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Select Racing
Mark Kerr
Select Racing is run by Mark Kerr. Last year I earmarked a section of The Guardian website. It was an article by Tony Levene, their usual scambuster.
He reported that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) had upheld two complaints about Select.
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www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/may/09/select-service-betting
While this article might put you off, it's worth noting that the ASA have purely cautioned them about substantiating all claims in their advertising through an independent third party. It's clear that their service DOES deliver real racing tips and isn't a scam. Otherwise they'd have been slammed - even arrested - for that instead.
It's easy to panic about a company when you see an ASA complaint. But believe me, they can be pernickety about almost EVERYTHING advertised.
I went online to look at the original ASA ruling against Kerr. It shows that there were two other complaints about Select: that the testimonials weren't genuine, and that they didn't warn customers of potential risk.These were NOT upheld. The complaints were shown to be unfounded.
As far as I can see, Select were 100% co-operative and did everything the ASA asked. They sent the original copies of their customer's testimonials to the ASA. Those testimonials were proved to be absolutely genuine. So people were really making money.
Added to that, Select admit upfront in their promotion there's an element of risk in betting. So they weren't guaranteeing earnings.
In his Guardian article the Tony Levene decided not to point out those two serious complaints against Select weren't upheld. Or that the complaint about the earning potential was only upheld because they hadn't used the correct process of verification... not because the claims were outlandish or lies.