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ArbExpert Free Trial Cheaper Price and More Additions

Posted by Aegist on March 22nd, 2007

ArbExpert is back online after some extensive upgrades, and they have once again opened up their service to free access, this time until the 25th of March, so get in quick to take full advantage of this brand new service. They have also decided to lower their price to only £50, thus making their service much more accessible on an ongoing basis to most arbers.

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SportsPunter Server Crash and Server Upgrade

Posted by Aegist on March 22nd, 2007

I have received a reply from Daniel at SportsPunter which has explained what happened, and that every subscriber will be given an extra week to their subscription (to make up for only two days offline, sweet deal!).

Basically they had scheduled a server upgrade but in the days leading up to the server upgrade, their current server crashed. Since the site was offline anyway they decided to just rush the server upgrade through at the same time to actually save on total time offline. Unfortunately during the upgrade the city in which the server was hosted suffered a major power outage (a major power cable was cut) and what should have been a simple upgrade turned into 2 days worth of trouble as the ISP staff were over-extended with numerous support calls from their other customers trying to get their websites back online too.

So basically, it was a server crash which lasted longer than it should have, but on the positive side they now have a better server, and all members get an extra week for the price of only 2 days (and only 2 days in the most quiet period of the week).

Daniel also assures me that no data was lost during the server crash or the upgrades.

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SportsPunter Is Back Online

Posted by Aegist on March 21st, 2007

SportsPunter is back online, only a few hours after my post earlier. By the looks of things they have recovered the site from an earlier backup. Their arbitrage service is running as normal. No doubt there is still a lot of work going on behind the scenes as they try to catch up the old copy of the website with the most recent changes and bug test etc.

More news to follow no doubt.

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SportsPunter Unexpectedly Offline

Posted by Aegist on March 20th, 2007

The SportsPunter website and all related websites (Toptipper.com, rleaguebetting.com, sportspunter.com.au to name a few) have all been offline for over 24 hours now, and we aren’t certain why. Judging by the fact that all of the SportsPunter affiliated websites are offline, it seems most likely that the server on which all of the sites are hosted has simply crashed (quote thoroughly by the looks of it) and Daniel Kirk is most likely as busy as can be trying to get them all back online. Remember, those sites are his business and if they are offline he doesn’t make money either!

The other problem with losing the server entirely is that his email address (@sportspunter.com) won’t work. So there is no way of contacting him without a second email address, which is why I am also no more knowledgeable about what is happened here than anyone else. So I suggest you refrain from trying to email sportspunter at all to ask what is happening, because it won’t work anyway.

A few people have emailed me concerned that SportsPunter may have run off. While i can’t say anything for certain, I have absolutely no reason to suspect this to be the case. SportsPunter runs a great service which is constantly being improved upon with an owner who is dedicated to his subscribers (most of his subscribers already know this as you ahve all emailed him quite a few times already and been happy with his prompt reply times). Also, SportsPunter is much more than just arbitrage, considering all of the other websites which run for odds comparison, sports tipping competition websites and the like, there is absolutely no reason to pull the plug willfully on such well set up, well entrenched and recognised websites as those. If Daniel did want to get out of the business, he could make an awful lot more money selling his domains and websites than simply pulling the plug. So, I feel very confident saying that it is almost certainly the case here that their server has simply crashed in a phenomenal way, and they are trying to get it back online, and reload all of the backup data.

So for the moment all we can do is hold tight and wait for the problem to be rectified. Hopefully it will be fixed today or tomorrow at the latest, if we aren’t, hopefully Daniel will contact me or post in our forums to just give us a run down of what is happening.

If you have any questions or problems, I suggest asking about them in this thread: http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=20035 in our forums, and as usual you can email me, but the fact is I don’t know anything other than what I have said here!

I will update this Blog and that forum thread as more news comes out.

Shane

 

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News – General, website, arbitrage and gambling news

Posted by Aegist on March 14th, 2007

It has been a long time in the coming but SureBetBookies will be ready very shortly, and it will blow your minds. I mean, seriously, everything which everyone has been looking for all of this time, in one spot. I am so excited about it, I can’t wait to release it. But I’m not going to tell you any more than that because I think the surprise will be worth it. The functionality everyone will get out of this will just amaze you to bits.

As soon as it is ready i will send out Sports Arbitrage Guide’s first newsletter ever to announce it. There will be several other news stories in it too which I have been accumulating. I am dedicated to only using the newsletter to announce big, important, or intensely interesting things. And the final release of the SureBetBookies database will be all three of those.

In general gambling news, it continues to amaze me as more and more bookmakers are exiting the US market. Pinnacle, then VIP…. I never thought they would go, but there you have it, neither of them are taking players from the USA anymore. And that was their target audience. Expecially VIP, they don’t even offer many sports outside of the Northern US sports! There have been concerns raised about whether VIP can survive with its structure, marketing and design aimed at the USA, yet not taking anyone from USA OR Canada! Now don’t over-react to this statement, VIP is an incredibly stable book and I have no doubt that your money is as safe with them as it can be online, but over the long term, it is hard to imagine them maintain enough profitability to stay afloat.

 

I think the removal of the USA from online gambling has been a bit of a double edged sword for the scalpers out there. I don’t know if I am imagining this or not, but I think the removal of the arbers from the USA has resulted in longer lasting arbs… but if it also results in the loss of some of the biggest bookmakers, then we are in real trouble. I’m not sure of Pinnacle Sports’ demographic, but I have no doubt that the majority of their customers were American. It was no doubt a huge decision on their behalf to move away from that market… I sincerly hope, as I am sure everyone else does, that nothing about Pinnacle changes as a result of this.

 

As if that wasn’t enough, there was the news about Neteller freezing US accounts while the FBI investigated them. We seem to be stuck in the middle of one of the craziest times for online gambling and sports arbitrage.

Shane

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