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I have spent most of the afternoon entertaining these Bet365 cunts, the full e-mail correspondance is below (starts from the bottom), I’ve taken my own name out in case people start ringing me in the middle of the night :lol:

Mark,

I realise you have a book to go by and you have to give me more of the usual rehearsed spin. Can you get one of your traders to respond to my email then? So as they can tell me why their ‘estimate of the likely profitability of that customer’s business’ led to them offering me €1.80 e/w on a horse.

The paragraph,

“If you wish we can send your account for a review in regards to the trading decision however in order for the review to be completed there would need to be betting activity on the account”,

makes limited sense. I would like for a review to be done, for your own good, not mine, so as you can learn how to conduct your business, it needs a serious review. There has been plenty of betting activity on the account so that should be no problem.

Regards

Mr X

— On Sun, 26/6/11, support-eng@customerservices365.com support-eng@customerservices365.com wrote:

From: support-eng@customerservices365.com support-eng@customerservices365.com
Subject: RE: Embarrassing
To: Mr X
Date: Sunday, 26 June, 2011, 16:52

Dear Mr X,
Thank you for your email.

The amount offered to a customer depends on the nature of the event and our Traders’ estimate of the likely profitability of that customer’s business.

We are sorry that the amount offered in this case is less than you would like to have staked.
We do not have any further information as to why the decision has been made and why your account has been viewed in this way.

If you wish we can send your account for a review in regards to the trading decision however in order for the review to be completed there would need to be betting activity on the account.

We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.

If you require any further assistance in regard to this or any other matter, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our team are available 24 hours a day by Live Chat, via email support-eng@customerservices365.com, freephone 08000 288 365 or alternatively call 01782 684757 and we will be pleased to assist you.

Kind regards,

Mark H
The bet365 Team

— Original Message —
From: Mr X
Received: 26/06/11 17:14:31 o’clock BST
To: support-eng@customerservices365.com
Subject: Embarrassing

Sirs,

Last night I went to have €40 e/w on a horse in a 30 runner handicap at the Curragh at 20/1, however a message came up to tell me that the maximum I was allowed on was €1.80 e/w. There are a number of fundamental problems here.

Firstly the fact that you have limited my stakes for no apparant reason. I was told it was a ‘trading decision’ but I haven’t taken thousands out of your satchel, yet. I can’t understand how you can turn down that sort of business and am wondering why you took the measure to limit the stakes? If you could save the ‘trading decision’ spin I’d appreciate it.

Secondly it is hugely condescending to come back and offer me €1.80 e/w on a horse. Do you really expect me to say ‘oh great, I can get €3.60 on this one’. It’s disrespectful and embarrassing for your firm. If you do have a problem with my business then just close my account and notify me instead of offering me laughable terms.

Finally I have to question the competence of your traders. If they believe that my account warrants restricitions it is only down to their own incompetence and not mine. You shouldn’t be allowed trade as a firm in this manner. For a firm of your size to restrict a relatively small account one would have to wonder how you conduct your business. It is embarrassing for you and your ‘trading team’. I would appreciate a reponse to the points I have higlighted above,

Yours in bewilderment,
Mr X

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Bet 365 traders are laughable.

643

Did you take the €1.80ew?

644

It makes me laugh anyway TRE’s, I wouldn’t be that far ahead with them to knock me back either.

645

:lol: No, I withdrew my balance. Backed the horse at 16s with a rival firm and it came 2nd so it wasn’t all bad.

646

+1

647

Stan Jsmes are the only firm that will lay me a good bet anymore.

For Irish racing its oncourse now as the only option, that fine unless its Ballinrobe on a Tuesday.

648

Bet3.65 are jokers.
I’d heard from lads over the past year or so that they had improved alot but obviously from this they haven’t. Punting is now determined by a profit & lose computer program as opposed to a layer having the balls to take a position.

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Horse Racing Ireland has refunded stakes to out-of-pocket punters following the non-payment of winning bets at the Listowel races last September.

Punters were left without payment following bookmaker Ger ‘Dixie’ Dalton’s inability to honour winning bets struck on September 18, 2010.

HRI has recently contacted over 90 people by letter and Paul Finegan, of HRI’s Betting Division, confirmed “we have paid out approximately €7,000 to racegoers which covers punters’ stakes.”

“Mr Dalton had paid a deposit of €3,200 so we decided to withhold that. We are also in the process of selling six of his pitches around the country. Mr Dalton was also owed a small some of money by SIS, who provide betting shows to shops, and HRI have made up the balance which has now been paid to over 90 punters.”

“It remains Mr Dalton’s responsibility to repay the winning bets and enclosed is the amount of your stake. This is the extent of the payment we have been able to secure on your behalf.”

The letter also encloses a free bet of €10 from the Irish National Bookmakers’ Association.

650

How does that work? Redeemable through any on course bookie?

651

Fraud-probe worker ‘lost €20,000 a day betting’

By NIAMH HORAN, JIM CUSACK and BRENDAN FURLoNG in CARLOW

Sunday July 03 2011

The postal manager who went missing following the discovery of a €2m fraud at Gorey Post Office is believed to have been losing €20,000 a day gambling online with Paddy Power.

It is understood that Tony O’Reilly, 36, who disappeared last Wednesday on his way from his home in Carlow to his work in Gorey Post Office, has since been in contact with a family member from an internet connection in Northern Ireland.

Gardai and postal authorities are now investigating the massive fraud – which this weekend could have risen to €2m – and have interviewed members of staff after an internal audit discovered the “black hole” in the finances of the post office branch.

Mr O’Reilly, who lives in Carlow town, has been missing for the past four days.

Last night Paddy Power said it could not comment on individual clients: “Our relationship with our customers is private and we do not discuss individual customers. Should any of our customers have an issue with gambling, we have many measures in place to assist them.”

Up to yesterday there had been no sighting of Mr O’Reilly or his car. He did not have his passport when he disappeared after telling his wife he was on the way to work.

The full extent of the alleged fraud was not determined until Friday after post office chiefs were alerted to financial irregularities.

Gardai called in the assistance of the garda fraud squad as they stepped up their inquiries into the disappearance of the cash.

Gardai are anxious to interview all of the staff in the post office, including Mr O’Reilly.

Mr O’Reilly left his home at 6.30am to drive to the post office in Gorey. His wife Lorraine (nee O’Grady), a native of Skeaghvonsteen, Graignamanagh, Co Kilkenny, became concerned when she received a text message from his work mobile stating that he had been involved in a car crash near Tullow while on his way to work.

Mrs O’Reilly helped gardai in Gorey garda station with their inquiries throughout Friday before returning home. Later she went to her parents’ home in Skeaghvonsteen for fear of media attention after news of her husband’s disappearance became public.

It is also understood that gardai are examining the content of the text message to his wife which was not the usual English grammar he used when texting home.

Internal auditors were present in Gorey Post Office throughout last Wednesday and it’s believed they also received a text message from Mr O’Reilly stating that he had crashed in Tullow.

A garda source said yesterday that all CCTV footage along the route from Carlow to Gorey was being examined by them in a bid to piece together his movements. Of the tapes examined so far, his car has not been spotted.

Officers are examining phone records and it is understood a text message sent from his work mobile was last picked up from a telecommunications mast in Gorey on Wednesday morning.

There has been no contact from him since then and his Volkswagen Golf car has not been located.

After it was established that he had not turned up at work that morning, gardai at Gorey and Carlow were notified. Officers were initially concerned that Mr O’Reilly might have been abducted as part of a tiger kidnap by a crime gang targeting a ransom in the post office.

Mr O’Reilly, the father of a 10-month-old daughter, normally carried two mobile phones but neither has been in use since then. There have been no recent transactions in his bank accounts.

Gardai said his disappearance is being treated at this stage as a missing person case but acknowledged they would be anxious to speak to him along with all the other staff at the post office as their inquiries progressed into fraud.

Members of Mr O’Reilly’s family and dozens of friends and acquaintances have been searching the mountains in Wicklow and also checking side roads on the route between Carlow town and Gorey over the past three days in a bid to establish some clues as to his whereabouts.

A full inquiry has now been initiated by An Post’s internal investigation unit and will be carried out in parallel with the garda investigation.

  • NIAMH HORAN, JIM CUSACK and BRENDAN FURLoNG in CARLOW

  • as someone who has suffered at the hands of thieving An Post postmen in Dublin the past, I’m delighted this fraudster has finally been found out and will soon be brought to justice. €2 million robbed and they’re only finding out now, good grief.

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Was chatting to some people from gorey about this last night. General consesus is that he’s skipped the country and likely never to be seen again.

Very appropriate to bump this thread today after the effort you went to with stan james to keep your 12s bet on Dublin for leinster!

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I know a fella who fled the country and disappeared for the same reason, another gambling addict. One of the lads actually saw him in the crowd on Sky Sports during one of the rounds of the Greyhound Derby at Wimbledon. Still punting his brains out it seems. He fucked off and left a trail of debt behind him.

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Dunph is some scallywag alright

655

They have your man anyways. He was tracked down after betting €40,000 to win €27,000 in a bookies in Belfast. He is now in a medical facility in the south east.

(he won the bet)

656

If they’d given him time he could’ve won it all back.

657

It’s impressive that they laid him this bet. Any idea who the bookies were?

658

Fucking hell! :lol:

659

I presume the only reason they tracked him down after winning this bet is because the bookies in question welched and called the guards.

660

They knew he was in Belfast and they had already located his car when they got the tip off about him being in the bookies.