This is the case, because 99.9% of Bet365's customers are dummies. The remaining 0.01% is just the ones who they haven't gotten around to outright throwing out the door, or limiting to a max stake of £0.05. They offer a simplistic product in their trade out/cash out, because they know it appeals to their clientel - ie. dummies - and they can allow themselves to (indirectly) charge a nosebleed premium for the privilige, because those using it can't see it. So for you to use that example just shows you to be, well you know....JustLukeYou wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:00 pmSimple things are popular.
BetAngel is very sophisticated and it can be used to set up many different automated rules but it is also far to complicated. Sports trading is a fraction of the gambling industry and virtually none-existent in America. The reason is that conventional trading is so simple and easy to perform. I can place a bet on Bet365 and quickly set the amount I want it to trade out at. With BetAngel I have spend two weeks trying to set up a rule. For sports trading to go mainstream and BetAngel to attract more customers it needs to be quick and simple to use.
Indeed, people do like simplicity. They like to buy a lottery ticket, hoping to hit that jackpot, so they can quit the job, they've somehow convinced themselves is what's wrong with their lives. Or pop down to the betting shop putting a tenner on Man City to win 5-0 at 20/1 when the true value is closer to 30/1 which they could have gotten on the exchange or at Pinnacle. And then when it hits once in blue moon, spend nearly all of it in a night down the pub, telling everyone what a genius football expert they are. Which is fine. Not knocking it. Just saying that nearly no one wants to grind it out using that tenner instead to earn a small percentage again and again and again. It's just not as much fun.JustLukeYou wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:00 pmIf BetAngel was simple to use it would undoubtedly be more popular and attract more customers. People like simplicity. They don't want to spend two hours reading a manual.
There are plenty of simple ways to use Bet Angel. Or I would have thought so. If it's taken you weeks with no succes in even setting up, maybe it's just not for you. That's as simple and plain advice as you're gonna get. Bet Angel is only as complicated as you want to make it. But it does take grit to stick with it, whichever level of complication you attempt and/or your approach requires. Trading and Bet Angel will never be mainstream, because most just cannot be arsed.
A simple piece of software will not make (profitable) trading simple. So any new customers will be short term ones. Even if the software is simplified it's not for most, and any effort from the team should be to make the complicated stuff more intuitive to use, and yes to make even more complicated functions. It should not, and I'm sure will not, be simplified because you're having a bit of a hissy fit, because you're incapable of putting the pieces together.
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The amount of high fiving that is probably going on in that office must be off the flippin' chart!
