article_snippet: Furious customers are demanding a bigger payout after placing wagers with Sky Bet that the London side would be knocked out of the Champions League by Paris Saint-
article_snippet: but when it came to settling the bets, they paid out at just 9-2.
article_snippet: It means the winnings for a £10 wager would have been cut from £260 to £55, including the return of the original stake.
article_snippet: A customer placing a bet at 9.50pm received generous odds of 25/1 (left), but when A customer placing a bet at 9.50pm came to settling the bets, A customer placing a bet at 9.50pm paid out at just 9-2 (right)
article_snippet: Punters who successfully bet on the result were told Punters who successfully bet on the result would be paid less than Punters who successfully bet on the result expected only after the match was over, with an email sent from the company blaming an ‘administration error’.
article_snippet: Emil Bolstad, 26, was expecting to win £150 plus David Luiz £6 stake back – but profited by only £27.
article_snippet: It was only when it came time to pay up that I noticed the odds had changed.
article_snippet: If they can do this because of an “error”, they can do this for all they odds.
article_snippet: they could triple they odds and after people have bet say, “
article_snippet: Oh no, it was a mistake” and not pay out.
article_snippet: What would have happened if a rival firm had better odds but people chose Sky Bet because of the 25-1 odds?
article_snippet: This is typical of the gambling industry.
article_snippet: In this case a wrong price was displayed for around three minutes, and a small number of customers bet at the incorrect odds.
article_snippet: we settled at the correct odds.
highlights_snippet: But when settling the bets, the bets paid out at just 9-2 to fury of customers .
  