Your excuse are really baseless. If you really did not have the intention to provide any value for the free picks then why would you even offer it? These free picks were supposed to be your main bait to hook the potential clients and shine from there.

Imagine if you had the accuracy of 90% up. We would not even have these discussions and you would end up getting few more clients including me. Prove yourself with 90% accuracy in minimum 10 picks for the next 10 selections. Have some odd of over 1.5