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Month: October 2017

Spotting the Affiliate Scammers: Part 2 – Tipsters

Spotting the Affiliate Scammers: Part 2 – Tipsters

Welcome to Part 2 of my guide to spotting those scams relating to matched betting out there. This week I want to focus on an area surrounding Tipsters and the tactics they use to draw you in. Incase you didn’t know, a Tipster is someone who posts a series of bets which they recommend you bet yourself. They might claim to have insider knowledge or some type of statistical model which they’ve used to identify good betting opportunities and are…

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Spotting the Affiliate Scammers: Part 1 – Guide Websites

Spotting the Affiliate Scammers: Part 1 – Guide Websites

As I mentioned on my previous post; when I first started there were only a couple of guide websites around which offered to link you to offers and provided information to get started on matched betting for a monthly subscription fee. Since then I’ve been amazed at how many new sites have started up all offering promises of indepth information and excellent customer support. What has been surprising is the completely different levels of quality of these sites. Some look…

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Spotting the Affiliate Scammers

Spotting the Affiliate Scammers

I’ve recently returned from a week late-honeymoon abroad with my new wife. While this had a negative impact on my Matched Betting profits it did give me time to have a think about some of the other topics I’d like to talk about on this site. Back when I started Matched Betting back in 2015 there were only a few guide websites (PA, PM, OM, etc) around from which to choose from. In the relatively short period since, there’s been…

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September Matched Betting Profit: £1,775.39

September Matched Betting Profit: £1,775.39

 This past month was a real slog, no major casino or sports wins and an absolute disaster with accumulators resulted in a somewhat disappointing profit compared to other months. With the football back on I decided to try “AP Accumulators”, basically doing accumulator offers but without laying any of the matches off. In theory this should give a higher average profit that if I were laying them all however alot of high profile losses for what should have been easy…

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