Sports Services - Buyer Beware

This is the time of year where sports bettorsyou, want to get anything moneywise they can
that either have signed up on-line for somethingout of a potential victim. You can get the regular
sportsbook or handicapping related, or have calledservice for the season at $700, the executive
a 900# tout service in past years, are gettingclub at $1500 a season and the president round
annuals and rotation schedules in the mail claimingtable for $2500 up front (these are scenario
the top sports services in the country are theexamples). Well, once you lose your rear end in
ones included in this years annual. I say buyerthe lowest level club, you call to complain or they
beware, and I know a little something about thecall you and offer to upgrade you for more
marketplace after being a legitimate and full time,money, and since most recreational gamblers are
well known handicapper for 15 years.desperate to win and make up for losses, they
It amazes me how bold the claims are in thesebuy the sales pitch that the other level of service
rags every I get one. The boys from Boston,that is like 80% ATS (which you know is not true
SCORE, come to mind as a big violator of thebut you want to belive it), and give these guys
truth, as this sports service has been aroundmore money like they are stupid, and thus the
awhile and claim to have the inside on every bigprocess of chasing your tail and and following
game, and claim to have been in contact withgood money after bad continues.
coaches of college and pro teams and advisedUnless you know a sports service is legit, avoid
them on who to play and why, and the coaches900#'s if possible. If it is a well known firm, so be
listen. I have some swamp ground in Arizona Iit, but other than that, 900#'s are nothing more
would like to sell you too! While they have a bigthan a long distance caller ID scam. In today's
name, they are not documented anywhere, nevertechnical world, they can get the caller ID to show
have been, never will be for a good reason.them the person calling, their number, and their
Another rag of a rotation schedule claims thataddress. These are used for their boiler rooms for
Blazer Sports ran by Gordon Michaels is the bestprospect leads, and salespeople call you and hound
service in the USA, followed closely by 9 others,you for money with the greatest inside
8 of which I have never heard of. This also hasinformation game of all time. Once again there are
the top 3 sportsbooks offshore rated, no doubtlegit 900#'s, but beware of the individual and
with huge affiliate and advertising agreementsservices you have never heard of, even though
with the publisher. By the way, the publisherthe pitch for the winning lock of the year sounds
ranking the sports services is Blazer Sports andalmost too good to be true, use common sense.
was exposed on TV 12 years ago with theLet me ask you a question. If you receive a
Sports Betting Guide, and since has toned it downrotation schedule in the mail this week, and it goes
to a rotation schedule mass mailing with the samethrough October, and yet when you get to the
basic content.2nd week in Octobers schedule, and Joe Blow
Lets talk about the rules, that common senseSports is advertising his Game of the Year or
should tell you. Many think if it is written, it is true.Lock of the Decade that particular weekend, does
So many times the hype and sales hooks in thesethat not raise a red flag? How in the world does
ads are such a stretch, my 11 year old son couldanyone know what the hell they are doing the
tell me they are a scam. Any sports service thatsecond week of October in July when these are
has different levels of clubs is a total joke. Youpublished? They do not, and you should not buy
have 3 levels of late phone services, all of whichinto it. This is an example of effective marketing
are nothing more than a BAIT AND SWITCHand misleading a suspect public, that at the end of
scam. Meaning to get any money out of a newthe day gives legitimate handicappers like myself
comer to the fold of clients is the goal, thesea bad reputation, as being guilty by association
silver tongued devils that you either call, or callcomes into play.