Had an email from SunBets with a bet £10 get a free £10 bet if you enter COMEBACK16 into promotions box, have used free bet in Sunderland match later today and will make £6 profit from that.
I had a big "fuckety fuckety fuck" moment yesterday, aft signing up to the William Hill offer and using my bets I had withdrawals restricted, apparently message said they couldn't verify my age, I uploaded relevant documents and was told they were still unable to verify, that it's going to be done manually, and to email documents again, if I failed verification again then my account would be suspended, sent email and prayed and prayed my bets won at the exchange end, one didn't so ended up with £40 tied up in William hill.
I've been nervously checking email all day and than fuck, restrictions have been lifted, had an apologetic email and I've triggered withdrawl of my £40 - phew.
In theory, I wouldn't be out of pocket had they suspended and not honoured my winnings from free bet, as I've made over that in profit I'd still be up but it's put me off placing bets with liabilities of loads in case in ends up in bookies and similar happens again.
Read plenty of horror stories about bookies closing/suspending accounts and cancelling winnings on free bets. I also read suggestions that you bet as you would normally and rather than place low odd bets on the qualifying one, and then much bigger odds on free bets, to sort of make bets around the same odds to be consistent.
Looking at my spreadsheet, my liabilities have been £25/£30 for a profit of £8 ish, placing at lower odds today and have liabilities of £8-£15 for profits of £6-7 per bet. I kind of feel less risky placing bets with half the liability for a pound or two less profit per bet, if all my free bets had won at William hill yesterday I'd have had over £100 in there which I'd have lost if WilliamHill suspended me.
Just made me a bit nervous and cautious now I suppose.