Huchergh wrote: One of the interesting issues I have right now is that there are certain bookmakers who are using a 3rd party to 'manage clients'.
That is a fact!
These 3rd parties are profiling customers,and then cutting limits.
This is the confidentiality clause as stipulated on a prominent bookmaker site who is using a 3rd party to do this:
Confidentiality of betting transactions
All betting transactions between
and a customer or another bookmaker shall be strictly private and shall not be divulged to any third party other than an appointed officer, an inspector appointed in terms of the relevant legislation, a police official as defined in section 1 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 51 of 1977), or a person specially authorised thereto in terms of any legislation, where this is done in terms of an order of a competent court or where the customer has consented thereto.
I am still deciding how to proceed on this front.
Secondly,with regards to the actual limits themselves,I am in agreement with Rob Faux where he stated in a previous thread that it is a breach of certain clauses of the CPA.
I have discussed this with another prominent member of this forum,and we have decided to seek some legal advice.
I will advise in due course.
We intend to get a group of punters together(in terms of formulating a strategy),and would be keen to know how many people this has affected.
You can just drop me a PM just with the words 'yes' so that we can get some sort of idea of numbers.
As stated often ,convinced that limitations are contrary to the consumer Protection Act ,but it is important that the complaint is very carefully submitted .........often the answer received depends on the way the question (or complaint ) is worded.
Important to remember that the the decisions are often taken by people who have no knowledge of how punting works!("P" learnt this when they couldn't convince a court that a tote bet was NOT a fixed-odds bet,in the"open bet" debacle)
Bookmakers will defend on the basis of "balancing the books" which is bullshit because the limiting discrimination starts before the first bet is struck............ and field sheets can be subpoenaed to prove this!
