Quote from: Peeps Place on September 17, 2015, 03:15:50 AM

Quote from: Gogo ppp on September 16, 2015, 10:08:19 PM

Quote from: Peeps Place on September 16, 2015, 03:10:31 PM

Quote from: Grumpster on September 14, 2015, 08:41:35 AM

Quote from: bitbaby on September 11, 2015, 03:24:59 AM

Which sportsbooks other than Directbet has instant payouts? Only asking because that's the most important thing for me, I saw some of the complaints in this section where some people had to wait upwards of 24 hours after initiating the withdrawal and this is not acceptable to me at all. Also, I don't see why Directbet is still stuck on 'C', I don't think these ratings are accurate, to me they seem bias, no offense. A Poll should have been really useful in determining the real results because it seems even after inputs from various members some of the sportsbooks are wrongly rated.

It's well known that Peeps Place is highly biased against DirectBet. This stems back to last year, if you check the old thread you will see that basically DirectBet accused Peeps of lowering their rating as DirectBet refused to pay Peeps for advertising.

Pretty simple stuff and very plausible. As you and others have mentioned, there's no reason for DB to still be a C category book.

DirectBet was a fairly new book unhappy with their rating. They spammed and shilled daily which caused the closing of the original thread.

The only rule for books was to keep their conversation to their own book. DirectBet refused to do this. DirectBet falsely claimed that Anonibet scammed posters in 4 different contests.

Now that DirectBet has become civilized, they no longer send in shills with false claims against other books.

If DirectBet can figure out a way to insure immediate confirmation of bets, then the rating will be raised. As of this time the possibility exists that a player may not get a confirmation/rejection of a bet in an acceptable time period.

For another point of view, see post #1386:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=448302.1380

gogo- the change in ratings was done in large part to you saying that books should have a proven track record. That's why the 2 year minimum was added.

"gogo- the change in ratings was done in large part to you saying that books should have a proven track record. That's why the 2 year minimum was added."

Wasn't aware of that.

This is the first time you've stated that a comment of mine is in large part responsible for you changing the rating system. And it is now 15 months after you made the change.

DirectBet's explanation is more likely:

"I went over the list of criteria, one by one, and proved that in each and every category we are as good or better than Anonibet. And so I asked Peeps why we are rated lower ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=448302.msg6137493#msg6137493

Just a few hours later the ratings criteria have suddenly changed !!! now the only criteria used to determine the rating is the book opening date. This was done so that Anonibet can be the only Bitcoin Sportsbook with a rating of A and they were also granted the max possible rating of A, on top of all other books. Our rating on the other hand was reduced to C."

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=448302.1380