The blog: cashier small print as it moves

Four kinds of post, and no publishing calendar

Nothing goes up here to fill a slot. A post exists because a document moved, and that happens when it happens:

• A term that moved. A ceiling per week, the balance at which verification kicks in, a fee table that reads differently than it did in the spring. Operators are allowed to amend all of it under the terms you accepted, and nothing obliges them to tell anyone.
• A payment route that stopped. Cards declining where they did not, a coin dropped in favor of one with cheaper network fees, a bank transfer that quietly went from two days to eight. Readers hit these before any announcement exists.
• Drafting we have not met before. Fresh clause wordings turn up every few weeks, and the ones nobody recognises yet are where the following year's unpleasant surprises are being written.
• Corrections. A guide that turns out to be wrong or stale gets fixed, and the fix is also posted here so that it reaches somebody who already read the old version.

The guides are the reference; this is the margin note

Sixteen guides in the payouts section carry the standing material — pending periods, document checks, source-of-funds letters, ceilings, fee layers, cashback arithmetic, dormancy charges, voided bets and the routes left when nobody answers — each with the sums worked rather than asserted. They are written as explanation because the mechanics behind them hardly shift from year to year.

What shifts is the numbers plugged into those mechanics, and that is this page. Reading only the guides still saves money. Reading both is how you learn that a figure you memorised last quarter is no longer the figure.

Two standing notes that apply to every post below. A commission reaches us when a reader opens an account through one of our links — the full disclosure is in the editorial policy, and it is worth holding in mind on any post that sounds enthusiastic. And any term quoted in a post belongs to the operator who published it, with the place we read it named; a post that was paid for carries that label in its first line, which is part of the sale and not something the buyer gets to drop.