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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #15 on: October 26, 2010, 07:32:58 pm »
Aren't there gaming rules, terms and conditions that have to be met for anything like this?

Oh and my Nigerian friend wants a word too.............

" I as a fantbulous Porsche 911 of the twin turbochargers for rafflings. Just be sending £20 to my local bank in de capital of de Nigeria. I will of course send everyone the winner a message saying dey has won and could dey just be sending me a cheque for £100 for postage of said 1:16 scale real Porsche. Once again I is tanking you for reeding dis"

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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #16 on: October 26, 2010, 07:40:35 pm »
Aren't there gaming rules, terms and conditions that have to be met for anything like this?

Oh and my Nigerian friend wants a word too.............

" I as a fantbulous Porsche 911 of the twin turbochargers for rafflings. Just be sending £20 to my local bank in de capital of de Nigeria. I will of course send everyone the winner a message saying dey has won and could dey just be sending me a cheque for £100 for postage of said 1:16 scale real Porsche. Once again I is tanking you for reeding dis"

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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #17 on: October 26, 2010, 07:52:32 pm »
^^ As above - I'm pretty sure you would need a gambling license.  Then (as you are not a charity) you would probably be liable for tax?
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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #18 on: October 26, 2010, 07:54:29 pm »
I knew of a bloke who did this with his house rather publicy, it was in the papers and stuff........ then he scarpered with the mahoney :smiley:

he wasn't very popular to say the least

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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #19 on: October 26, 2010, 10:06:38 pm »

Or at least pay for fuel for the car!  :grin:


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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #20 on: October 26, 2010, 10:09:52 pm »

^^ As above - I'm pretty sure you would need a gambling license.  Then (as you are not a charity) you would probably be liable for tax?


....The feckers!! Methinks you get better looked after by The Mafia than the feckin guvn'ment! Licence this, tax that - For doing what?  :fighting:


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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #21 on: October 26, 2010, 10:30:07 pm »
has anyone read about that guy that started with a red paper clip and used a trading website and traded up over a year and ended up with a house!

i.e traded a paper clip for a stapler, stapler for a book, book for a small Taiwanese woman, small Taiwanese woman for a car etc..

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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #22 on: October 26, 2010, 10:34:00 pm »
Aren't there gaming rules, terms and conditions that have to be met for anything like this?

Oh and my Nigerian friend wants a word too.............

" I as a fantbulous Porsche 911 of the twin turbochargers for rafflings. Just be sending £20 to my local bank in de capital of de Nigeria. I will of course send everyone the winner a message saying dey has won and could dey just be sending me a cheque for £100 for postage of said 1:16 scale real Porsche. Once again I is tanking you for reeding dis"

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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #23 on: October 26, 2010, 11:44:32 pm »
I think logistically, this isn't going to happen. Not sure about the legal side of things but it would have to be run by a third party to make it appear fair to everyone involved and that in itself would involve expense. It's not a supercar therefore not going to attract the thousands of punters willing to spend a tenner

I was just interested to see what people would pay in this situation. It would have been nice for the car to have gone to a forum member as a prize, would have been nice for this forum too I reckon. It looks like I'll just do things the old fashioned way.... give it a good detailing and advertise on the trader
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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #24 on: October 27, 2010, 12:49:05 pm »
Sorry to be really dull but i looked at this as a new web business  - similar model just lots of different prizes

the problem I had is that yuo are runing a lottery which is illegal. you have to have a 'game of skill' hence the supercar thing always has a spot the ball or similar - don't ask me how 'spot the ball' is a game of skill tho ;-(

So you would have to fill it with balloons or something and then have people pay a tenner to guess the number of balloons, nearest wins...or have a reverse auction where its £10 to enter and the lowest unique bid wins.

you can get software to run all this FOC so not to hard but you don't want to be charged with running an illegal lottery so be careful!


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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #25 on: October 27, 2010, 03:00:13 pm »
I had a go at the supercar one at Manchester Airport.I thought it was a raffle and sent the Mrs over for a ticket.( Sat at the bar see).Anyway when she came back and said it was spot the ball,I knew I'd lost. :sad1:

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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #26 on: October 27, 2010, 11:47:17 pm »
I entered one of these a few years ago - a bloke was doing the same with his Monaro, which was worth a fair bit of money at the time. He did it all officially with 3rd parties, solicitors etc etc - didn't end up making enough money to cover the car in the end, so (as advertised) it turned into a simple draw for the money that he did managed to raise, so bit of an anti climax really.

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Re: How much would you pay in a raffle to win my car?
« Reply #27 on: October 28, 2010, 12:14:37 am »
Just be VERY VERY careful........!! There are some very very strict rules against this.

I worked for Best of the Best (botb.com) for over 5 years. You may all know this better as WIN a supercar from the airports. The rules, implications are massive! I was also invloved in the raffle of the house - which was stopped (legally) and hoem owner fined!!

However, there are VERY clever and simple ways around these laws, since done two raffles for cars. Done well, you can do well from it.
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