Competition Sites

[BRUN]

anyone on here ever won a bike on one of the competition sites, seems like a new one appears every week

ill not name one as it looks like im posting to advertise it, but i do use one of em, and ive won 4 times fairly recently but never a bike, jackets, boots etc

[ThunderGuts]

The one a briefly dabbled with (before I realised just because the chances of winning are hundreds of thousands of times more likely than the national lottery, it's still remote) seemed to have a totally fair and transparent picking mechanism that was carried out live, so unless they are scamming at a severe level (possible) then it seems legit. The one I used tended to have half a dozen or so prizes every 3 or 4 days and it would literally be a single number won it out of all the entries, then they moved onto the next one.

I didn't actually mind it until they started ramping up the overall ticket value (number of tickets x value of each ticket) relative to the worth of the prize. Where it was 20% more or so, fair enough, but now the one I know it's something daft like two to three times the value of the prize, so it's clearly transitioned from "some profit" to "tearing a hole in your wallet" profit.
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[Ayrton]

Bought a ticket for a Tenere once, but didn't win. The site I used let you see everyone's name and how many tickets they bought (surely a GDPR breach) and I realised most people were buying at least 4 tickets, which at £5 each just seems like a stupid waste of money.

A guy in work has a mate that won a Ferrari though

[Polarbear]

I know (as in have met) from work 4 people that won the Dubai Airport supercar raffle over the years. They bought tickets when travelling through the airport, before they became available on line.

Of course it is far better odds but the ticket price is rather wallet numbing.

https://www.dubaidutyfree.com/buy-finest-surprise-car/category/Car
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[BRUN]

won twice again recently

[MarJay]

I've played BOTB, Apex 66 and TheGiveaway guys. BOTB seems to be the most reputable, but you have to play 'spot the ball' to win, and I'm not a football fan. The others are basically just a draw with an obvious question to answer.
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[bugeye_bob]

I know of two people who won cars on these type of sites, one was a lovely RS4.

[TravisBickle]

No different to a lottery ticket, a scratch card, chucking £20 in a fruit machine or putting £100 on a three legged donkey in the bookies.

Sorry to state the bleeding obvious but you'll get anecdotes of people winning having only parted with £1 on one entry, but the overwhelming majority of people will have ploughed untold amounts of money on the competitions on a weekly basis before they win anything worth a wnak.

Better of buying into premium bonds rather than these raffles.
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[Polarbear]

isn't 10 grand in premium bonds just about the break even point? I'm sure I read that somewhere.
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[BRUN]

i do reasonably well off premium bonds, especially recently, they have upped the prizes quite a few times the last few months

won £175 last month, £125 month before, £150 month before that

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[TravisBickle]

My wife would wonder why I've all of a sudden started turning the flower beds over once a week when I haven't as much as looked at a flower or a blade of grass in 17 years.

Nice idea though.

I'll continue stuffing my mattress and papering the walls with the stuff.
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[BRUN]

not sure if this is allowed so just delete if not, but one of the sites I use has started a referral scheme, if you visit the site using my link and spend at least £1, you will get £10 web credit and so will I, so you can £11 worth of entries for £1 spend

I have won about 8 times on this site so its 100% legit, and a lad at work I referred recently won £500 on there

https://www.apex66.co.uk/?raf=ref2063355

[Jayy]

I have won some crazy shit on comp sites:-

Nissan GTR
Range Rover Sport
Omega / Tudor watches
£30,000
RTX 4090

+ loads of smaller prizes over the past few years too

[grr666]

I'm tempted to buy a few tickets for the current Omaze house in Norfolk. I'd go live in it for a year giving the whole
family a chance to stay there for a little break. Then I'd flog the bastard and move back to the South East into somewhere
a bit more modest and permanently retire on the change. They reckon this ones worth £4.5m
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