Saturday, 7 February 2015

Skybet Scam

Today I was infuriated by my accumulator as opposed to my Fantasy team. My team did just fine, shoving me up into the top 15,000, with goals from Kane, Hazard and Ivanovic as well as a good few bonus points scattered around.

But it was Skybet who wound me up. I stupidly put a £1 bet on a four-fold accumulator including Hull and Sunderland to win, and Leicester and QPR's games to end as draws, at odds of 851/1.



At half time, unbelievably, these results were all coming in. I thought Hull would never hold out, so I frantically began the impossible mission that was 'cashing out' with Skybet. They had some 'unfortunate' (convenient) technical difficulties which lasted until the end of the matches.

After a quick Twitter poke I actually went and wrote a formal complaint e-mail to Skybet, with absolutely no profanities, expecting they might send me a few quid to shut me up and keep me happy, but instead I received a response referring me to some small print about not being liable for factors out of their control, like technical difficulties. 

For most people, I guess this would be a lesson in reading-the-small-print. Not me. No. I am now going to make it my life's work to win as much money off of Skybet as possible.


That'll show them...right?

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