To be fair, that just shows how low our expectations have fallen.
Morally, they are in the wrong - 100%. The bet was accepted, it should be honored in full. But the TOC aka the wall of text nobody reads says they can do basically what they want and if we look at it like that, fine, they are right.
I'd agree that they do not have to answer and they did everything by their TOC, but it is bad ethics for sure - absolutely no doubt there.
It is not about dropping our expectations, it is about the rules and this has been like this on sportsbooks for years as well, long before fortunejack was created, even before bitcoin was invented. Online sportsbooks are one of the most cutting edge gambling you can ever find, there are tens of billions of dollars gambled on them every year, and this means there are small mistakes that can cost tens of millions of dollars as well, hence they came up with some rules to back out when they have to if it is a technical problem. You could have some sort of developer who writes 17.00 instead of 1.70 and you expect the house to pay that?
Obviously it will get cancelled. Same goes for every single mistake you can think of, because if there is a technical problem, they can remove it. They will not wait until last second of the game and cancel neither, they cancel it as soon as they see it. That's just how things work.
Oh man, the amount of inaccurate statements you made is just crazy, let me address it to you:
1. They have literally broken their own rules by canceling this bet & not counting this as a win; and even worse, not returning the stake of my bet like it's always the case whenever a bet gets canceled for any reason.
Speaking of other sportsbooks,
every single sportsbook who featured this match on that day has rewarded all their users who bet on De Jong their full win (whether they got him at 2.6+ odds or lower), and not a single site canceled this bet for their users on that day, only FortuneJack did and they did it
only for me and no one else on their site (because I guess I had slightly better odds?).
You think this is right or fair? It is literally going against their own + universal gambling rules amongst all other sportbooks. I even have a friend who bet on De Jong at better odds than me (2.8-3.0) and the site he used never canceled this bet (super late) and rewarded him his winning amount, just as it always should be. I also know for a fact Stake.com did not cancel this bet in advance either because I believe I had a bet on it too.
So if the rules are so universal and go for just about any sportsbook, why is FortuneJack the only betting site in the world that decided to cancel the bet for me on that day when no one else did? The worse thing is as I said, that they only canceled it
for me while keeping the lines of this match open for everyone else to bet on, before and during the match. This is completely unacceptable.
2. For the 100th time, this was NOT a technical error by any means. I can give you 10+ different reasons why it would make perfect sense for De Jong's opponent to be the favorite to win this match on that given day. It definitely was not an "accidental" situation where you put 17 instead of 1.7, and there was no clear favorite in this match. I wouldn't have been surprised if they were given equal odds of winning either.
Also, the fact that they kept De Jong above 2.6 odds for
2-3 hours without freezing & changing the odds right away within the first 30mins, PROVES this was
not a technical error. It was a simple misjudgment on their end and a regular case of a change of odds that happens all the time, that's what they even claimed in the initial email too. Because if it
really was a technical error, they would have noticed it right away and changed the odds right away as it always happens in sports gambling, not 2-3 hours later when they were clearly aware of this at the time cuz they kept slowly dropping his odds by 0.2 units every 30mins.
Even according to their email, they claim that they canceled it because odds dropped from 2.6 to 1.7, and that in itself is not a significant difference, and bets
never get canceled because of that in advance on any site, EVER. Why? Because it is literally against the rules. You cannot cancel the betting match for 1 person and then not cancel it for everyone else. It has to be universal - either cancel it for everyone or for no one.
Not to mention that even in most scenarios WITH technical errors, bookies in the past have paid out in full to people who took advantage of that even if it was a complete accident. And when they haven't and it was taken to court, they bettor always won and got their full winning amount. But once again, I can 100% assure you that this was far from that kind of case here and definitely not such an extreme technical error or "accident".
Otherwise, I'm the type of person who would personally not feel good about purposely taking advantage of such a terrible mistake myself because I would know it was completely unintentional. But in my case there was still a lot of risk involved because quite frankly this match could have gone either way, especially given how close the 2nd set was.
3. They did NOT cancel it as soon as they saw it! That is the biggest proof of why it was not a technical error. They saw it right away and instead of freezing + changing odds then & there, they decided instead to slowly drop his odds by 0.2 units every 30 mins for
2-3 hours. I really hope you understand now that this was far from a technical error or an "accident".
Alos, they did
not even cancel it for me right away, they did it 12-13 hours after I placed the bet from the evening before (the match started in the morning the next day), and 1-2 hours before the match was about to start. It was a super late cancelation without any valid reason for it.
So please don't make it seem like they made such a terrible mistake and are so innocent when
everything they did against me was 100% intentional and goes against their own rules, let alone the ethics & morality of it.