Neds sign up bonus
We haven’t had a new entrant into the Aussie market for some time. Over the next few years, I see mergers and acquisitions more likely than new entrants entering the market. The last time I did an affiliate post for a new sportsbook was over 2 years ago with the Madbookie brand. Looking at my stats on that post, you guys took up well over $500,000.00 in bonus bets from that sign-up offer.
With the new laws changing next year, Bookmakers will not be able to offer any type of sign up bonus. So this will be one of the last chances for Aussies to get a decent sign-up offer. It will be interesting to see how bookmakers deal with this, and how they will entice new customers. But for the moment, it is still legal to offer a sign-up bonus and a 100% match to test out a new book is something we can’t take for granted anymore.
The new bookie
The new bookie is neds.com.au and is run by the same guy who started bookmaker.com.au and was the CEO of Ladbrokes Australia. So it is a serious bookie. They are going to target the Australian sports betting market first, before opening up to the UK and also going after the growing lottery market.
The Sign-up offer
Edit: Sign up offers are not allowed to be advertised in Australia. You will need to sign up to bookmakers without an incentive, but bookmakers are free to offer incentives once you have an account.
Why use my link?
As with any affiliate link I have, if you have any issues with the site at any time (sign up bonus not being given, payment issue, so on), you can contact me and I will be on the phone to the affiliate manager that day. I can’t guarantee I can solve the problem, but as long as you followed the rules, I will do all I can to make sure the problem is resolved quickly. I only have a few affiliate links on this site and try and create relationships with the books I do advertise. I value my readers signing up under me, as they help out this site, and the least I can do is try and help on the off chance there is an issue. You won’t get that type of service anywhere else.
What about non-Aussies?
Currently, Neds is only taking customers from Australia. But in the next few months, they will open up to other countries. I will let you guys from Europe, UK, so-on know when they do.
Disclaimer
This is an affiliate post. What that means is if you join this bookmaker through my link, your account is linked under my name. Every month the affiliate will work out how everyone who I referred has done and if they have made a profit from them I will receive a cut (25%) of that profit. I can not guarantee that winning punters will not be limited.
Lots of feedback on Saturday stating that Neds had issues with site freezing…long delays with pages and difficulties getting a bet on.
Put it down to teething troubles however not an ideal start.
I’ll wait a couple of weeks before joining Steve to give them a chance to get their act together.
Cheers
Yep, simply a case of not preparing for the amount of visitors they received. A pretty big mistake. It’s not hard to scale a website on Amazon these days.
Site seems back to normal now and working fine for me. Will see how they go next Saturday.
Steve, I thought you were better than this. I’ve been punting now for 35 years from the days on track to tab’s and now the corporates. I’ve adapted well over the years and I signed up last Saturday. The site crashed all day, functions weren’t working, app wasn’t loading. I then jumped back on today, bets weren’t being placed when I was trying to, and many fresh problems occuring. This is inexcusable from an ex-CEO of Ladbrokes you say.
I’m surprised your advertising such junk
Cheers Barry
Dean Shannon restricted me when I won $15k at Ladbrokes. He is a true arsehole
I’ve been using them just this week. Site is going fine as far as speed goes, but I haven’t had a Saturday race day with them yet. There was a fair bit of action of Wednesday, and found no delay.
I turned over about $1K, and did a withdrawal today. I just checked now and the money is in the bank.
I think the sports odds need a little tuning. They are not terrible, but in NBA, for example, they were about 2 cents short of Sportsbet after Pinnacle had been hammered.
More competition in this market is always good in my opinion. The Free Bet offer is worth the small effort to go there and give them a go.