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Tricky0212 wrote:

Now I’m not having a go at all, I agree the money is better off going to charity.

This is a purely a business/legal question for those in the know (in a lawyer, but nothing in this type of area).

Lets say I set up a site and said free £1m giveaway all you have to to do is join my site/group/subscribe or whatever. I now have several hundred thousand followers and attempt to monetise my channel – I.e going to advertisers to show them my huge following which I effectively created overnight but nonetheless is a real following of genuine members. I get an advertising deal and then cancel the draw to those that entered.

is there any regulation here ?

again, this is not a dig at what has happened here as I completely agree with the outcome, but it raises the above genuine question.

No, because you didn’t have to pay anything or buy anything to enter. You can’t sue someone for the loss of zero pence. Free draws are also not subject to any statutory regulation.

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Xbobmad wrote:

DHV or Millionaire Megaways for me ?

I’d be tempted by Bonanza or Millionaire Megaways, but I think when it came to the crunch my choice would be Book of Ra.

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Glad you started a topic about this, I don’t think anyone’s broached it in any other thread 😉

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Opening a stocks and shares ISA is super easy, you can do it all online these days. You don’t need to know much at all about markets or whatever, just put it all in a fund like this one https://www.hl.co.uk/funds/fund-discounts,-prices–and–factsheets/search-results/s/schroder-managed-balanced-class-i-accumulation that’s an example of a fund which is just a bunch of different investments packaged in to one thing. Now obviously be aware that investing in stocks and shares technically means you can lose money as well as gain it (because obviously shares can drop) but most of these types of fund are about as reliable as you can get and spread your investment over different individual stocks with a decent balance of gain v. risk. They won’t double your money, but they should steadily appreciate in value in a way that’s better than most regular saving accounts which are at rock bottom interest rates right now.

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Tomtuc9 wrote:

Unsub me too please mate. If it’s true, I’m Chuffed for the charities getting the money rather than the knob’eds who entered however many times. But then at the same time, can’t help feeling like it was a ploy to get people to sign up to the site and that maybes there was no intention of an actual giveaway. No animosity.. I enjoy bandits videos and I will continue to watch him. However, I’d just rather not be on here for the reasons I’ve said. All the best everyone for next year, and most importantly…. safe gambling haha

That doesn’t make any sense. If you sign up to this site and join a casino through one of the links, The Bandit will get a few quid from being an affiliate and you’ll be eligible to enter every monthly prize draw for that casino as long as you’re active. If you sign up here and don’t use an affiliate link to join a casino, The Bandit gains absolutely nothing from you being a member. So why would it be a ploy to get people to sign up to the site? And why would you think that’s a more believable explanation than a bunch of selfish dicks thought they could give themselves an unfair advantage by signing up dozens of new accounts?

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Erm, no….why would it be?

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I love that it’s going to charity, I’m not disappointed to have lost my like 1 in 10,000 chance of winning some cash at all. I love that a few greedy pricks tried to be selfish and take advantage of Steve’s generosity and it’s backfired on them in the most brilliant way, because all they’ve done is ensure the money goes to something good and reduced their chances of getting it to zero.

Well done Steve and screw the moaners (i.e. entitled dickheads who think you owe them something just because they watch your videos). One last plug to consider Cats Protection from me, i know there’s loads of charities doing good work but this one often gets overlooked. I give a tenner to them each month, I know I’m nobody in particular but it would mean the world to me if they received something, actually more than winning 3 grand in the draw would have meant to me.

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So we now have confirmation from The Bandit that the money will be going to charities (Cats Protection included, my fingers crossed!)

I’d like to express my thanks to all the chancer twats who entered loads of times; you’ve just done something nice for a variety of good causes!

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I don’t really care whether the money goes to charity, whether The Bandit sacks off the whole idea and keeps it, or whether the draw happens and someone who only entered once wins a prize. I can pretty safely say it won’t be me anyway, I have the worst luck with raffles; I could enter a raffle of 3 people and 2 prizes and still not win.

I appreciate the view of making a charitable gift instead of a draw after the way some people have abused Steve trying to do something nice and open to anyone. Equally though if the draw happens, I don’t buy this argument of going oh but it’s a gambling forum, whoever wins will just give it straight back to casinos anyway so why bother. If you win a grand and want to spunk it having a good session playing at stakes you can’t normally afford, that’s none of anyone else’s business. There’s no moral obligation on a winner to do something with the money a bunch of internet randoms deem suitably worthy. But I would love to see a draw one day where the prize is specifically that some money goes to the winner’s nominated good cause, or perhaps a charity video where the bonus wins go to causes nominated by forum members.

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The vast majority of Blueprints, particularly ones in the style of Kong, Ted, Wish Upon A Jackpot, that one with the ants etc. are basically FOBT games that you’re playing online. 500x jackpot, miserable bonuses, loads of missing teases, wouldn’t surprise me if the RTP was only 90-92% on most of them. I don’t see the appeal. The ones they do under the Megaways licence are a bit better.

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Put it in a stocks and shares ISA. It’s like a tax free savings account but rather than just sitting there, you put the money in to stocks and (hopefully) it grows in value. It’s actually very easy to get small but steady growth from this kind of investment, just put all the money in the ISA and select to invest it in one or two managed balanced accumulation funds. These funds put your money in groups of different individual stocks with a variety of industries and risk versus gain and are often very reliable to slowly but solidly grow. I think my pension is in one such fund.

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StuartK91 wrote:

Don’t pay to charity thats shite what disgusts me is that britain put millions upon millions and they still cant afford water, look to your own then?? as for cat rescue whoever said that, they’re cats if you hate it get another pissy little hoors yous are too nice about pis all here on biam

On behalf of myself and thousands of cats which are neglected, mistreated and abandoned every year, go fuck yourself, prick.

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Should The Bandit decide to make a donation to any charities instead of the free draw, may I suggest Cats Protection (cats.org.uk) as a charity very dear to my heart. Regardless, if anyone here can afford to sign up and donate even £3 a month to them, they are in urgent need of more sponsors particularly at this time of year.

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89% is worse than FOBT games, which are usually around 91 or 92 on £2 stakes. Shockingly low for any online slot, bearing in mind when I last played every game I touched was between 95 and 98.

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Mate you think that’s harsh, I once had a zero bonus of Captain fricking Venture. At least any Megaways are games you go in to well aware that the bonus can be shit.

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