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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 Important: It is the tipster's responsibilty to read all of the following terms thoroughly before requesting an acceptance to be proofed. Sports-Tipsters will not assume any responsibility for the failure to do so on the part of the tipster in the event that a subsequent dispute arises. Any tipster found to be cheating will be immdeiately removed without refund. Sport-Tipsters exists only to provide an independent verification of a sports betting advisory service's tipping record, and its services should not be viewed as a form of advertsing. Sports-Tipsters does not promote any one tipster above another, other than through the ranking structure of the tipsters leagues. Tipsters looking only for advertising should contact Google or other similar providers of such services. Sports-Tipsters has taken the decision not to proof any 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. As of 13th June 2011 Sport-Tipsters will no longer accept previous records of tipping to be inlcuded in betting records, profit charts and statistics shown by Sports-Tipsters, even when picks have been submitted for monitoring to other monitoring services. "Proofed" in this context will mean proofed by Sports-Tipsters and only those tips which are received by Sports-Tipsters will be included. Going forward, Sports-Tipsters also intends to adopt a less neutral attitude towards tipsters it views as failing to maintain acceptable professional standards and/or failing to deliver value for money. Consequently any tipster wishing to have their tips monitored by Sports-Tipsters should agree to public scrutiny and comment by Sports-Tipsters for the benefit of the punter, involving the publication on the tipster's analysis page of Sports-Tipsters' opinion about the tipster. It will be at Sports-Tipsters' discretion as to whether any comment will be made. Sports-Tipsters will not proof any in-play (in-running or live) bets. It is Sports-Tipsters view that tipsters should not be selling such tips (unless they are offering a highly specialised in-play service) because they can not reliably ensure that the purchaser of the tips will be able to take the prices advised, given the speed at which most in-play markets move. Even tips supplied by SMS will experience a delay between their sending, and their receiving and placing, which may very often prove to be too long before prices have shifted. 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 and website with its own domain name. Sports-Tipsters will not 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). Tipsters issuing their advice via other media such as phoneline or sms are also welcome provided they also have a website. The service can be new but it should be "ready for business" from the first tip. The service need not be run by betting professionals, but it should have a professional attitude towards its management. Additionally, Sports-Tipsters will no longer accept any tipster conglomerates where one website is managing a number of difference tipsters under one name, on account of the disproportionate management time required for such services (where a total of 500 tips per month is not uncommon) and the increased difficulty in ensuring that the quality and honesty of the prices/handicaps advised is maintained at a sufficiently high standard. Furthermore, their ranking analysis can distort the tipsters' leagues by appearing either at or near the top or bottom on account of the large number of tips submitted by different tipsters that are treated under one analysis. Sports-Tipsters does not approve of tipsters who use excessive ranges in stake size (for eample 1 point up to 100/1000 points). Such staking is not realsitic, both in terms of bet availability at the bookmaker and also punters' willingness to accept and place the large stakes. At best such staking demonstrates little or no understanding of betting risk, and at worst is just an attempt by the tipster to manipulate their figures to improve their chances of gaining higher rankings in the Sports-Tipsters league rankings. In Sports-Tipsters' experience large increases in stake size follow a losing run and clearly represent an attempt to recover previous losses. Such staking will not be tolerated, and any tipster employing such a strategy will be immediately removed from Sports-Tipsters with no refund of payment offered. Variable sized staking is acceptable provided it is realistic, for example a 1 to 10 point staking plan or a fixed profits staking strategy, where the stake size is such as to ensure the same profit for every bet. Tipsters who advise a bankroll percentage staking plan will be proofed according to a % = points policy, i.e. a 5% (of bankroll) stake will be treated as 5 points. Similarly, Sports-Tipsters does not approve of the use of progressive staking systems such as Martingale, all of which are an attempt to recover losses, and all of which have huge inherent risks associated with their use, and as such should not be promoted to paying subscribers. Sports-Tipsters will not admit any tipster for proofing who is using progessive staking. In the event that a proofed tipster changes to a progressive staking plan during the period of proofing, Sports-Tipsters will simply proof everything to level stakes or according to the non-progressive staking plan that was used before. Sports-Tipsters will also reserve the right to remove the tipster altogether with no refund. Sports-Tipsters reserves the right not consider proofing tipsters who consider it acceptable practice to charge upwards of €500 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, 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. Unless the tipster categorises their tips into separately defined subscription packages, Sports-Tipsters considers it inappropriate for the tipster to pick and chose what tips are submitted for proofing. It is Sports-Tipsters' opinion that all tips purchased by a subscriber should be eligible for proofing, and Sports-Tipsters reserves the right to terminate (without refund) proofing for any tipster requesting that some of their tips should not be proofed. 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 advises large numbers of tips (in excess of an average of 5 to 10 per day), Sports-Tipsters may request that you provide daily results files (in CSV or Excel format). 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 (in decimal format), stake size, date and bookmaker. Without the name of the bookamker for each tip Sports-Tipsters is unable to perform radom checks on advised prices, and to ensure bets are settled correctly according the specific bookmaker rules. Advised odds should be fair, in the sense that your members should generally be able to take them at the advised price. When advising a price with a bookmaker, tipsters should make sure the price is available at the time the tip is advised by checking the bookmaker. It is not enough simply to use odds comparions only, which can sometimes be out of date. 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. For some sports, like tennis, different bookmakers have different bet settlement rules, for example when a player retires mid-match. Tips will be settled according to the rules of the bookmaker advised with the tip, and where more than one bookmaker is suggested, the primary bookmaker advised. Sports-Tipsters reserves the right not to record any tips that may have been issued by the tipster but which were not reveived by e-mail or were received after advertised match start times. It is the tipster's responsibility to ensure that they give their subscribers sufficient time to place bets that are advised, and Sports-Tipsters reserves the right to cancel proofing (without refund) for any tipster who repeatedly advises tips within only a few minutes of advertised match start times. It is also the Tipster's responsibility to notify Sports-Tipsters of any omissions and errors that they believe exist in their published tips record. The tipsters leagues are updated once weekly on Monday mornings, British time (unless tipsters are advised otherwise). 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. Similarly, no refund will be given in the event that a dispute arises over the conditions of proofing on account of the tipster failing to read or accept the terms as set out here once proofing has commenced. 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 20%. 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.
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