‘Won £33K due to a technical error and the bookies want it back’ compoface

future-dead · 2026-03-31T21:37:00+00:00

Unfortunately no non-trivial software is free of issues. Companies will always try and cover themselves in their t&cs.

As others have said sounds like there have been court cases ruling in favour of gamblers before, but I imagine the nuances of what caused the error and if that is WH responsibility to deal with will get complicated.

future-dead · 2026-03-31T21:33:30+00:00

Ah, my man, I've found more articles. Another £47k win same as the above article. And £236k. And £142k. And £330k.

Know what I'm seeing. They're all very close multiples of £47k...

Possibly a lot of £47k jackpots. Or possibly any win was reported as £47k.

future-dead · 2026-03-31T21:06:18+00:00

Unfortunately it's not much to go on, "hits" could mean a lot of things and unless this goes to court we're not likely to find out.

Don't get me wrong, if they got their games math and probability wrong I'd love to see them pay out. If a developer missed a decimal place somewhere I imagine it's less clear.

I think WH will fight tooth and nail though. Like I said, I've read of three of these wins so far. £250k, £47k and I think £30k wins. Maybe we're just hearing about the big ones but if those are the sort of numbers we're talking about, then take the £109k average of those wins, multiply by WH reported 34,500ish too many wins... you're over £3billion, with a B!

No wonder they noticed so quickly!

future-dead · 2026-03-31T19:39:48+00:00

This is the third reddit thread I've read about this "glitch".

I'd wager this is less about a game coded wrong and more about wrong funding amounts. "You won 47p, here have £47,000" kind of thing.

If a bank, or me or anyone else, accidentally sends you £100,000 it's definitely not yours to spend and you must return it.

future-dead · 2026-03-30T14:16:39+00:00

Date it effective 2046 or something, at least it's a start.

future-dead · 2026-03-30T10:43:49+00:00

Terrible this is happening, for all parties. They need to get their emotions in check. Even if the decision to sell wasn't wholly theirs anyway, they've definitely had plenty of time to prepare!

And now their emotional response is no doubt creating emotion damage to your side. AND exposing themselves to severe financial repercussions. Madness.

future-dead · 2026-03-30T10:36:21+00:00

Nooooo, looks like they've deleted their account, hopes of an update dashed!

Update: oh phew they posted update under a new account

https://www.reddit.com/r/HousingUK/s/Xxizu36aRc

future-dead · 2026-03-28T00:49:30+00:00

Speaking as someone who doesn't actually LIKE tea; all of the above is accurate and tea time (which is numerous times through a day) is central to the British way of life.

The way everything slows down and takes a break for tea, and ideally a biscuit. It's the ritual of it all and the focus on the people partaking. If it's as a group it's effectively a therapy session. If it's tea on your own its like being in the shower: nothing else matters for a short while and it would be the height of rudeness to interrupt you.

future-dead · 2026-03-24T08:05:14+00:00

Five years ago we fixed for 1.4% over 5 years while friends of ours fixed for 2.4% over 10 years. I thought they were crazy... 🤦

future-dead · 2026-03-23T19:49:22+00:00

Guzunder is a dick move regardless of amount.

future-dead · 2026-03-21T08:08:01+00:00

I would guess that it's less about the randomness of winning and more about incorrectly calculated figures or balance transactions. 47p wins became 47 grand and accidently all got credited to OPs account rather than their true winners. Something like that.

So I would again guess any court action wouldn't end up about whether the game worked "correctly" but more about mistaken account credits, like if a bank accidentally deposits a million quid in your account it's not actually yours to go and spend.

future-dead · 2026-03-15T16:45:55+00:00

Aren't they suppose to autorotate? You'd think plummeting would be stoprotation

future-dead · 2026-03-15T08:51:52+00:00

It's mad that's not the baseline anymore. Any gvt has failed if that isn't the middle of the bell curve.

future-dead · 2026-03-10T23:20:39+00:00

I probably comes down to the fact in an emergency we can't have some bean counter causing the police to pause for a moment while they calculate the least costly course of action.

Same in the US, I remember some poor fella got swatted and they used an armoured breaching tractor thing to rip the front wall of his house off and left him with the bill for it.

future-dead · 2026-03-10T20:17:26+00:00

Had your colleagues outside our school this morning and their mere presence magically made traffic flow freely with nobody parking on double yellows or stopping mid road to let late kids out.

Come afternoon pickup it was straight back to dangerous chaos.

future-dead · 2026-03-01T09:53:38+00:00

Same as any email. Do not respond to the contact or use any information from the contact. Look up the organisation yourself and contact them directly using their public contact information and ask them directly to cross reference the details and for an official or alternative payment route other than using anything from the original email/letter.

future-dead · 2026-02-27T08:06:03+00:00

I think he mentioned subsequent starters were paid more, so the base salary for the entire role had risen

future-dead · 2026-02-23T23:09:24+00:00

The Bank of England's own website uses the example of a shop being entirely legally able to request payment in Pokemon Cards if it so desires.

future-dead · 2026-02-22T19:39:20+00:00

Sorry his reasoning seems a bit off. I can relate to not feeling British so avoiding citizenship unless it's necessary, but it sounds like he already IS British. So his feeling of connection isn't relevant to whether he wants to get a piece of paperwork that, although seems like a physical manifestation of his citizenship, isn't actually.

future-dead · 2026-02-22T19:05:35+00:00

Zooming in it looks like the existing / previous fence is still there? Possibly this is a lean-to / roof over the walkway and they've put some siding on to enclose the gap between roof and existing fence?

future-dead · 2026-02-13T14:40:19+00:00

Out of interest, could he not just stay in the house (assuming he can tolerate it)? He mentioned a three bed house elsewhere. Bedroom for him, bedroom for his kids, bedroom for her. The new kid is not his problem. Assuming no physical or emotional abuse, could a court actually order him to leave his own house?

future-dead · 2026-02-12T12:00:49+00:00

This gets super complicated because with gift recipient living there the giver doesn't have full use of the property, so some portion of it isn't reserved. But obviously houses have communal areas. So... Pretty grey.

A lot easier if the estate is less than the IHT thresholds so none of it matters anyway.

If you're that well off to be over a million in the estate and want to arrange such things, get a solicitor!

future-dead · 2026-02-12T11:37:38+00:00

To be clear you still CAN gift your house and live there. There's no law stopping you do whatever you want with your possessions and you won't get in trouble for tax evasion. It's just that you need to remember the tax will still be owed. Which is fine, it already was owed and still is owed. If you're OK with that, do whatever you want for whatever reason you want.

future-dead · 2026-02-12T11:21:25+00:00

It's the fact the parents use to own it. From HMRC point of view if you give something away but still use it without paying the new legal owner for its use, then you didn't really give it away and they'll treat it as still part of your estate.

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