Quote from: DirectBet on April 29, 2014, 08:37:10 AM

Quote from: BitcoinzRulez on April 27, 2014, 11:51:03 PM

I also think anonibet should honor the soccer wager that played on neutral ground. Its fairly ridiculous they wouldn't. also of the 3 books i've tried this week (anonibet, cloud, nitrogen), anonibet was BY FAR the worst. they had the lowest caps, the most counter intuitive web setup, the fewest number of bettable selections, the worst odds, and a complete and utter system glitch which prevented me from betting anything at all.

1 -- lowest caps. i think the max i could bet on any sport at any time was right around 4 BTC, and most were capped around 2 BTC.

2 -- their website is terrible. its like something out of 2003. you cant just click to see your wagers. you have to click history, then open bets, then the type of bet. 3 clicks just to see what you've got bitcoins on? if you want to see past wagers you have to add a click for your date range and its just as complicated to see your cashier history.

3 -- sports are limited and selections within those sports are also more limited than the other books. i would say half the sports and then half the selections within those sports.

4 -- i mean their odds are obviously terrible on average, but the one that really stuck out for me was the NBA. indy game prop was paul george o/u 22.5 on both sides was -118. seems steep to take almost 20%. a prop like that where both sides are even should probably be -110 at worst and maybe -107. houston/portland game tonight you cant even bet with the spread. you have to take the ML or nothing. just weird.

5 -- yesterday i tried placing several bets and got a popup error for all of them saying max bet was 7.17 mbtc. sure, $3, why not. who would bother making a bet for $3? i basically cant even bet there any more because of how awful it is.

if it were me, i would grade this book no higher than a D+ with a minor bump based on how long they've been in business plus a bump if they can prove liquidity (address of cold storage wallet with like 1000 BTC or something). frankly, unless they rewrote their whole system or hired me as a consultant i would NEVER go back. not sure why anonibet is so popular.

Peeps Place is doing a good job in helping players avoid scams, but when it comes to rating legitimate books, it should be disclosed that :

1. The ratings criteria have recently tailored so that only Anonibet can get an A rating.

2. Anonibet is paying Peeps Place for advertising them, as you can see here : http://www.peepsplace.com/

We've had a lot of books up there and take them down when warranted. Betcoinsports and Casinobitcoin once had banners and we took them down because of their problems. Other books have asked to go up and we turned them down. When Coinbet was going strong, they asked to advertise and we said, "no". We've said, "no" to other books that are currently in business. We don't post any type of affiliate links here at bitcointalk.

It's interesting that you bring this up as your banner was once up there but we took it down even though you offer the highest affiliate percentage. We also moved your thread to site promotions. We thought that your book was strong at one time but DirectBet has gotten worse. If you want, I can go into detail. Normally, a poster would bring this up if he felt the ratings were skewed. You're the first book that I've seen do this.