Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

DRFC1879

Each site is different but on many of the mainstream bookies' sites you can cash out the profit from your free bet but it will then set the returned stake element back to zero.


I've had a few wins with Jackpotjoy where they have put a free bonus in the account to try and entice me. Having won around a hundred quid on slots, rather than play it through fifty times (iirc) on slots which would pretty much guarantee it all gets frittered away, I switched to bingo where you only have to play the original stake through (again iirc) 5 times.


My free tenner, with winnings on the slots of £100 would only need to be played through five times on bingo guaranteeing at least a £50 payout (plus any bingo winnings). It doesn't always work and they haven't given me any free money to play for a while (wonder why!) but it's been fun when it's paid out!

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's probably some small print that says something about only taking winnings out once you've pumped £X of your own money through the account ... meaning, for many, that they then bet and lose £00s of their own money before they can withdraw any meagre winnings.

There's no such thing as a freebie with betting ... unless you've sat and worked it out and learnt a method and do it methodically and wait .... etc etc.

You can't pop in and trouser profits on a few clicks.

The Quidco cashback is "£30 for a new active player who deposits and plays the minimum of £10 within 3 days of opening an account", which I have done.

You could try it. The worst that can happen is you don't get the cashback and lose the £10 bet. The next worse is you do get the cashback and lose the bet (£20 profit, which will buy loads of goodies at Lidl).

Ladbrokes has 99% tracking reliability on Quidco, so your chance of coming out at least £20 up is 99%.

ivyleaf

Pyxis I "read" your puzzle as "May the chord be with you"....that explains why it didn't sound quite right, then I recognised Googie Withers, but wouldn't have recognised Bill.

Stone fire surround with wooden mantelpiece - we've still got one of these! When we moved in 32 years ago it was a huge novelty after Army quarters, and we never had the resources to change it. It has only one "nook", which is inhabited by a curled-up-asleep-cat ornament As we get older it seems less and less likely that we'll ever manage to replace it, though i would like to

michaels How's the hayfever? Mine seems to be easing up a bit atm :j

Ooh, just remembered something I've been meaning to mention. A while ago there were some posts about shallots (see, Pyxis, this thread is nothing if not eclectic ) and we were saying what a PITA they were to peel. Well, I found some in Lidl of all places, a different type called "Echalion Shallots", which are shaped like elongated rugby balls and much easier to manage. They're less fiddly to peel, and then you just slice them up. I know there's a type called !!!!!!! Shallots" which are similar.

Our local greengrocer only ever sells the PITA ones though.

Pyxis

ivyleaf wrote: »

Pyxis I "read" your puzzle as "May the chord be with you"....that explains why it didn't sound quite right, then I recognised Googie Withers, but wouldn't have recognised Bill.

Yes, I dithered over Withers! It was a wither dither.

GDB2222

Pyxis wrote: »

Yes, I dithered over Withers! It was a wither dither.

Next year go for whizz?

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Next year go for whizz?

:huh:


(Am in dense mode).

chris_m

"May ze Fourth be whizz you", perchance?

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

So, based on your advice:

I went to Quidco, opened an account with Ladbrokes, and deposited £10. (£30 cashback for opening an account and betting £10.)

I bet the £10 at 9:1 on UK in top 10. Plus they double up your first bet. So, I effectively have odds of 18:1.

So, the worst case scenario is that I gain the cashback of £30 and lose the £10 bet.

This seems a tad on the "too good to be true" side. Have I missed the news? Is money going out of fashion?

Michaels, should we all be doing this?

Should have waited till Cheltenham or perhaps the Euros for better sign up offers and of course you should try and match out your Eurovision bet to lock in a profit - can you lay this market at betfair?

Also how did you send the money to Laddies? Not a good idea to send it from your main bank account if you are looking to remortgage at any point in the near future.....

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Oh, um, does that mean a bet of 12-1 is good or not? Eitd: odds moved to 9-1 now., too many people reading the NP thread!

You can still bet on a country getting nil points. Odds of 8-1.

You have about a 40% chance of getting a return. It is not a bad song and we have managed it in the past. You could say "oh, we aren't that popular" and mark it down a bit. Still you have odds of 12-1 on something that has a reasonable chance of happening. I think that the 12-1 reflects the fact that there are still 41 countries competing. A large number of those will fall out of the contest as they won't make it past the semis. We however have an automatic pass to the finals. I think something like 24-25 countries will actually compete.

silvercar

chris_m wrote: »

Is that for "a" country or for a specific country?

Any country.

michaels wrote: »

Should have waited till Cheltenham or perhaps the Euros for better sign up offers and of course you should try and match out your Eurovision bet to lock in a profit - can you lay this market at betfair?

Also how did you send the money to Laddies? Not a good idea to send it from your main bank account if you are looking to remortgage at any point in the near future.....

You can lay this market on betfair. I don't really understand lay betting other than you are betting against something happening. I suppose if the odds continue to fall I can lay the same bet.

My bet was made on betfair with money that has been sitting in there that I had forgotten about.