I've won something pretty amazing online
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kish355 said:
The London cab with the B10 XTR plate is always at the Porsche West London branch, it even has the porsche crest on the bonnet so im guessing it belongs to them, to ferry clients to and from home...
Congrats Alun, im a regular player on BOTB and have just bought my tickets for this month, unfortunately havent won anything yet though!
Cheers. Make sure you wait til late in the month and follow them on Twitter. They usually post a discount code of 10-20% near the end of the competition...Congrats Alun, im a regular player on BOTB and have just bought my tickets for this month, unfortunately havent won anything yet though!
An update on my prize 
I'm now upto 14k on the clock. I chose and ex demo which had 7 k on the clock so that's 7k in 7 months which is hopefully not stressing her too much.
I had a day out at Porsche Silverstone too with the loan of one of their PDK cars during the morning. I had an absolute blast and may have inadvertently done 2.5 hours solid lapping of the handling circuit resulting in canvas on show all round...
She's 6k off her first service so I'm putting money in my piggybank and I've got a trackday booked in April so I'll let you all know how that goes.
I also raised £550 from the links on my website from BOTB's affiliate scheme and donated that to a few small charities
Also the team at BOTB are still in regular contact just to say hi, ask how the car is etc and I'm going to pop down and see them at somepoint to say thanks again. I've never met anyone as gracious as Will Hindmarch about giving away £40K!
I'm now upto 14k on the clock. I chose and ex demo which had 7 k on the clock so that's 7k in 7 months which is hopefully not stressing her too much.
I had a day out at Porsche Silverstone too with the loan of one of their PDK cars during the morning. I had an absolute blast and may have inadvertently done 2.5 hours solid lapping of the handling circuit resulting in canvas on show all round...
She's 6k off her first service so I'm putting money in my piggybank and I've got a trackday booked in April so I'll let you all know how that goes.
I also raised £550 from the links on my website from BOTB's affiliate scheme and donated that to a few small charities
Also the team at BOTB are still in regular contact just to say hi, ask how the car is etc and I'm going to pop down and see them at somepoint to say thanks again. I've never met anyone as gracious as Will Hindmarch about giving away £40K!
Whitean3 said:
Alun, a quick question for you- on BOTB, you have a list of cars you could win, and the deal is it's the base spec model, and you'd have to pay for optional extras. Yet I notice you got a preregistered dealer Cayman (with better spec) rather than a brand new one. How does this work exactly, and what are the limits? For example, you won a Cayman, and you have a Cayman. Could you have negotiated a 911 or Boxster S for example? Where do you (or BOTB) draw the line, and who chooses the dealer? Just interested, because I'd love to know how flexible the prize is! Cheers.
I could have added cash to get ANY car. The prize effectively is the top value prize listed eg circa £40k for a Cayman including VAT or £25k in cash. BOTB are very flexible about what you can buy with your prize and genuinely happy when you win! You can find a dealer or you can let BOTB take you to one. We went to the Porsche dealer on the A4 in Chiswick as that was convenient for both of us.
Although they are very helpful obviously BOTB have to make sure they are doing everything by the rules so don't think by my comments above they did what they fancied!
So I thought after all this time I better check in again and say Hi. Today I bumped into an old friend who I knew from PH and he asked me how things were going with the Porsche so I felt I owed you all a small update, after all I know now there are a lot of people who play BOTB on here along with a fair few who STILL think it's a scam! So...
The Cayman went after lots of bad experiences with Porsche West London to the point I couldn't be bothered any more. Strangely about 1 hour after I agreed the sale of the Porsche to Porsche Swindon (if West London could have mustered half the service I received from Simon Lisemore at swindon during my ownership I'd still be in a Cayman) I heard my beloved (and slightly battered) Elise S1 was back on the market so karma calling I nipped to Cambridge and bought her home...
Roll on a few months and I got another call from BOTB... As part of a promotion they needed a previous winner to spend an afternoon with David Coulthard. I could hardly say no right? Using my highly honed bragging skills I managed to get Lotus to lend me a brand new Evora S for the day so I could turn up in style, I did try Porsche but never go further than a secretary... A great, although slightly wet, day was had by all and DC was a truly lovely bloke to hang out with.
Back to cars... Sadly 12 months later I had only done 1500 miles in the S1 so decided that a 2 car life wasn't for me anymore, she was sold and a lofty plan was hatched. As a huge fan of Lotus I couldn't get the idea of owning an Evora out of my head so I waited patiently for prices to drop.
Roll on earlier this year and having literally out the phone down on a deal for an Evora my phone rang and Ben from BOTB was on the other end of the phone asking if I could make it along to drive a Lamborghini Aventador at over 200 mph to celebrate their 200th giveaway! Once again I felt it would be churlish to turn down the opportunity and a doubly awesome day was had!
So I'm now the proud owner of an Evora, I'm a member of the 200moh club and I've lunched with an F1 driver all because I took a punt on an email offer that arrived in my inbox.
Who knows if the world of BOTB will lead to anymore adventures but I do still know just how lucky I have been!
And Yes I do still play most months although I'm always torn between a Lotus Exige V6 or a new Cayman S...
The Cayman went after lots of bad experiences with Porsche West London to the point I couldn't be bothered any more. Strangely about 1 hour after I agreed the sale of the Porsche to Porsche Swindon (if West London could have mustered half the service I received from Simon Lisemore at swindon during my ownership I'd still be in a Cayman) I heard my beloved (and slightly battered) Elise S1 was back on the market so karma calling I nipped to Cambridge and bought her home...
Roll on a few months and I got another call from BOTB... As part of a promotion they needed a previous winner to spend an afternoon with David Coulthard. I could hardly say no right? Using my highly honed bragging skills I managed to get Lotus to lend me a brand new Evora S for the day so I could turn up in style, I did try Porsche but never go further than a secretary... A great, although slightly wet, day was had by all and DC was a truly lovely bloke to hang out with.
Back to cars... Sadly 12 months later I had only done 1500 miles in the S1 so decided that a 2 car life wasn't for me anymore, she was sold and a lofty plan was hatched. As a huge fan of Lotus I couldn't get the idea of owning an Evora out of my head so I waited patiently for prices to drop.
Roll on earlier this year and having literally out the phone down on a deal for an Evora my phone rang and Ben from BOTB was on the other end of the phone asking if I could make it along to drive a Lamborghini Aventador at over 200 mph to celebrate their 200th giveaway! Once again I felt it would be churlish to turn down the opportunity and a doubly awesome day was had!
So I'm now the proud owner of an Evora, I'm a member of the 200moh club and I've lunched with an F1 driver all because I took a punt on an email offer that arrived in my inbox.
Who knows if the world of BOTB will lead to anymore adventures but I do still know just how lucky I have been!
And Yes I do still play most months although I'm always torn between a Lotus Exige V6 or a new Cayman S...
Craikeybaby said:
I missed this first time round - congratulations! It is good to see a PH winner.
I've started playing this year, after I realised that it wasn't all £25 tickets for supercars. I've mostly been playing the sub £5 tickets, for an Elise, but like the OP I tend to get a lot of discount codes through, combined with a few good guesses recently I don't think I've paid full price for a few months.
I do wonder sometimes as you can really stack up the discounts. I spend about £20 per month and get plenty of tickets although you have to feel slightly sorry for the December winner who bought Citroen tickets to get the 40% discount on Aston tickets then won the Citroen!I've started playing this year, after I realised that it wasn't all £25 tickets for supercars. I've mostly been playing the sub £5 tickets, for an Elise, but like the OP I tend to get a lot of discount codes through, combined with a few good guesses recently I don't think I've paid full price for a few months.
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Alun, did you win straight up or did they first contact you to play a second game to establish a winner?
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Straight up. They used to get a fair few draws I understand but now it's SO exact with the retina level images I haven't heard of any more splits.
The split used to give out the money prize divided by the number of winners I think. I vaguely remember the Aston my wife bought me a ticket for end up like this...
Alun, did you win straight up or did they first contact you to play a second game to establish a winner?
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Straight up. They used to get a fair few draws I understand but now it's SO exact with the retina level images I haven't heard of any more splits.
The split used to give out the money prize divided by the number of winners I think. I vaguely remember the Aston my wife bought me a ticket for end up like this...
[quote]BOTB baffles me a bit. I haven't played for a while, but imagine it still works the same way; the winner isn't who guesses where the ball actually is, but whose guess most closely matches the guess of the judges. Have I got that right? I don't really know why it's done this way.
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It takes away the chance of someone seeing the photo in advance or using photoshop to disassemble the photo.
My mate who works with photoshop all the time says the current free Nurburgring competition is really obvious. I've explained to him why it doesn't 't matter but he's 99.9% going to win apparently...
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It takes away the chance of someone seeing the photo in advance or using photoshop to disassemble the photo.
My mate who works with photoshop all the time says the current free Nurburgring competition is really obvious. I've explained to him why it doesn't 't matter but he's 99.9% going to win apparently...
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I used to play BOTB when they limited the number of tickets and just shut the draws when the tickets sold. Sure, you could work out they were taking 200k in tickets for an 80k car, but you didn't mind a 1/5000 odds. Now they're popular enough to always cover costs, I don't like the secret odds.
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I din 't think it's as profitable as you think. Will and Rupert sounded genuinely worried someone would win the Aventador as it was such a large prize! I'm sure they'd have found good pr out of it though!!
As you now get to choose your prize etc the odds would end up financial rather than when you just had the fixed ticket sales ( i don't think as there is skill involved you can publish odds???). If you use the deals etc it's pretty cheap to play really. i only dpent £15 to win the Porsche and there is nearly always a code on Facebook or twitter to get you 10% to 30% off, they gave me PHSUPERWIN as a code to put on my website when I won which still worked last time I used it.
I used to play BOTB when they limited the number of tickets and just shut the draws when the tickets sold. Sure, you could work out they were taking 200k in tickets for an 80k car, but you didn't mind a 1/5000 odds. Now they're popular enough to always cover costs, I don't like the secret odds.
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I din 't think it's as profitable as you think. Will and Rupert sounded genuinely worried someone would win the Aventador as it was such a large prize! I'm sure they'd have found good pr out of it though!!
As you now get to choose your prize etc the odds would end up financial rather than when you just had the fixed ticket sales ( i don't think as there is skill involved you can publish odds???). If you use the deals etc it's pretty cheap to play really. i only dpent £15 to win the Porsche and there is nearly always a code on Facebook or twitter to get you 10% to 30% off, they gave me PHSUPERWIN as a code to put on my website when I won which still worked last time I used it.
Beefmeister said:
I still play every 2 weeks and wait for 'that' phone call! Although it appears Will is really getting into his door stepping people now...Bugger didn't win the Nurburgring comp! Still Palmersport next although I'm probably not allowed to win as I told Will/Rupert/Ben this would be a good idea ages ago when I went to fill in some paperwork there...
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