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I don't think its unreasonable to say that bookies shouldn't continue to take bets after the event has happened. Sure you can freeze paying out till the everything has come out in the wash but carrying on taking bets after the event can only lead to people calling foul, which they have done here.

I have little sympathy for those involved here but there is a principle that I don't like at all. I wouldn't expect bookies to continue taking bets on a horse race which has finished just because there is a stewards enquiry going on.

The actual mechanisms the individual bookies use is irrelevant. They can close a book whenever they like.
 
Not by the bookie, though. The bookie hasn't withheld any information here or presented false information, and it is a particular position to think that the court cases will succeed and the result will be overturned. I'm pretty anti-bookies generally, and they could have closed this particular book just to stop fanning the flames generally, but there was a logic to keeping it open.

The conman here is Trump.
the only logic to keeping it open was making money off these marks. trump conned them, so did betfair.
 
They're not vunrible old people sat at home minding their own business being prayed upon.
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Noone is saying that they ALL were vulnerable! I'm sure most of the money came from evil rich nobs who deserve to lose their money... but a little bit probably came from vulnerable people who could not afford to lose it.... and all of that money ends up with betfair.
 
Id say they've been conned far more by sidney powell, guliano et al than by betfair. If anybody should be sued its team trump
They've been conned by both. Clearly Powell, Guliano etc (and Trump himself more than anyone) bear the greater responsibility; but betfair didn't have to take those bets.
 
Noone is saying that they ALL were vulnerable! I'm sure most of the money came from evil rich nobs who deserve to lose their money... but a little bit probably came from vulnerable people who could not afford to lose it.... and all of that money ends up with betfair.

No. KillerB said Bet Fair, the users laying the bets, Bet Fair themselves too a degree, OK, were taking money off vunrible people. I.e. the thing about the people losing money in these bets is they were vunrible.

I disagree is all.

Poor old vunrible Trump having his money taken off him by those dodgy schemeing lawyers. :p ;)
 
I honestly think a lot of these Trump cultist are vulnerable though. They've become totally detached from reality and food for any passing huckster.
You just have to watch some of those "funny" videos of the mentally ill people at the trump rallies to see that. They're not rich, most of them. I'm not saying I want to hang out with them, I pretty much think they are nobs too, but I have some sympathy with how they been manipulated.

And if you don't feel any sympathy with them personally, well maybe feel sympathy for their children who just had their futures fucked. And their towns etc which are going to descend into even more poverty.

I'm obviously not talking about the trump himself, his lawyers, or all of those on his side (or just opportunistic) who are raking the cash in; they can go to hell (and no doubt will). And whether Betfair gets 100% of the money or just a cut is totally irrelevant; they are profitting massively, is the point.
 
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Lot of Trumpist rich scum here in Japan, clogging up message boards/social media and I have fuck all sorrow for their delusions.
They boast about how much their stocks have gone up, whilst sneering at the TDS "left/liberal/socialist/communist/Marxist/China-loving/fascist/antifa/BLM" types.

They know it's a con, but they fucking love it. Anything to own the libs/snowflakes.

The latest is that they claim there will be a China invasion.

Christ 😡
 
You just have to watch some of those "funny" videos of the mentally ill people at the trump rallies to see that. They're not rich, most of them. I'm not saying I want to hang out with them, I pretty much think they are nobs too, but I have some sympathy with how they been manipulated.

And if you don't feel any sympathy with them personally, well maybe feel sympathy for their children who just had their futures fucked. And their towns etc which are going to descend into even more poverty.

I'm obviously not talking about the trump himself, his lawyers, or all of those on his side (or just opportunistic) who are raking the cash in; they can go to hell (and no doubt will). And whether Betfair gets 100% of the money or just a cut is totally irrelevant; they are profitting massively, is the point.

Hold on. You're mixing different things. Obviusly there are some mentally vunrible people drawn into the Trumpesphere. So what.

Those seaking to profit, however misguidedly on the turning over of the democratic result though. By betting on it. Are they not opportunitisc too? But because we mostly on here think it was so unlikely, they must be vunrible. No fuck that. Maybe they were just seaking to capitalise as well.
 
I have seen, on the twitter, anti-trump accounts actively goading trumpers to put their money where their tweets are and bet on him successfully overturning the election. Hadn't thought about it before but that is pretty crap, really.
 
Hold on. You're mixing different things. Obviusly there are some mentally vunrible people drawn into the Trumpesphere. So what.

Those seaking to profit, however misguidedly on the turning over of the democratic result though. By betting on it. Are they not opportunitisc too? But because we mostly on here think it was so unlikely, they must be vunrible. No fuck that. Maybe they were just seaking to capitalise as well.
this is how most cons work though isn't it? people seeking to capitalise on something they've been convinced is a safe bet, but which isn't. Con artists rely on this kind of base selfish stupidity, which is why the trump cultists are so vulnerable to it.
 
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