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[Dan]

Was a member 2 or 3 years ago, it was/is a great service but we found we just weren't using it as we should. We were paying a tenner a month which got us three dvd's at a time, problem was we were just rubbish at sending them back, so we would have films lying around for months on end so we cancelled the service. No slight on them it was us.

And as Tench says keep your list up to date, if i remember rightly you need to keep 10 films in the list in order of priority. If they are out of one they will send the next on the list, although this never happened to us as we always got our first choices.

So all in all if you use it right and watch a lot of films then go for it as it works out alot cheaper.

I've been thinking about joining again as they now have a streaming service, so as soon as I get round to buying a dongle for my TV to connect to the network i'm gonna try it out. Word of warning, when you buy a Samsung TV that claims to be internet ready, read the small print! £50 extra for the dongle:mad2:

That's pretty much the same as me. Used to be with blockbuster, never watched the movies. Didn't even find time to send them back so sometimes I'd miss months.

I think really good films I'd go the cinema on release, and anything else I'd wait for Sky to view it. There's not normally much of a time difference between films being on DVD and being on telly now due to the amount of piracy going on.

A friend of mine who shall remain unnamed used to use the service to rip high quality DVD's and flog them. He had a machine that you stick in one DVD in the top slot, and then 9 blank DVD's in the rest, and it copy's a film in 20 minutes. Used to sound like a plane taking off but I was impressed. He used to then flog everything for £3 a film.

He's now running a multi-million quid imports firm and lives on land owned by a motorhome firm and he gets bankrolled by the owner, lives in the 4 bed house on the land which he rents of the owner, and he borrows £50k motorhomes on a regular basis.

He's a guy who I got the sack from Phones4U with many moons ago, for setting up Phones4US.com whilst working there.

Don't know why the road I went down didn't end up with a multi-million pound business though lmao.

 

[Tenchman]

work out an algorithm to work out best chance for lottery etc and you will make him look like a pauper. don't forget us lot tho when you are a mega billionaire lol

 

[Dan]

work out an algorithm to work out best chance for lottery etc and you will make him look like a pauper. don't forget us lot tho when you are a mega billionaire lol

It's impossible, even if Derren Brown did it lol

You know, if you bought a £1 lottery ticket each week, do you know how many years it would take you to effectively have a perfect chance of winning? Let's say the jackpot is just even £1 million each week. It would take a million weeks for you to 'have a turn' (or the best chance possible) and even then it's highly probably that you wouldn't win during that course. The answer is 19 thousand years and two hundred odd weeks!!!!!! lol If you had a tenner a week, you're talking 1,900 years. £100 a week, 190 years.

It's just not feasable to me. I have a ticket on a roll-over. And my mrs plays a lottery game at work, but it's nowt to do with the lottery, they just base their game on the lottery ball numbers. they normally pay out around £80 a week, and it's a quid to put in. And it does come back around to the same winner before you know it.

Lottery is poor man's tax mate.

If you want to have a million pound in your bank, unfortunately your best chance possible is to earn it.

 

[Colour Republic]

tell that to the winners :lol:

 

[Colour Republic]

Your logic is flawed by the way, the odds are calculated on all the possible combinations of 6 numbers which is 1 in 13,983,816. Not the amount of the jackpot, although that does effect your chance of being the sole winner

I do think there is an algorithm which could shorten your odds, seeing as there have been over 1,500 draws so far you could discount those as coming up again, then you take the next 5 numbers and say the chances of them coming up together again are reduced, so the odds have been reduced by 75,000 already.. now just need to work out how to reduce the other 13,908,816.

easy!

 

[Dan]

tell that to the winners :lol:

Yeah but for every one winner (and sometimes, there's not even a winner!) there are literally millions of 'losers'! And they'll always be losers!

I think cash needs to be earned.

It's fact that those who earn their own fortunes always feel better about their lives than those who are given it in a will, or win it. There's a weird psychological connection with having money given to you that you haven't earned in some way that often results in depression. Though you wouldn't bloody think it would you? lol

I watched a thing on TV about a few of the winners once. One bloke bought a whole estate of nice houses, stuck all his friends in them, fell out with them all, and had to move himself. His sister-in-law who he didn't get on with sold loads of stories to papers about him and what he's doing with it when they didn't know who it was at the time giving them details. And his whole life changed for the worse. He owns a massive house still, yet eats out, doesn't have anybody to use his cinema with, doesn't have a mate close enough to bring around and play snooker with in his snooker room. His pool is always cold as he says there's no point having the heating on as it doesn't get used. And most of his costs now go on running his small mansion.

A very sad turn out for a guy that in the papers the following day was cracking champagne open with a good 50 people.

Though if you earn your money over a period of time, you're often in circles with people of similar calibre to yourself. And as you grow richer (in funds and happiness) so do they. God, I sound like a book or two I've read lmao!

 

[Dan]

Your logic is flawed by the way, the odds are calculated on all the possible combinations of 6 numbers which is 1 in 13,983,816. Not the amount of the jackpot, although that does effect your chance of being the sole winner

I do think there is an algorithm which could shorten your odds, seeing as there have been over 1,500 draws so far you could discount those as coming up again, then you take the next 5 numbers and say the chances of them coming up together again are reduced, so the odds have been reduced by 75,000 already.. now just need to work out how to reduce the other 13,908,816.

easy!

Eeerm. Sort of. Though I was basing the theory on the fact that if a jackpot was a million (so a million people each have a £1 stake, every time, every week) then for you to all have an equal chance, there needs to be 1 million draws (of any amount of balls, doesn't even come into it) and by the end of it, there has been the most equal chance of winning, but you can also guarantee that it wouldn't be a case of taking turns to collect your million, so it's not actually how it all works.

On your odds, I'm sure there's even a lesser change of winning?! (not got my thinking head on today - been doing cold calling for a valeting mate all day and my heads in the shed).

 

[Tenchman]

sorry i mentioned it guys, but if you had your debts wiped surely that wouldn't be depressing, i earn pretty good money but still have an overdraft (due to Co's like platts going under ) i'd be happy to get rid of those things = big grin go fishing more etc etc. think some people win money but are lost ref what to do with it, life is a short journey we should enjoy it . i would travel to places i'd wanted to go to but haven't had a chance yet .

 

[Dan]

sorry i mentioned it guys, but if you had your debts wiped surely that wouldn't be depressing, i earn pretty good money but still have an overdraft (due to Co's like platts going under ) i'd be happy to get rid of those things = big grin go fishing more etc etc. think some people win money but are lost ref what to do with it, life is a short journey we should enjoy it . i would travel to places i'd wanted to go to but haven't had a chance yet .

I totally understand what you're saying. But the way to get that quicker than the lottery, is to earn it. It's the only way I'm afraid.

If I took my dodgy books as fact I'd say the only thing stopping you traveling to places you've never been to, is you!

Though I do understand the real world lol - we don't all have the chances that Branson, Bill Gates, Livis Roots have.

I'm still chipping away though lol

Anybody want to buy loads of forums that do well for three times their current annual turnover? They're all still increasing in turnover at a nice steady rate and have been for years. Come on lads, gimme a chance. You can all chip in or something?!

 

[Colour Republic]

i think I have a half eaten bag of crisps in the van, what sort of stakehold do I get for that? Might even be able to get an unopened bag but can't promise, after due diligence of course

 

[Dan]

A good 70% that'd get you mate. 85% for the fresh bag if it's in date still!

 

[Colour Republic]

A good 70% that'd get you mate. 85% for the fresh bag if it's in date still!

Don't push it Dan

 

[Deleted member 9966]

I use Lovefilm Jamie. It works well for us. And we even remember to post the dvd's back cos we walk the dog via the post box

 

[Perry]

my boy uses it he is a teche

 

[faithhealer]

I see Lidl do this service now, reckon to be the cheapest?
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