How to go about doing a site like this..

jag5311 posted this at 03:45 — 9th February 2002.

Joined: Jan 2002

Just curious. One of my friends and I had an idea about starting a tips/advice site for sports betting (i.e, baseball, basketball, golf, football,)and it would work out as individuals would come to our site and we would offer tips and advice as to what the sports gambler should bet on and charge them a fixed amount. For a period of time, to earn the gamblers trust and to see how our success rate is, we would offer a full refund if they lost their bet, but if they won, then we would keep it. Then after learning our success rate and realizing whether this site should continue or not, we would then start forming memberships for a fixed amount (probably monthly. For payment options, we would like to have it accept credit cards, and i currently have a paypal account. I just don't know how to implement a paypal account into a website in which visitors could deposit $?? into that account as their payment. Obviously it would be like a shopping cart method, correct? I shouldn't have to worry about the secure issue since paypal offers secure transactions, correct? Also, if i decided we needed to start a membership service, what steps should be taken to implement that process into the website such as login name and password, transaction history, ect. Any help on this matter would be awesome. I appreciate everything you all have done for me in the past also. Thanks alot

Bryan

Brian Farkas posted this at 06:15 — 9th February 2002.

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Bryan-
It sounds like you're thinking of a pretty complex site... If you don't have any web design experience, it's doubtful you'll be able to complete the site any time soon. Your best bet might be to consult a web design firm.

If you do choose to do it yourself, of course you're going to have to start with design/layout, and then either find a premade script (from cgi-resources.com or hotscripts.com) to do whatever backend job you need to do -- or you'll need to write one yourself.

I guess you could theoretically just setup a forum in a password protected directory... Setting up paypal on a web site shouldn't be very difficult, they should have instructions on their web site somewhere.

Good luck,

Brian

Busy posted this at 06:55 — 9th February 2002.

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You'll have to place restrictions i guess for some countries as betting is illegal, also a age check system as betting age limits around the world differ, also some countries want you to pay tax on all winnings as these are considered earnings. you may want to run your idea by a lawyer to make sure you couldnt be liable for anything.

good luck

jag5311 posted this at 07:20 — 9th February 2002.

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Good points fellas. thanks I will take these into consideration

detox posted this at 13:24 — 9th February 2002.

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just out of interest we have recently had a website here in Australia get in serious trouble. They set up a betting (horse racing) advice site. Problem was the people giving the advice were jockies who would then run in the race they had given betting advice on. I would suggest anytime you want to do a site invloving gambling etc. To consult a lawyer.

jag5311 posted this at 18:29 — 9th February 2002.

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oooooh, ouch. That kinda sucks. Well, trust me i am no basketball player, baseball, or pga tour professional. But you are right. Honestly, my friend has this big idea like he thinks he will make a boat load off this site, and I tell him, dude its not that easy. Its not simple to just throw a site together, get 200 ppl to hit it a day and actually get people to spend their money online so they can get advice when there are some out there that do it for free. I just wanted to get some pointers on to how this site could be put together, I actually don't think its worth it/possible.

Thanks

bryan