Can I make £1,024 in 11 weeks from nothing?

finallydebtfree!!

Shirley will be our haven its almost nothing but charity shops :rotfl:

only thing is now I know I have direct competition

jpwhittle

my match betting just went pete tongue and we lost £62.66. the match didnt bet on the free £25 so we canceled that bet but couldnt cancel betfair and lost. oh pants thats a bad blow for the challenge will have to try very hard to recover from that now.

benedictadams

finallydebtfree!! wrote:

Shirley will be our haven its almost nothing but charity shops :rotfl:

only thing is now I know I have direct competition

That is Shirley (Birmingham/Solihull)?

Was amazed at how many charity shops there are there:eek: :eek:

Do Solihull council have a policy of keeping chairty shops out of Solihull town centre as three seems to be very low (unless i have missed one)

They are opening a new one in Kings Heath on 1st December (which just happens to be a day i have a half-day at work):j :j

benedictadams

jpwhittle wrote:

my match betting just went pete tongue and we lost £62.66. the match didnt bet on the free £25 so we canceled that bet but couldnt cancel betfair and lost. oh pants thats a bad blow for the challenge will have to try very hard to recover from that now.

hugz

bad luck

but how much worse would you be feeling if it wasn't free money that had been lost

Dan29

benedictadams wrote:

Hi

I did post the reason earlier but with hundreds of postings it would be hard to locate

I have an addictive personality (a thousand quid worth of my debt was racked up in three months with alcohol:eek: ), so its safer for my bank balance not to put any card details into any site

Ah I see. It's odd as I always considered myself to have an addictive personality but if anything the matched betting has discouraged me from being tempted by gambling rather than encouraged me. However everyone's different of course and the last thing you want to do is risk losing your hard-earned cash.

Thanks for replying

Dan29

jpwhittle wrote:

my match betting just went pete tongue and we lost £62.66. the match didnt bet on the free £25 so we canceled that bet but couldnt cancel betfair and lost. oh pants thats a bad blow for the challenge will have to try very hard to recover from that now.

Oh dear

When matched betting never place the lay bet at Betfair until you're sure the full bet has been placed at the bookie.

If you need to 'cancel' a lay bet at Betfair just bet the same amount at Betfair as you layed.

benedictadams

Dan29 wrote:

Ah I see. It's odd as I always considered myself to have an addictive personality but if anything the matched betting has discouraged me from being tempted by gambling rather than encouraged me. However everyone's different of course and the last thing you want to do is risk losing your hard-earned cash.

Thanks for replying

I might be fine doing it but its a risk i'm not willing to take even if it is free cash

Buying stuff for ebay is enough risk for me at the moment!

jet77

jpwhittle - don't worry because you still haven't 'lost' anything because it was free money to start with - and you've still got enough left to invest in something else.

Ben - I think theres a Shirley down by Ringwood, Hampshire somewhere - not the one up here. I haven't been to Shirley, Solihull charity shops yet but someone recommended it a few weeks ago so will have to go. Is there an internet cafe in Shirley (Solihull?) coz I always write down anything that I think looks expensive and come home to look it up on ebay before I buy anything but Shirleys about 3/4 hour drive for me.

benedictadams

jpet77 wrote:

jpwhittle - don't worry because you still haven't 'lost' anything because it was free money to start with - and you've still got enough left to invest in something else.

Ben - I think theres a Shirley down by Ringwood, Hampshire somewhere - not the one up here. I haven't been to Shirley, Solihull charity shops yet but someone recommended it a few weeks ago so will have to go. Is there an internet cafe in Shirley (Solihull?) coz I always write down anything that I think looks expensive and come home to look it up on ebay before I buy anything but Shirleys about 3/4 hour drive for me.

I think that was me:o

http://www.solihull.gov.uk/section.asp?catid=2638&docid=941

should allow you to check your potential bargains

i did the checking on the internet on saturday to check whether something would sell (lucky i did as it would have made a loss)

jpwhittle

thanks all. we managed to cancell the £20 free bet in time before it was to late so salvaged something there and we have a £50 free bet waiting to be used in ladbrokkes so should be able to salvage most of it by the ene of the week just wont be up as much as we thought we would. oh well expensive lesson learned but like you all said and we said last night its free money anyway. husband started with some before but we would have to lose everything to lose that and that would be unlucky.

now i am tempted to sign up another email adress for another free £20 after that.

and i was so proud of my total.:wall: :eek: :mad: