Anybody won one of those car lotteries?

Anybody won one of those car lotteries?

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Yellowfez

290 posts

16 months

Monday 13th March 2023
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BTCC_racer said:
I only play Revs and DCG now I generally stopped playing with 7days since they went to 99p - although If they stick a GT3 or GT4 on i'll buy 1 ticket lol.

Edited by BTCC_racer on Saturday 11th March 14:31
GT4 live!

Level 7 Boss

209 posts

137 months

Monday 13th March 2023
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Entered in a comp for a giulia quadrifoglio at The Car Competition, was going to buy a few more tickets and the website has been down. I think the draw supposed to be today at 8pm. Really poor.

BTCC_racer

187 posts

44 months

Monday 13th March 2023
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Yellowfez said:
BTCC_racer said:
I only play Revs and DCG now I generally stopped playing with 7days since they went to 99p - although If they stick a GT3 or GT4 on i'll buy 1 ticket lol.

Edited by BTCC_racer on Saturday 11th March 14:31
GT4 live!
Ufff - two tickets bought!

carinaman

21,331 posts

173 months

Monday 13th March 2023
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"I am on a f***ing plane"

Yellowfez

290 posts

16 months

Tuesday 14th March 2023
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So is this really 1 in 4? Or am I missing something

carinaman

21,331 posts

173 months

Tuesday 14th March 2023
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Isn't it like Soccer and the World Cup? You've got to pre-qualify to get through to the Tournament and then if you get through to the semi-finals winning £1K you then have a one in four chance of winning the car.

People are black or orange. The successful person is orange and the unsuccessful people are black. I am thinking KTM spare parts packaging and Tango. And flags be they attached to car windows or not. How many Williams are going to spend how many Bills?

How about pink winners and blue losers? Losers would be blue.

ch37

10,642 posts

222 months

Wednesday 15th March 2023
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Yellowfez said:


So is this really 1 in 4? Or am I missing something
I can't find this on their site but there is an awful lot of detail missing before you can have a bash at working out the odds.

How many tickets in each of those pools at the start? Presumably a lot less in the £19.99 one than the 49p one, but the graphic doesn't make that clear.

cadmunkey

461 posts

90 months

Wednesday 15th March 2023
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Yellowfez said:


So is this really 1 in 4? Or am I missing something
What an awful way to run a draw.

shtu

3,456 posts

147 months

Wednesday 15th March 2023
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Yellowfez said:


So is this really 1 in 4? Or am I missing something
The diagram makes a lot more sense if turned upside down.

The "main draw" is from 4x £1000 winners - how many are in each of the 4 "pools" is the key info not on there.

ch37

10,642 posts

222 months

Wednesday 15th March 2023
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£20 for a Focus would be a pretty decent low odds draw on any of the conventional sites, why would you choose to do this instead?!

It just obscures the odds (and of course, kills postal entries, presumably they'd stick you in the 49p pot).

Another scummy tactic, becoming common now. As cost of living bites further some of the sites struggling are really going to push the boundaries (or worse).


Jonny8v

185 posts

75 months

Wednesday 15th March 2023
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I see JZM have just posted a Purple GT3, PDK, Black wheels, Stripe which looks like the DCG prize.

So good on him for taking the car and banking the extra cash!

Downward

3,618 posts

104 months

Wednesday 15th March 2023
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cadmunkey said:
SpanishTony said:
Too immature for a car with that kind of power unfortunately.
How much must the insurance be ?

Stevil

10,662 posts

230 months

Wednesday 15th March 2023
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Jonny8v said:
I see JZM have just posted a Purple GT3, PDK, Black wheels, Stripe which looks like the DCG prize.

So good on him for taking the car and banking the extra cash!
I think I'd have kept it a bit longer than a week myself, but who knows what trouble he might have had insuring it, garaging it etc. Plus it sounded like his other half was pushing him to take the money and close to £200k is a life changing amount for most.

Still, if it were me I'd have had one hell of a spring/summer in it, even if that had meant widening my garage opening to get the bugger in.

Horsey McHorseface

2,537 posts

185 months

Wednesday 15th March 2023
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7DP giving FREE entry into winning a 500 ticket entry (for ONE lucky person), into tonights GLC63S draw. No app nonsense, all online. Drawn 7pm.

https://7daysperformance.co.uk/product/win-max-ent...


Edited by Horsey McHorseface on Wednesday 15th March 18:02

Its Just Adz

14,143 posts

210 months

Wednesday 15th March 2023
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Stevil said:
I think I'd have kept it a bit longer than a week myself, but who knows what trouble he might have had insuring it, garaging it etc. Plus it sounded like his other half was pushing him to take the money and close to £200k is a life changing amount for most.

Still, if it were me I'd have had one hell of a spring/summer in it, even if that had meant widening my garage opening to get the bugger in.
I said the same, would have ran it for a memorable summer then sold it, but something more sensible like a M2 Comp.

TheJimi

25,016 posts

244 months

Wednesday 15th March 2023
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Stevil said:
Jonny8v said:
I see JZM have just posted a Purple GT3, PDK, Black wheels, Stripe which looks like the DCG prize.

So good on him for taking the car and banking the extra cash!
I think I'd have kept it a bit longer than a week myself, but who knows what trouble he might have had insuring it, garaging it etc. Plus it sounded like his other half was pushing him to take the money and close to £200k is a life changing amount for most.

Still, if it were me I'd have had one hell of a spring/summer in it, even if that had meant widening my garage opening to get the bugger in.
If he's anything like me, the thing would cause me more hassle than it's worth. I've got nowhere to put it!



BTCC_racer

187 posts

44 months

Thursday 16th March 2023
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good on him he had a little fun and lived his GT3 ownership dream, like others have said id keep the car 100% for a year atleast as I think you wont lose much and wouldn't surprise me if values go up.

Yellowfez

290 posts

16 months

Thursday 16th March 2023
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I’ve noticed the Ferrari and Lambo winners both took the cars, for me (if it ever happens) I would take the car whatever and run it for as long as I could afford to

oobster

7,101 posts

212 months

Friday 17th March 2023
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I've just sat and worked out (yea, sad, I know on a Friday evening) that I've spent £758.38 via Dream Car Giveaways in the past 2 years and won sweet fa.


SimonTheSailor

12,619 posts

229 months

Friday 17th March 2023
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oobster said:
I've just sat and worked out (yea, sad, I know on a Friday evening) that I've spent £758.38 via Dream Car Giveaways in the past 2 years and won sweet fa.
Well done, you've done well.
Some people will have spent 10 times that and won f*ck all.
That's 1 pound a day for a bit of fun, don't think you can buy a bag of crisps now for a pound ?