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maineroad
31 Oct 15 13:46
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After a 5 minute wait the girl said the bet is fine but we cant do Evens it will have to be one to one.
That was  the second phone call, I hung up the 1st after the fella couldn't find a price for City to win the league.
What sort of training do these people get.
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Report bonnie October 31, 2015 12:48 PM GMT
1/1 is a fair enough compromise ..............................
Report Steamship October 31, 2015 12:52 PM GMT
You should have said I want levels you devils.
Report seaside October 31, 2015 6:39 PM GMT
lol
Report homefortea October 31, 2015 8:16 PM GMT
You should have phoned me fella as that team will never win even the worst Premiership ever..

Even money  - no wonder your shop went tits up....LaughLaugh
Report THE-GHOST-OF-DICKIE-BIRD October 31, 2015 8:21 PM GMT
Even Mr Unhidged how are weHappy
Report homefortea October 31, 2015 8:24 PM GMT
Shot that dog fella and get spellchecker...Mischief
Report THE-GHOST-OF-DICKIE-BIRD October 31, 2015 8:25 PM GMT
Things are looking up thenHappy
Report homefortea October 31, 2015 8:25 PM GMT
Feck me Dickie I meant shoot that dog - heaven forbid that you would believe that I have actually shot one..

Not in the last couple of years anyway...Blush
Report THE-GHOST-OF-DICKIE-BIRD October 31, 2015 8:28 PM GMT
Shocked Fook spellchecker eye am hugh eye am.

Your slipping thenHappy
Report Nightfly October 31, 2015 8:29 PM GMT
spent about 12 mins trying to put on a lucky 15..then an ew acca completely blew it..xmas will def come quicker..gave up
Report Nightfly October 31, 2015 8:31 PM GMT
crappy outfit with ****** up management   who dont  train anyone in shops or call centre and website wont let me ave more on than 0.23p ew
Report THE-GHOST-OF-DICKIE-BIRD October 31, 2015 8:31 PM GMT
Never a quarrel with Co ral
Report Can't Catch Me October 31, 2015 8:43 PM GMT
Emailed me yesterday to say they will no longer accept sports bets from me. Absolute joke tinpot outfit.
Report homefortea October 31, 2015 8:48 PM GMT
We all know that they would not lay an egg..

The point is that the hapless ex "betting shop" owner ("WHO SOLD IT FOR A FORTUNE") wanted even money on Man City winning the Premiership..

This must be a forum for mental cases...
Report maineroad November 1, 2015 1:09 PM GMT
Homefortea the fella asked me for 1k on 4 teams to win respective leagues which I took.
The acc price to him worked out at 16.1/1 I had the bet away with C orals at 20.8/1 so I stand to win over 4k for **** all, the bet prob wont kop but I lose nowt and didnt fancy standing it myself.

You didnt get a choice in the matter sittin behind the counter working for someone else, brewing up and cleaning the bogs.

As for the shop it was out of town and no bigger than a portacabin which is what it basically was. As for going skint we got bought out twice and both times we would of took even half of what they offered. While you were sticking your companies winnings in the bank we were taking ours home with us to our big house in our fancy cars.  We probably made more on the first couple of dog races on a Saturday morning than you took home in a week. Good luck.
Report THE-GHOST-OF-DICKIE-BIRD November 1, 2015 1:19 PM GMT
15-love
Report YOMOMMA November 1, 2015 1:53 PM GMT
lol one to one.

I once phoned up Ladbrokes and asked for a price for a tiebreak in a tennis match. The phone operator went in to a meltdown and didn't seem to know what a tiebreak was.

Stupid b@stards!
Report homefortea November 1, 2015 7:17 PM GMT
maineroad - I have never been involved in "brewing up and cleaning the bogs" just as you haven't although in the shops I managed at least the facilities were in place Laugh.As regards your "big house" it would fit nicely at the bottom of my large garden where the summer house is.And I did not have to work in that shi tehole of an area constantly looking over my shoulder....

As regards your "Bookmaking" skills...


"the acc price to him worked out at 16.1/1 I had the bet away with C orals at 20.8/1 so I stand to win over 4k for **** all, the bet prob wont kop but I lose nowt and didnt fancy standing it myself."

No wonder you were working out of a Moss Side portacabin with that level of bottle..

If there is another War you would be a conscientious objector..LaughLaugh

Bookmaker my white speckled ar se....
Report bluenose7 November 1, 2015 7:44 PM GMT
This Fred could be interesting reading.  Scared

Cool
Report s.kenbo November 1, 2015 7:55 PM GMT
15-15

This could go to a tiebreak!
Report insideinfo November 1, 2015 7:57 PM GMT
nothin wrong with havin a bet to nothin imo.
Report homefortea November 1, 2015 7:58 PM GMT
When I was a newly qualified "Betting Office" Manager(!)...LaughLaughI had a life changing few weeks around the corner from the maineroad superstore in somewhere called Hulme..

I could handle the abuse the 900 bets per day the cheats drug dealers dolites and druggies especially as there was no night racing or even evening opening..

The Stanley Racing managers shared a flat at Chorlton opposite the bus station before the area was "gentrified"..

I asked if I could work at Moss Side as the pay was far greater and as a newbie I was told that I had no chance as it was too rough..

Well coming from a nice family in a country area I was shocked as there could not have been a bigger shi tehole in the World than Hulme before it was raised to the ground.

I even spent a couple of weeks in 1980's Salford and even though the shop was broken into five times during my tenure nothing could compare to Hulme...
Report homefortea November 1, 2015 7:59 PM GMT
insideinfo..
nothin wrong with havin a bet to nothin imo.


There would be if you had a thousand of them and they were all losers fella....Whoops
Report insideinfo November 1, 2015 8:01 PM GMT
yea but theyre not gonna be r they???
Report s.kenbo November 1, 2015 8:04 PM GMT
He could've made £200 backing it as those odds. A thousand of them soon add up.
Report homefortea November 1, 2015 8:05 PM GMT
Not sure what to say to that insideinfo...
Report Fashion Fever November 1, 2015 8:08 PM GMT
last time i went in joes they told me they didnt accept multipule bets when i tried to get a trixie on
Report unitedbiscuits November 1, 2015 8:08 PM GMT
Masterclass 
Report homefortea November 1, 2015 8:08 PM GMT
s.kenbo the voice of reason..

Not sure that we have ever agreed but on this occasion I have to applaud the obvious...

maineroad however will not see the irony...
Report insideinfo November 1, 2015 8:09 PM GMT
well from my experience taking on the shorties and hedging the bets you dont want for a profit is the way to go.
Report insideinfo November 1, 2015 8:11 PM GMT
evening unitedbiscuits...good to have a hills employee on the thread as they know all about NOT accepting bets.
Report Fashion Fever November 1, 2015 8:11 PM GMT
the time before i went in joes at half 8 to back one royal ascot week, they told me they already took the shop limit for the horse and couldnt accept my bet, the shop had only open 5 minuites.
Report insideinfo November 1, 2015 8:14 PM GMT
shop limit = 2 x £5 bets
Report Fashion Fever November 1, 2015 8:19 PM GMT
I rememeber saying its Royal Ascot week, the guy replied he didnt make the rules !
Report homefortea November 1, 2015 8:21 PM GMT
I was in a shop where 15 years ago we took 50k a week and I had four cashiers on a Saturday and had a phone business..

Single manned from 2-9 pm on a Saturday...

How have the staff let that happen and why are the owners so clueless and cost cutting...

Maineroad if you want to open a shop that can make money pm me....

It will have toilets a kettle and no bandit screen..

I would open a shop myself but have enough money...
Report homefortea November 1, 2015 8:30 PM GMT
No FOBTS...

LaughLaughLaugh
Report theguesser November 1, 2015 8:33 PM GMT
The Stanley Racing managers shared a flat at Chorlton opposite the bus station before the area was "gentrified"..

I asked if I could work at Moss Side as the pay was far greater and as a newbie I was told that I had no chance as it was too rough..

Well coming from a nice family in a country area I was shocked as there could not have been a bigger shi tehole in the World than Hulme before it was raised to the ground.

I even spent a couple of weeks in 1980's Salford and even though the shop was broken into five times during my tenure nothing could compare to Hulme...


Should have tried working the Coral in Longsight; absolute cesspit. The Ike Lewis in Hattersley was a bit of an eye-opener too. Happy days though; used to live 100 yards away from the Stanley shop in Chorlton.
Report homefortea November 1, 2015 8:35 PM GMT
The Stanley shop in Chorlton was a happy place and that was where I saw my first gay person who was a cashier...

I told you that I was a bit naive in 1986...
Report theguesser November 1, 2015 8:42 PM GMT
I left Chorlton in 82, but had some fantastic times there. Worked as a settler/ relief manager in all the Lewis shops in my Uni holidays - Benchill was a bit lively too come to think of it. There was so much smoke in the Chorlton shop on a Saturday afternoon you couldn't see the front door. Had some great times and met some fantastic people in front and behind the counter. All the managers used to meet for Saturday night snooker in Chorlton Conservative Club which had a fruitie with a £100 jackpot.
Report homefortea November 1, 2015 8:55 PM GMT
missed the £100 Jackpot but met the fruitie...Laugh
Report theguesser November 1, 2015 9:14 PM GMT
Snap mate! One of the counter hands at Chorlton went off to work as a croupier in Tripoli.
Report homefortea November 1, 2015 9:23 PM GMT
It must have been the Stanley Racing gay training shop...

Always wondered why I had to sleep on my back in the flat above...

Happy Days...
Report theguesser November 1, 2015 9:23 PM GMT
Oh - and probably of greater interest to some on the forum - Lewis laid anything you like. Not at all unusual to take £50-£100 bets on a dog race; especially in the Chinatown shop on Hackney morning dogs. They showed their gratitude by hosting the company Christmas party gratis.
Report maineroad November 2, 2015 7:22 PM GMT
Homefortea they've just upped the minimum wage to double what you used to earn an hour "working" for someone else.
So you would open your own if you had the money ? Any sane person would not have one for free, but you seem to be the oracle of betting knowledge.
S.kenbo is spot on I could have nicked £200 for free but I'd sooner have the bet to nothin with a chance of 4k £200 is neither here nor there, there all favs and in with a chance. As for you standing it, you wont get the chance you are not a bookmaker you worked on the till and settled bets, you were not paid to think, just think all the money you have paid into your "bosses" account, had that been going into your own you may have enough to stand a few.
We took more out of the local workin mens on a Sat aft than you took home in a month all tax free all bangers. I'd call in on a Monday collect a grand and they'd pour me a free pint the only pint you got out the game  was a pint of milk out of the petty cash. I suppose your biggest windfall was cashing in the sleepers once a month.
Report homefortea November 2, 2015 8:15 PM GMT
Feck me the big bookmaker has surfaced...Laugh
(Incidentally I have not worked full time for 12 years ever since I was allegedly in charge Of Trading for what was at the time of my leaving a rather large Internet player taking six figure bets on football and holding them - my only other source of employment in the intervening years was to sign the monthly tax declaration for another Internet player - an onerous five minutes a month for £30k a year.)

I am sorry than I am not "Big League" like yourself but as stated I could buy and sell you...Laugh

"The acc price to him worked out at 16.1/1 I had the bet away with C orals at 20.8/1 so I stand to win over 4k for **** all, the bet prob wont kop but I lose nowt and didnt fancy standing it myself."

BIG TIME CHARLIE...Laugh
Report homefortea November 2, 2015 8:28 PM GMT
Incidentally Joe Coral..

"We took more out of the local workin mens on a Sat aft than you took home in a month all tax free all bangers. I'd call in on a Monday collect a grand and they'd pour me a free pint the only pint you got out the game  was a pint of milk out of the petty cash. I suppose your biggest windfall was cashing in the sleepers once a month."

Roughly translated as - "The Clock bag contained two hundred two bob each way Round Robins and a few five bob Liverpool Round The Clocks.It took us all Sunday when the portacabin was closed to settle them and after giving back half the profits to the Committee Members it was time to start the working week again"

BIG TIME CHARLIE  LaughLaugh
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