Jack Zito / Covers thread

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(04-17-2012 03:26 PM)JSpauny Wrote:  Good. That makes me feel better about Covers. Shows that they respect their customers.

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that this shows that they respect their customers. This says that they'll go as far as they need to in order to cover (no pun intended) their asses and get people to keep, stupidly, purchasing picks.

If they respected their customers, they'd do the proper due diligence on the people that they hire to be handicappers before they start selling picks at exorbitant prices.

As probably the most-respected website in the sports handicapping industry, which, a large percentage of people who bet have zero idea about how to truly handicap, Covers shouldn't take advantage of their customers by unveiling a shitty product out to them before doing the necessary background work. Just by the act of selling picks, you're asking people to blindly trust you. For Covers to blindly trust a "handicapper" like Jack Zito is a pretty egregious error in this business.

Sad thing is that it's probably just the tip of the iceberg for Covers and the industry as a whole.

Covers really dropped the ball here and severely crippled their credibility. Refunding money to the "very few" people who purchased Zito's picks doesn't do much of anything for the peace of mind of other people subscribing to one of Covers' other handicappers.