At least news of the 7.5% & round-down secret rake is filtering through the other forums - albeit excruciatingly slowly.

I'm amazed that one individual (whom I've had no dealing with) still insists in denying this for 3 days. Why can't he go to the official AusTOTE page and calculate the blessed markets for himself? The fact that all will be above 108.11% should be a huge clue!

As to better value elsewhere I suspect that Betfair is now the best bet, but with the problem that the low liquidity doesn't guarantee you'll get matched at your offered price.

I haven't tried this but wonder how offering lays at 10% below estimated true odds might go.

With the 5-outfit live display that lay price would be 90% * Market * Best Price.

For example early on the Market for best might be 80%.

So offer to lay a $10 shot at 90% * 80% * $10 = $7.20 or worse.