Side Hustles: How to Make Extra Money Online

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by  Hayden Vernon

Side Hustles
How to Make Extra Money Online
Hayden Vernon
Copyright © 2020 Hayden Vernon
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Book cover illustration by Owain Anderson.
Contents

Title Page
Copyright
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
About The Author
Chapter One
INTRODUCTION
There has never been a better time to take on a side hustle. As I write this, the world is in the grip of a
pandemic that has frozen the global economy and put an unprecedented number of people out of work.
Across the world people have been laid-off, or put on furlough schemes that pay reduced wages, as
lockdowns designed to limit the spread of coronavirus are enforced. The forecast has not looked so bleak
for the global economy since the Great Depression took hold in 1929. During that time, worldwide gross
domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15 per cent from the start of the depression to 1932 – and
millions lost their incomes. Things are not that bad for us yet and governments are working hard to limit
the damage of the pending recession we are facing, but the fact remains that the gloomy economic
outlook means that now is a good time to think about ways of making some extra cash. With so many jobs
under threat because of the coronavirus pandemic, many people are turning to the internet to make a
second income and take on a side hustle.
Luckily for us, the internet has spawned an abundance of ways to make cash legally, for those with the
knowhow. Side hustles can take many forms, from selling things on eBay to taking on a second job in the
gig economy such as driving for Uber or renting a room on AirBnB. While not without problems, the latter
two can be great, flexible ways of earning money, but not everyone has a spare room to rent out or a car
to drive. Instead, I will focus on ways of making cash online that do not require much besides a computer
with an internet connection, some time to spare and a little bit of knowledge. You should already have the
first two – and the third is where this book comes in. It is possible to make a second income from the
comfort of your sofa if you know where to look.
This book will take you through the various online money-making hacks that I have personally put to
the test. As a journalist for Vice.com, I have written a series of articles over the last couple of years about
my attempts at making money on the internet and I want to share what I have learnt during that time.
Growing up, I was never that bothered about earning lots of money or getting rich – not because we were
financially comfortable, but the opposite. My mum had me at the age of 18 and my dad bolted before I
was born. We spent the first part of my life living in a bedsit, before moving into private rentals and
eventually a council flat. Things were often tight, though not as bad as some had it, and we managed with
what we had. You often hear of rags-to-riches stories of entrepreneurs who started with nothing or Del
Boy-types pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, but I grew up used to not having a lot of money to
spare and I assumed things would always be that way. My mindset changed a couple of years ago, when I
started to realise that while having money would not necessarily make me happy, it could help stop that
nagging anxiety in the pit of my stomach that I had grown so familiar with. You might know it – the one
that starts building when an official-looking letter comes through the door, or when the rent is due but
your bank account is empty. That feeling is what made me want to hunt down and write about ways of
making extra cash online.
I was terrible with money before I started writing about it, but since the series began back in 2018 I
have made enough to pay off my long-standing student overdraft and save money on top of it. Not enough
for a deposit on a mortgage where I live, at least not yet anyway, but enough to keep that anxiety in check.
There have been ups as well as downs, but crucially I have more money now than I started with – and
even my failed efforts at earning cash have taught me valuable lessons. I don’t want to be yet another
internet bullshitter, promising money for nothing or “six steps to becoming a multimillionaire”, there are
enough of those out there already. If it was that easy to get rich quickly we would all be loaded by now.
Instead, I will delve into both the good and bad aspects of making money on the internet, so that you can
learn solid ways of earning a second income online and steer clear of the rest.
The internet can feel a bit like the Wild West at times. Wherever there is legitimate money to be made,
inevitably there are scammers trying to cash in as well. It is important to be able to spot the difference
between what might be a potentially lucrative way of making money and a scam that may end up costing
you. During my time researching and writing about money for Vice, I have encountered my fair share of
scams and risky ventures. The truth is that it comes with the territory when you are looking for ways to
make cash on the internet. I will highlight any of the scams or cons that I encountered for each money-
making method covered in this book, but you should also practice caution and healthy scepticism
whenever someone is promising you money for nothing online. Remember: if it sounds too good to be
true, it probably is. I have stood by that over the last couple of years and it has steered me past the many
scams that are out there and into profit.
Despite my cautious tone – there really is lots of money out there to be made and each chapter in this
book will consider the pros and cons of a different method for boosting your bank balance. The first
chapter will look at the “matched betting” phenomenon, where with a bit of knowhow it is possible to
profit from bookmakers with risk-free sports bets and sign up offers. Matched betting has grown into its
own little industry within the gambling industry and I will show you how to profit from it step-by-step. I
will also talk you through how it is still possible to make money on it, even at a time when so many sports
are out of action because of the pandemic. Next we will look at profiting from online casino, bingo and
poker offers. This is similar to matched betting, but in some ways even easier – and unlike the live sport
needed for matched betting, online casinos are completely unaffected by coronavirus. The following
chapter will look at the world of forex trading, which is touted as a get-rich-quick-scheme across the
internet. The foreign exchange market is the world’s biggest financial market and anyone can trade pairs
of currencies on it using a computer or smartphone. It is an accessible way into trading, but it also has a
dark underbelly, rife with hustlers and scams. In the next chapter we will look at ‘comping’, the art of
entering loads of online competitions with the chance of winning big prizes, and ‘clickworking’, where you
can make some good cash from completing small tasks online. The former is not a reliable way of making
cash, but it does offer you a chance of winning large cash amounts or expensive prizes. Clickworking is a
more reliable – but also more time consuming – way of generating an income. In the last chapter we will
look at the ‘financial independence, retire early’ movement, a group of money-savvy savers who have
great ideas not only for making cash online, but also how to invest your money and make it work for you.
Fire will give you the tools to help you save invest and grow an online income once you have begun
earning it. Taken together, these chapters will give you everything you need to start earning cash online,
both during the pandemic and in normal times. How many of them you try and how much money you
make is in your hands.
A final note on this book before we get into it – while there are opportunities to make money online
across the world, laws and regulations vary greatly from country-to-country. What is perfectly legal in
western Europe might be off-limits elsewhere. Similarly, just because a method works in one place, does
not mean it will work everywhere. I am based in the UK and as such this book is written off the back of my
experiences of making money online in the UK. Although most of the websites I talk about can be
accessed across the world, it is important to know the law for the jurisdiction you are in. There is no point
earning lots of cash online, only to have it confiscated because you broke some local law you were not
aware of. That also extends to using a virtual private network (VPN) to make it look like you are based
somewhere in the world when you are not. If you are a reader from outside of the UK, I hope there are
general lessons about making money online that you can take from this book, but please check that what
you are doing is legal and viable in your country before committing to anything. Now, let’s make some
money.
Chapter Two
Matched Betting
Here is something you won’t hear people admit often: I’m a terrible gambler. It’s true. Even when the
odds look good, I still manage to get it wrong. If I bet red, black comes up. If I bet on the favourite to win,
expect an upset. The thing is, I’m not just unlucky, this is the case for almost everybody. There is a reason
bookmakers and casinos make so much money: the odds are stacked in favour of the house. Britain’s
gambling companies took £14.5 billion from punters in 2018 alone. That is the equivalent of the GDP of
many small countries, so they must be doing something right. The house always wins. That old cliche is
true, well, sort of. There is actually one way to buck the odds and extract money from these profit-making
powerhouses: matched betting.
When I first heard about matched betting I was researching ideas for easy ways to make money online
as I began my series of articles for Vice. As I looked around the web for ways to make cash, matched
betting kept cropping up. I was pretty sceptical at first. It seemed too good to be legitimate, so I assumed
it was a scam, but the more I read up on it, the more it made sense. Matched betting is a process that
allows people to make a guaranteed profit from bookmakers, taking advantage of ‘free bet’ offers using a
system of placing more than one bet to minimise risk and ensure that any losses are covered, regardless
of the outcome. If that sounds confusing, don’t worry. It was to me at first as well. I will talk you through
the ins and outs of it in this chapter – and once you get your head around it, it can prove to be very
lucrative.
Matched betting is not a new phenomenon. It has been around since the early 2000s, springing up with
the rise of the online bookmakers in the UK. Bookmakers started offering free bets as a way to compete
with each other and stand out in a crowded marketplace. Britain has some of the most liberal gambling
laws in the world, which is why there are so many online bookmakers vying for your cash. Currently that
amounts to around 80 different bookies operating in the UK, with more joining the battle for punters all
the time. They all offer essentially the same product – albeit with different logos and website designs – so
one way of standing out from the other bookies is to entice customers with free bet offers. While just
signing up and trying your luck with these free bet offers could net you some money, profit is not
guaranteed as you would still need to bet on the correct outcome, for example on the result of a football
match, to take any winnings. But what someone far smarter than me realised a few years ago is that there
is a way to turn these free bets to your advantage and make money from them without gambling in the
true sense of the word, i.e without risking any money and actually guaranteeing a profit. Since then,
matched betting has grown and grown and has found its way into places as diverse as broadsheet
newspapers and online forums such as Mumsnet, touted as a money spinning free-for-all.
So, how does the matched betting system work? The process is simple, but you need to understand the
key concepts underpinning it before putting it into practice. The way you make money is by signing up to
bookmakers to take advantage of free bet offers. That’s the bit you guessed already, but as I said before,
there is no way of guaranteeing a profit from these by simply staking them and hoping for the best. To get
around this we use something called a betting exchange. Betting exchanges, such as Betfair and
Smarkets, act as marketplaces between bettors. They are similar to standard bookmakers but they allow
members to bet against each other rather than against the bookmaker. This means you can not only bet
for a certain result, but also bet against a result happening. This is called a ‘lay’ bet and it is how we turn
those free bets into profit. By ‘laying’ the right amount against your free bet, you guarantee a profit
regardless of the result. This back and lay betting technique allows you to make a profit on free bets and
typically you will end up with around 80 per cent of the free bet amount as profit if you do it correctly.
One question that comes up a lot is, ‘why do the bookies allow matched betting if it can guarantee
winnings for punters?’. I have asked a number of bookmakers but they have all stayed tight lipped about
it, refusing to give an answer on the record. However, one insider I spoke to says he thinks matched
betting just does not hit their profits enough for them to worry about it – and besides, there is not a lot
they could do about it even if they wanted to, because free bet offers are so vital in attracting new
customers.
Let’s look at an example. Say a bookmaker is offering a £20 free sports bet when you first sign up – this
a fairly standard offer that you will come across regularly. To guarantee some profit from that offer you
need to sign up to that bookmaker and then to a betting exchange such as Betfair or Smarkets to ‘match’
your bets. Usually you have to deposit and stake a bit of your own cash at each bookmaker to get the free
bet to begin with, but by laying this as well you can limit your initial loss and guarantee an overall profit.
After signing up you need to find a game to bet on, I always stuck to football but you can choose other
sports. When considering a game to bet on, it is important to take note of the minimum odds in the terms
and conditions of the offer, which vary from bookmaker-to-bookmaker. To both make sure you are meeting
the odds requirements and to make things easier down the line, you should set the odds to display as
‘decimal’ on the bookmaker. If you cannot find where to do this, you can usually find out by Googling the
name of the bookie and ‘decimal odds’. Once you have done that, start looking for a game to bet on. When
you are betting your deposit, you want to find a game that has the closest odds in both the bookmaker and
the exchange, as this will limit the amount it eats into your profit. You can use software such as
OddsMatcher to help you with this. OddsMatcher, which has both paid and free to access versions,
automatically trawls bookmakers and exchanges for optimal odds. This can take some of the pain out of
looking for suitable fixtures to bet on. It is important to get this right – you will make a small loss on your
initial deposit with the bookmaker and although the free bet amount will more than cover this, it is still
worth minimising this as much as possible. Once you have found a suitable game to place your bet on, you
need to use an online matched betting calculator (there are loads of free ones out there, use Google to
find one) to double check that you have everything right. Simply set the calculator to ‘normal’ mode and
check that you are losing just a small percentage of your deposit before betting on your chosen game.
After you have placed your bet on a certain result – in the case of football this is usually a home win, away
win, or a draw – you need to ‘lay’ (bet against) that result happening in the betting exchange. For
example, if you bet for a home win with the bookmaker, this means you are betting for a draw or away win
to be the outcome with the betting exchange by ‘laying’ this result.
Once you have bet through your initial deposit, you can claim the free bet. This is where the profit
starts. A £20 free bet will usually be given as 4 x £5 free bets, so simply place them on the same event as
separate bets. We need to find another game to bet on, but this time it is worth picking odds greater than
3.0 to maximise your profit. Just bear in mind that the higher they are, the more you will need to have in
your betting exchange account to ‘lay’ against it, because higher odds mean higher liabilities (the amount
of money we put up against the bet). Using the same calculator that you used in the previous step, but
this time set to ‘free bet’, we can see how much money we retain from the free bet depending on the odds
of your chosen game. Again, by using software such as OddMatcher you can look for games with the best
odds for retaining free bet amounts and maximise your profit.
Once you have placed your bet with the bookmakers, you again need to lay the result with the betting
exchange and then that’s it! You are guaranteed a profit and it is time to cash out. Where the money goes
for withdrawal will depend on the result of the match – if your bookmaker bet wins then your winnings
will need to be taken out from the bookie, but if the lay bet wins, your winnings will be with the exchange.
My first matched bet was on a similar £20 offer. It took me around 20 minutes to complete (as well as
some time to understand the matched betting basics) and I earned £16 from it. While that does not sound
like a great deal of money, remember there are loads of bookmakers out there offering similar free bets to
try and draw new customers in. It is your job to hunt these offers down and make them work for you.
And if that sounds too much like hard work? Well you might still be in luck. A miniature industry has
sprung up to capitalise on the money available through matched betting over the last decade or so,
usually in the form of products offering advice and software to help people extract profit from
bookmakers. Companies like Profit Accumulator and its main rival OddsMonkey offer subscription
services that take the pain out of finding your own matched betting offers and organise everything for
you. Keeping track of offers, free bets and withdrawals can be a messy business and these services are
useful for helping keep things in check. They also offer matched betting guides and information on all the
offers out there. They are useful services and as such they charge monthly fees. These are usually fairly
insubstantial – anywhere between £10-20 per month – though they can eat into your profits if you stay
subscribed over multiple months. It is worth looking at Profit Accumulator even if you are not interested
in signing up, as they will take you through a couple of offers step-by-step for free, which can be great for
learning the basics and getting used to matched betting. A bit like the bookmakers, matched betting
companies often run offers for new subscribers, such as free trials and cheap introductory rates. Looking
out for these can be a great way of accessing their resources at a discount or even for free.
After my first week or so of matched betting, I chose to subscribe to a matched betting service for two
reasons: laziness and human error. At first, I just created a spreadsheet to keep track of my bets, lays,
deposits and winnings and thought this was enough to keep me organised. I was wrong. As my free bets
snowballed I lost track of where I put money and the sheer number of offers I was doing at one time
resulted in me making an error. Somehow I bet for, instead of laying against, a game at the exchange and
I had to ‘cash out’ both of my bets to avoid the chances of a big loss. As I have said, laying games at high
odds requires putting up a large ‘liability’. This is fine if you are guaranteed a profit, but can result in
losses if you do not do it correctly. Mistakes like this are common for beginners, but it does not make it
any less galling when you are on the end of one. While matched betting technically guarantees a profit, it
does not account for human error and anything you can do to limit the chances of this happening means
you stand to make more money. While signing up to matched betting services does not make your chances
of mistake zero, they do offer ways of keeping track of each offer you do that can keep you organised.
A Profit Accumulator insider I spoke to estimated that there are around 40,000 people actively
matched betting in the UK at the moment. Bettors are split fairly evenly between those that do it off their
own back, finding offers and using free services to make a return, and lazier people who pay companies to
do some of the legwork. I definitely fell into the latter category and I stumped up the £17 monthly fee to
access the ‘premium’ area of Profit Accumulator’s website. While there is a lot of information available
online for free to those who are patient enough to look for it, I found paying a relatively small sum (when
not over multiple months) was a quick and easy way of getting a good matched betting resource without
eating into my profit too much. But I don’t want to sound like a shill for these matched betting companies:
if you have the organisational and research skills to go it alone, you absolutely can. You can even do a bit
of both, using the services at first to learn the tricks of the trade, then going it alone when you are more
seasoned.
So now that you know the basics you are ready to get started as one of the few people smart enough to
actually extract profit from the bookmakers. You just need to decide how far you want to take it. Some
people treat matched betting almost as a full-time job, sitting for hours finding the best offers and turning
out results, but most just put in an hour of two a week and make some decent cash on the side.
Regardless of how much time you put into it, it is worth being as organised as possible – set time aside for
it and realise that it is not simply money for nothing. It still requires you to use your concentration and
organisational skills. The fact is, although matched betting is profitable, it can also be quite boring. The
further I got into it, the more it felt like an actual job as I sat for hours on my laptop: filling out details,
depositing money, finding bets, laying them and keeping track of it all in my spreadsheet. It is important
to remember to just plough through and think of the profits!
As you get through the more well known bookmakers’ offers and start signing up to some of the lesser
known ones from the 80-or-so out there, hurdles will likely crop up that you did not expect or encounter at
first. Each bookie has different verification processes for withdrawal and you will need to have your email
address, phone numbers, copies of bills, bank statements, credit and ID cards to hand. Bet Regal, a
particularly dodgy bookie that I tried an offer with required “a copy of your identification complete with
an official stamp (round & red) and a signature of your legal representative”. This made it impossible to
get my winnings back. Although rare, things like this do happen. To help avoid situations like this, become
familiar with the forums of matched betting companies for each offer you attempt. Other bettors would
have attempted the offer before you and their experiences can be helpful.
Another thing you might start to notice is the issue of money management – both withdrawing your
profit and keeping enough in the betting exchange to cover your liabilities. At times, your original
investment will likely be tied up between accounts, or in lengthy withdrawals from bookies, so be aware
that you may need to wait a few days for profits to materialise. The Profit Accumulator insider I spoke to,
who is a matched bettor himself, says he likes to think of matched betting as an investment – the more
money you start with in the exchange to cover your liabilities, the quicker you will make returns. Most
bettors invest between £200-£500 at first, but once profits start mounting these can be reinvested and act
as the required liabilities as things start to snowball. It is also possible, though more difficult, to start with
less money. There are people who start with as little as £40 and build slowly. If you do not have a
timeframe for making money, you can start with a small principal amount, withdrawing and reinvesting it
each time until the profit builds up to a lump sum. Just do not expect quick returns this way - it requires
discipline and patience to build a small amount into a good sized profit.
Once you have completed the sign up offers for each of the 80-odd bookmakers – no mean feat, but
worth at least £1000 and probably a lot more than that – you may be thinking that your matched betting
career is coming to an end. This is where reload offers come in. Reload offers are the ongoing promotions
and bonuses that bookies use to retain existing customers and tempt them into playing. A reload offer is
any promotion that is open to current members, excluding new members. There are a whole heap of them
available between all the bookies you would have registered with when completing the sign up offers and
this is where long-term profit is made. While the sign up offers are great for beginners, and will be
enough to keep you occupied and profiting for a long time, reload offers make it possible to keep
extracting money from the bookies. For now, it is enough to concentrate on sign up offers, but be aware
that matched betting does not stop there. It is possible to keep matched betting perpetually once the sign
up offers are finished.
***
You might be asking yourself, reasonably, how matched betting works under the current restrictions
brought about because of the coronavirus pandemic. At the time of writing, almost all live sport in
western Europe and much of the rest of the world is currently on hiatus. This has definitely hit the
number of games available to bet on. However, it is important to remember that bookmakers are still
desperate for new customers and most of their offers still apply. Despite the lack of sport, there are still
plenty of offers out there and random leagues, such as the Belarussian Premier League, are still running.
Bookies are focusing on these for now, with an eye on professional sports starting up again soon. There is
a lot of financial pressure on the big football leagues to start playing again, even behind closed doors
away from fans, and as soon as this happens expect lots of free bet offers and a resumption of business as
usual for matched betting. Until then, complete offers on the games that are still taking place.
Matched betting is an ongoing battle between bookies and smart bettors and while coronavirus has hit
bettors, it has also taken business from the bookies. This is good news for matched betting: when bookies
are desperate for customers, they rely on offering more promotions to attract them. Although at the
moment there are less of these offers for live sports (but still enough to keep us interested), almost all the
online bookmakers also have separate casino, bingo and poker operations and we are seeing increased
offers for all of these. In the next chapter I will talk you through how to profit from them.
Chapter Three
Online casinos, bingo and poker
Like sports betting, online casinos are big business. A recent UK study found that around 17 per cent of
the population gamble online. The house almost always wins, remember, and last year this resulted in
£5.3 billion revenue for gambling companies in the online market alone. But in a similar way to matched
betting, there are ways you can fight back and actually make money from the casinos by using similar
strategies to the ones we looked at in the last chapter to take advantage of casino bonuses as well.
I learnt about casino, bingo and poker bonuses the deeper I got into matched betting. As I was writing
my first money article for Vice, I wanted to find ways of banking cash quickly – my hope was to make a
good amount in a short space of time to give the article a bigger sell. Although matched betting on sports
games is a great way of making cash, it can take a while for profits to clear and make it back into your
bank account. I quickly boosted my profits through various other online gambling offers and made around
£1000 in just a couple of months of doing this on the side of a full-time job. Depending on how seriously
you take it, you can easily make more than this. Like the bookies, the UK’s liberal gambling laws have
spawned an array of competing online casinos and they all use offers to stand out and lure potential
customers onto their platforms. These offers are great news for us because we can use them to turn a
profit.
Unlike matching free bets on sports games, making money from casino offers does not require a one-
size-fits-all strategy. Obviously you cannot lay, or bet against your casino game bets at a betting exchange,
so we need different tactics. Because these offers take various forms, the ways of profiting from each can
vary greatly, from sign up bonuses at casinos to free spins on slot machines and even complimentary
bingo tickets. All of these can make you risk-free money if you know how and a lot of people actually
prefer online casino and bingo offers to regular matched betting once they start them. These offers are
often quicker, simpler and they can be more profitable as well. They are also a lot more exciting, because
with many casino offers you have the potential to win a lot more money – and who doesn’t want the
chance to play risk-free roulette or cash-in with free spins on a slot machine?
Because of the nature of casino offers, profit is not always guaranteed, but most offers are risk-free.
This means that while you may not hit it big, you also don’t stand to lose anything, so it is usually worth
trying – and the more risk-free offers you try, the higher your chances are of hitting a winner. Take this
example. An old offer used to give a quick £5 refund on digital scratchcards. The idea was simple - spend
a fiver on a scratchcard and if you did not win, the company would refund your money as withdrawable
cash. The company hoped punters would keep spending the refunded money in the event the scratchcard
was a loser, but avoiding this meant it was impossible to lose money. If you won, you might get ten or
twenty quid, or even hit the jackpot and take thousands. So despite no guaranteed win, it was still good
value because it was free. Although that offer does not exist anymore, many more like it do. The basic idea
behind making risk-free casino offers work for you is to find and complete as many of these as possible
and hope you come up with some winners. The more you try, the better your chances.
The same companies that are set up to help sports matched bettors, like Profit Accumulator,
OddsMonkey and ProfitNinja also operate in the casino, bingo and poker fields and most have a dedicated
part of their website to help their subscribers with these types of offers. As with sports betting, I did pay
to access help to get started with these offers when I was first writing about it. If you can afford to take a
small hit to your profit too, then it is probably worth it until you have fully learnt the ropes. The
companies tend to list the offers for each casino and also offer tailored instructions for each offer. This can
be really useful as the process for getting money from each can vary so much. However, as with sports
betting, there is some free information available on the internet about how to take advantage of casino
offers. Using those resources along with this chapter as a guide can definitely give you enough to get
started independently without paying for a subscription to these sites.
The further you get into casino and gambling offers, you may also start to see offers that are not risk-
free but classed as low-risk. This is a step up from the guaranteed profits of sports matched betting, but
once you are comfortable with it, it is a great way to earn money. The way low-risk offers work for us is
that instead of being a complete refund on any money you put in, like in the scratchcard example above,
they usually rely on discounted prices – such as on bingo tickets or spins on slot games. While this sounds
scary at first, especially when compared to risk free offers, we can actually take advantage of the
favourable odds that these discounts provide to turn a profit. If a spin on a slot machine usually costs £2 a
go and the odds are that the average punter loses 50p per play, then it would be crazy to play at that
price, with the average cost being £1.50 a go, even if we win sometimes. But if a discount on the same
game provides a ticket for £1 now, with the same odds, then that is excellent news for us. We might not
win every time, but the odds are that we will make on average 50p each time we spend £1 to play. That's
the principle behind low-risk offers. You risk a small amount of money at first, but it is almost
mathematically certain that you will make a profit if you play through enough of these offers.