|
|
|
|
Want to proof your service to Sports-Tipsters? If you run a serious sports betting advisory service and would like to be proofed by Sports-Tipster and appear in the Tipsters' League, please read the TERMS below and then e-mail Sports-Tipster at the address at the bottom of this page. TERMS Sports-Tipsters has taken the decision not to proof any additional horse racing services. If you run such a service, Sports-Tipsters is now affiliated with the Horse Racing tipsters proofing service Racing Proofing. Please note that Sports-Tipsters does not have any input in to the running and management of Racing Proofing. Sports-Tipsters does not proof personal records, blogs of betting or services under construction looking to proof a "test" record. To be considered for proofing you should have an active service (website, phoneline, sms or other delivery media) with an existing membership. The service can be new but it should be "ready for business" from the first tip. The service need not be run by professionals, but it should have a professional attitude towards its management. Additionally, Sports-Tipsters will no longer consider proofing services without their own domain name, and will no longer accept services hosted on free hosting domains. In Sports-Tipsters' experience, such tipsters offer little long term value and professionalism to the punter wishing to use an advisory service, who may wonder why they are being charged for subscription when the tipster cannot be bothered to purchse their own domain and hosting (for as little as $50 per year). Sports-Tipsters will no longer consider proofing tipsters who consider it acceptable practice to charge upwards of $1,000 per month for tips, or a similarly large fee for a specified number of tips. Such services have given no consideration to that amount of money that punters, on average, will need to wager in order to see a return from their subscriptions, even if the records prove to be profitable. A 1-month record of 30 bets and 10% yield (the average number of monthly bets and yield across all tipsters currently proofing to Sports-Tipsters), for example, at a subscription rate of $1,000, would require a level stake size of $333 just to cover the cost of the subscription, well beyond the means of most punters. More importantly, from the point of view of the punter, there is no evidence at all to suggest that such services are any better at delivering profit than those services who charge nothing or an acceptably sized subscription fee. Sports-Tipsters will under no cirmcumstances consider tipsters who claim their tips are "fixed", that is to say based on "insider information". Such tips are at best fake, and at worst damaging to the credibility of the sports that punters are betting on. If your service is accepted for proofing Sports-Tipsters will need to receive all tips by e-mail in advance of start times, including the advised selection(s), odds, stake size, date and bookie. Advised odds should be fair, in the sense that your members should generally be able to take them at the advised price. When exchange prices are used 5% commission is taken into account in the recorded betting odds, and tipsters should also ensure that there is sufficient trading volume available for members to take. Any tips issued but not reveived by e-mail will not be entered into the record, and it is the tipster's responsibility to ensure that all the tips are sent to Sports-Tipsters in advance of advertised start times. It is also the Tipster's responsibility to notify Sports-Tipsters of any ommissions and errors that he believes exist in their published tips record. The tipsters leagues are updated once weekly on Monday mornings, British time. It is also the tipster's responsibility to notify Sports-Tipsters of any discrepancies or errors in the recording of their results. Proofing to Sports-Tipsters is now charged at one of the following rates:
Payment in Euro is accepted. No refunds will be given in the event that the tipster closes his service, or choses to cease proofing to Sports-Tipsters, prior to the end of the purchased period. Tipsters proofing to Sports-Tipsters should also understand that it is NOT acceptable to take proofing breaks (i.e. stop, for example because of lack of funds or a poor run of results, and then return at a later date), unless their service is having a complete break from tipping, for example during "holiday" periods when sports on which the tipster advises on are not playing (Sports-Tipsters will not charge for these periods). ¹ If your service is registered in the European Union, VAT will be added at the UK rate of 17.5.0%. If you are VAT registered in the UK you are entitled to reclaim this from Inland Revenue & Customs. If you are VAT registered elsewhere in the EU then VAT will be charged at 0% according to the reverse charge scheme. If your service is registered outside the EU then no VAT will apply.
|
|
