Betfair Review

They look after their customers and make sure they are not getting in too deep

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Dreadful company. Ripped of on a bet. Stake was quite substantial and the bet won. Then the only option available to me a good few minutes after the result was to cash out for 4 euro, my stake alone was over 20 times that. I hit the cash out assuming that this was an error and that Betfair would honour the win, they didn’t. Owed about 200 euro which they said would not be settled. I disabled my account immediately and regret ever setting one up with them. An absolute disgrace of a company, avoid.

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Terrible company that will restrict your account if you win regularly

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Very helpful agents who dealt with my query quickly and to my satisfaction.

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Great game and fast withdrawals very helpful agents to if ever you need assistance about anything would definitely recommend 💯

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On Thursday.22 June, I placed a TOTE TRIFECTA,which won and I should have been paid £77.76.I wasn’t and they couldn’t tell me which bet on my account referred to itI placed 5 tote bets that day. All races at Ascot.Too many people baffling you and and each other dealing with a simple complaint.

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I just got the help of online chat regarding the verification of my account. They solved my issue very easily by being so kind and quick. I really appreciate it.

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I be playing on Betfair for long time, I really enjoyed. The customer services they great and slots promotions to.

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Betfair platform is easy to follow and understand, I could easily follow the betting sequences, it is one of the platforms in which I could bet till the last few seconds of the game/race.

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I was a Betfair customer for many years. To start with they were brilliant. The exchange odds were often far better than SP and there were lots of offers and concessions. Since Paddy Power took over they have gone downhill fast. The amount of money matched per race fell sharply so liquidity was a problem. They restricted Best Odds Guaranteed to singles then they withdrew it without any warning. If you want to query settlement of a bet it is impossible to get hold of anybody with any knowledge of betting. I have closed my account and would recommend all punters to go elsewhere.

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I had an issue that was sorted out pretty fast. Back to having fun within a hour

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Betfair have had a major data breach that has resulted in customers losing money out of there accounts. They can give no timescales on when this will be resolved. It is concerning that the only account that money should be withdrawn to is the customers own account, yet money has gone missing. Not the first time, see online articles for 2011. It is now 2 weeks and they still will not discuss it with me. I am told that they are working through many tickets, concerning that after 2 weeks they are still addressing the issue. Makes you wonder how many are affected.

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Betfair closed my account without giving me a reason. When I contacted customer support to ask about open exchange bets they told me there was nothing and the last bet had already been settled – I knew this was not correct as I had placed a bet for South Africa to win the Rugby World Cup. Requested a statement of account and sure enough my balance showed that I had won that bet! Absolutely outrageous way to treat a customer and then lie about the account.

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Sadly Betfair use the online poker skin iPoker. A nine seat table can take more than 20mins to fill which is longer than you will be sat down at the table playing, this is nothing like Poker in the real world, warning it could actually harm your game. Everything on the SitandGo tables is built around speed which run at turbo and hyper turbo speed. Volumes have been written about the RNG and the way the cards come out nothing in a complementary way, I would just say its good at clearing the table of players. If you have limited poker skill and enjoy a bit of fast Bingo Poker then sign on and watch the incredible flops and suck outs unfold.

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I am very sorry to hear Betfair has closed for Norwegian customers. They are really good. No problems. Good support. Quick withdrawals.

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Can’t understand how Betfair it’s so poor in quality offer to their own customers…I could see that it’s a general issue with odds moving while u place a bet and for my surprise if the odds goes up u will stay with your previous odd but if goes down they actualise for their benefit…before I used bet365 and they just block the bet when the odd changes and that’s what should be done in Betfair if they were reliable…sad!

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One of the few and good, online sports betting sites, left in the UK. Quick customer support response, and instant result, fixing issues. Just WOW. Cant compare to any other, competitor sites, they are just rubbish.Thanks Betfair, as always, you are outstanding

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customer service alright,would apare if could get more free bets.

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Customer services are good. Shame about the rules regarding substitutes with football bets. 10mins is not long enough really.

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I’ve been a long term customer and like someone has said above I’d like to leave a balanced review that’s not influenced by losses or short term issues.The site itself and the overall product, especially the exchange which is unique and the best betting product available, would get 5 star’s no problem. You’re getting the best odds around betting on the exchange and due to you not actually winning off a bookmaker you’ll never get issues with account closures or restrictions.The downside of Betfair and the reason I only give them 3 stars is the customer service is absolutely appalling. I would say that this problem isn’t unique to them, virtually all the bookmakers I deal with are poor at best when it comes to looking after and dealing with their customer’s issues, but Betfair are head and shoulders the worst of the established bookmakers.Live chat is painfully slow and unless your issue is the most basic to solve, no one on the chat has much idea of the actual gambling and site product. These positions should be a semi skilled job with anybody holding them having a pretty good grasp of the industry. Unfortunately they’re not and most of the operatives you’ll deal with (if you manage to get past the Bot) are lacking in even the most basic knowledge of gambling and it’s rules.Brilliant site, shocking customer service!EDIT: I’ve read through loads more reviews on here since I posted mine and would advise people to take 90% of them with a massive pinch of salt. They’re nearly all from obvious bad losing/compulsive/casino junkies and are far from accurate. There is nothing dodgy or scamming about Betfair whatsoever, they are an extremely reliable bookmaker and your money is more than safe with them is everything about you is legit. Most complaints are about losing/offers on the sportsbook or casino. These aren’t the reason anyone should join Betfair, it’s their exchange that makes them stand out. Casino junkies can choose from 1000,s of sites…… and they’ll lose on every one of them.

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I had the pleasure of chatting with a very knowledgeable and experienced member of the Safer Gambling team today. The chat was thorough and all the questions were appropriate.

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Customer support is quick and effective. Special thanks to Josh who quickly helped me with my query.

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I have used Betfair for over 20 years. Overall the service is good and the odds offered on the exchange are better than any bookmaker for Horseracing, Football and most other sports. The only downsides are: 1. handling downtime which does NOT occur that frequently and 2. Dealing with customer contacts (as stated in other reviews it is initially not one on one and you are interfacingf with a bot, or it seems that way) and new accounts problems with account access, withdrawals, etc.Once you are an established user deposits, withdrawals and placing bets are simple transactions to carry out. They are not perfect, but they are not scammers, crooks or anything else described in some reviews. Bear in mind that people receiving a good service are not likely to review whilst those encountering problems are very likely to write a bad review. I hope you will feel this is a balanced review and helps you to decide whether or not to use Betfair

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Don’t bet with betfair false bettings 0 rating

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I placed a 5 team accumulator and 4 teams won and I was waiting for a late kick off so I decided to cash out but 1 result, showing a 2-1 win wasn’t registering as a win, so wouldn’t allow my cash out. Tried customer service but no joy. This isn’t the first time. I would highly recommend Not using Betfair they are absolutely useless. I’m down nearly £1000 due to their issues and won’t ever use them again. STAY CLEAR

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My account was deactivated for some unknown reason last year (25+ year account) but after eventually managing to get through all the bots and AI, it was reactivated with little to no pain. Overall a good experience

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Very helpful and friendly support staff, nothing too much trouble. Answered all my questions quickly and correctly. Was like talking to a knowledgable friend.

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The best Way to chalenge yourself with a lot possibilities…

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I joined up with these clowns today, had my 50 free spins and won just over £9, I opted for a Tesco voucher…because of this I got £2 extra so I was able to opt for a £10 Tesco voucher which said I would receive in 2mins with £1.30 still left as credit on my account…I never got that token at all!…instead I got an email saying that my account had been closed which is inline with terms and conditions (as an excuse)….it looks to me like they didn’t want me to win this money so they cancelled my account instead, no other reason…I’d literally just joined up!Then I saw many other identical reviews everywhere about betfair!If I had won nothing, my account would be fine!Absolute scammers…avoid at all cost!

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For anybody that is going to place a football acca at Betfair make sure you do it via oddschecker as the odds are much much bigger than on the Betfair app. I’ve just filled a acca out on Betfair app and it was 18/1 but on oddschecker it’s 26/1 big difference if you going to bet big

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Deposited 600 gbp left 269 gbp to either play or withdraw the following day . Signed in said I had to speak to safer gambling team spoken to them they requested id again picture of myself with the id utility bill bank statement showing the deposits picture of bank card deposited from . This was 3 maybe 4 weeks ago now and I still havent got my money . I’ve spent hours on online chat being referred to numerous agents to now be told a team will be in touch soon . Soon has not got a time scale. I just want to retrieve alittle bit of my cash back and this is a problem I will never bet with these ever again nightmare company that seem to think they can just keep your money even if you’ve not lost it

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Had a game abandoned in my acca and in my view it was deemed as a loss, and my acca adge was lost, and my stake.I enquired by the very quick on line chat and although they were acting within the terms of the acca edge rules, they sympathised with me and refunded my original stake as a good will gesture.

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very helpful agents managed to sort out my log in problems nothing was too much trouble cheers

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Terrible support. Absolutely the slowest on planet earth. Copy and pasted replies. No understanding of the issue….and to top it all off. The stopped offering best odds.

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Shocking service. Do not use prizeout as it’s a scam. Money disappears for several days then refunded. No customer service whatsoever. AVOID!

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While watching a boring rugby match I thought I’d spice it up by trying an on-line gamble. How wrong I was. I signed up to BetFair, and they rapidly credited my account with funds from my credit card.Then the problems started.When trying to place a bet, I was informed my account was suspended. Why, who knows. Never mind I thought, I’ll just withdraw my stake, which I’d just deposited.Not allowed! They now want me to jump through loads of hoops just to return my original deposit. They didn’t like the fact I have an old style paper driving licence, despite them still be perfectly valid. I had to send them a link to the DVLA site confirming this. Then they didn’t like the fact that my house has a name AND a number. Sometimes the name is used sometimes the number.Customer service is appalling.Eventually they magnanimously agreed to un-suspend my account, but to withdraw my initial deposit I’d have to wait a week.Avoid using this scammy service.

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Ciaran was very friendly and responded really fast to resolve the issue with my account

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Had a issue with a promotion bet resolved easily by a agent called Karen

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Great service everytime I needed help. Agents are so helpful and always quick to resolve my queries.

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You can no longer get best odds guaranteed with BETFAIR and because of this you no longer get a fair price

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Great customer service on the online web chat. No faults, helped perfectly, and very friendly.

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Had my somewhat difficult query sorted by Daniel. Thx

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I do not recommend it!!! I won 980 pounds and my account was closed and the winnings were not paid! I made deposits earlier and withdrew smaller winnings and there was no problem.

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Customer support is 10/10 they have been really straightforward and helped alot !

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Purely scammedI hadn’t placed a bet for over 5 hours when I was looking at my Betfair account It’s strange that I had to voided bets I hadn’t placed totaling 600 which I questioned the staff and when they didn’t get back to me next day I called to find out how this happened and that all my discrepancies in the past should be looked at bet by betInstead I was told they’ve made a business descision they will close my account and said they won’t discuss anything any further as I no longer have an account Surely a wealthy company Ike this one would try to sort the issue out instead of closing my account If there are people with similar things we should get together for a huge CLASS ACTION

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Free games are not legit.. The pinball game particularly.. The ball multiple times floated in the air for 2 seconds waiting for it to land on nothing..Almost useless for boxing and MMA betting, they stop betting on fights sometimes 30 mins before it starts..

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My customer service agent ‘Charan’ was awesome , very friendly and helpful. Lovely 😊

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I spoke with a lovely lady who was really helpful unlike the previous chat agent who was obsessed with my email address when it should have been my password. He said he could change my email address from his end when he meant my password. His lack of courtesy and professionalism was appalling and he abruptly ended the chat which was disgusting. I pray literally he’ll realise his huge blunder and learn from it though I question that? But I’ll still recommend betfair because I don’t want one person out of many to spoil the broth as it were so yes please try betfair. God bless. Please watch on YouTube the warning or illumination of conscience by Christine Watkins. Then Following Padre Pio.

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I’ve been using the Betfair Exchange for about a year and find it very easy and straightforward. I’ve not had to contact customer services for help very much but when I have (today for example) they have been extremely quick and helpful. Bets seems to get settled quickly and it’s pretty user friendly. I do also use the Sportsbook but not as much as the exchange but find that good too.

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It should be more option for deposit and withdrawal. I hope crypto money could be supported in the future.

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