On course bookiesWest Australian Racing

lukoedits

what is the benefit of on course bookies? several times i have asked them to give me slightly better odds than the corporate bookmakers and most of the time they flat out refuse. Why would i bother using them if i can get the same odds, with bet returns using a corporate bookmaker and if i win the moneys in my account the same day

Rodent

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Chris

You can pay cash

Vincent_vega

lukoedits said:

what is the benefit of on course bookies? several times i have asked them to give me slightly better odds than the corporate bookmakers and most of the time they flat out refuse. Why would i bother using them if i can get the same odds, with bet returns using a corporate bookmaker and if i win the moneys in my account the same day

No benefits other than the theatre of it all

bookielover

lukoedits said:

what is the benefit of on course bookies? several times i have asked them to give me slightly better odds than the corporate bookmakers and most of the time they flat out refuse. Why would i bother using them if i can get the same odds, with bet returns using a corporate bookmaker and if i win the moneys in my account the same day

lukoedits said:

You don't say which state you live in but that's probably irrelevant.

lukoedits said:

On course bookmakers are entitled to conduct their business as they see fit, just as you can bet with whomever you decide. In the old days, punters who actually ASKED for a better price were called cadgers. I was told once many many years ago, and I'm happy if someone else who has heard a different explanation to post it here, that in the days when there were no betting boards and bookies called the odds a bloke with the surname Cadger who lived in Melbourne, and if a bookie was yelling out 6/1 backers, he'd ask for 7/1.

lukoedits said:

He drove them nuts to the point when they told him, politely of course, to go away. Apparently, anyone who did the same, was saddled with the title, that bloke's a cadger. It was not a badge of honour.

lukoedits said:

Now, what you are doing, is asking an on course bookie who's battling to make a quid, to match a price being given by a multi million dollar corporate bookie. Frankly, that is a very poor reflection on you.

lukoedits said:

It would be different if a bookie on track is 6/1 and you can't get through the crowd to take those odds, and the bookie you are standing in front of is 11/2 and you say to that bookie, it's 6/1 over there with him, will you bet me the 6/1? What I have experienced in  60 years betting on track, is, that as long as the bookie doesn't have a huge commitment already for the horse, or you aren't asking for a huge bet, they will always accommodate you.

lukoedits said:

It always helps your argument and is far more persuasive, when you compare apples with apples.

lukoedits said:

bookielover

Don't know what happened there but I'm typing on an I phone.