Refund Offers

What are Sports Refund Offers?

Sports Refund Offers are a type of sports free bet offer that bookmakers run regularly for existing customers and thanks to Matched betting we can take full advantage of their potential profits.

The basic principle of sprts refund offers is that bookmakers offer existing customers a 'refund' in the form of a free bet IF a certain event in the event that they've bet on happens. Because there is a chance that the refund doesn't occur we must be aware that these kinds of offers are not risk free, however, if we can minimise the qualifying loss of the trigger bet then these are definitely very profitable.

Existing customer offers come in the standard 'Bet X Get Y' format (usually for particular high-profile football matches) and then there are refund offers whereby a certain event needs to occur within a match for a free bet to be triggered.

Examples
When to do them

There's refunds offers each week during the football season and then they'll be available on major sporting events too for golf, tennis, boxing and more!

To know when and where the offers are, Outplayed provide a fantastic weekly offers calendar - which is updated real time.

Your Profit Explained
Summary

We use the exact same principle as we do when completing the welcome offers - place a risk free bet on the match to trigger the free bet, which we then profit from. The only difference being that these offers aren't all risk-free, as it could be the case that the event within the match does not occur, so it is important to detect when these refund offers are profitable or not, dependant on the trigger bet loss.

Calculations

So, Boylesports are offering a free bet of your stake (up to £25), refunded if your bet loses AND the crossbar is hit at any point during the game. They run it for every televised Premier League game. Things you need to bear in mind:

  • Chances of the crossbar being hit in any game = around 1 in 3
  • £25 Free Bet value = around £18
  • The trigger bet qualifying loss

So for this to be profitable we need the expected cash from the free bet to be more than we lose in qualifying losses.

If we're expected to win £18 from the free bet 1 in 3 games, the expected value of this offer is £6. So as long as the qualifying loss is less than £6 we should expect to make money from these offers.

Being on televised premier league matches we can expect a max qualifying loss of around £1, so it's definitely a profitable offer to do!

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