I watched a mate put £60 through one of the new Barcrests, can't remember the name and it's not on their website - and then I stupidly put another £120 through it and we both walked away skint without it never offering us more than about £12.
A guy went on after us and won £35 but it went dead after that.
Gave me a kick up the arse. It's been some years since I wasted that kind of money getting hooked like that and it's shocked me into not doing it again some time soon.
I only just discovered newsgroups this week. Grabit and nzbsrus.com work superb for me. Found everything I need and always max speed which in my case is 480KB/s.
I'll never go back to torrents or limewire.