M18 App Error made me lose everything
Kind of my fault as this is gambling, and Kalshi has disclaimers about the live feed (supposedly I never noticed it but I’m sure there’s fine print or in the terms of service) For a very long time I’ve been making money off of tennis as it’s really easy to predict and trade the dips and rises today the live tracking feature stopped working, and it was a couple points behind, causing me to lose $2000 on what seemed like a good trade and just continue to go worse. I reached out to Kalshi support and they said there is nothing they can do. I’ve heard of a lot of people giving similar issues on how Kalshi is a scam and they don’t pay people fairly. I’m definitely done with the app and sports betting in general, but I’m looking for advice on how to make this back not necessarily gambling (anybody doing really well feel free to message me and help out). I’m 18 years old and I have about $2000 in credit card debt. I attempted to withdraw multiple times in the app and was just going to pay it off and it wouldn’t allow me so I continue to make trades which led me to lose it all. I am now completely fucked and I have no idea what to do. I have prom and tons of senior activities coming up and at my job this is almost 2-3 months pay. I never thought of it as a problem as I was doing somewhat alright and didn’t make too many risky trades. PM me or comment with advice or if you are able to help me in any way. Lived with my abusive step dad and moved out causing my entire family to basically disown me and when I reached out to them they didn’t want to help me. My mom would’ve but they aren’t in a financial position to anyways and she can’t as they share finances and he wouldn’t allow her to. It sucks I’m not addicted to it in general but the app not allowing me to take it out and the ease I’ve had before made me continue betting. I would be fine being done but in the moment nothing seemed wrong. Please give advice as I don’t want to ruin my credit and I have about 2 weeks before I have to pay off my card. I never wanna touch it again truly and need advice on that as well.
TLDR. Lost $2k. Have $2k in debt. Tried withdrawing and wouldn’t allow me. Kept betting and the apps live scoring was inaccurate. Need advice and potentially monetary help. Need advice to never do it again