Anybody won one of those car lotteries?

[Stevil]

DodgyGeezer said:

'interesting' that Dream Car seems to have vastly dropped the amount of cars they're giving away....

They're doing a move to a new site and payment provider next week, so don't have any competitions past this Sunday at the moment.

[DodgyGeezer]

Stevil said:

DodgyGeezer said:

'interesting' that Dream Car seems to have vastly dropped the amount of cars they're giving away....

They're doing a move to a new site and payment provider next week, so don't have any competitions past this Sunday at the moment.

Ahhhhh - all is explain-ed

[Hackney]

KingNothing said:

Sounds pretty good too

https://youtu.be/TneZ2mO0c2A

"if you're a nineties rally boy like I was", says the 20 year old!

[griffin dai]

no 780bhp Mustang for me!

How many postals are you all sending per car? I don’t want to take the piss really so I’ve bought the odd ticket then sent maybe 7/8 postals off. Just had a couple through with Revs for the 335D but they’ve been really hit & miss. Elite haven’t processed many at all so I’ve stopped there.

[ch37]

griffin dai said:

no 780bhp Mustang for me!

How many postals are you all sending per car? I don’t want to take the piss really so I’ve bought the odd ticket then sent maybe 7/8 postals off. Just had a couple through with Revs for the 335D but they’ve been really hit & miss. Elite haven’t processed many at all so I’ve stopped there.

Only 7Days and DCG accept multiples according to their T&Cs, if you've been getting them through anywhere else I'd suggest it's just lucky they've not noticed. Most I've ever sent to 7Days for one comp is 4 I think, all processed. Never tried multiples with DCG.

[griffin dai]

Thanks. Revs put 2 through for the 335D earlier, I sent these over a couple days though.

[SpanishTony]

Missed out on the 'tang too. I bought 10 tickets (the same as the winner). That'll be it until the new year for me.

Been watching mustang crashes on youtube, I'm beginning to convince myself that a 780bhp car was never a good idea to start with.

[Turkish91]

Not all raffle pages are equal… Quite shocking this!

Guessing it’s been in Ireland for a while as the UK MOT history stops at 2011. No way that’d pass a proper UK test as it sits.

[BTCC_racer]

Ouch! Would be good to know which comp site this is. I certainly won’t be spending my money with them.

[Turkish91]

BTCC_racer said:

Ouch! Would be good to know which comp site this is. I certainly won’t be spending my money with them.

I wasn’t sure if we were allowed to on the forum?

The name is the opposite of “Fall Competitions”

[joropug]

I would also add that I stumbled across an instagram video the other day, the plate rang a bell........:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHcKkRq7qh8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296l4iSaWuo&t=...

https://7daysperformance.co.uk/product/win-nissang...

However I would add, the car a friend won with them was beyond exceptional condition - utterly mint and enthusiast owned.

[thecremeegg]

7days aren't getting any more money from me now that I know their affiliated with that utter cretin. Eurgh

[hairykrishna]

Anyone know when DCG are going to be back up and running?

[phope]

They suggested Wednesday to allow time for the site to migrate to a new sales system - they suggested on their live stream last night that the front end will look the same and would start off with a few low odds competitions to test it properly for capacity/resilience

[DodgyGeezer]

Turkish91 said:

BTCC_racer said:

Ouch! Would be good to know which comp site this is. I certainly won’t be spending my money with them.

I wasn’t sure if we were allowed to on the forum?

The name is the opposite of “Fall Competitions”

As far as I can make out it's garages only - there've been plenty of restaurants (for example) who've been slated on here

[ch37]

Rev Comps are running £5 comps with 12x £2000 winners on a profit free basis on a regular basis up till Christmas (the first one has just sold out), 4999 tickets per draw. £1k goes to charity, so I imagine with transaction fees they are actually running these at a small loss.

I know there is some confusion around odds in this thread, so this is an interesting reversal of the usual argument about increasing your odds by buying multiple tickets.

They draw 12 numbers, one at a time, so 1 entry gives you odds of 1:4999 for the first draw, then 1:4998 for the second draw, then 1:4997, 1:4996 and so on until 12 balls have been drawn.

It does not mean you have a 12:4999 chance of winning, or, if maxing out (10 tickets), it definitely does not mean you have a 1 in 42 chance of winning!

Edited by ch37 on Monday 6th December 13:02

[joropug]

Also looks like Silverstone Dream Cars are about to raffle a Maserati that DCG previously raffled.

https://www.facebook.com/SDCCOMPS/photos/pcb.42769...

https://www.facebook.com/SDCCOMPS

https://dreamcargiveaways.co.uk/current-competitio...

[ch37]

Elite now claim (in their latest Trustpilot smackdown) that they receive 500 postcards a day.

Knowing that every single postal entry is allocated to the back end of draw numbers, that's "unlikely" to say the least.

With the 48hr turnaround, the removal of Friday draws and late publishing of Saturday draws , there aren't even that many comps that you can technically get an entry in for on a weekly basis now.

At a push they've accepted about 70 entries across their big two car comps live at the moment (and they've been live for weeks).

[sheepman]

Turkish91 said:

Not all raffle pages are equal… Quite shocking this!

Guessing it’s been in Ireland for a while as the UK MOT history stops at 2011. No way that’d pass a proper UK test as it sits.

Similar thing with mine. I won my supercharged EP3 civic from DCG and what i thought was a supercharger whine when i picked it up was infact a snapped shaft. £2.8k for a new unit fitted as no one was repairing rotrex chargers at the time.

[hairykrishna]

ch37 said:

Elite now claim (in their latest Trustpilot smackdown) that they receive 500 postcards a day.

I can well believe they receive that many. Most of them go straight in the bin though.