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EXTRABET REVIEW
Extrabet is part of the IG group of companies. The group was founded in 1974 and now employs over 800 staff around the globe. IG Group's head office is in London. Other group offices are in Chicago, Melbourne, Singapore, Dusseldorf, Paris and Madrid. IG Group launched its unique fixed-odds site extrabet in March 2006 as a sister site to its spread-betting offering. The platform was revolutionary, valuing bets in-play so that clients could take their winnings early, or cut a loss, during live events. In March 2009, extrabet relaunched as the first betting platform in the world to offer sports spread betting, sports and financial fixed-odds, sports and financial binary betting and a casino all under a single account.
If you open an extrabet sportsbook account via a link on TakesAllSports and place your first fixed-odds bet, they will match it up to £20. If you sign up for an extrabet spread betting account using a link on TakesAllSports and place five settled spread bets, you will receive a £100 Supremacy or Total Goals bet, plus you get another free bet after a further 10 bets! If that is'nt a half decent sign up deal, we don't know what is.
All the usual suspects are supported, extrabet accept Maestro, Visa Delta, Solo and Laser debit cards, Mastercard and Visa credit cards, bank transfer and cheque. We funded our account instantly using a debit card and the withdrawal only took a couple of working days, which we thought was worth mentioning.
Extrabet have a couple of freephone lines that are open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Before 10pm you get the UK based office and after 10pm it's the Australian based office, both were friendly, well spoken and most important of all, helpful. We fired across a quick email to their helpdesk address and recieved a reply the same day. You can also leave a message on their website, you may find this facility useful if you're nowhere near your email program or severely restricted by your companys network.
Extrabet offer online and telephone betting services daily and their normal hours of operation are from 8am to 10pm. We only used the online betting via their website and found our bets were processed quickly and being able to take winnings early on an event aswell as cut our losses were truly helpful punting tools to have in our arsenal. We plan on using extrabet a lot more because they are the only online bookmaker we know that has this facility.
Spread betting is a big part of the extrabet experience and they understand that most people have'nt got a clue how to gamble using spread betting, that's why they have a whole section on their website filled with tutorials that explain how spread betting works in simple to understand terms, they also teach you how to take winnings early in a horse race or to cut your losses; if you go through their tutorials you will be fully equipped to use all the services that extrabet provide, we feel a lot of these services are very useful and highly recommend opening an account with them via a link on TakesAllSports.
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