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TCarper TCarper
Posts: 4,650
Post #91 7 Jan 2025 11:48
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In reply to Post #90
It's only offensive to me Wayne as I truly understand.

It would be offensive to you or to anyone else if I was trying to sell you a loaf of smart price bread for £100 with a straight face. It would be offensive, simply because you understand the concept of the true value of both things.

When people do not understand the 'value' whatsoever, it's far easier to lead people a certain way. That's all part of the illusion of gambling games.

If I found a way to circumnavigate seatbelt laws in cars, to make me an absolute fortune... But people are dying and being crippled for life so that i can make that money... Is that right? Of course it's not. It's shocking.
TCarper TCarper
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Post #92 7 Jan 2025 12:01
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In reply to Post #82
Quote.... Your not following Moosh tips by any chance TC...LOL...??

No Tad

I don't listen to any advice or take any influence from any source whatsoever regarding horses. No ones opinion matters to me except my own regarding larges sums of cash. It's odds based. I followed the same mantra with carp bait and media my whole life since a young age, it's always stood me so well in fishing and what's now my career too. I'm not interested in what everyone else is doing, in anyway, any shape or form.

I recently got into a conversation with someone very well known in the carp industry who will remain nameless. He was paying said fella you mention (or someone very similar) £50 per month for a load of odds on shots, more than half of which were losing. I was so shocked how bad it was. It was absolutely horrific. People are being scammed left right and centre. I persuaded him to stop that instantly. He was being conned.

ANYONE who can make gambling pay whatsoever... They do not need to take £50 a month for information from you. Any intelligent person can work that out, right?

frothey frothey
Posts: 3,575
Post #93 7 Jan 2025 12:57
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Too right. You're just funding their gambling, they're gambling with your money when they take money for bet advice. If the bet doesn't come off, you've lost the £50, not them.

It would be offensive to you or to anyone else if I was trying to sell you a loaf of smart price bread for £100 with a straight face

You obviously don't shop in my local deli........
InTheMargin
Posts: 451
Post #94 7 Jan 2025 13:11
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In reply to Post #93
.... I doubt they even gamble at all.... just take money off mugs for these "tips".

Most of them are affiliated with bookies anyway so get commission on any bets placed through their links.

Like has been said... if they were any good... they wouldnt need to sell tips, unless of course they are doing it to manipulate the odds so they can lay on the exchanges. With social media it cant be that difficult for them them to get alot of people backing a particular horse?

I remember when you used to get people in the car parks at race courses, trying to sell you a piece of paper with a number on it... saying it was a "inside info tip from the stables". People actually used to buy into/ fall for it (and still do).... now with social media and the internet.... its the same thing... but with an unlimited reach.

Fivenil Fivenil
Posts: 2,037
Post #95 8 Jan 2025 09:40
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In reply to Post #83
Planet Rock comp is only ever won by people north of Watford so i stopped doing it.
clicky clicky
Posts: 9,545
Post #96 9 Jan 2025 19:44
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In reply to Post #89
1 of my grandads (god rest his sole) used to work at romford dog track,putting the dogs in the traps..was often offered a few quid to wipe mustard around a dogs backside to run faster 😆.Well that's what he told me 🤔.
Wayne Wayne
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Post #97 15 Feb 2025 13:45
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Well it would seem Mark Pitchers comp site “capital carp comps” is a little strange shall we say!

I noticed that on the various big competitions with lots of prizes he does, that the percentage of tickets sold generally matches the same percentage of prizes won! I asked about the algorithm they use on the site and was told it's totally random and simply the law of averages that it seems to match on so many comps! I said that's rubbish as 100000 tickets v 1000 prizes simply wouldn't do that time after time........no further reply but was then banned from their comp page......

Strangely they now don't show you how many prizes are won for each comp in a simple format like 100 / 1000 and the only way to see How many have been won is to sit there and add them all up from each prize that is listed......
Singlebleep Singlebleep
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Site deviant... Post #98 15 Feb 2025 23:52
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I have simple outlook on all gambling.

If I won a million quid on a single bet, then bet again and lost £500k I would be more pissed off at losing £500k than winning the £500k I won.

Now that's just me. Ihave no interest in gambling. I have no problem with those that do, just not for me. I don't have the genetic tendencies to be attracted to it for money, although I can be a risk taker in general life.

Now drinking more than you should , women, etc etc that's fair game
Catch23
Posts: 384
Post #99 29 Jun 2025 10:50
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What would you say is a fair amount of time from winning a prize to you actually receiving the prize??
I won a fairly large prize at the start of May and I'm still waiting for it now because it's been out of stock. Not getting any updates unless I chase it and I'm wondering if I'm actually being too pushy or expecting too much??
braders1978 braders1978
Posts: 18,195
Post #100 29 Jun 2025 14:17
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In reply to Post #99
Ask for cash equivalent and buy it yourself from somewhere else,they may have their own supplier who cant get it
Catch23
Posts: 384
Post #101 29 Jun 2025 14:42
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In reply to Post #100
I get what you're saying but the cash alternative isn't the full value of the prize itself. These things never are. And why would anyone run a comp to win something they don't have? I mean they took peoples money nearly 2 months ago for this.
braders1978 braders1978
Posts: 18,195
Post #102 29 Jun 2025 16:08
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In reply to Post #101
Tell them for the inconvenience you want full cash value,it is not good what they have done.The problem is most tackle companies are having massive issues getting things into the UK,loads of delays on everything.The best thing they could do is give an immigrant a piece of tackle each,they'd soon get it over here then
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