i am ashamed to say i fell for a tout scam. the site is run by "expert" david banks...after i joined i was called by members of his group and offered the vip package...when i asked what the picks i had paid for were, i was told that they are computer generated picks for entertainment puproses only...so basically i paid for random picks and then was upsold by another guy...they wanted 5k for half a season of college football..i didnt give that, but i did give some..the picks were under 50% and the so called expert would disappear for days on end.biggest waste of time and money
There are several here on the site that I can name who have been involved in the tout business....I don't know them personally so I will let them come in and speak for themselves. As far as running a tout business, all you need is a decent website, a list of people to cold-call (easily purchasable if you know the right people), and the capability to accept credit cards. I know of an absolutely fool-proof tout scam to run - but it's still a scam. At the end of the day I couldn't knowingly take people for their money as I couldn't sleep at night, but lots and lots of people pull this trick.
Only one of them is still a tout - the others have been, or have worked with others, in the past. One is sponsored by theRX and has his very own subforum...shouldn't be very hard to figure out who it is. I would agree with the rest of your assessment, however, I will leave my opinion at that as I know how sensitive this issue is with some folks around here.
I picked up one at the other site(which I no longer use) You get a free email daily with a couple of picks a week. after 6 weeks you have to buy something to stay on tghe mailing list. So it costs me about 250 a yr.if the pick loses you keep getting picks until you win. his daily newsletter has a lot of stat data of a historical nature. as a resultof those items i picked up a system of betting all dogs in baseball ( i modify it after game 1. I am ahead 25 units for the season. His NBA numbers run just under 60% and all other sports no hockey run around 55-56. his bowl packege last yr all games for $100.00 broke even. additionally he will respond to email and cahtwith you if you wish. I have found it to be terrific investment.
lots of member from here have gone tout randizzle, pittviper, the guy is always uses the spinning basketball (sorry ur name escapes me, it is 6 am at least) to name a few. To me its kind of tough, if you have proven yourself over an extensive time period as being superior than the average joe, you should be rewarded. I have always thought though if you follow some religiously and they make you a bunch of cash, you should throw them a bone, not because you have to, but they deserve it for the work they did for you. I forget the user name of the guy who posts a lot of system plays he developed on here, but he created a site for donations, trying to avoid going full blown tout
