Hacker

For those who don't know, Tradefair is a separate FSA regulated company in the betfair group, for spreadbetting on financials

They ran a fantasy trading competition recently, I placed one trade and due to lack of interest from other users this left me in the top 100, eligible for £100 if I opened a real account and placed a trade

To apply for an account, they want me to send them evidence of every penny I told them I am worth. This is pretty awkward since my money is in about 40 different accounts. I asked them just to change the figure to something lower, I can offer them proof of a reasonable amount but they refused.

Total cretins imho. How can a company that is so closely linked to betfair behave like such idiots when someone tells them they are a full time punter?

How ironic is it that they can't accept as proof of funds/income my betting activity at betfair, from which they have targetted me as a potential customer?

Time-wasting behaviour like this makes me want them to go to the wall as soon as I get hold of my £100 - I will purposely not be using them for any proper forays into financials as a result

Rant over

Hear_No_Evil

Just to be pedantic, Tradefair is just an affiliate for Capital Spreads. Capital Spreads is FSA regulated but Tradefair is not.

Betfair have nothing to do with the running of the company as far as I know - they just forward their customers to Capital and collect a percentage of the losses.