Quote: Originally posted by pearl on March 25, 2004
Jim695, I'm sure he's a real person! He admits it in his catalog that he turned the company over to "Opcom" But he still has some ownership in it. My big question that I feel he should answer honestly is: WHY DO YOU NOT GIVE A MONEYBACK GUARANTEE WITH ALL YOUR SYSTEMS and WHY CANT YOU GUARANTEE A WIN LIKE ONCE A WEEK and DO YOU SPEND MORE MONEY ON BUYING TICKETS THAN YOU ACTUALLY WIN? I know he gives a guarantee with 3 of his systems, but why not the expensive systems $50 to $500? And if his systems do not work as good as he hypes them up in the ads, he should expect customers to get mad. He should tell people honestly how often each system hits! If it's just once a month he should admit it, at least people wont be disapointed. I'm sure he's a rich man. I'm not saying he's bad or good, I don't know nothing about his systems other than what people tell me. His systems just sound WAY to good to be true! If his systems worked liked he claimed, then we would all leave our dayjobs and make 10 thousand bucks a week playing the lottery.
I also suspect he spends more than he wins. He only shows people his winning tickets, not the losing tickets. Unless he is using secret formulas that he has not told his customers about. I just hope this isnt true that he spends more on buying tickets than the amount he wins.
It helps to read the ad copy for Steve's systems very carefully as he is very careful about what he says and how he says it.
Once you have a system of his and you go back and read the ad to see how such a system could do what he claimmed, you will find your mind "filled in the blanks" assuming things about the system that just aren't in there.
You can be sure his systems do exactly what he says and not what you think he said. It might rather sound casual for him to say you need pick only one digit of the Pick-3 correctly to win and assume you can use all three from the previous draw to win 80% of the time and you will, but you'll lose money over all because the system only returns a small profit if you have exactly one digit correct to play against all the other possible pairings.
From the system seller's point of view: You buy a system for $500.00, it cost you nothing because the first straight win pays you $500.00 and that cost you one dollar so the system was free to you. (And you want a guarantee and a refund of $500.00 for a system that only cost you one dollar, hardly. ;-)
The system consits of ten lucky numbers to play straight daily, you wanna see them? Ok here they are: 149, 157, 236, 280, 368, 360, 459, 479, 679, 689.
Instructions are to play them straight for a dollar a draw, if they win before you've spent $300.00 put $300.00 in the playing kiddy and write yourself a paycheck of what's left. If you've spent $300.00 in 30 days and haven't won yet, start playing each number for $1.50 each until you've spent a total of . . . and so it goes. You will either win and recover with profit dventually or reach a point of total meltdown where getting a $500.00 refund is the least of your worries.
Another system would be to use the winnings to increase the amount played on each number spread over 30 days. Let's say Steve does this and wins several times big enough to advertise and then on the next series loses it all. It remains true he did win real money up to the point where he lost. Knowing when to take the money and walk away is the most important part of any winning strategy. BobP