Quote from: sunsilk on January 29, 2020, 10:25:19 PM

I forgot the question that I'm about to ask you yesterday but it goes something like this. What can you say about those paid tipsters? those gamblers that are asking for payment with their insights and insiders?

I think it's a good question because we've been seeing those kind of tipsters here in the forum before and probably in the future, more of them will come. Do you have anything to say for those people that wants to avail it or try it? honestly, I'm not asking this for myself but in general because it is what I see.

Yes, it's a good question and I actually can share a bit of my own experience as I was subscribed to two of them as well once. That was in maybe 2007/2008 and I didn't monitor the paid tipster market afterwards, so my own experiences are probably a bit outdated.

Generally speaking I wouldn't advise against subscribing, but you have to be careful. There surely are some scammers amongst them and from my experience these services are doing good for some time and then fade. The services I used were quite successful for maybe 3-4 months (I joined relatively early after they started) and after that they barely managed to get break even and then went on tilt and were chasing losses. Subsequently they ceased operations then.

The people that offer these services often have a good (publicly trackable) stretch and then decide to milk some money out of it by opening a service. It's nothing to condemn, but you have to be aware of that. It's something you can jump on while it lasts, but with the first signs of things going the wrong way, I would exit.

The main point from people against these services is always: "Why would you sell a working system, this must be scam." But these paid tipsters don't sell a system, they sell their value bets and there is no system behind it. If you are able to find valuable bets in liquid markets, it's fine to sell them as you will make some additional money with it. Selling your bets from small markets is something you shouldn't do though. You will a) destroy those markets that make you money and b) nearly none of your subscribers will be able to follow your bets with the same odds and thus will lose money.

There is/was a user in a german-austrian betting forum, that used to be the best punter I ever saw publishing his bets. He was mainly playing Basketball bets from smaller markets. The moment he published his bets in the forum, you could see the odds drop real-time. He maybe recommended a bet on team A for 2,20 odds and in a heartbeat, those odds were brought down to like 1,50. All those guys being able to catch that bet above 2,00 are probably fine, but if you follow a 2,20 bet with 1,60, you will lose longterm - no matter how good that punter is.

If someone has a proven record over a good amount of time (several months and frequent bets), there is nothing bad in subscribing to such a service, if it's not too expensive and breaks your bank just for the fee Wink

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There is an Australian guy who started a journey to make money with just following tipsters. He had no real idea about betting and/or wasn't a succesful punter, but had some money available. So he subscribed to some services and placed shitloads of bets every day, with the goal to make $25 a day. He used to be subscribed to like 10 services iirc., but nowadays he only keeps on following the bets from one of them. The other ~9 weren't successfull anymore after some time/years. He is transparent like no one else with his finances and bets, his wins and losses (and his weight Cheesy

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He is also doing lots of other things too that give him passive income, and he is a pretty funny and smart guy.

You can check out his blog here, if you are interested: https://www.daily25.com/ (again I am not making any money by mentioning his blog here)