There’s something I’m not getting here.
You ex bookies are showing no respect to Pricewise and Hugh Taylor yet also saying that you made sure no one could get a decent bet on their selections. You even closed the accounts of their followers.
Why would you bother doing that unless they were both very effective at their job of picking winners?
Morning Grey,
Quick reply, we are leaving at 9.00.
I cant speak for the others but i am not saying that nobody got a bet. Quite the opposite. Plenty of people (regulars, long standing customers and of course, lifetime losers) all got their bets on. And plenty of customers, again from the above categories, got their bets on long after the prices had gone. There were quite a few who would come on for their bets at the same time every day, lets just say 11.00, and of course on a Pricewise day, the prices had long gone by then. but they would still be accommodated.
The ones we would knock back or restrict are the ones that never bet with us at all during the week and we only ever saw them on a Saturday morning. And all they ever bet was the Pricewise selections. Now bear in mind that no firm can have endless liabilities so a limit had to be set when we reverted back to the prices at 8.30. These selections would still be backed during the rest of the day so of course the risk was managed. So of course, like in every type of business, you look after your good/regular clientele. The last thing you would want to do is give every once a week punter as much as they wanted on the selections and then hit the limit and have to knock back all of your good and loyal customers. Believe me, the ticker was spinning with the bets coming thru every Saturday morning and plenty will have got thru. It was mad 20/30 minutes until we cut the prices. But if these once a week punters played the game and asked for say 50 or 60 quid they would probably get the bet. But £200 and upwards was a regular call and that is just taking a bet or two away from a regular client which was a non no. No business, no matter who they are or what they trade in wants to piss off their good and regular clients.
On a smaller scale, i used to get it occasionally when i had my shop. Being a one man band i had to "buy in" my morning and ante post prices and i used Stanleys. And when they cut their prices it obviously changed on my screens even though i may not have even taken a bet on said selections. But again, if a.regular came in an hour or so later and asked what the price was, i would lay him a bet at the price it was in the grids. But i remember one incident in particular. The prices changed around 8.45 and this bloke, who i had never seen before, came in around 9.30. He asked for four prices and they were the four Pricewise horses. I showed him the prices on the screens and he started questioning me on how many bets i had taken and how much i had laid. Of course it was none of his business and i told him so. I never saw him again for about two months and we went thru the same rigmarole again. And i told him that if he wanted to start betting with me and coming in on a regular basis then i would accommodate him with as much as i could on a Saturday morning.
I never saw him again.
I hope this gives you some sort of insight and reasoning behind it all. I could have gone on a bit more but i have to go now because otherwise the missus will knock three shades of whitewash out of me.
Have a good day mate.
unsure
no probs , it's highly poss I asked prev but can't remember what you said.
