The bet I had on us before Christmas to get relegated came in.
(£25 at 4/5 with Extrabet, but as it was a new account they matched my winnings.)
*grabs coat and makes for the exit whilst saying, in best David Brent voice, "winning a bet is generally considered to be good news"!*
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Just checked my Extrabet account and the "matched winnings" ain't there. I've emailed them and this was their response:
"Thank you for your e-mail. However I am afraid that the previous £25 matched bet promotion expired on 31st December 2006. Though you opened your bet when the promotion was running, I am afraid that as per the terms and conditions of the promotion, this only applied to bets placed AND SETTLED before 31/12/06.
Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused."
To which I replied:
"I guess that's the thing about "too good to be true" offers - they are normally just that, offers designed simply to lure people in with a headline promise. When it comes to actually getting the advertised benefit there's always the "small print" to contend with.
May I strongly recommend that, in future, conditions such as this are more prominently featured so that people in my position don't feel quite so cheated. Just a suggestion of course.
In the meantime, it was nice taking £20 off you!"
I'm not surprised of course, you get nowt for nowt and it serves me right for betting against my team. A lesson for us all!
"Thank you for your email. I understand your frustration at this and therefore having spoken to our sports department they have decided to credit your account with the free bet bonus of £20."
You see, sometimes it's worth making a fuss and fighting your corner. I'm off to the pub with my "free bonus" now!
Anyone know where I can get odds on t'net at this early stage?
My boiler packed up today (the water heating kind - not the missus) so I've a fair idea where the rest will be going!
I might be missing something here, but how is that "risk free"? Surely the risk is that we don't come back up and you lose £800?
That doesn't make sense. If Charlton don't get promoted next season then there's no free season ticket and he's £800 down. That's not risk free - that's a double whammy!
You could say that betting the price of your season ticket on us NOT going up was risk free as you either take your winnings when we don't or get your free season ticket when we do.
Seriously_red - I hope you've typed it the wrong way round and not spent your £800 that way thinking it's actually risk free!
It's a no lose situation.
did ya manage to locate arf on monday dude ??
nice to catch up briefly
Maybe I misread it - if he's simply talking about buying his season ticket then I get it.
If you mean you've placed that bet at the bookies then it's far from risk free as you'll lose your stake AND have to pay for a season ticket if we don't win promotion next year.
The best you can do risk free is to close your position out now and guarantee yourself a cheap season ticket for 08/09 by betting against Charlton getting promoted.
That way if we go up you lose your stake and get a free season ticket and if we don't then you use your winnings plus your stake to fund your season ticket.
I'd want fairly long odds before I took that on though as you're restricting your upside too, either way you'd have to pay something - depends how risk averse you are...(or how much you believe in the Addicks ability to get promoted!).
Blimey, I bet the time just flies by when you're around!
;o)
was going to ask what an anylist is??
Cheeky barsteward.
I'll have you know analysts are a lot of fun - they're like sexed up accountants!
Yep, 'tis incredibly dull a lot of the time but it pays the mortgage.