I'm glad that most of the books here have stayed away from these unprofessional attacks and have kept their posts to discussions of their own book.

It's been mentioned numerous times that the criticisms of books should be presented by the posters and not the books. The books are more than invited to post but the subject should pertain to their own individual book. It opens up question and answer periods that leads to informative discussions.

The reason why we are being so much more vocal about Peeps Place recently is because he crossed the line.

Please allow me to explain.

We already revealed a couple of months ago that Peeps is getting paid by his top rated Bitcoin Sportsbooks to promote them in forums.

That's not new. After revealing that, we let it go and kept silent.

A couple of weeks ago Peeps Place placed a bet on our website and lost.

After losing the bet, Peeps blackmailed us and demanded that we refund his losing bet or else he will publish negative information on DirectBet publicly.

His reasoning for demanding us to refund his losing bet was that his wallet delayed the transfer of his bet by a few minutes. However, we clearly state in our rules page that if your wallet delays the transfer of your bet, the bet will be processed as soon as it is received and that's what happened with his bet. We also recommend using the Bitcoin Core client to avoid such delays.

In addition, Peeps notified us on this issue only after his bet was already determined as a loser and not right away when the bet was placed.

Since our rules are very clear and since Peeps complained only after losing the bet, we decided that the bet should stand.

Peeps then went on public to spread false information when in fact our rules were very clear. You can find more details in the archive of this thread.

Do you see the problem here ?

Peeps is using the "Power" of his rating guide to blackmail books to refund his losing bets or else get bad publicity following by a reduced rating.

That's when we decided that we will not let it go this time until this scam thread is closed.

This is not a true ratings guide, it's a disguised paid advertisement.

PMs sent to DirectBet

Getting back to Anonibet. This is joelad, the winner of the Anonibet contest.

See I'm open to what your saying but when u say that these ratings have been screwed with then I know your story is false. I know this because after coinbet theft, I made PeepsPlace understand some issues and then he reconsidered his ratings with all his books. U can sift through this thread to find where it started. I myself am a loyal poster at sports forums for years and will never lie for anyone or any book. So understand that your complaining about these ratings may be off here.

1. You ordered a bet at DirectBet and transferred your wager. Your wallet delayed your bet transfer by 7 minutes.

2. We processed and confirmed your bet immediately as soon as it was received and in accordance with our rules.

3. You did not complain on the delay until after your bet was already determined as a loser. You placed many bets on our website in the past. You know that after sending your bet transfer, you have to refresh the bet status page and wait until your bet is either confirmed or rejected. If there was a problem you should have notified us immediately. Instead, you waited until after you lost the bet to complain. There is a name for this tactic. It is called Angle-Shooting.

4. We explained to you that our rules specifically states that if your bet transfer is delayed by your wallet, it will be processed as soon as it is received. We further explained that the reason for this rule is because we have no way to tell whether your wallet delayed the transfer or whether you intentionally wanted to send your bet some time later after ordering it.

5. We provided you with a screen shot plus block chain reference as a proof that the delay was in your wallet and not on our end.

6. Despite all our explanation and no wrong doing on our end, you went on to this thread and made the following false statement :

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/448302.msg7659779#msg7659779

You accused us of accepting your losing bet and canceling your winning bet, when in fact both of your bets were processed as soon as they were received. One was confirmed and one was rejected and refunded immediately upon receipt and long before the result was determined. Your second bet was rejected due to the fact that the odds changed significantly during the period in which your wallet delayed the transfer.

7. Once your angle shooting did not work, you reverted to blackmailing.

After the above post you sent us a private message titled "Delete Post" where tried to induce us to refund your losing bet in exchange for removing your posts.



We then reinstated that your bet will stand because it was processed in accordance with our rules and because you did not notify us immediately on the problem. Instead, you waited for the bet result, and sent your complain only after your bet was lost.

Perhaps there are other books who refund your losing bets because they afraid you will downgrade them. We don't.

In order to succeed in the long term we have to follow our rules consistently, and these rules are clearly stated on our website.

"Yes, as bad as it might be perceived to be - this kind of public back-and-forth is shamefully unprofessional and is making the rest of the operators look bad by association."

Unbiased ratings are essential if the ratings in this thread are to be trusted and relied on.

If there is an issue, anyone should be able to post about it, whether bettor or book.

I don't see how this is unprofessional, and definitely don't believe it makes other books look bad by association.

I think it's super weird to advertise your own sportbooks review type thread where it's just YOUR opinion. The majority factor being the age of the sportsbook?

At least RyanK has a thread where all the forum users can share their input and create an average for each book as opposed to pegging book A, B, C grades based on personal preference.

Looking through the thread I don't see anyone really caring for these ratings either except for you bumping the thread to keep it alive.

Here was the warning on bitcoinlivebets. Ryan had them ranked as the 3rd highest book at the time.

It's always good to monitor sportsbooks and make sure they are being honest.

I just think your ranking system is deceiving. Why have anonibet above nitrogen or betcoinsports? or even directbet?

It seems like your personal experience and the way you title your thread would indicate otherwise.