Yeah, when I do child pays for parent, I always do $2 and that way I get it pretty fast, usually within an hour. It's the only way, otherwise i'd probably have to wait over a week lol.
As far as the manual check goes, I get that. But I don't think they get THAT many bets throughout the day. Surely a manual check shouldn't take more than 24 hours? In this case it was a week.
I just checked. the unconfirmed tx that are nested before all of mine are about 7000 b. An average 1 block confirmation fee is about 271 sats/b . To get them confirmed pretty fast i would have to pay a fee of 1897000 sats

And that is just because it is nested deep. low fee player > low fee internal tx > etc > low fee payout. I wouldn't mind paying for one tx with CPFP but this is just too deep and to expensive as I don't bet 1 btc at a time
Even if you are a large better and don't mind paying $2+$2 for fees its still a huge waste of potential profit taking away from the site. If it weren't for these feeds maybe they could improve their coding and website.
Plus, most people don't have 1000 BTC in their wallet and when they make a large bet, they need it to come back first before they can use that BTC to bet again.
That is exactly the reason why secondtrade should use a marktconfirm fee and don't spend unconfirmed bets from other users, businesswise it would make more sense.
But probably we won't here anything from them about this issue