Seething

No not about betting but about my jaunts ooop North and staying in a B&B. I booked in somewhere for last night and tonight and spoke to the owner on Friday, told him I'd be there at 11pm, he said this wouldn't be a problem and that he'd leave the key under a 'pottery cat' by the front door. So I rock up at 11pm last night after a 4 hour drive and search around, I find the cat but no key! With no option, I rang the doorbell only to be met by easily the rudest bloke I've ever had the misfortune to meet in my life! He launched into a tirade of abuse about turning up at that time and wouldn't let me get a word in, eventually I told him that we'd spoken on the phone on Friday and that he'd leave the key under the pottery cat, he denied all knowledge of this!! It turned into a full blown argument before he then stuck his finger in my face and asked "do I want to stay there or not?", by this point I was never going to set foot in there so obviously I said no and asked for a refund, he then turned and slammed the door in my face! Unbelievable! I've read through a lot more reviews of his B&B and it seems he's like that to a lot of the guests, I've contacted my credit card company and opened a dispute, we'll see what happens...Luckily there was a HolidayInn Express up the road and I booked in for the night there instead.

Anyway, just had to get that off my chest :o) The X5 Horse Trading App had another stinker on Saturday with a -£201 loss so things had to change. It's time to go back to basics with it and try again. I've reeled the stakes right back (with the logic that the money I'm putting into the market is too much and I'm not getting matched on the good trades) and switched off my stoploss (with the logic that stoplosses were only getting matched sometimes and the bad trades were disappearing off into the ether). Better day for it yesterday with a profit of £76, only time will now tell though with it although I do plan on logging some more info to see if I can spot any reasons for the more profitable trades.

The Carrera Football App has had a solid enough weekend with a profit of £97 on Saturday and £5 Sunday. I'm really starting to think that plenty of apps running low stakes is the way forward rather than a few big decent stake 'killer' apps to try and bring the cash in.

Comments

[Jack Crowley]

Unbelieveable behaviour from someobody allegedly in the "hospitality" sector.
Sounds like Basil Fawlty is now operating a B&B up North.

Love the blog, btw. Excellent work. I only stumbled across it by chance.
I've taken the liberty of putting a link on my own sportstrading blog.
Regards,
Jack C.

[Talkbet]

Will do mate, just want to sort out getting my cash back first though :o)

[Matt]

Shocking (the service not the betting lol).

Name and shame on the blog - treating people like he deserves to lose as much trade as possible.