Given it's almost impossible for Dave Clark Five to be Christmas No. 1, why is no one putting a lay bet aginst them? You could win some very easy money e.g. a £10 lay bet against Dave Clark Five being no. 1 tomorrow would win you £3,700 via Betfair.....unless I've misunderstood things. :)

 

You wouldn't win that amount youD make a loss of £3,700 because the figures are in the minus.

 

I wonder if that means if you placed the bet you would actually end up owing Betfair money? I went to do it and realised it stated 'liable -£1.689 on a £2 bet haha

When you lay an outcome you set the backer stake aka your winnings rather than how much you want to bet. So the £2 would be your winnings and the £1,689 is how much you'd have to bet to win that.

You wouldn't win that amount youD make a loss of £3,700 because the figures are in the minus.

 

I wonder if that means if you placed the bet you would actually end up owing Betfair money? I went to do it and realised it stated 'liable -£1.689 on a £2 bet haha

 

You should see two options. One labelled "payout" and one labeled "liability". At current odds 840 I see a £2 lay bet resulting in a £1680 payout (if they don't reach no. 1) and £1678 liability (if they do reach no. 1)

Several newspapers are reporting the Dave Clark Five as being genuine contenders now thanks to thousands of Rangers fans downloading it. Is it still an impossibility or have things changed now?

Several newspapers are reporting the Dave Clark Five as being genuine contenders now thanks to thousands of Rangers fans downloading it. Is it still an impossibility or have things changed now?

 

We'll get the figures around 10.30 but it looks like they'll end up around the #30 mark.

 

Since when have newspapers been a trusted source? :P

Heh, that's what I thought. But then I remembered how low the midweek sales were for Clean Bandit etc. and figured that Rangers fanbase could easily get 50k people to download through a quick social media campaign. If they had a big push last night before the chart deadline then you never know...

 

But I'd be happy if they fail to get it as high as Aberdeen fans got The Human League a few years back!

Edited December 23, 20168 yr by richKringle

The papers just need to fill column inches at this quiet time - so they look on iTunes OKane think that's no1!

They sold about 10k in the last 24 hours according to digital sales data, nowhere near enough to be #1.