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For anyone that does not follow Keith on twitter you really should

awesome.  I loved it when Keith said 'How can you get so excited over saving 11p?'

there quite clearly are a myriad of twats more dreadful than him. think Keiths being unfair there.


Keith for the most exaggerated tweet at next British poker awards?

To be honest I find some of the stuff on twitter to be pretty depressing. I have my moments, but some people spend way too much time putting others down.

I came across Martin Lewis a long time ago.  He used to post in a nit forum on a financial website I used to post on.  He clearly believed strongly that people should be nitty and save money back then and sure he still does now.  It was probably just accidental that he made so much money and his site became more succesful than where we used to post.  Back in the day, he probably just put up a few links to cover the cost of his site and then the multi millions came from that.  Sure there was more to it than that, but I'd be pretty surprised if his original intention was to become filthy rich off the back of others.

Having said that, he clearly had better vision than me, he posted under moneysavingexpert from the start, which always seemed a bit much to me.  And he has been very good at passing off other's ideas as his own.  But if the ideas are good, then people following them can't be a bad thing.  And despite all this, I am sure he passionately believes in what he sells; he has stopped bad practices through his site and TV bits and he has made shed loads doing so.  Far better than making your money screwing people over as many others do in the financial sector.  Good luck to him.  Wish I'd been as forward thinking. Fk the haters.

ive no problem with nits being nitty and helping others to nit it up. Martin lewis is definately shrewd but i wouldnt want to go for a beer with him

Can just see him making himself comfortable while you go get him a beer.  Will be a saving money down the pub column on his website the next day.  Always be last to buy the round, no doubles, house wines only, better still buy your booze at Tesco. 

I have no friends like this. Well actually I have one, and he is the laughing stock of all my friends because of it. Wouldn't want to have any more than 1 friend like this though, would get utterly depressing.

I spew money all over the place so I'm no nit but 3 hours on the Martin Lewis site saved me over £100 per month on various bills and things.

Surprising how those 11p's can mount up.

Dont dislike what he does for people but he is a smug git imo

Martin Lewis not camel btw

Always worth a tweet asking if he as anymore fgs free money coups planned as well :)

This. I've had over £1k cashback via Quidco which I found via MSE. Can't stand going clothes shopping so buy a shedload online with 10% cashback, take back what I don't want and keep the cashback on the whole lot - result.

Quality coup that carling cup final was 2008 i think.  Remember backing Theo at 45/1 FGS comical scenes.  Betfair let them all off paying up as well the MSE scum to stop the bad publicity the exchange would get.

Ha! That made me laugh  :D

Had a guy I lived with a uni that would never buy a round unless he was told to, I would die of shame if I did that, it didn't even seem to occur to him! It was ok when it was just us mates together, we would just hoof him up the arse to go to the bar, but it was pretty embarrassing when were we were out with other friends and had to prompt him to go.

Missed it? What happened?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=386063 (http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=386063)

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=386241 (http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=386241)

Was carnage on the Betfair forums

Haha never seen this!!

absolutely amazing.

never fails to raise a smile

"Martin I have a big red screen what does this mean please?"

i would have paid good cash to see these weasals' faces when all the non runners were taken from the betfair market and their page of green profit turned to a massive sea of red right in front of their eyes and the panic set in.

two questions then:

1. how was it resolved?

2. is it still possible for liability to exceed balance on markets where there are definite NRs?

This. I loved the excitement on the first thread, "I make £6 every 15 seconds".... lol. I'm gutted it got written off.

that was an entertaining read despite working out the ending before it had gotten to the end of page one

loved the guy that lost 12k thinking he broke even and earned 6000 betfair points lol

Was the most incredible decision from Betfair to refund those punters their money. I guess caveat emptor doesn't really apply.

did betfair really refund money?

i think more likey took everything from there accounts

and closed them

Yes they did

As Red says still looking back even now what a strange decision.

There are some bosses who would welcome the chance to have the way betting and laying work published all over the media, even if it were in articles with a negative slant against the company. However, you can see the logic for the refund: MSE has a fairly wide network of potential spinners with a little extra savings at their disposal. They can also make a lot of noise and make the company look like greedy baddies (irrespective of whether that's really what happened and notwithstanding the irony).

Would they do it now? I very much doubt it.

When we have a bet, we know what we're getting ourselves into. We make mistakes and sometimes costly ones, but we are sensible enough to know what is going on and how much our exposure is. Often we have got to that point after having learned from our experiences. We have been fortunate to have been able to learn from those experiences. Those threads make some pretty grim reading, from whichever way you look at them.

Not only did they get their money back but by earning 6000 bf points he prob jumped three stages on the commission chart at least maybe five and ended up paying 4.0% instead of 4.5% for the rest of the week. Bf wouldn't have been smart enough to take his 6000 bf points off his points balance so effectively he got rewarded for this fuck up.

Even though Betfair is a different company than it once was, I expect the fella who lost 12k but had nothing would "get away with it" most places now.  He'd probably end up with zero or some token repayments.  You can't take money from those that don't have it. 

No idea how I missed that one! Utterly amazing!

Crazy read, the wonders of a forum, felt like it was happening as I was reading. So many so called clued up people got sucked in and they just didn't have a clue.

Any blondes get a load from the other side, the bets? Arboy mentioned Theo FGS at 39's?

He said 46.

Incredible, really. Like lambs to the slaughter. I'm sure there were many people backing the FGS without realising what was going on; just seeing "Oooh I quite fancy Rosicky at 30/1" or whatever. Obviously, some of the betfair forumites would have got wind and been loading up, too.

There will be people reading this who, if they were to be given a time machine, would feel uncomfortable going back to that night and hoovering up the money.

You could literally back every player that was starting once you knew the team news. 

I found it remarkable he retweeted my throwaway comment and bothered to reply.

He must be extremely insecure to set his hoard of lemmings masquerading as his followers on me.

They were far more pleasant than 1D followers. If you insult Harry Styles the wrath of thousands of prepubescent eleven year old girls is an irresistable force.

I think the whole affiliate system is flawed.

Lewis has grown hugely rich, pointing people the way of cheap deals.

I'd prefer it if producers offered their goods and services at the correct price, not the correct price + whatever they have given to leaches like Martin Lewis.

It's like reward cards in shops.

I'm sick to death of shop assistants saying "That'll be £23.49, have you got a rewards card?".

"No I bloody haven't. I am not prepared to sell you my personal details for a 1% discount on my basket of shopping. Please sell me the goods at their correct price, not the correct price +1%."

Makes me want to shop lift one item every time I go to Sainsburys to make up for the amount they are over charging me.

Still was an amusing way to spend an hour on a boring Thursday afternoon.

You've been missed, sir

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Just eat a banana on your way round the store.

Can any one explain in laymans terms what happened with the betfair thingy?? Don't do online betting so don't understand what was being said.

There was a bug in the Betfair software that meant you could lay every player in the first goal scorer market for an apparent guaranteed profit. As it was guaranteed you could do this as often as possible, making more profits from your increasing bankroll.

The bug overlooked the fact that some players would not be in the squad at all and therefore anyone betting on them would have their bet refunded. Now the source of most of your apparent profit has gone but you still need to pay out the winners.

One guy ended up 12k in the red. Betfair covered the losses as it was their bug that misrepresented the exposure incurred.

I think that's right.