I would strongly encourage people to stay away from this book as 18 BTC was tossed onto a random bet a couple days ago on my account. I have bet over 700 BTC on this site in the past 3 weeks on Bitbook and I cash out and in on a daily basis. However, I have a strong feeling that someone went into my account on the backend and tossed 18 BTC on a random bet. I emailed bitbook immediately when the bet was placed and they claimed there was no evidence of any misconduct. Clearly someone got a hold of my account and I never log on from any other computer than my own. I have heard of similar situations on this site as there are many protection flaws in the system. I have since been putting action through other sites and been happy.
We try to deliver an exceptional experience to all users and in this case we made a special effort to go above and beyond in resolving an unusual circumstance. We are disappointed that nscala1 was not satisfied by our suggested resolution. Because this matter has been made public we will share the facts from our perspective:
- At 3:31am on Feburary 8th (all times in UTC) a bet was placed on The Toronto Raptors +6.5 over the LA Clippers
- At 3:35am the match began
- At 5:39am we were sent a message indicating that there was a bet on the user's account which they did not recall placing
- Several hours later we saw the message and asked the user which specific bet it was, and were told it was on the Raptors against the Clippers. At this point we conducted a thorough investigation trying to identify any evidence of an error or possible foul play. We did not find anything suspicious.
From our perspective the bet looked no different from a misclick, a bet placed while drunk, or a bet placed by someone else on an open browser window. Given that we would have paid winnings had the bet won, we had a long discussion about how to best handle this situation. We decided that we didn't believe that the user had malicious intentions, but we could not give a refund that would make it profitable for scammers to target us. We decided that if the user intended to stay using us anyhow that we could give a full refund, but it would have to be after the user had demonstrated that they were sincere in their intention of continued use. We offered a full refund in the form of a bonus, paid out after meaningful action had been placed.