Anyone fancy a gamble?

Many if not most of these raffles have hidden away in the small print, a minimum ticket sales requirement, this particular one says that but not how many.

It’s becoming a bit of a marketing trend now to off load unwanted or substandard vehicles like this, the ticket sales typically markup the item for sale by 4-500% which minus the online hosting fees assuming they aren’t also running the web site as well which is also becoming increasingly common, is still a significant return.

E.g it’s typically 25-50,000 raffle ticket at £4-5 each.

Quite a few of these raffles have also turned out to be frauds where they don’t even own the vehicles offered and use the ticket sales to buy in the prize afterwards assuming they actually ever intended to honour the prize.
Some even pretend they are charities or promote the impression they support good causes which may be genuine but probably best verified if possible.

The best returns seem to be to offer a smaller cash alternative and then constantly re raffle the same vehicle.

There’s several channels on YouTube that buy crashed or damaged heaps from copart to repair and then raffle them off constantly. Often making a very good living doing so.

For a genuine raffle the odds are very low of winning but perhaps even so it’s better odds than winning the lottery!
 
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Thistle said:
Most of these scampetitions raffles have hidden away in the small print, a minimum ticket sales requirement, this particular one says that but not how many.

It’s becoming a bit of a marketing trend now to off load unwanted or substandard vehicles like this, the ticket sales typically markup the item for sale by 4-500% which minus the online hosting fees assuming they aren’t also running the web site as well which is also becoming increasingly common, is still a significant return.

Quite a few of these scampetitions have also turned out to be frauds where they don’t actually own the vehicles offered

The best results seem to be to offer a smaller cash alternative and then constantly re raffle the same vehicle.

There’s several guys on YouTube that buy crashed or damaged heaps from copart repair and then raffles them off constantly making a very good living doing so

For a genuine raffle the odds are very low of winning but perhaps even so it’s better odds than winning the lottery!
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The retroshite one is genuine. I follow it all the time on FB and its often good banter. Usually each week there is a video or photos of the winner and feedback from them. The guy that runs it delivers the vehicles to the winner. I presume its a money spinner or he wouldnt be doing it but he is not conning anyone.
 
@barryd yep I know the group you mean, there’s a military history group that does similar with restored WWII jeeps and I appreciate not all these raffles are primarily just marketing tricks so I’ve edited my post to call them raffles!
 
A friend of a friend won this in a raffle a couple of months ago.
I'd be happy with that.
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