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    William Hill free-rolling their clients?




    William Hill have a new feature call 'Cash In'! you can not remove it, you don't have to confirm it, one accidental click, your bet is off minus juice.

    I find that to be unacceptable. You should able to disable it or it should ask you to confirm would be ethical thing to do but no, click once lose your bet.

    What do you guys thinks?

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    Should probably stop betting niche markets like MMA and +2000 prop bets. That should be more of a concern to you imo. William Hill is one of the top bookmakers in the world. A top 5 bookie who give generous bonuses and pay fast. No affiliation with WH they're one of the best though.

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    You can get onto live chat and ask them to put a second confirm on you're cash in. I believe they do this.
    As Bet365 have cashin and they ask you to confirm twice

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    Quote Originally Posted by DeathAdder View Post
    Should probably stop betting niche markets like MMA and +2000 prop bets. That should be more of a concern to you imo. William Hill is one of the top bookmakers in the world. A top 5 bookie who give generous bonuses and pay fast. No affiliation with WH they're one of the best though.
    This has nothing to do with OP's question regarding the "cash in" problem he is facing..... terrible post. OP, maybe you should ask willhill to change about their cash in play system but I doubt they would change their UI. Best thing I could suggest is to be very careful when betting there if you don't want to click the cash in button. Otherwise you run the risk of cashing in your bet on a missclick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by futbolmundial View Post
    This has nothing to do with OP's question regarding the "cash in" problem he is facing..... terrible post. OP, maybe you should ask willhill to change about their cash in play system but I doubt they would change their UI. Best thing I could suggest is to be very careful when betting there if you don't want to click the cash in button. Otherwise you run the risk of cashing in your bet on a missclick.
    You've just echoed what was going through my mind when I read DeathAdder's post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GigaOuts View Post



    William Hill have a new feature call 'Cash In'! you can not remove it, you don't have to confirm it, one accidental click, your bet is off minus juice.

    I find that to be unacceptable. You should able to disable it or it should ask you to confirm would be ethical thing to do but no, click once lose your bet.

    What do you guys thinks?
    It seems that your account is in Canadian Dollars so I assume you are in Canada so cash in may be new in Canada but it has been around in the UK for a few years now with pretty much every bookmaker now having cash out and I assume it has been active in other countries from around the same time it became active in the UK as well.

    It is better known as cash out rather than cash in but whatever name the bookmaker gives it, it's all a complete con. In addition to the margin they take from your original bet, they take an additional 10%-60% margin if you want to cash out at some point, depending on which sport and market you've bet on.

    It is simply a complete rip-off and if you can at all help it, don't ever use it. If you want to hedge and you have enough available funds to be able to hedge, lay it off at an exchange or bet the opposite side with the best price available at another bookmaker, whatever turns out to be the best hedge return for you. Whatever alternative option you choose to hedge, the return will be way better than if you click cash out with the bookmaker.

    The bookmaker should have it as an optional thing where you can change the settings to disable cash out completely, allow a second confirmation sequence and that sort of thing so you can ask William Hill if they will do any of that, but I've not heard hardly any bookmakers allow that sort of thing, as they want to force this cash cow onto all the customers that they can.

    Allowing you to change the settings would be the "ethical" thing to do, but bookmakers have never really been concerned by ethics or morals, so they aren't likely to start giving a toss about any of that any time soon.

    If they don't allow you to change any settings on it, you will simply just have to be careful and make sure you never click the cash in button by mistake.

    The bottom line is that whilst the bookmakers paint this as the best feature that the punter has ever had, it's actually a complete rip-off and it's the biggest money spinner the bookmakers have come up with in years.
    Last edited by luctens; 09-02-16 at 05:31 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeroYourHero View Post
    You can get onto live chat and ask them to put a second confirm on you're cash in. I believe they do this.
    As Bet365 have cashin and they ask you to confirm twice
    Yeah, bet365 let me disable 'cash in'. I just want a confirm button from William Hill, is not asking too much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by luctens View Post
    It seems that your account is in Canadian Dollars so I assume you are in Canada so cash in may be new in Canada but it has been around in the UK for a few years now with pretty much every bookmaker now having cash out and I assume it has been active in other countries from around the same time it became active in the UK as well.

    It is better known as cash out rather than cash in but whatever name the bookmaker gives it, it's all a complete con. In addition to the margin they take from your original bet, they take an additional 10%-60% margin if you want to cash out at some point, depending on which sport and market you've bet on.

    It is simply a complete rip-off and if you can at all help it, don't ever use it. If you want to hedge and you have enough available funds to be able to hedge, lay it off at an exchange or bet the opposite side with the best price available at another bookmaker, whatever turns out to be the best hedge return for you. Whatever alternative option you choose to hedge, the return will be way better than if you click cash out with the bookmaker.

    The bookmaker should have it as an optional thing where you can change the settings to disable cash out completely, allow a second confirmation sequence and that sort of thing so you can ask William Hill if they will do any of that, but I've not heard hardly any bookmakers allow that sort of thing, as they want to force this cash cow onto all the customers that they can.

    Allowing you to change the settings would be the "ethical" thing to do, but bookmakers have never really been concerned by ethics or morals, so they aren't likely to start giving a toss about any of that any time soon.

    If they don't allow you to change any settings on it, you will simply just have to be careful and make sure you never click the cash in button by mistake.

    The bottom line is that whilst the bookmakers paint this as the best feature that the punter has ever had, it's actually a complete rip-off and it's the biggest money spinner the bookmakers have come up with in years.
    100% agree

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    Quote Originally Posted by GigaOuts View Post
    100% agree
    ditto

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    Quote Originally Posted by GigaOuts View Post
    Yeah, bet365 let me disable 'cash in'. I just want a confirm button from William Hill, is not asking too much.
    I think customer service can add a confirm button they have live chat go on and ask.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeroYourHero View Post
    You can get onto live chat and ask them to put a second confirm on you're cash in. I believe they do this.
    As Bet365 have cashin and they ask you to confirm twice
    Have you tried this Giga?



    If the book did not offer cash out then people would be unhappy.

    If the books make people confirm everything we get complaints they are purposely stopping us from being able to get the price we want from 2 seconds earlier.

    Here is a book offering cashout with no confirmation and people are saying it's them "trying to freeroll" us all.


    I get complaints from people regularly saying "they are cheating me because they did not offer cash out on this event" or took it down at some stage.

    Those people are just as convinced the book is trying to rip them off by not offering it as you guys sound like you are they only offer it to rip people off.

    Truth is, a lot of punters want it. Whether it's smart or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeroYourHero View Post
    I think customer service can add a confirm button they have live chat go on and ask.

    Yes I did ask, I wouldn't complain if they give you option to remove it or disable it, or extra confirmation button.

    It would be silly for me to make a new post without going live chat to see what is my option is. There is no option, maybe only option is not to make bet at William Hill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Optional View Post
    Have you tried this Giga?



    If the book did not offer cash out then people would be unhappy.

    If the books make people confirm everything we get complaints they are purposely stopping us from being able to get the price we want from 2 seconds earlier.

    Here is a book offering cashout with no confirmation and people are saying it's them "trying to freeroll" us all.


    I get complaints from people regularly saying "they are cheating me because they did not offer cash out on this event" or took it down at some stage.

    Those people are just as convinced the book is trying to rip them off by not offering it as you guys sound like you are they only offer it to rip people off.

    Truth is, a lot of punters want it. Whether it's smart or not.
    If that is the case, give the customer option, what so hard about that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GigaOuts View Post

    If that is the case, give the customer option, what so hard about that?
    Not sure but agree it should be an option.

    But also don't think it was intended to try and catch people mis-clicking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GigaOuts View Post
    maybe only option is not to make bet at William Hill.
    For sure it would be fair to customers for all bookmakers to let customers disable cash out or whatever, but bookmakers aren't interested in fairness so you'll most likely have most of the bookmakers that won't let you disable it and you will therefore have to exercise some restraint and be extra careful not to press the cash out button by mistake.

    It's very extreme to not bet with a company just because they have a cash out button though. And if cash out is new to Canada then just like in the UK when it was new, within months you'll have pretty much every bookmaker offering it, so much so now that if you login to a bookmaker and place a bet, pretty much every bookmaker has the cash out button there.

    So if your policy is to not bet with any company that has the cash out button there, you might as well stop betting altogether.

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    Since there is no add on for it just to into you're bets through my account as it doesnt show cash in there so you won't have to worry about clicking by mistake.

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    Ok, maybe I jump into conclusion too quick. I just talk to live chat again, he was able to remove it without a problem. Thanks you William Hill. I guess the 1st live chat support lack knowledge, he/she told me flat 'NO', nothing I can do. I guess it doesn't hurt to ask for 2rd opinion. William Hill is on my top list of Sportsbook again ...lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GigaOuts View Post
    Ok, maybe I jump into conclusion too quick. I just talk to live chat again, he was able to remove it without a problem. Thanks you William Hill. I guess the 1st live chat support lack knowledge, he/she told me flat 'NO', nothing I can do. I guess it doesn't hurt to ask for 2rd opinion. William Hill is on my top list of Sportsbook again ...lol.
    Said it earlier in the thread knew they could. Live chat quality service differs from agent to agent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeroYourHero View Post
    Said it earlier in the thread knew they could. Live chat quality service differs from agent to agent.
    I asked them if this was an option when he posted. And was told it was not by the CS person as well. :\


    Nice work on the persistence Giga

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