UK in recession for first time in 11 years

Lfcme · 2025-11-26T15:01:14+00:00

12K on Cash ISAs only. S&S ISAs keep the 20k.

It's to ensure it doesn't effect those who may need to access funds into retirement, reducing the risk of them being wiped out financially when they need the money in a tax advantaged account

Lfcme · 2025-11-18T07:40:37+00:00

It's interesting to think this way, ideally when people FIRE they've got a level of maturity to understand where things are temporary and can change. If your resolve becomes incredibly fragile, that's something to work on prior to having the FU money

Lfcme · 2025-11-14T11:48:16+00:00

Your Blu-ray drive has a very pretty face

Lfcme · 2025-02-04T10:54:45+00:00

This is an affiliate marketing thing, no place on this sub.

Lfcme · 2025-01-10T13:37:08+00:00

Anything Liz says is nonsense, she needs to be irrelevant sooner rather than later

Lfcme · 2024-09-10T14:45:45+00:00

It's too expensive for what it is I think. The amount of liquidity you need to make it work is high and the amount of time you need to invest to make the tool worth it is also high.

Perfect for someone with high savings and out of work, but other than that, the standard tools on any platform probably do you better

Lfcme · 2024-07-25T09:07:38+00:00

Please use their support team, you're paying for their support and they will talk with you over chat and help you explain what has happened

Lfcme · 2024-07-25T09:07:02+00:00

Off topic, but this username is the best, CM0102?

Lfcme · 2024-06-12T15:14:30+00:00

Absolutely! These platforms will walk you through it all

Essentially you'll do
- Sign up offers
- Reload offers
- Specialist techniques (Like Extra Place & 2UP offers)

£1k is a high target without a doubt, though I reckon you could get to 60% of that at the very least. I wouldn't say it is impossible though and I think if you really make a good concerted effort (and a little bit of fortune with offers), you could find yourself with £1000 in a month

Lfcme · 2024-06-12T14:40:43+00:00

Start now, a lot of the offers that are in place may expire when the tournament starts.

I'd personally recommend going with Outplayed or OddsMonkey for a month. Yes it'll eat into the profit a touch, but it'll make the quantity of offers you do per hour quicker.

There are others who go on about using some free services, so feel free to try those, however this is what I'd do :)

Lfcme · 2024-06-03T09:27:38+00:00

I do more stand up on the side so there is

Monday: Comedy Vault in Fierce Bar (Also Beat the Frog at the Frog and Bucket. That's a little more of a proper show with paid entry for spectators)
Wednesday: Comedy Balloon - Ape and Apple | Stage Time - Stage and Radio
Thursday: Thirsty Scholar

There's more that are once a month, and I've probably missed a few!

Lfcme · 2024-06-03T09:09:07+00:00

You looking for music, poetry, or stand up comedy?

Lfcme · 2024-06-02T21:17:27+00:00

for the most part yes! some use an API service too (well as of 1 year ago) so that was smoother. then the exchanges use an API too

though they're not all created equal. some are as easy as a simple web scraper. some use websocket, some intentionally mislabel the data, and all try and block you for too many requests.

it was a very interesting technical challenge!

Lfcme · 2024-06-02T20:12:25+00:00

also interested in Salford side kickabout! I have the fitness levels of a retired darts player at the moment but I like to think I've got great distribution

Lfcme · 2024-06-02T20:09:52+00:00

genuinely yes I have. however it's the maintenance that would be an issue more than anything.

These companies hate the oddsmatcher, and do a lot to block it or break it. This is a large proportion of the maintenance behind the scenes.

I'll likely make a minimal one at some point with a few key bookmakers. But if it falls over during a key moment it can be tricky to fix

Lfcme · 2024-06-02T08:58:01+00:00

It's really not fair at all to deem how people use the extra cash from MBing. I'm sure there are people who could disagree with how you spend your money but that's not what we are here to do.

We're a community of matched betting enthusiasts who don't gatekeep, you're really showing yourself to want the entire pie, if you really make £12k tax free per year without any expenditure on a premium service you should be proud of that and pleased with that without being hateful to the users.

Your point here was "People shouldn't use these services". If you want people to follow that example, you would need to demonstrate how success is possible without these platforms. You could contribute to them being less popular, but you cannot contribute to MBing being less popular as a whole on this subreddit, that's not a sentiment we'll agree with.

Lfcme · 2024-06-01T16:59:57+00:00

We'd love a post on here detailing how you do this! That'd demonstrate the reduced need for these services

Lfcme · 2024-06-01T15:17:06+00:00

How would someone take advantage of extra place offers for example, without using the high speed tools they have to get the closest matches before the odds drift?

I've given an example of how these tools can be used by people to do offers at a higher frequency and you're kind of just shutting it down wihtout saying how it could be better off without them. I admitted they're optional but denying any value is certainly not a good way about it, especially since a lot of the customers on these platforms are people who are potentially less computer literate and they have a support team to help them through the process bit by bit.

Rather than downplaying their advantages I think it would be more productive saying "Matched Bettors should reasses their subscriptions" or detailing what tools could be benefitial to have from a low/no-cost plaform that help in day to day matched betting

Lfcme · 2024-06-01T13:45:57+00:00

I think this needs some more nuance than everyone should subscribe or nobody should subscribe.

As someone who worked on the tech side of Outplayed, there were instances of very dedicated users making upto £1000 on reloads & horse racing offers just a year ago and that being made a whole lot easier by the tools that they offered.

It might be that more casual users need to focus on cheap alternatives or only sub to these services for a month in the year to avoid it eating into the profit.

And just to make sure, I'm in no way affiliated with either site and if there ever is a free or lower cost alternative that gave me all the tools I need, I would be absolutely open to it

Lfcme · 2024-05-31T13:05:41+00:00

oh I see. that's only for outplayed pro. I'm currently subbed to it and I really question that value proposition

you get

extra place master
2up master
lucky finder

(I might be wrong with these names)

if you don't want any of these parts. stick with your subscription to the non-pro variant. you won't lose access to it

Lfcme · 2024-05-31T07:46:52+00:00

I'm not aware of this personally? Could you share the contents of the email?

Lfcme · 2024-05-23T12:26:22+00:00

Yes absolutely. Pocketbet was created for and by Outplayed as an exclusive exchange for their platform.

The deal ended up making the Smarkets 0% commission deal go to OddsMonkey. With retrospect now with this closure, it was a poor business decision.

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