Blogabet: what the seal and the refund really mean

What Blogabet is

Two kinds of people use the site. A tipster (Blogabet calls a paying one a seller) opens a blog and posts picks: a bet on a match, with the bookmaker and the odds named. A follower (a buyer, once money changes hands) reads those picks and places the same bets with their own bookmaker.

For the follower, the point is the record. Every blog shows how many picks the tipster has posted, how many won, the profit in units, and the yield: the profit as a share of everything staked, so a 10% yield means €10 back for every €100 bet.

Most blogs are free to read after registration. The paid ones sit in the Market, cost a fixed sum a month, and send each new pick by email or app before the match starts.

For the tipster, the point is the audience and the money. A free blog builds followers; a Market account turns them into subscribers, and the seller keeps 70% to 90% of what they pay, depending on volume. Blogabet checks the odds on each pick, grades the paid ones as won or lost, handles the payments and, when a subscriber loses money, the refund.

The platform sits between the two as referee and cashier: a public record on one side, a subscription on the other.

Who runs Blogabet

Blogabet.com is owned by Betport Ltd, a Bulgarian company registered in Gabrovo (company number 201448396), and the footer copyright runs from 2006. The paid Market opened in 2012. Bulgarian law governs the terms, and any claim must be filed within a year.

The company says in its own FAQ that it does not check sellers before they start: anyone over 18 without a previous paid account can open a paid service, and the watching begins after the first customer pays.

Blogabet is not a tipping service and does not pick tipsters; it hosts blogs, verifies the odds on the picks, grades the paid ones, takes a cut of the subscriptions and sells advertising around all of it.

Blogabet verified tipsters: the seal is paid

Open any free tipster's page and a red banner sits above the stats: “This is a free NON-VERIFIED blog! Picks are self-graded and the veracity of the records can not be guaranteed.”

The Pricing page explains why. A free account gets no Verified seal, no live odds verification and no grading by Blogabet. The seal comes with PRO at €16.79 a month (billed €50.37 a quarter), which adds Bet365 live odds verification and 200 picks a month graded by the platform; PRO XL at €27.99 raises that to 500 picks and removes the ads. Paid sellers in the Market are verified as part of their seller account and need neither plan.

So the “40,000 active tipsters” in the marketing split into two groups: those who pay to be verified, or sell subscriptions, and those who mark their own homework. On the Tipsters page a “Verified” column appears to show the share of each tipster's picks that passed the check, and the free tipsters we opened showed the red banner instead of a percentage.

The seal shows that a plan grades the record, not that the record is good.

What Blogabet verifies

Verification on Blogabet is about the price, not the prediction: nobody checks whether the tip is good, only whether the odds were real. When a pick is posted, the platform confirms that the odds quoted existed at the named bookmaker at that moment; the seller FAQ names direct checks against Pinnacle, 188bet and bet365 and databases from Betbrain and TXodds for the rest. A pick can be posted for Asian odds, Bet365, Pinnacle, GG.Bet, the sponsor bookmaker, or as an “unverified pick” with no check at all.

Grading is separate. Grading means marking a pick as won or lost once the match is over. Paid picks are graded by Blogabet from the result; the seller cannot touch them. Free blogs grade their own, which is what “self-graded” on the red banner means.

Two smaller rules from the seller pages show how the grading works in practice: if a goal is scored within two minutes of a paid pick being posted, the seller must report it for voiding, because subscribers could not have followed it; and paid picks become public once graded, but the seller may edit the text before the match, so the analysis you see afterwards may not be the analysis subscribers paid for.

Reading a Blogabet Market card

The Market lists paid services with a picks count, a profit figure, a yield, a twelve-month profit chart, a sports donut and the top three bookmakers with their share of the picks. The profit is in units: every pick carries a stake from 1 to 10, and a unit is whatever you decide one point is worth, €10 for most followers. The yield is for the whole record since the blog opened.

Open the seller's page and the record breaks down further: by sport, by bookmaker and by odds range, each with picks, win rate, profit and average odds. On the €125 service, 515 of 566 paid picks were placed at Bet365, 77% of them at odds between 1.50 and 1.99, and the win rate in that band was 78%. Short prices at one bookmaker, hit often.

The chart and the yield measure different periods, and that is the first thing to read. One €999-a-month service on the day we looked showed a 45% lifetime yield over 215 picks and a twelve-month chart that rose by about two units, from roughly 82 to 84.

Another at €125 a month showed a chart climbing about 1,900 units in the year across 566 picks. A third at €300 sat flat at zero for eight months and then rose 900 units in three, on 213 picks. The lifetime yield on all three looked similar; the recent year did not.

Turn units into money with the platform's own figure, and size the unit with the Kelly guide rather than with the tipster's stake. Replying to a review, Blogabet wrote that 95% of its customers bet €10 to €20 per bet. At €10 a unit, two units a year is €20 against €11,988 of subscription; 1,900 units is €19,000 against €1,500. The card cannot tell you which of those you are buying unless you read the chart's axis.

Yield is the whole record. The chart is the last year. Subscribe to the chart.

What a subscription has to win first

On the paid seller we opened, every pick carried the maximum stake of 10, so a pick is ten units and a month of thirty picks, a typical pace, is 300 units staked. At €10 a unit, the subscription must be paid out of the profit before you keep anything:

A €55 seller only has to beat 2% a month to be worth the fee at €10 a unit; a €999 seller has to beat 33% every month, or you need to bet €50 a unit and accept the swings that come with it. The paid tips article works the same arithmetic for other platforms.

Blogabet prices: €55 to €999 a month

Subscription prices are set by each seller. On the first page of the Market, sorted by yield, we saw €125, €300 and €999 a month; on the Tipsters page sorted by followers, €55 and €59. Seven-day plans exist and are cheaper, and they matter for the guarantee below.

Email alerts are a separate paid layer for buyers. The help pages describe a Standard alerts plan covering up to 20 blogs and an Unlimited plan, convertible at three Standard days for one Unlimited day. We did not see the alerts prices from a free account; if you plan to follow more than twenty blogs, ask before you pay for a tipster.

What a subscriber gets

A subscription unlocks the seller's picks before the match, by email and in the app, and the comments under them while they are pending; everyone else sees the pick only after it is graded. Some picks are live: the €125 service's latest graded pick was a volleyball total placed in play at Bet365, marked LIVE, which means the subscriber has to be at the screen when the alert arrives, not at the end of the day.

The seller's own description carries a warning that channels and resellers steal the picks, and that buyers should check the publication time on the blog. Reselling is a breach of the buyer rules that ends the account and forfeits the seller's revenue from it; the warning tells you it happens anyway.

The Blogabet profit guarantee

The homepage says: “You make a profit or get your money back!” The Profit Guarantee Policy, read in the Buyer Admin, says this.

It covers 30-day subscriptions only. Seven-day subscriptions carry no guarantee and no refund on a losing result. When a 30-day subscription ends in the red, the buyer is given a free 30-day extension automatically, and may instead request a refund within 72 hours of receiving it.

Miss the 72 hours and the extension stands, the money goes to the seller, and the extension itself carries no guarantee: since 2016 the platform grants one free month, and a second losing month is simply a losing month.

A buyer who takes the refund cannot subscribe to the same seller for a month. A separate cancellation rule allows a refund for any reason within 48 hours of purchase; the Terms of Service say 24 hours. Refund requests are processed within ten working days by the policy and within 21 days by the terms.

Disputes are decided by Blogabet, at its sole discretion, and its decision is final.

As a calendar, for a subscription bought on day 0: until day 2, cancel for any reason; day 30, the month closes in the red and a free month starts by itself; until day 33, ask for a refund instead, or the extension stands; day 30 to about day 44, the refund is reviewed; then the money appears in the wallet.

The three places the rule is written do not agree:

The guarantee is real. It is also a 72-hour window, a one-month ban and a wallet credit.

Refunds go to a wallet

If a refund is approved, “the amount will be credited to the Blogabet wallet balance of the Buyer”, rather than to the card. A losing subscription, refunded in full, becomes a balance on the site. The policy says nothing about withdrawing it; the Buyer Admin we opened shows subscriptions, a transaction history and the rules, and no withdrawal option. Sellers have a withdrawal rule; buyers, as far as the pages show, spend the balance on the next subscription.

For the seller, the same rules delay income: monthly payouts are held until every 30-day subscription from that month has expired or been refunded, and free extensions push the due date back. Once a month turns due, the money is credited to the seller's wallet within two working days, and the help pages say payouts go out automatically once the due amount passes €100.

Bet365 at 91%: the bookmaker share

Every Market card lists its top three bookmakers with a percentage, and the seller page breaks it down to a table. The services we opened showed Bet365 at 83% and 91% of picks, with Pinnacle, 1xBet or an Asian broker filling the rest. The Tipsters filter goes further: you can filter by bookmaker used and by the share of picks at that bookmaker.

That share decides whether the record is reachable. A yield built on Bet365 prices is a yield at Bet365 prices, and a subscriber in a country where Bet365 does not operate, or whose account has been limited, will get different odds and a different result. Blogabet's own reply to a critic on Trustpilot puts it plainly: pre-match Bet365 picks are what most customers can use, and tipsters beating Asian books in play at large limits “do not exist”.

Blogabet free tips: who pays

The tips feed is behind a login: logged out, the page reads “Please log in to view the tips”. Registration asks for an email (“we recommend using Gmail”), and the box for news from “Blogabet and its partners” is ticked in advance.

Inside, a sponsor bookmaker's banner sits on the homepage, in the sidebar, in the feed and on tipster pages, with a bonus code and a sign-up button; the same bookmaker has its own entry in the “publish a pick” menu, and a casino rakeback banner sits under a tipster's stats. The Terms of Service state the company runs advertisements on every blog and that blocking them is grounds for termination.

The free tips are paid for by the advertising around them. The Telegram tips guide explains how that money flows; the mechanism here is the same one on a website.

What sellers pay and promise

The seller admin says more about the platform than any buyer page, and the headline “up to 90%” turns out to be the top of a ladder. A seller pays a one-time €25 setup fee, then 4.5% of every subscription for payment processing, then a market fee that slides with the month's net revenue: 30% below €500, 20% to €1,000, 15% to €2,000, 10% above that. The 90% belongs to sellers clearing €2,000 a month; a seller with four €125 subscribers keeps about €334 of €500.

Smaller charges follow. A €15 minimum market fee for any month with a paid pick and no sales, taken from the wallet. €5 for each buyer refund. €5 for each live pick where a goal within two minutes went unreported. Promoting a paid pick in the main feed costs €0.50 a time. And in any 30 days a seller may withdraw at most twice the amount the platform is still holding for them.

Sellers also give their real name, address, email and phone number. They may tip nowhere else, free or paid, on any website or messaging app, and may speak to subscribers only through Blogabet. They must post at least two picks a week and ten a month, or buyers' refund requests are accepted automatically; and they may not post more than 150 a month until they have revenue. Martingale and chasing losses are banned, and the record cannot be reset once the account is active.

Read from the buyer's side, two of those rules protect you: a seller who goes quiet triggers refunds, and a seller who resets a bad month cannot. Exclusivity does not: it is a promise to Blogabet, and the seller's own page still warns that resellers steal the picks.

The free account

The free account shows the feed, every tipster's public stats and the Market prices. It cannot verify odds live, cannot comment on picks, gets three support tickets a month, and defaults to UTC for kick-off times. The tipster filters work in full: language, sport, league, picks count, activity, bookmaker used and bookmaker share, sorted by followers or yield.

An evening of filtering by your own bookmakers is the most useful thing the free account does, and the tipsters hub explains what to look for in a record before you pay.

Blogabet reviews on Trustpilot

Blogabet has a 1.7 Trustpilot score from 133 reviews, and the company does not reply to most of them.

The tipster side dominates: accounts closed without explanation after user reports, picks removed from the main feed, payouts questioned. Buyers complain about “Bet365-only picks and fake yields”; the platform's answer is that Bet365 picks are what its customers can bet. A few long-term sellers describe a service that pays on time and changed their income. Read the tipster complaints as a warning about the free feed and the buyer complaints as a warning about the bookmaker share.

Blogabet alternatives

Tipstrr fixes who grades the bet and lets one account run thirty portfolios; Blogabet lets one seller run one account and cannot reset it, but grades free blogs not at all. Tipstrr is priced in pounds against British bookmakers; Blogabet in euros against Bet365, Pinnacle and Asian books, which fits a European or African reader better.

Bet2Invest verifies every record against one reference price, Pinnacle, and publishes the same expected return for every plan; Blogabet verifies against whichever bookmaker the tipster names, which is more useful and less comparable. The paid tips article has the break-even arithmetic that applies to all three.

Buy the 30-day plan or nothing

A reader with Bet365 or Pinnacle accounts who wants to follow a verified seller and will read the twelve-month chart before the yield. Use the 30-day plan, never the 7-day one, and put the 72-hour refund window in your calendar before the subscription ends.

It does not suit a reader who expects the money back on a card, who cannot open Bet365, or who wants the free feed to be verified; the site says on every free blog that it is not.