Arbboy you ever consider providing exchange bet tips for money? Like a paid tipping service but avoiding all the classic bookies (because unless you are a multi accounter you cannot get on of course).
I am sceptical of 99.9% of tipsters but I would pay for your exchange bet tips.
No for various reasons.
1) I couldn't be arsed dealing with the shit Neil and Joe have had to deal with from clueless punters when they have a tiny short term downswing.
2) The vast majority of my dog lays are done within 60 seconds of the off on a race as the bf market for the vast majority of dog races isn't liquid until a minute or two before the race is practically it would be impossible to tell you what i am laying because it is all price dependent and i don't know myself what i am backing/laying until the market is formed. Also the volumes for getting on any dog race which is not on TV is very difficult. I struggle to get on myself to full limits for the vast majority of BAGS races at the right price never mind sell the info for other exchange users to use. For example i have just tried to lay the 2/1 fav in the 408 at hove to lose a grand and only got £125 matched a minute ago. £4k was matched on the race in total. I would say 50% of my turnover is done within 30 seconds of the hare running.
It would be more workable on the rpgtv races in the evening but again the same problems would happen regarding timing issues.
3) I choose to become a pro punter to have a better lifestyle choice and not answer to people therefore selling tips etc would feel like running a business to me and i have never been remotely motivated to do it even though it probably costs me money. In a similar sense i can count the number of times i have got involved in staking on one hand to any decent level and again it is just too business and work like monitoring it. If i wanted all that hassle i would just get a senior trading job. I started working for myself to get away from admin etc as much as possible.
4) In 2005 i used to run a private members only arb advisory service with certain select big arbers who were willing to pay for my information. I used to collect every football coupon from every high st shop and review them in detail for possible arbs. ht/ft/correct scores etc etc. It was very easy to get on then in shops. This service was fine back then as i was dealing with other fellow pros who were happy to pay me well to do the leg work for them. There were no downswings as all i was doing was suggesting arb opportunities so you never had to deal with losers not being able to cope with downswings. I was obviously having to do this work myself anyway to find arbs so sending a daily email wasn't that much of a hassle and it worked well for a year or so until i moved to Malta and/or the shop arbing scene was starting to move on from it's glory period.
Never say never though because everyone/thing has a price and i might be tempted if the right offer came along but it is not something i think about a lot. I would rather swop different skill sets/info with other pros without fees but the hard bit is finding suitably skilled pros who's info is worth as much as yours.
Very interesting read,would you class yourself as a greyhound expert so to speak?
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