<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yes … still irks me to see the mistakes that these young guns make on their web design. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s pretty simple.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Sell a bet</div><div class="">2. Sell a bet</div><div class="">3. Sell a bet</div><div class="">4. Everything else</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That is the mantra I instilled in my Internet Development Team. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As has been well documented by myself internally at Tabcorp, when I happily left them (for Betfair) in 2006, I had a website consultancy come in to test “my site” (that cost about $500,00 to build) vs the “NEW” site (which at that stage had cost $14M or so … and some many more $M after I left) …</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They were called Mercury Interactive from memory. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway, they measured my site (the old one) and found it to be 7.2 times faster than the “NEW” one!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In fact, they told me it was the fastest site they’d ever measured up to that point. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All built for a song using the 1st principals of Computer Science. Remove bottlenecks, and cache intelligently to map your users’ requirements (ie: 90% of web requests are for the next race to jump).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A bloke called Sean Parkinson (from memory) who worked at QLD TAB (when we were still Government Owned NSW TAB) came and sat with me for 2 weeks and I showed him how I designed the iBet website (as it was called).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He then emulated that approach and that’s why the old QLD TAB site was so good. Had used the same approach. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers, Greg</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jun 2019, at 9:55 am, L.B.Loveday <<a href="mailto:lloveday@ozemail.com.au" class="">lloveday@ozemail.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Yes Greg, long, long ago, or so it feels, and as you say, still the same on the web-site. Why principals allow IT to make useless changes, the only purpose I can see for is to justify their pay, I cannot fathom a guess - look at the mess SB's new website was, and the "update" this month is still inferior in useful features to the time-honoured site, while Tatts has become so slow since redesigned by TAB that my original "apprentice" opened a Vic account. MR and I agreed on how functional the UBet site was, and now……<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Via DO the TAB message is "Price Changed", same as BetZero, BetEasy, Sportsbetting, TopBetta, TopSport and maybe others (they are the ones I got the message from in the last 90 days and my memory ain't what it used to be) - don't have screen shots, but some tell you the new price, some don't, so you have to wait a few secs before the update reaches DO.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">LBL<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Racing <<a href="mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com" class="">racing-bounces@ausrace.com</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Greg Conroy<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, 19 June 2019 9:25 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ausrace Racing <<a href="mailto:racing@ausrace.com" class="">racing@ausrace.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [AusRace] Something else to check<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Interesting … <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">When I setup the TAB SportsBet system (all those years ago) I put in a simple user option which says “Accept current selections at reduced price” preference. Best of both worlds. Simple to do and keep the customers happy. They still use the same phase I created almost 20 years later. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Greg.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On 19 Jun 2019, at 8:35 am, L.B.Loveday <<a href="mailto:lloveday@ozemail.com.au" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">lloveday@ozemail.com.au</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">DO did not respond to my request for an explanation, so I sent the same email to Sportsbet and got this reply:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 46, 47);" class="">******</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 46, 47);" class="">Unfortunately we are not directly affiliated with Dynamic odds, so our live odds on our website may vary to what they show. Clearly in this instance their odds were not up to date with our odds and as a result have caused the $00.50c discrepancy. In future to avoid this I would recommend to double check with the SB website to ensure you are receiving the true odds.<br class="">******</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 46, 47);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 46, 47);" class="">As odds change in a micro-second, the only way to avoid this is to bet directly with SB - if you check the price on SB's site, then bet via DO (which you might do to have a composite record of bets placed) the price may have changed.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 46, 47);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 46, 47);" class="">Some other sites report "odds changed", but not SB, you just get whatever they give you, not what DO says they gave you.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 46, 47);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 46, 47);" class="">As ever, caveat punter.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Greg Conroy, Inventor of Award Winning and Free:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; 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