Originally Posted by
todd73nj
I spent a significant amount of time on the phone with Betmaker management today. On my website I posted an email I sent to them with a bunch of questions and suggestions, and posted the replies to it earlier this evening.
I must say I was impressed with their desire to hear suggestions and hopefully implenet some of them. I am very encouraged by their answers to my questions.
If you guys have so many questions - why listen to people here who just seem to be discusssing things they never experienced.
Most importantly to us all is the ability to deposit/withdraw. They told me they are working on more methods as we speak. This is a work in progress. Im sure they did not expect Matchbook to just disappear and suddenly become the only game in town. I personally emailed them a great deposit method that is in use at another book, and the contact information for the processor.
I was told they have an NFL market maker, and a Golf MMer, but currently no market maker for live NBA/NCAA games. However, a friend of mine who was a MMer on both Matchbook and Tradesports, is having a program designed to work with their API and he should be in place shortly. Not to mention, email them and ask for the API information if you are interested.
I made a few other suggestions to them - Such as adding other Odds formats as I personally like to trade live games in % format - Add a .net site so you can advertise legally and people can learn to use the site - I had made some suggestions on contract appearance, but that was before my *************** cleared, and now I think it looks alot like BetFair. They will be having halftime lines, and alternate lines (in play once there is a MMer). They are considering their own player forum and chat area. And the suggestion of mine that they liked the best was for the addition of a portfolio page - which will come in handy once they have MMers on board - and multiple games are open live. Youd be able to move all the contracts you are watching onto one page.
I have some money there now, and excited to give it a try. Being backed by Bookmaker give them financial security. So lets deposit and start trading. With an open minded management, maybe they can be more successful than previous exchanges!