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FanDuel mistakenly takes a long-shot bet, refuses to pay off
Posted by Michael David Smith on September 19, 2018, 12:23 PM EDT


As legal sports betting expands across America, more bettors than ever before are placing legal wagers. And in theory, that should make gambling more reliable: A bookie might disappear and stiff you if he owes you a small fortune, but a legal, regulated business shouldn’t.

Unfortunately for a bettor in New Jersey, legal, regulated businesses don’t always pay off either.

FanDuel accidentally listed the Broncos at 750-1 odds at one point during Sunday’s game, and a fan who noticed that put in a $110 bet. The Broncos won, which should have meant the bettor was owed $82,500.

But FanDuel says it obviously didn’t mean to list the Broncos at such long odds, shouldn’t have accepted the bet, and won’t pay it off.

“The wager in question involved an obvious pricing error inadvertently generated by our in-game pricing system,” FanDuel said in a statement.

The bettor, Anthony Prince, says when he tried to collect his $82,500, he was offered $500 and skybox seats for three Giants games. He says a FanDuel employee told him he was lucky to get even that.

“The other guy said, ‘You should take what we give you because we don’t have to give you [anything] at all.’ I said, ‘Wow, for real?’” Prince told 12 News New Jersey.

It’s easy to see where FanDuel is coming from: If some glitch in a system accidentally lists odds at 1 trillion-to-one, and someone wins a bet at those odds, it would seem silly to say FanDuel should be forced to declare bankruptcy because of a glitch. But it still feels like Prince is getting a raw deal. He placed a bet. FanDuel took his money. And then they informed him they weren’t paying. What good is legalizing and regulating betting if problems like this can’t be prevented?

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Honestly though, these guys should pay off the $82k. This guy could easily go to court and it would probably end up worse for them.

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Mechanical errors void all wins ... the rule of the slot machine is going to be easily transposed to this incident.

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Every time I lose it's a mechanical error. The stupid computer picked the wrong team.

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GO BEARS!!!

This happens a fair amount with the airlines and hotels. Some intern fucks up and misses a zero or picks the wrong currency, and there is a $5 suite at the Tokyo Hilton.

Very rarely gets upheld. The last one I heard if that did was a US to New Zealand business class fare which lost a zero and went for $1500 instead of $15000. But if it had been $150, it would never have stood a chance.

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its just like the grocery store. there is no law that requires them to sell you all the lobster tails they have for 15 cents each when they were supposed to be $15.00 each and some employee screwed up.

btw, i saw that happen in real life.

Someone buying lobster tails in a grocery store?!?

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- Henry George

What happens if the lobster claws end up in the dumpster?

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Double

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Chas picks them up and tries to sell them online.

With a side of expired ginseng.

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They paid.

Good. If they would have came out showing proof they reimbursed gamblers who previously lost on the pricing error I may concede. But I’m guessing if the favorite holds they pocket the wager and move on.

Or the idiot clerks who mark avocados at .99c

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lol. at hyvee they have to honor that price and if there is a discrepency you actually have the option of getting it for free. They were clearancing out a bunch of foil pans at like 10 packs for $1.00. when they rang up they rang up for regular price. when the manager came he was like, i can fix the price however, I have to offer you them for free. I had a cart full of these damn things. I still paid the 15 bucks for 150 pans but was like daaaaang.

Now that sports betting is legal everywhere and operated by "legit" corporations, the old Vegas gangster paradigm should go right out the window, i.e. if you're going to make book, you take all bets from all comers and pay out accordingly. If you find it impossible to do so, relinquish your license and there will be 100 guys lining up to take it over.

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Yup. Hard to argue against this.

Mechanical error? Fuck you, pay me.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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In this case, it was only $82k. Fanduel probably clears that amount of money in a matter of seconds. Better to pay out, than risk the negative publicity that would ultimately come later.

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