They buy a system and use it a few times and then cast it aside when another one catches their eye. If you just use it casually a few times and give up on it when it doesn't seem to work, you've wasted your money.

Graded Greyhound Handicapping System - Can You Combine Systems. Maybe they'd be better off if they worked on the first method longer and then added another system to it, instead of throwing the first one away. The handicapper who sticks with a method, refines it, tweaks it and then adds another method to it, is the player who makes money at the dog track. Dog players are like most people in our disposable society. So, dig down into that stack of booklets on your computer desk and find the first one you ever bought. Very few of them stick with a method long enough to make it work. Like anything else, it's pretty true that get out of a method about what you put into it.

They spend a lot of money, trying to find that one perfect handicapping method that will make money consistently at their track.