Anyone won a car from Best of the best?

[Ray Singh]

Traveling for the company at the moment so in and around airports in hte UK and worldwide often.

Seems a lot of these Best of the best lotteries everywhere promising you a supercar (Bentley/Ferrari/Audi R8 etc) as a prize to a lottery. There seem to be very few tickets, but the price per ticket is normally around £20 to £50?

Anyone actually win anything from something like this? How do they make money?

[Zod]

er, buy car for £100,000, sell 3000 tickets at £50 each. Make £50k before expenses.

[Ray Singh]

They must pay a fortune for those pitches in the airports...?

[al1991]

I'm sure last time I looked at one of these the amount they made from the tickets was 10 times the cost of the car. But they've obviously got to make money, and you're not going to get the chance to win a supercar for 20quid elsewhere so if you fancy it you should have a pop. Don't think anyone on here will have won one, strikes me as the sort of thing men would enter only for their wives to force them to sell it to make way for the new extension.

[trickywoo]

Ray Singh said:

as a prize to a lottery.

Unless they have changed it recently its not a lottery in the sense that each ticket has an equal chance - its a spot the ball competition.

[Robatr0n]

My neighbour won a Tuscan from one of their stands in Gatwick.

[Neil_H]

I do these occassionally, haven't won though

Someone wins every month though. I'd like to know how many tickets they sell; I reckon they make a healthy profit.

[chunkymonkey71]

I've bought a car from the worst of the worst...

Not really the same though, is it?

[matc]

chunkymonkey71 said:

I've bought a car from the worst of the worst...

Not really the same though, is it?

[Beefmeister]

I am doing a lot of work with these guys, on website and graphics stuff, and i can assure you they are a very professional, totally trustworthy company.

The logistics which goes into their operation is incredible...

[Odie]

Beefmeister said:

I am doing a lot of work with these guys, on website and graphics stuff, and i can assure you they are a very professional, totally trustworthy company.

The logistics which goes into their operation is incredible...

Your in your moms basement arent you, or "Global Operations Centre" as you guys at best of the best like to call it.

[sebo]

Odie said:

Beefmeister said:

I am doing a lot of work with these guys, on website and graphics stuff, and i can assure you they are a very professional, totally trustworthy company.

The logistics which goes into their operation is incredible...

Your in your moms basement arent you, or "Global Operations Centre" as you guys at best of the best like to call it.

Ah Poppet, did they tell you off for touching the big red car on the stand ?

[Beefmeister]

Odie said:

Beefmeister said:

I am doing a lot of work with these guys, on website and graphics stuff, and i can assure you they are a very professional, totally trustworthy company.

The logistics which goes into their operation is incredible...

Your in your moms basement arent you, or "Global Operations Centre" as you guys at best of the best like to call it.

Are you watching me right now?

[bertie]

Turnover £7.3m
Cost of sales £2.8m

Net profit after tax £600k

Edited by bertie on Thursday 16th July 17:13

[sleep envy]

Odie said:

Beefmeister said:

I am doing a lot of work with these guys, on website and graphics stuff, and i can assure you they are a very professional, totally trustworthy company.

The logistics which goes into their operation is incredible...

Your in your moms basement arent you, or "Global Operations Centre" as you guys at best of the best like to call it.

I knew you were going to say that

[escargot]

sleep envy said:

Odie said:

Beefmeister said:

I am doing a lot of work with these guys, on website and graphics stuff, and i can assure you they are a very professional, totally trustworthy company.

The logistics which goes into their operation is incredible...

Your in your moms basement arent you, or "Global Operations Centre" as you guys at best of the best like to call it.

I knew you were going to say that

[koolchris99]

spent 3 months traveling round all the BAA airports for work, dont ask why.. seen alot of these stands.

its spot the ball thats why i never do it..

if it was a lottery type style thing i would..

and because no thread is complete without pictures.. here is one of me in the best of the best R8 at heathrow t5..

[topless_mx5]

I played last months game and got in the 'blue zone'. Basically I was about 7mm away from winning a brand new LP560
Got £10 off for being so close though so its not all bad.

[Adam B]

bertie said:

Turnover £7.3m
Cost of sales £2.8m

Net profit after tax £600k

paying themselves a nice wedge then!

[jon-]

They used to limit the number of tickets per draw. You could work out the sums, they made say 50% over what the car was worth but you knew your odds of winning.

Now they allow seemingly unlimited tickets per draw, so you could be against 5 people, you could be against 500,000. I stopped playing when they switched to this unlimited system.

They also keep emailing me to say i was second closest in a draw i made years ago and I can have some money off if I play again. Thanks for reminding me just how close I was to a 100k car. wkers