then have enough money in my same wallet to do an exchange bet? Ladbrokes customers are aware but do their rivals know? It may be a more attractive prospect to a regular punter than a free £10 bet! The gap between lads and bills needs to close if it doesn't questions need to be asked about who the hell is in charge. Heads need to roll. I was disappointed to see more crappy advertising by ladbrokes throughout the World Cup. What are they worried about???? Their customers know of the exchange their competitors may not it is their major usp that to date has not been fully capitalised on. Get it out there and close the gap!
It's aprox 3.5% payment being dished out in sep! How bad is that!
New bonds issued to raise cash. A promise to maintain a 7+% divi. Surely an increase in profits to be announced next week! Got my voda divi and lad stat mixed up! Lads record lows will most certainly attract take over talk which always if just talk or not seems to give the sp a nice 4/5% overnight hike. What's the worst that can happen? 105 with a 9.5% divi?? I can't see it myself buy buy buy!!! Good news is surely just around the corner!!
Hoping for some long overdue positivity tomorrow
You've been saying that for a very long time now and it still has not gone below 128! Sub 130 maybe then 150+ within 2 weeks if you ask me. Dropped 5/6% because of a Labour Party statement about what they will do if they win the next election! What a joke! The Labour Party could have increased profit in ladbrokes this year compared to last years shocking lows. I'm sure as hell play tech can in a World Cup year. If not Glenn will go and price should rise anyway! I'm in for the rise and I'm remaining in for the divi hunters to shoot this through the roof for septembers bumper divi off the back of 45% increase in profit in August! Maybe a little optimistic with 45% but 120 still ain't come!!
And the bent brokers all buy buy buy ratings deciding over a pint that they have an excuse to sink it! Still folks there ain't no such thing as a dead cert!
Also I noticed none of the press drew any comparisons to the two in the weeks coming up to the announcement! Na they need some rubbish to write so they are writing it now. A comparison between a new fella opening up 6 shops might have been 8 or 9 shops but 6 rings a bell! It weren't many! And dixons! Utter joke to even compare the two! Let along conclude on definitive failure based on that alone. Anyway my rant is over!
Now there is not really a comparison to best buy and carphone and dixons and carphone. Dixons is an established British brand a market leader in the uk. Best buy "stormed!!!" The British market with 6 humongous shops!!! Try dixons 500+ shops! Market manipulation at its best the press are in on it with best buy none sense! All 6 shops next door to both currys and PC world shops I might add. Neither best buy or carphone had much of a clue. Dixons on the other hand and carphone have every clue! Nice to see the big buys buying in heavy at close of business! Carphone that is. Still they will be forced to pay a premium when it storms the ftse they have to by law buy and I have to sell!
Government keeping £100 spins and giving the councils powers to stop more being shops opening up. Paddy power not happy because they wanna open up more to compete with lads and wills who have lots of shops already!
Where's this report then? Is it with the bird flu Tony promised would wipe us all out years ago? Or is it actually coming? How to stop a compulsive gambler losing all their money their wives/husbands kids house all their belongings and turning to smack! The protection of a compulsive gambler! Protection against a machine not themselves! Even Tony weren't that mental!
In the fastest growing gambling nation on earth can't do any harm. Fantastic news Richard and Co! A great buy. Not a massive buy with all to lose a great cheap buy with all to gain. Another site hooked up to the exchange just in time for the world cup. Lovely.
There ya go boys at play tech! Hook them 40k of Aussie punters up to betdaq as well!!!
Many punters have lots of accounts say lads paddy power and william hill bet fair. Of them not many regularly use ladbrokes. But they probably still have accounts. Many don't know bet daq exists! But everyone knows ladbrokes. It's the punters that use say wills and betfair that maybe gamble on wills and fobt like their money in cash and think now ladbrokes will pay me out in cash for my roulette football exchange bets poker winnings ect it's them customers that lads is aiming for. With the right advertising it's possible for them to put a dent in a few of their rivals pockets as no one else will pay a punter out in cash for an exchange bet
Ok I may have misunderstood the argument regarding how betfair calculate their markets and figures. But my point of betdaq's recent massive expansion is 100% on the money. All of ladbrokes online customers can now use their ladbrokes single wallet to contribute into betdaq's markets. As well as all the other smaller sites acquired by lads that have also been redesigned by play tech to add to betdaq's pools. This surge in customers attributing to betdaq is gonna make a difference. Not saying they are gonna be bigger than betfair over night but say paddy power did buy out lads. All paddy powers users all attributing to betdaq. Some advertising towards its existing customers both in shop online. Not as expensive as tv advertising and it's customers already like a bet! Betdaq is considerably bigger now than it was six months ago and I'm expecting further massive growth through lads marketing during the World Cup.
Keith I think you should ring them and ask them. Your right about ladbrokes feeding into betdaq. That can only be a good thing for share holders as they trade commission free know what they are doing and lay off large liabilities that their rivals can't. Recycling money you called it! That is true so believing that and the fact that betdaq has been linked up to 29 other sites 28 other countries plus lads do you believe that its not likely that more money was traded on the masters? Betdaq of old has in the last five months gained tens of millions of new customer accounts!
Monty 15 months of betdaq yes but 5 of ladbrokes exchange. Deals were struck with play tech to develop it and link up the 28 other countries equivalent to ladbrokes to incorporate the exchange. Its a lot of work and its now over to the newly employed marketing company who's name I can't remember to drive the exchange forwards for the world cup and beyond! No quick fixes its being done properly! And Keith seriously mate try and lay a bet with odds of 20/1 with just two quid in your account! Your liability is your stake!!!!
Think about it Keith before you start offering prices like that! Lol