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The Pitch... Marketing the Shell, Not Giving Us The Guts!...
"After years spent in thorough research and testing, AFS Global is finally able to develop the Margin locator program which is a state of the art and cutting-edge technology that is beneficial for investors and bettors alike"... Don't Believe The Hype (a very wise man once said).
"AFS GLOBAL SYNC MARGINING":
I was initially introduced to this so called 'Investment Software' by an Australian, Adelaide based company "AFS Global".
They convinced me to part with my cash by conducting a network meeting where they show how their software
makes you money, so away we went, the software was already on and immediately could view (on your monitor) the many different sporting events
which were linked to Bookmakers that show the various odds & profit percentages, the AFS Global network host then selected one
of the events (termed as a trade) taking you through to the Bookmakers sites to verify that their odds correspond to that of the software odds, the host then simulates placing a bet with each bookmaker which lets you view the profit you can generate, they go on to say, you can make as many trades as you want in one Day/Week/Month, it's that simple... in the back of my mind i remembered the number one rule; "if it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is", so i asked the obvious; "why sell these packages to us, why not just trade and keep all the profits to yourselves" ...The host then said that this software is like a training tool, it gives you hands on experience and makes it easier when operating the other software packages that we hope you will want access too, like for example our Forex Currency Trading software... the host went onto say, we operate a membership here, and there WILL be a cut off point once we've reached our target, so the members that come onboard now, are the ones that will benefit the most further on down the track, as we will be unveiling our other investment opportunities to you shortly where you will have continual support to assist you along the way.
I thought ok, sounds sort of viable then, and this might just be the answer to getting my financial status back on track...
...BUT (yes there's always a but) after signing up and handing over AUS $10,000.00, i soon found out that the software that i was shown on this network meeting was rigged, as now nearly 1 year on, i can honestly say it's impossible to just click on the first trade you see that results in a profit situation, i repeatedly asked support (Tony Peters) to explain why the odds never correspond, and how can i get this thing to work the way i was shown in the network meeting? ...the only answer he had was, if the first one doesn't correspond then keep searching till you find one that does, this got us really agitated, as you could spend all day looking, logging in/out of the many bookmakers sites, continually trying to verify and confirm the odds, and at the end of it all... you still find nothing, it's like real pull your hair out material!
So out of pure frustration i went onto to asking for a refund, which was continually sidestepped and finally rejected, please read on...
So as i say, nearly one year on now, and still 'Desperately' trying to recoup my initial investment, part of the problem with this model, not only lies with software but also with the Bookmakers, as obviously they don't want you making money from them, especially without taking the punt right, so they now have their own protection systems in place to make this type of trading very difficult, to verging on impossible, so here's a brief overview, when a trade appears on the AFS Global Software, you immediately log into both Bookmakers, verifying that the Odds correspond with the Software(Margin Locator), and if it looks ok, then you proceed to deposit your funds into both, however, because so many people have this same Software the Bookmakers are made aware very quickly, and either shift the whole event (Sports) to offline until Software Traders stop hitting that particular event or restrict your Bet (Max Bet Limiting) to an amount that makes it near impossible to produce a positive margin, and so basically, this is one of the many reasons why it's becoming increasingly more difficult to make/find any potential Sporting event trades that actually result in a profit situation, the other "Big Prob", is the Margin Locator (Software) itself, as it shows Data Feeds coming in from the various Bookmakers from around the Globe (Your instructed by AFS Global coaches to sign up/register with a minimum of 60, you can imagine how long this exercise takes!), generating the highest Odds resulting in a profit percentage/margin, this is the theory anyway, although, because the software is technically flawed, you quite often get mixed event feeds coming through, this is where you may have 2 Bookmakers showing a "2 way Trade" on the M.L., let's say it's a Baseball match event; Texas Rangers playing the New York Yankees, and they'll be playing 2 games over 2 days - 5/6/09 + 6/6/09, now AFS Globals' Margin Locator (M.L.) software will show odds from the first day of play(5/6/09), and then somehow get the events totally mixed up, fusing the different Odds that are produced from the following day of play (6/6/09) to make it look like a profitable single 2 Way event Trade, and if your new to sports gambling or not fully au fait with how bookmakers configure their event layouts etc, as well as assuming that your $10,000.00 AFS Global Software investment isn't faulty, then it can be very easy to miss this software error, resulting in financial loss.
The other problem is, because AFS Global's Software is so slow to process Bookmakers Data Feeds, you end up with a stream of Trades showing (Margin Locator) up where the Odds don't correspond with the Bookmaker's Odds, like you have to "Log In" to verify approximately 10-40 Bookmakers at a time, also taking into account that because of the Max Bet restrictions (applied by Bookmakers), you may only be able to generate a trade that equates to a profit of only 1-4 Euro, crazy i know, as takes hours of mucking around, verifying odds, all for only a few Euros profit, that's provided you do infact find one!
There's also another problem that i frequently encounter, and that's when the Software mixes the Markets up, this is where you get a Trade, ie; Tennis, the Market is a Moneyline Bet, (Which is the only Market that suits this type of Software Trading), so both Bookmaker's must show this same market in order for the trade to work, however the Margin Locator will produce one Bookmaker with Odds that correspond to the Moneyline, and the other Bookmaker (2 Way Trade) will show odds that correspond to a Set Betting Market or some other Market that the Software should NOT show... there's basically many situations like this, i could write a book about it, maybe i should, because at the end of the day, it's probably the ONLY way i will ever be refunded for this piece of very expensive junk.
So just to recap, we've owned this software for 12 months now, spent 1600 hours plus on it, made 150.00 Euro approx (this was before the Bookmakers got wise), and lost over 800.00+ Euro due to the issues highlighted above, so if you have a spare AUS $10,000.00 spare, then your probably better off buying a lawn mowing round, as would be a hell of a lot less stress, and you might even get fit at the same time (LOL).
P.S. AFS Global DON'T give refunds, and the Support is horrific!.
