Still nothing. No resolution, no response to the technical errors, nothing. I was told 24 hours, 36 hours later and nothing.
Hi kerrywoodwins20,
We are very sorry that you had a bad user experience placing this live bet. As an experienced bettor and our frequent customer, with hundreds of previous live bets on our sportsbook, we are certainly not trying to scam you or be fraudulent. We pride ourselves on paying out winning bets and processing withdrawals really quickly. To our understanding, you have placed many winning bets and you definitely seem to know your sports betting. It is always great to see a punter with an excellent nose for sports. Cheers to that
The incident you have experienced is most unfortunate. I am sure, however, that you have understood from the various discussions you have had related to this with our Support team, that there was nothing intentional from our side. Quite simply, you placed a bet which was sent off to validation with our risk team. This process takes between 5-15 seconds as quite often live lines in College Football can change very rapidly.
During this time, your bet amount is "reserved" from your balance in a pending status and then once bet is confirmed, the balance is deducted. If the bet is not confirmed, then the bet amount is returned to your account. This is exactly what has happened on your account as we can see 3 rejected bets and then finally 1 confirmed bet (unfortunately this confirmed bet lost). We also send a 2nd popup on the site, which confirms that your bet has been successful placed and confirmed.
Without going into too much detail here, our VIP team will be in contact with you we are sure we can find a solution that would reinstate the trust you have shown towards Sportsbet.io and our team so far. It is our honour to have you as a customer and I sincerely hope that you will continue to be one of our VIP players in the future.
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I was initially given a time frame of 12 hours, then 24 hours, and now it is approaching 2 full days.
This is not an accurate description of the events. I am familiar with the live betting platform and have wagered successfully there hundreds of times. In this particular instance, this supposedly rejected wager(s) was sent back to me several minutes after the bet was accepted and the funds were removed from the account. This did two things, one, it prevented me from being able to continue to pursue a good line on that game, and two it gave me hedge opportunities on other websites which I took and then realized minutes later that you had canceled an approved wager.
Also, I was watching the game live and it was on a commercial break for several minutes after I placed the bet so the contention that I was betting into an active game that changed is simply false.
I will await a resolution but it's already been 48 hours and you guys are still refusing to admit your responsibility or mistakes even though I have proof 3 separate agents have admitted there was a technical error in this case.
Being a growing book is one thing, as of course there will be growing pains as you have more customers, but expecting your initial customers to foot the bill for your mistakes is preposterous.