questions about SWP

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Wed May 28, 2008 4:08 pm

cp999 wrote:
grecian wrote:I'm making enough from one or two hours play a day to mean I rarely have to get day-to-day cash requirements from out of the bank - so better players than I putting in a ten or twelve hour day five or six days a week must be making significant sums.
It is mind-rotting when you do it, however.. (after a while you move to autopilot and switch off totally).

Yes, I can well imagine. Anything that one has to do as one's day job becomes by definition a bit of a chore - and I don't imagine SWPing is any different. Also, to earn a decent sum you'd have to put in relatively long hours I think - so no different to any other financially rewarding job then.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:29 am

it is refreshing to see that there is never any boasting of amazing profits by the guys and girls on this forum.
i would assume some here are making a tidy living out of swps ,and secretly i wish i was too.
a top fruiter definitely will make more on a good day,however a bad day for a quizzer will never be 500 down the dunny

ZAX · Post by **ZAX** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:41 pm

500 quid in a day! Are you serious?!

Now I know who fill up Gamblers Anonymous! Cheers for the honesty.

Blimey. I'm no way a pro- a clueless wannabe at best, and play infrequently, so the best I ever did was 700 quid up in just over a month. And that was playing religiously and having some help. In the end it got tedious- like someone said- robotic. It made me admire the boys who are pros. Even the basics of standing on your feet for hours a day staring away. And going from place to place. the lifestyle didn't appeal to be honest. Not even sure it beat working

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Fri May 30, 2008 8:51 am

the 500 was not an admission of personal loss,but rather an example of worst case scenario when comparing swp to awp.
as far as losses go i've done 100 loads and loads of times, 200 quite a few times ,but more than this very,very rarely,with about 350ish the absolute worst .
a quiz player would never be able to lose large ammounts unless they were mr joe McThicko ,and as they are all uber boffins this aint gonna happen, and that is the point i was trying to make.

cool · Post by **cool** » Fri May 30, 2008 10:36 am

the most I lost in a day was £95 trying to learn a new game years ago(lesson learned)

Dyonn · Post by **Dyonn** » Fri May 30, 2008 11:18 pm

Interesting stuff, chaps.

Another stupid question: If you put your 50p in in 5p coins, does that get added to the bank for possible payout, or into a separate box?

betchrider · Post by **betchrider** » Sat May 31, 2008 12:13 am

Dyonn wrote:Interesting stuff, chaps.

Another stupid question: If you put your 50p in in 5p coins, does that get added to the bank for possible payout, or into a separate box?

Properpro · Post by **Properpro** » Sat May 31, 2008 8:41 am

Northern Monkey wrote:Nowhere near as much as the fruits

Dyonn · Post by **Dyonn** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:38 pm

I was serious tho

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:50 pm

Dyonn wrote:I was serious tho

My view has always been that it increases the bank in the sense that the machine has a bit more money in its computer memory some of which its program will allow it to pay out as a potential prize later. Of course it won't physically sit in the chute of pound coins to be paid out when someone wins - I presume it drops straight through to the box at the bottom. All of which, I presume means that if someone played an infinite amount of games using 50p pieces only I guess the machine would ultimately run out of cash.

Happy to be corrected here as my knowledge of the internal workings of SWPs has always been founded on pure speculation.

quizard · Post by **quizard** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:02 pm

Really? LOL. I think people thought you were taking the mick.

Any money you play counts towards a particular game's logical payout bank.

But since there is no terminal that pays out in anything other £1 coins only these go in the machine's physical payout bank. Everything else from notes to 5p pieces goes into the cash box and can only be removed by a collector. This is why they can sometimes run out of money even if they don't seem to be hammered.