Is it worth being a sports betting scalper?

[Forsyth Jones]

It's been a while since I started a topic here.

I know a female friend who works from home selling betting tickets for a casino. She has a WhatsApp group where she posts the matches. From what i could see, she also posts the odds, ready-made tickets, and claims her predictions are over 85% accurate.

I haven't tried it yet. But is the scalper business a good one? Can you make it your main job? I didn't ask her how much she earns because it might be rude, but from what she tells me, she started in less than a year. Sometimes she doesn't have many customers buying, which makes her have a more or less profitable week.

She has to be on her cell phone 24hrs a day and barely sleeps for fear of missing the games to pass on her predictions.

The cool thing about this profession is that it can be done from home. Now, the question is whether it's worth it.

[Orpichukwu]

I can't do that job irrespective of the profit because what she is doing is getting those bet predictions and selling them to those who will place bets on them. Those people are buying the game with real money and also placing bets on them with real money, which is double risk, and I also believe she herself pays before she can get those booked tickets.
 
So what if, at the end of the day, most of her sold-out games did not play as predicted? How will she be able to compensate those who bought the game, or are there some rules she will make open that will keep her safe from being attacked and every one of her clients bearing their own risk?

[Oshosondy]

I will prefer to by a domain and set up a prediction website instead which people will know that not all my predictions will be correct. All that I need is to make like 70% accurate predictions daily and you will see people coming to check for predictions daily. The site can be monetized with ads.

[wheelz1200]

It's been a while since I started a topic here.

I know a female friend who works from home selling betting tickets for a casino. She has a WhatsApp group where she posts the matches. From what i could see, she also posts the odds, ready-made tickets, and claims her predictions are over 85% accurate.

I haven't tried it yet. But is the scalper business a good one? Can you make it your main job? I didn't ask her how much she earns because it might be rude, but from what she tells me, she started in less than a year. Sometimes she doesn't have many customers buying, which makes her have a more or less profitable week.

She has to be on her cell phone 24hrs a day and barely sleeps for fear of missing the games to pass on her predictions.

The cool thing about this profession is that it can be done from home. Now, the question is whether it's worth it.

Anyone who claims theor predictions are 85% accurate and needs to sell them is lying.  There would be no reason for you to make money when you can snipe 85 out of every 100 games you bet.  Can she have hit that one week, sure but over the long run nobody continually beats the book that bad otherwise sports betting wouldn't exist for long.

[SmartGold01]

It's been a while since I started a topic here.

I know a female friend who works from home selling betting tickets for a casino. She has a WhatsApp group where she posts the matches. From what i could see, she also posts the odds, ready-made tickets, and claims her predictions are over 85% accurate.

I haven't tried it yet. But is the scalper business a good one? Can you make it your main job? I didn't ask her how much she earns because it might be rude, but from what she tells me, she started in less than a year. Sometimes she doesn't have many customers buying, which makes her have a more or less profitable week.

She has to be on her cell phone 24hrs a day and barely sleeps for fear of missing the games to pass on her predictions.

The cool thing about this profession is that it can be done from home. Now, the question is whether it's worth it.

We should know that even what she does is not reliable and may not makes that profits you think she's making, I believe you have been around here for years now and you should know more better how all these things works. You can't be so sure of your predictions and even people who are paying to have those games also knows the implications involved while buying or depending from someone tips.
You can develop yourself but it's not certain that you must be regularly earnings from it.

[Ultegra134]

There's no right or wrong answer to your question. To her, it's worth the trouble. I personally wouldn't prefer having my salary depend on something so unpredictable and uncertain, but some people may be fine with that. I wouldn't be okay with my salary stemming from gambling; it's not an investment.

A friend of mine was in a similar group and claimed it was accurate; however, if I can't believe something that I cannot see with my own eyes, I'm having a hard time believing that her group's predictions are 85% accurate.

[famososMuertos]

well, well, what do you want to hear, OP,  Yeah! it's good You could make thousands of dollars profit...  sarcasm.

There are "ventures"... that some see as novelty, but it's like question if prostitution is profitable
On the other hand, the novelty in this thread is that the user who always wants to be in the OP+1 has failed today

at the point;
Have you lived in the era of no internet, OP, I think not, because the reality is that this work is outdated for the masses and very TOP in selective groups, e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram online.

I don't know why I like to collaborate in these threads, I think it's because the stories mutate.

[adultcrypto]

I will prefer to by a domain and set up a prediction website instead which people will know that not all my predictions will be correct. All that I need is to make like 70% accurate predictions daily and you will see people coming to check for predictions daily. The site can be monetized with ads.

That is exactly what she ought to do instead she chose the manual way that is laden with stress and prone to errors. She could easily contact someone to develop a website and make the entire automated and easy for her paid services. There are many people offering such services but what will make an individual stand out is how much their games work as predicted. If she is good at what she does, and can deliver 85% like the Op stated, she will definitely collect a large share of the market because there are crowd looking for such services.

[Cantsay]

Anyone who claims theor predictions are 85% accurate and needs to sell them is lying.  There would be no reason for you to make money when you can snipe 85 out of every 100 games you bet.  Can she have hit that one week, sure but over the long run nobody continually beats the book that bad otherwise sports betting wouldn't exist for long.

I laughed hard at this comment.

You’ll see “102% sure prediction on their group” and then they’ll proceed to charge you very little money for the code - if it was indeed that accurate do you think they’ll bring it out for people to buy for that amount?

Back to the topic - Op this is not something I’d do or want to make my source of income (to me it’s not worth it) but if you’re able to gather a very good community that are interested in your games, let’s say you’re able to give a very good percentage of correct predictions daily you should be able to make it worth your time but if most of your predictions turns out to be wrong you’ll surely not make anything off of the scalping business. I have been in so many groups that started off well daily codes were being sent and some were correct but as time went on most of the predictions were wrong and people started to lose money and eventually they stopped using their predictions and that was how the group died - there is a possibility of something like this happening if you’re unable to keep up with your good win/loss ratio.

[Casdinyard]

It's been a while since I started a topic here.

I know a female friend who works from home selling betting tickets for a casino. She has a WhatsApp group where she posts the matches. From what i could see, she also posts the odds, ready-made tickets, and claims her predictions are over 85% accurate.

I haven't tried it yet. But is the scalper business a good one? Can you make it your main job? I didn't ask her how much she earns because it might be rude, but from what she tells me, she started in less than a year. Sometimes she doesn't have many customers buying, which makes her have a more or less profitable week.

She has to be on her cell phone 24hrs a day and barely sleeps for fear of missing the games to pass on her predictions.

The cool thing about this profession is that it can be done from home. Now, the question is whether it's worth it.

It is but the thing is that you have to live with the fact that you're going to be banking off of people's desperation to win, and in many cases going to dupe them into trusting you cause as far as I know there's not been one of these who has been found to be real. They don't give out reliable signals and would always just chalk it up to that miniscule chance of losing that they are always bragging about. Furthermore these are payment first situations where gamblers who would want to get signals in would have to pay first before they are allowed entry.

You do you really, but I wouldn't suggest perpetuating something that shouldn't even exist in the first place.

[Hispo]

To me it would not be a lifestyle to be worth the stress and the time to follow up all the matches and try to predict accurately as many of them as possible, I would not even be sure I would have enough sleep with such a work.
Also, as others have pointing out, 85% of accuracy of prediction is actually pretty hard for the standard bettor, which makes me believe anyone with such a high accurate predictions for matches would not even need to set a social media account or a group on whatsapp for them to profit of such high accuracy in the first place. But anyways, to each their own...
I am just sure it would not be the job for me and probably it would not be the job for the majority of people who would like to enjoy of a normal schedule...

As a side note, we are supposed to be careful with dealing with people who claim to offer prediction with high accuracy, skepticism is always healthy when comes to gambling and betting.

[Davidvictorson]

I will prefer to by a domain and set up a prediction website instead which people will know that not all my predictions will be correct. All that I need is to make like 70% accurate predictions daily and you will see people coming to check for predictions daily. The site can be monetized with ads.

Sounds like a good idea. But the problem with this is that it would increase your operational cost unlike WhatsApp and Telegram where it has zero cost. Monetization of ads doesn't come immediately incase you are thinking of how to cover the operational cost. It will take months of consistency and "accurate" predictions and success rate to see returning customers who would then spread your website via word of mouth but it is a saturated market already.

[alegotardo]

Anyone who claims theor predictions are 85% accurate and needs to sell them is lying.  There would be no reason for you to make money when you can snipe 85 out of every 100 games you bet.  Can she have hit that one week, sure but over the long run nobody continually beats the book that bad otherwise sports betting wouldn't exist for long.

I also believe that this person does not have such accurate predictions, and therefore prefers to sell their predictions rather than bet on them.
In this scenario, even if they buy the tickets in advance, the risk is much lower than betting on their own, because they are transferring this responsibility to someone else and only keeping the profit from the operation, regardless of the final result of the game... whoever wins or loses, they will always win.

egarding being profitable, I believe that it is, as long as this person invests a lot in advertising and is always managing to attract new customers, because if their predictions are not assertive and profitable for their customers, the dropout rate will be high and in a short time they will be left without customers.

nyway, it is not a service that I really appreciate, but I believe that there will always be "lazy" people who prefer to buy a ready-made prediction rather than research it themselves and place their own bet.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

It's been a while since I started a topic here.

I know a female friend who works from home selling betting tickets for a casino. She has a WhatsApp group where she posts the matches. From what i could see, she also posts the odds, ready-made tickets, and claims her predictions are over 85% accurate.

I haven't tried it yet. But is the scalper business a good one? Can you make it your main job? I didn't ask her how much she earns because it might be rude, but from what she tells me, she started in less than a year. Sometimes she doesn't have many customers buying, which makes her have a more or less profitable week.

She has to be on her cell phone 24hrs a day and barely sleeps for fear of missing the games to pass on her predictions.

The cool thing about this profession is that it can be done from home. Now, the question is whether it's worth it.

I honestly do not know how this may come of or sound to some persons, but I personally do think or believe that what ever one does that is legitimate, and brings money to the table, is actually worth doing.
Alot of things have changed, and still changing in the world we live in today, life is becoming more are more expensive as each day breaks and no one should allow him or her self to be caught idle.

If what she is doing is paying off, then with all might, it's worth doing, the only issue is her inability to get a good sleep, this is the challenge here and there is actually no business or career in the world without some form of challenges.
But on the other hand, the challenge of not finding time to sleep not one without solution, she own the business, she can simply create a time for her self alone, no business, no phone calls, no text messages or chatting, she can always use this time to get a proper rest.

[yahoo62278]

Never really heard the term betting scalper. I have heard of a ticket scalper, obviously not the same thing. As far as selling your predictions to people, if you can get enough loyal customers then you could probably make a pretty good amount of money weekly. Your issue is if you go on a cold streak and start picking a lot of losers, people are going to go elsewhere. I think it would be a taxing job if you are doing the proper research and you need to be ready for the losing streaks as they are real.

If you can handle the lows, then you will be ok.

[Pi-network314159]

The cool thing about this profession is that it can be done from home. Now, the question is whether it's worth it.

I cant really say if it worth it. It basically depends on the person who does it, if she is fine by it then no problem but if it's not fine by her then no problem too, but I prefer establishing a business I can manage properly and make my profit than adventure into something I am not sure of how much I will be making. Since there is alot of prediction site that gives more correct accurate tips. The problem about this business is that if you providing your customers with %70-%80 and later your prediction does cross the line of %60 you begin to lose customers to other more accurate predictions group.

[ralle14]

The first part sounds too good, it's similar to tipsters who sell their predictions and mention their high win rate. It's a lot of work, but it depends on how much she's making to tell if it's worth the hassle.

Treating it as a main job is risky knowing your actual hit rate could plummet and potentially lose your regular customers. It's great if she can keep it going, but for me, i'd rather look for another job than sacrifice most of my sleeping time.

[Wexnident]

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Ah yes, "self-claim". It's like police stations investigating themselves and finding nothing wrong with it lol. But I guess that ain't the topic.

Pretty sure you already have an idea of what it's like, connections, always active, almost always 24/7 on the call just to see whether some bets/odds are different/profitable. If you're in it just because it's wfh, bro there are thousands of wfh opportunities out there, VAs being the most dominant one. I reckon there'd be some employees looking for VA's for whichever vocation you took.

Even then, I still wouldn't think it's profitable. The simple fact that you turned to freelancing (at least I consider scalping as one) is because you want more opportunities. I don't think scalping lets you do that lol. I guess one idea would be to just use a website as a sort of hand-over like some other comments said, but I reckon that's not always possible (since I think casinos have some anti-scraping laws in the first place?).

[dothebeats]

Selling pre-made bets is surely a job for someone who is highly confident on their predictions. If those tickets didn't play out how the seller planned it too, she'll have a lot of angry bettors who will call her names or either false their negative experience causing her to lose patrons. One might even question the need for her to sell tickets at all, given that she is hitting 85% of those predictions, why not just get the profit from those bets alone if she is doing that well.

It's a tough hustle and something I won't do for sure, but there's a reason why your friend is doing it. It's surely because of the profits, but to think that everything can go wrong in a single day makes it IMO, not worth it to do at least in my perspective. I'd rather keep my bets for myself and not sell them for money even if I'm hitting that win rate percentage.

[danherbias07]

She said it herself, she is lacking sleep because this is a hard job to do.

Also, I doubt the 85 percent prediction accuracy because if that's the case then she might have good money now because that is one heck of a high percentage.
Scalping in gambling means you have to spot the odds with just a bit of difference in the market for both sides and it's not like the odd makers would make a mistake frequently. It's a rare thing to happen which is why she is on her phone 24/7 to spot those things. It can become a stressful job if you will do it full-time, might as well bet normally and do the analysis on your own trying to win each match by increasing the percentage through research. Lesser effort but could become high returns.