So as rumoured for a while, Ladbrokes have finally acquired the lemon, sorry, purple-coloured betting exchange, Betdaq. For a mind-boggling €30m as 'initial consideration'. That's an even more ridiculous price than Fernando Torres for £50m, or any English player Liverpool have purchased in recent seasons! As I've written previously there are no logical business reasons for this acquisition. from Nov 29, 2012 The Racing Post reported this week that Ladbrokes are nearing a decision to acquire Betdaq. This baffles me, it really does. Betdaq are a complete and utter lemon. Their only rival in the market has kicked so many own goals over the years with the premium charge, followed by an increase in the premium charge, cost of API and data use, customer service standards which have fallen faster than Facebook share value, site crashes and various other faults. So many pissed off Betfair customers, yet Betdaq are still tailed off with a lap to go. Around the world, Betfair
Sadly, the 'recreational' ones are easily available to the young and wealthy.
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Hi Rob. Not sure if cocaine could ever be listed as a cause of good, bad or erratic results. Mats Wilander allegedly had it in his sweatbands, Ben Cousins (elite AFL footballer) used to go crazy on it on weekends and Tom Boonen the cyclist has just gone again for it, and then of course there's Kieran Fallon. Plus Mark Bosnich and Adrian Mutu at Chelsea years ago. I doubt it made one iota of difference to their performance, they were just all loaded with cash and had the lifestyle that exposed them to such problems. Lesser mortals probably would have at least as many failed tests, just there's little point of testing further down the sporting chain...
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