Here are my 2 cents. There has been so much action in the thread in the last 24 hours or so that I can barley follow it properly but will give my best to comment what I deem important and hopefully not step on anybody toes.
First of all I still haven't supported or opposed the 2 raised flags. I can not do either of those actions with clear conscience. I have already stated that I personally trust Sportsbet with amounts greater than disputed here. On the other hand their response to this case simply hasn't been good enough and the fact that they have treated me fairly doesn't immediately imply fair treatment of others. I will hold with my decision for a while longer.
I messaged Steve & told him he’s going to have to do more to satisfy some people on this by the way.
Edit - Just looked, he hasn’t been online since 7am ish so he won’t have seen my PM yet.
This is the best route for now in my opinion. Steve is only available at the forum inside working hours on working days. I am not expecting he will see the PM before Monday. I will give Sportsbet one more chance to provide some evidence or solutions to this problem. However, if nothing gets resolved until Wednesday I will personally try to contact Steve and if that goes without reply I will have to support the flags as a way to provoke action from Sportsbet.
I believe even the strongest opponent of the flags has to admit that if this was some other bookie we would all paint that account red much sooner. Sportsbet has done great stuff for the community and that is the only reason I am still giving them time and it is simply unbelievable that they would scam somebody for amounts mentioned here.
However, I have no problem believing that somebody did an honest mistake and botched something in this case. I for one wouldn't think any less of Sportsbet if that is a case and they apologize after situation like that. Mistakes happen in every business and the way they are handled tells us much about the leadership of that business.
I guess it makes sense to pick the most active and reputable users in this thread, not matter if they were for/against my case (please correct my choice, I might have missed someone):
@Royse777
@LFC_Bitcoin
@efialtis
@buwaytress
@SyGambler
@actmyname
@Trofo
@gosha@e-coin
The dude at the bottom is a scammer, he got banned as game-protect. Do not send him any information at all.
@OP this is sound advice and I see you already excluded him from your list. That guy isn't helping your case at all. When somebody is just coming and writing basically the same stuff all over again I just put him on ignore list. I am willing to go this route if necessary but Steve/Sportsbet have also to agree to that. Otherwise it makes no sense. I would recommend to keep this as last resort, since it is never smart to send your documents to other people.
This thing has gone a bit out of the hand and I don't like the fact that some users, whose opinion I value, has decided to oppose this flags. I also don't like that flags have a wording like they do but we can't change that and we as a community have to make some sort of pressure on Sportsbet to provide us with better answer. Next time it could be one of us, or our newbie friend we just introduced to forum and Sportsbet.
My hope is that Steve will get in touch beginning of the next week and offer us satisfactory proofs of fraudulent behavior or solve the situation in the OP favor. Really don't like to get involved in cases like this