Bookie refuses to pay out £7 million on snow bet

LondonCypriot


Joined: 15/12/2008
Posts: 426

Message Posted:
08/01/2010 23:28

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100108/tuk-oukoe-uk-britain-bet-fa6b408.html

Joe Soap


Joined: 17/10/2008
Posts: 170

Message Posted:
09/01/2010 01:21

Disgraceful

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
09/01/2010 01:30

Thieving B....s. No wonder you never see a poor bookmaker.

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
09/01/2010 01:36

when I first moved to Stockport, 20 odd years ago, a bookie had done the same.



They shouldn't take the bet if they can't afford to pay up. Sure little (woods) ;-) can

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
09/01/2010 12:01

Why am I not surprised!!

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
09/01/2010 12:09

I bet he does not get his money!







Mugs game.

walkerscott


Joined: 13/08/2009
Posts: 901

Message Posted:
09/01/2010 15:23

If the Bookie had thier "Rules + Conditions" displayed anywhere on the walls of the betting shop then they are within their rights to make a bet null and void. It is another thing if they did not have them displayed. Any outcome will then depend on the good will of the organisation but considering the amounts mentioned here, i would not count on that.



It would be pure business suicide to accept such a bet anyway so i suspect they were relying on the displayed Rules + Conditions. And any employee can make a mistake.

tamsus


Joined: 08/03/2009
Posts: 3

Message Posted:
09/01/2010 17:29

Shitezers!



We should all boycott ladbrokes!



If they took the bet they should honour the bet!

colly


Joined: 31/07/2008
Posts: 297

Message Posted:
10/01/2010 12:36

I think that if he is a regular better then he would have known they would not pay out and indeed that the odds cannot be used in his bet. The odds are based on the predicting the possibility of snow in a given area at a given time before the event. Clearly once the event had happened in one area the odds tumble for the other areas.

karakum5c



Joined: 18/03/2008
Posts: 1021

Message Posted:
10/01/2010 13:48

Snow what snow ?









Its official this is one of the mildest winters this country has ever had, who promised this would be the case of course it was our supreme leader GORDON BROWN better known as "Flash Gordon Saviour of the Universe"

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
11/01/2010 06:26

100-1 he wont get any money at all