Opening Day at Gulfstream

SniperSB23 · #1 01-01-2007, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Wait a sec, Phil, do you mean to tell me you are paying the surcharge? That's insane. Please tell me you aren't doing that.

I was thinking the same thing. I only go to Capitol OTB where it is a no brainer as to whether or not you want to pay the $1 to go to the much nicer atmosphere and get track odds or go over to the scary part and have them take a portion of your winnings.

blackthroatedwind · #2 01-01-2007, 11:21 PM

It's crazy. The OTB surcharge is dispicable.

philcski · #3 01-01-2007, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by SniperSB23

I was thinking the same thing. I only go to Capitol OTB where it is a no brainer as to whether or not you want to pay the $1 to go to the much nicer atmosphere and get track odds or go over to the scary part and have them take a portion of your winnings.

NYCOTB isn't set up quite the same as Capital OTB, unfortunately- only the "teletheaters" have the pay-$5-to-avoid-surcharge, and there's only a smattering of them. The telephone account is fine but the automated system is REALLY slow, and the phone tellers are really azzholes. NYRA phone people are much better but the deposit/withdrawal can be an issue if you can't make it to the track that day, the credit card companies including my bank card often will deny the charges which means you have to go the loophole method and they stick you with a $29.95 charge for each deposit. Otherwise I'd use NYRA all the time.

blackthroatedwind · #4 01-01-2007, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by philcski

NYCOTB isn't set up quite the same as Capital OTB, unfortunately- only the "teletheaters" have the pay-$5-to-avoid-surcharge, and there's only a smattering of them. The telephone account is fine but the automated system is REALLY slow, and the phone tellers are really azzholes. NYRA phone people are much better but the deposit/withdrawal can be an issue if you can't make it to the track that day, the credit card companies including my bank card often will deny the charges which means you have to go the loophole method and they stick you with a $29.95 charge for each deposit. Otherwise I'd use NYRA all the time.

NYRA needs to find a way that allows people in NY State to use a bank to make a deposit. It should be managable. I keep meaning to bring that up.

philcski · #5 01-02-2007, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

NYRA needs to find a way that allows people in NY State to use a bank to make a deposit. It should be managable. I keep meaning to bring that up.

I believe you can, but I had my bank account information breached and a lot of money stolen out of my account from what I believe was bill-pay activity online. So handing my checking account information to a teller freaks me out a bit.

Side note: I just checked the NYRA Rewards website and Magna tracks now qualify for rebates, as of yesterday. Good stuff. Whomever takes over the franchise should keep the rebating program intact.

SniperSB23 · #6 01-01-2007, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by philcski

NYCOTB isn't set up quite the same as Capital OTB, unfortunately- only the "teletheaters" have the pay-$5-to-avoid-surcharge, and there's only a smattering of them. The telephone account is fine but the automated system is REALLY slow, and the phone tellers are really azzholes. NYRA phone people are much better but the deposit/withdrawal can be an issue if you can't make it to the track that day, the credit card companies including my bank card often will deny the charges which means you have to go the loophole method and they stick you with a $29.95 charge for each deposit. Otherwise I'd use NYRA all the time.

That sucks dude. Sounds like it is time to move up to Albany.