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Right, so it appears my favourite Twitter Tipster @Betracingnation may have got himself into a bit of bother with regards to a supposed Charitable Donation which he has used to promote his service. So let's do a little digging and see what comes up.
Thread.
Thread.
*The Beginning*
Pete publishes the below email from a sub, one who apparently hasn't been well, and who is effusive in his praise for Pete's service and has made charitable donations in Pete's name - including a bench and plaque. (With photos attached - we'll come back to this).
Pete publishes the below email from a sub, one who apparently hasn't been well, and who is effusive in his praise for Pete's service and has made charitable donations in Pete's name - including a bench and plaque. (With photos attached - we'll come back to this).
Naturally, there's an overwhelmingly positive response. However, one or two enquire about seeing pics of the bench and plaque - enquiries to which Pete is evasive and dismissive.
So let's look at the initial red flags:
So let's look at the initial red flags:
1. We know Pete operates a recurring billing scheme (you know so he can keep charging people who may forget they're even paying him) - So per the email this bloke has missed payments. Now being "in a coma" would seem an acceptable excuse - however.....
.. As Pete operates recurring billing his money would have kept coming anyway via his chosen payment method. So it seems a little odd a bloke who can afford a £3k donation and to get a bench & plaque done up is having his card/paypal declined for £25 a month!?
Continued....
Continued....
2. Why no pics of the bench? It would seem natural to want to promote this charitable act to the maximum. Even if the "Donor" doesn't wish to be pictured its hardly going to be difficult to get a shot of a bench and plaque is it?
So....
So....
As Pete is known to be shall we say "creative" with the truth (I wouldn't call him an outright liar as that type of thing could land you with a Cease & Desist letter) - Enquiries were made with the Charity in question as to the location of said bench, Which led to the following..
So, with enquiries made and the Charity confirming no bench and plaque seemed to exist, it was further put to Pete who declared "I no longer have the bench" (we'll assume he meant pics but his use of the English language can be poor at times) - See below.
However this is at odds with the fact he produced a screenshot of the original email to which the photos of said bench were attached (So if he has the email, he has the attachments) - See below...
And this email screenshot is where things take a bit of an interesting turn...
And this email screenshot is where things take a bit of an interesting turn...
As the image above shows the email (and supposed Charitable Donation were made by one Jamie Quinton) - Hold on don't I know that name from somewhere.... Could it possibly be the same Jamie Quinton who (like Pete) flogs tips on here? Oh, it turns out it is...
Recognise the BOOM! picture!? Yeah, I do too it's the same one often used by Pete. So it appears on e Twitter Tipster has been bigging up the other via charitable donations, a (mythical it seems) bench and plaque etc....
Let's investigate Jamie Quinton then...
Let's investigate Jamie Quinton then...
Quinton arrives on Twitter last evening to defend Pete - and produces supposed pictorial evidence of said bench and evidence of charitable donations - see below.
So let's examine this further - Staring with....
So let's examine this further - Staring with....
A) The bench picture - Aside from the fact it looks at least 10-15 years old - there's also no clearly visible bench, no plaque - It honestly looks like some random pic dug up from years ago which would seem to correlate with the below pic of said Mr. Quinton...
See, these two photos are said to have been taken in or around the same time. You know, the time he awoke from his coma (and, according to his email headed off down to B&Q still in his hospital gown to get a bench and plaque ordered).
Let's examine this charitable donation then.
Let's examine this charitable donation then.
£7 a month donation set up in the name of "Pete Betracingnation" - Not quite the £3k (and bench & plaque of course) is it. Still, a nice gesture considering it was set up at the time of the initial email in November 2019.....or was it? See below screenshot provided by Mr. Quinton
"In these unprecedented times....." - Hold on, anyone remember anything unprecedented about November 2019 (when this email/donation occurred)? Nah, me neither. So evidently this donation was set up more recently - a cynic might think it was done in recent times (maybe this week!)
Which leads me to think Mr. Finch ( @betracingnation) and Mr. Quinton have been scrambling around trying to get donations sorted to offer some sort of explanation for this... But surely they wouldn't would they.....
Oh, The Charity confirmed someone was in recent contact with them about placing a bench at the venue stated in the initial email. Finch & Quinton perhaps? 
As betting men (and we know both like a bet - usually with other people's money) I doubt they'd be betting on anyone else
As betting men (and we know both like a bet - usually with other people's money) I doubt they'd be betting on anyone else
So let's look at possible scenarios here:
1. Quinton has fooled Pete with a cock and bull story - Except Pete has repeatedly stated he'd seen said bench, first he "lost the pics", then the bloke "didn't want the pic put up". Pete has continually tried to dodge this issue.
1. Quinton has fooled Pete with a cock and bull story - Except Pete has repeatedly stated he'd seen said bench, first he "lost the pics", then the bloke "didn't want the pic put up". Pete has continually tried to dodge this issue.
2. Around August last year Pete publicly decried a "paid twitter Tipster" who was stealing his tips and charging for them!? - So who might have been putting up Pete's tips then - could it have been Jamie Quinton (you know the paid twitter Tipster whose tips stopped around then).
Remarkable coincidence that, as is the fact Quinton deleted his Facebook tipping page when all this came to light yesterday. And blocked me on here of course. So it appears a possible scenario that Pete & Quinton cooked this up as some form of deal to settle that issue.
We may never know the precise truth, but what we can safely say is that these two unscrupulous individuals have concocted/invented/embellished a story involving (of all things) a cancer charity in order to court publicity.
People can make their own minds up about that.
People can make their own minds up about that.
Finally the above work was done, not by myself but by the excellent @MathewForth - Who is organising a GoFundMe page for the Charity involved and it would be great if people could chip in a few quid.
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