Matchbook deliberately slowed?

**potless** · 04-24-14, 05:07 PM

Originally posted by MatchbookMike

Hi BigSpoon,

Not sure if you've checked out the soccer liquidity since, but you shouldn't have noticed any difference - we are still 0% commission on soccer handicap markets and all the key numbers that we look at have been maintained since April 1st.

Thanks,

Mike

Reckon liquidity has dropped a bit.
Price has drifted a bit as well - not enough to stop using match as long as it doesn't get worse.
asians are a bit hit and miss as well - especially lacking on -0.5/+0.5 markets - guess you are favouring comm payers instead and are putting up splits instead.

beta (or current iteration) site is poorly designed for navigation and clarity of overview.
Old site much better (though not great in this respect)

**Hareeba!** · 04-24-14, 05:12 PM

Originally posted by potless

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asians are a bit hit and miss as well - especially lacking on -0.5/+0.5 markets - guess you are favouring comm payers instead and are putting up splits instead.

you don't really need -0.5/+0.5 markets as they are effectively the same as backing your team or laying the opponent

**Mexes** · 04-24-14, 06:51 PM

http://www7.pic-upload.de/25.04.14/sws2z3b22yqf.jpg

is this the new or the old version?
and how can you select which version you want?

is the live liquidity for you as bad as for me??
in the last days there was so much liquidy in the LIVE nba markets but tonight its terrible..

**Hareeba!** · 04-24-14, 07:01 PM

Originally posted by Mexes

http://www7.pic-upload.de/25.04.14/sws2z3b22yqf.jpg

is this the new or the old version?
and how can you select which version you want?

is the live liquidity for you as bad as for me??
in the last days there was so much liquidy in the LIVE nba markets but tonight its terrible..

that's the new site
the old is at: http://classic.matchbook.com

**Mexes** · 04-24-14, 07:23 PM

alright. thank you

is this the real liquidity for everyone or is something wrong with my pc or matchbook account??
can anybody check this?

**potless** · 04-25-14, 04:38 AM

Originally posted by Hareeba!

you don't really need -0.5/+0.5 markets as they are effectively the same as backing your team or laying the opponent

yep but zero comms on these markets (which is why I guess they seem a bit reluctant to put them up)
splits are doable but bit more of a pita if in a hurry

**jjgold** · 04-25-14, 06:26 AM

Originally posted by Mexes

alright. thank you

is this the real liquidity for everyone or is something wrong with my pc or matchbook account??
can anybody check this?

Was that live?? There is much more than that pre game

**Mexes** · 04-25-14, 07:38 AM

Originally posted by jjgold

Was that live?? There is much more than that pre game

yes this was live... something very strange happened

I was trading sports @matchbook during the games miami-charlotte, dallas-san antonio and the night before... I could bet easily 5000€ live... but since then nothing is going live. no liquidity at all at the rockets/blazers game and yesterday... I really dont know why....

**Mexes** · 04-25-14, 06:15 PM

again, can anybody give me some information about the liquidity in live nba events?
how is liquidity right for you right now in the nets game?

ok the liquidity in the nets game is nearly zero

but you can trade nicely the bulls game. high liquidy.. maybe because the game is on espn...

**Hareeba!** · 04-26-14, 02:23 AM

Originally posted by MatchbookMike

Hareeba,

What you will see next Monday is the pre-2011 version of the Matchbook site - as the mail says, the betting functionality, which is the most important thing to you, will remain the same, this is mainly an aesthetic change.

I would ask that you try and report any issues you find on new site, either to support or even DM me here - screenshots are very important - if you do find something that we can re-produce, then we will fix it.

Thanks,

Mike

Good to have you monitoring this forum Mike II.

Just letting you know that once again today I found the new site reporting inaccurate information. So I went to the old site and got confirmation of what I thought was the position regarding an order I had placed.

I've sent a report with screenshots to Support.

Until the new site has had all these things rectified you must maintain the old site.

**jjgold** · 04-26-14, 07:31 AM

Good monitoring work Hareeba

Matchbook in the infant stages of life betting liquidity

**Hareeba!** · 04-29-14, 03:14 AM

Attempts to load the old "classic" site now reporting ""http://classic.matchbook.com/index.xml" cannot be found or is not available."

I hope this doesn't mean what I think it might.

Mike???

**xpress** · 04-29-14, 04:17 AM

new site works just fine Hareeba.

**xpress** · 04-29-14, 04:19 AM

hareeba, have you tried their mobile version? you may like it even more than classic

**Hareeba!** · 04-29-14, 04:47 AM

Originally posted by xpress

new site works just fine Hareeba.

Yes it works.
But "just fine"?
Take a scroll back through this thread. It's full of glitches!

But in the meantime I've found the old site is up at http://classic.matchbook.com/

**Hareeba!** · 04-29-14, 04:48 AM

Originally posted by xpress

hareeba, have you tried their mobile version? you may like it even more than classic

I don't use a mobile device.

**jjgold** · 04-29-14, 06:05 AM

Hareeba what sports do you bet at matchbook

**MatchbookMike** · 04-29-14, 06:26 AM

Originally posted by Hareeba!

Good to have you monitoring this forum Mike II.

Just letting you know that once again today I found the new site reporting inaccurate information. So I went to the old site and got confirmation of what I thought was the position regarding an order I had placed.

I've sent a report with screenshots to Support.

Until the new site has had all these things rectified you must maintain the old site.

Hi Hareeba,

I have checked with customer support and I can't find a record of your e-mail. Can you send it again to feedback@matchbook.com?

Thanks,

Mike

**Hareeba!** · 04-29-14, 02:19 PM

Originally posted by MatchbookMike

Hi Hareeba,

I have checked with customer support and I can't find a record of your e-mail. Can you send it again to feedback@matchbook.com?

Thanks,

Mike

done - and another one I sent in the meantime as well

sounds as though the glitches aren't only in the platform

**Scorpion** · 04-29-14, 02:20 PM

i read in every forum their new software has too many bug/problems, too slow....

**Hareeba!** · 04-29-14, 02:25 PM

Originally posted by Scorpion

i read in every forum their new software has too many bug/problems, too slow....

That's interesting Scorpion. I don't have a problem with speed on the new site, just the old one.
I don't frequent other forums which have discussed Matchbook so I'm glad to hear it's not just me in here complaining about the glitches.
It does seem to me that Matchbook are blind to such criticism as I never seem to get any responses to my email complaints. But seeing Mike's last post it seems they must lose them!

**the_situation** · 04-29-14, 04:04 PM

Originally posted by Hareeba!

That's interesting Scorpion. I don't have a problem with speed on the new site, just the old one.
I don't frequent other forums which have discussed Matchbook so I'm glad to hear it's not just me in here complaining about the glitches.
It does seem to me that Matchbook are blind to such criticism as I never seem to get any responses to my email complaints. But seeing Mike's last post it seems they must lose them!

Yeah speed of the new website is fine but as you said there are occasional bugs I notice. MB Mike, can you please forward this to the appropriate people... When you change your 'to win' amount, this doesn't automatically change the risk amount like in the old version... caused me to submit the wrong amount. Would be nice if that was fixed. Also a little annoying you have to click on a game to view all the markets for it.

**jjgold** · 04-30-14, 05:59 AM

I think if Mike just makes these minor changes most people will use the new site and phase out the old site

I am sure the new site has a better backbone and much more potential for the future as far as enhancements

**Hareeba!** · 04-30-14, 03:30 PM

The old site has now been changed to an older version!
I can't see the point in doing that.
It's not going to stop me referring to it when I can't get what I want out of the new site.
Just another annoyance.

**mg63** · 04-30-14, 03:49 PM

Originally posted by Hareeba!

The old site has now been changed to an older version!
.

MatchbookMike,
this is the oldest version of matchbook http://classic.matchbook.com/

this is the best version of matchbook, loads fast, shows the rotation numbers, no bugs, please keep it

Thanks

**Hareeba!** · 05-26-14, 03:35 AM

Well today they were down awhile for "scheduled maintenance".
Pity they didn't forewarn us or put up an appropriate message instead of us having to keep trying without success.
And the maintenance seems to have introduced yet another neat trick:
I've just spent about 15 mins putting up a series of bets and then get a message saying I've been logged out because I haven't used the site for a while!

**Hareeba!** · 06-07-14, 03:48 PM

And once again I had to go to the old site to have a bet on MLB Oakland @ Baltimore as the game wasn't listed on the new site.

It is now, but wasn't when I wanted to bet on it a few hours ago.