Hi Guys,
I've been following your project from when you first opened. I haven't been a customer, but have long been looking to the day when P2P betting would be a reality.
I recently saw you had an ad on Don Best and decided that since you were doing your part I would do my part and join. So since I've just spent some time on your website I thought I'd offer a few comments of friendly criticism.
I question your strategy of offering twenty percent bonuses on max $250 deposits. I know you think you have to compete with the regular sportsbooks who do this, but your potential customers are value oriented and your place (which takes 5% of winner's share, though capped at $20) does not offer value to small bettors. Unless someone is betting a minimum of $800 a game they will be better off at one of the reduced vig shops listed on the SBR home page. On the other hand the value you offer to those betting $1000+ is phenomeonal, and it seems to me you'd be better off fronting that fact.
Also when I tried to download your software I got a "Preparing to Install" dialogue box for about 20 minutes, so I just gave up. I understand the security issues that lead you to take the non-browser based approach, but again you're requiring quite a commitment on the part of your customers to sign up and the guy depositing $250 to get a $50 bonus isn't going to go through the extra hassle. I think the most powerful thing you could do to convert potential customers into real ones is show them the offers that are up without making them go through a cumbersome download.
Finally the tutorial you had on your site looked pretty good, but it was too small for me to read easily--let alone study. You might want to consider setting it up so that it would run in a seperate window where it wouldn't be framed by the rest of your site.
I ended up not joining, and wanted to give you a little feedback on why. Please feel free to be in dialogue with us here at SBR if you're so inclined.
Regards,
Bookie
I've been following your project from when you first opened. I haven't been a customer, but have long been looking to the day when P2P betting would be a reality.
I recently saw you had an ad on Don Best and decided that since you were doing your part I would do my part and join. So since I've just spent some time on your website I thought I'd offer a few comments of friendly criticism.
I question your strategy of offering twenty percent bonuses on max $250 deposits. I know you think you have to compete with the regular sportsbooks who do this, but your potential customers are value oriented and your place (which takes 5% of winner's share, though capped at $20) does not offer value to small bettors. Unless someone is betting a minimum of $800 a game they will be better off at one of the reduced vig shops listed on the SBR home page. On the other hand the value you offer to those betting $1000+ is phenomeonal, and it seems to me you'd be better off fronting that fact.
Also when I tried to download your software I got a "Preparing to Install" dialogue box for about 20 minutes, so I just gave up. I understand the security issues that lead you to take the non-browser based approach, but again you're requiring quite a commitment on the part of your customers to sign up and the guy depositing $250 to get a $50 bonus isn't going to go through the extra hassle. I think the most powerful thing you could do to convert potential customers into real ones is show them the offers that are up without making them go through a cumbersome download.
Finally the tutorial you had on your site looked pretty good, but it was too small for me to read easily--let alone study. You might want to consider setting it up so that it would run in a seperate window where it wouldn't be framed by the rest of your site.
I ended up not joining, and wanted to give you a little feedback on why. Please feel free to be in dialogue with us here at SBR if you're so inclined.
Regards,
Bookie
