David,
Would confirm the point you made on
SportingBet. About 5 or 6 of us opened accounts with them at work last season as we had a syndicate going and wanted to take advantage of their referal offer.
There was a problem with one of the accounts so I used their live chat to "speak" to an assistant. Gave him the basic details and also mentioned that it was a problem with
SportingBet UK. He was telling me to go to parts of the screen which didn't exist - I eventually realised he was trying to help me based on the US version of their website and was actually an American in America!
Ended up phoning them but still to a good week to sort out the problem. Not the best customer service.