Anybody won one of those car lotteries?

[Dohnut]

That R8 on DCG and £55k in me sky rocket will do me just fine (even though it's not a manual).

[dhutch]

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Oceanrower said:

SimonTheSailor said:

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Read the thread a bit and skipped to the end; does the postal entry route still work these days?

Occasionally - but not as effective!

Works for me, probably 90% of the time.

Cheers lads.

Postal is presumably cheeper, but more faff. Offered because of some bizzare quirk of uk law? As part of it being classed as a 'compention' rather than lottery.

[joropug]

dhutch said:

Postal is presumably cheeper, but more faff. Offered because of some bizzare quirk of uk law? As part of it being classed as a 'compention' rather than lottery.

I have now sent 2,611 postal entries.

Thank god, I am running at a £4k net profit. If I take my time into consideration though, definitely not.

Interestingly, I would be £16,000 DOWN if I was paying. So statistically, very unlucky.

[GhostWKD]

chazwozza said:

Bought 3 tickets for the DCG 911, that looks smart!

It's a cracking car to be fair, I think I may have said but was previously owned by a friend of mine - gutted I didn't get a chance to drive it too spiritedly while he had it

[griffin dai]

Mustang on DCG soon

[TheJimi]

GhostWKD said:

It's a cracking car to be fair, I think I may have said but was previously owned by a friend of mine - gutted I didn't get a chance to drive it too spiritedly while he had it

Cracking thing, and sounds really well sorted.

I'd have to ditch the wing though, I can't stand GT kit on non-GT cars.

[DodgyGeezer]

griffin dai said:

Mustang on DCG soon

there's already a Mach 1 on Revcomps... not sure it's for me (being weird I love the colour but prefer auto, not insurmountable, and LHD for a pony/muscle car)

[dhutch]

joropug said:

I have now sent 2,611 postal entries.

Thank god, I am running at a £4k net profit. If I take my time into consideration though, definitely not.

Interestingly, I would be £16,000 DOWN if I was paying. So statistically, very unlucky.

Wow. Presumably those figures include the cost of the stamp? And you hav recorded it all at you've gone along. Having one cash prize win in that time? Bit of a system in place for getting them off, enter for everything once a week on a rolling basis.

As said, time has to be billed for free for it to work out as a win currently. But if you net a 100k car maybe not so much. It's a lottery for you too at the end of the day, just like.if you pay straight cash to enter.

[Shnozz]

joropug said:

I have now sent 2,611 postal entries.

Thank god, I am running at a £4k net profit. If I take my time into consideration though, definitely not.

Interestingly, I would be £16,000 DOWN if I was paying. So statistically, very unlucky.

What did you win?

[joropug]

dhutch said:

Wow. Presumably those figures include the cost of the stamp? And you hav recorded it all at you've gone along. Having one cash prize win in that time? Bit of a system in place for getting them off, enter for everything once a week on a rolling basis.

As said, time has to be billed for free for it to work out as a win currently. But if you net a 100k car maybe not so much. It's a lottery for you too at the end of the day, just like.if you pay straight cash to enter.

Yeah I estimate £1 per card for stamp and supplies might be a little bit higher.

I won £5,000 and £1,400 (cash alternative)

[ch37]

dhutch said:

Wow. Presumably those figures include the cost of the stamp? And you hav recorded it all at you've gone along. Having one cash prize win in that time? Bit of a system in place for getting them off, enter for everything once a week on a rolling basis.

As said, time has to be billed for free for it to work out as a win currently. But if you net a 100k car maybe not so much. It's a lottery for you too at the end of the day, just like.if you pay straight cash to enter.

Worth saying I've entered a similar amount by post (close to 3000, I think) and won absolutely nothing. And that's with a decent run of getting super expensive ultra low odds entries through. Probably £20k of entries or thereabouts.

I stopped late last year as the hit rate dropped off a cliff compared to the early days.

[hairykrishna]

I've done something like 1500 with no wins too. At least £10k's worth of entries.

The postal entry rate is pretty crappy now. Unsurprisingly it seems to have declined as the companies fortunes are returning to pre-covid levels. I've more or less given up.

[hairykrishna]

Dohnut said:

That R8 on DCG and £55k in me sky rocket will do me just fine (even though it's not a manual).

Nice combo isn't it - usable fun car and a decent wedge of cash.

[BTCC_racer]

I‘ve stopped Postals. I sent 118 from feb till July. I had 27 accepted.

My friends sends around 200 a month and he’s not had much of a joy of late and is knocking it on the head.

Edited by BTCC_racer on Tuesday 11th October 13:54

[Golfgtimk28v]

Had a go on rev comps as came up on Facebook, and found this thread.

Didn't win but a couple of winners really surprised me, one said they had 2000 entries so far and the other maxxed out each competition. I only had 1 ticket but that can't be healthy even if they did win.

[ch37]

BTCC_racer said:

I‘ve stopped Postals. I sent 118 from feb till July. I had 27 accepted.

My friends sends around 200 a month and he’s not had much of a joy of late and is knocking it on the head.

Win win for them isn't it. Ignore the ones that do arrive and eventually those people just stop (and I'm one of those).

Absolutely no oversight of it at all.

[cpl_payne]

DodgyGeezer said:

griffin dai said:

Mustang on DCG soon

there's already a Mach 1 on Revcomps... not sure it's for me (being weird I love the colour but prefer auto, not insurmountable, and LHD for a pony/muscle car)

Quite a pile of cash as an alternative, too. In the extremely unlikely event of winning i'd be tempted to take the cash purely because I suspect driving it for a few months and then selling it would net a lot less

[DodgyGeezer]

cpl_payne said:

DodgyGeezer said:

griffin dai said:

Mustang on DCG soon

there's already a Mach 1 on Revcomps... not sure it's for me (being weird I love the colour but prefer auto, not insurmountable, and LHD for a pony/muscle car)

Quite a pile of cash as an alternative, too. In the extremely unlikely event of winning i'd be tempted to take the cash purely because I suspect driving it for a few months and then selling it would net a lot less

only @ 60% at the moment.

[cadmunkey]

cpl_payne said:

Quite a pile of cash as an alternative, too. In the extremely unlikely event of winning i'd be tempted to take the cash purely because I suspect driving it for a few months and then selling it would net a lot less

Same, I'd take the cash on that one.

[Black AMG45s]

The M3 on Revs looks good