...car raffle...

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Black_mamba

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313 posts

210 months

Saturday 21st March 2015
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What's the view of holding a raffle for a car, oh let's say an for a '89 3.2, seeing as you can't buy them now. 60 tickets at £1000 each, car to the winning ticket. Is this legal? Are there 60 people out there willing to take a punt.

mollytherocker

14,366 posts

210 months

Saturday 21st March 2015
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Thats pretty much what these guys do.

http://www.botb.com/?gclid=CNm0zo2CusQCFYgKwwodQgI...

GC8

19,910 posts

191 months

Saturday 21st March 2015
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Completely illegal. An illegal lottery, in fact. Against the law and something that no one with any sense would entertain (holding or subscribing to).

Sorry.

FaBooker

20 posts

110 months

Saturday 21st March 2015
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It's not illegal, but it is regulated - I. Short you could not do it unless you had a license from the UK Gambling Commission. Your obvious alternative is to do it for charity - for example sell 60 tickets @£1k each for a car p that cost £40k, with the £20k margin going to charity. A regulated charity would need to run the event. Interesting idea, but someone with £1k to blow on a 60:1 chance probably has £40k to buy the car outright.

Good luck win it.


GC8

19,910 posts

191 months

Saturday 21st March 2015
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I'd be extremely surprised if a lottery that appealed to the vendor could be approved or vice versa.

An unapproved lottery run for profit is definitely illegal.

mollytherocker

14,366 posts

210 months

Saturday 21st March 2015
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Black_mamba said:
What's the view of holding a raffle for a car, oh let's say an for a '89 3.2, seeing as you can't buy them now. 60 tickets at £1000 each, car to the winning ticket. Is this legal? Are there 60 people out there willing to take a punt.
I see another flaw.

If you cant buy them now, where do you get the car from? smile

IknowJoseph

542 posts

141 months

Saturday 21st March 2015
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mollytherocker said:
I see another flaw.

If you cant buy them now, where do you get the car from? smile
If the OP owned one it could be a quick way of getting an incredible amount of money for the thing. If it was legal and 60 people could be tempted to chance a grand on it...

buttercreamt

77 posts

110 months

Sunday 22nd March 2015
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Who's gonna lend me the grand though?

g7jhp

6,969 posts

239 months

Sunday 22nd March 2015
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Looks like another aircooled owner who wants to sell his car, but is worried if he sells he'll miss more potential gains so is looking for a comfort buffer.

Looking at the car 911 Virgin sold at £38k and Nick Moss sold (on eBay) for £39k I think looking for a £60k return is optimistic.

No doubt you'll get offers off the back of this thread.

What's the spec, mileage and can we see a pic OP?

Black_mamba

Original Poster:

313 posts

210 months

Sunday 22nd March 2015
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no I was only jesting about a raffle, I held one at work once to raise money for a charity and had to register with the local council, get a license, submit accounts etc etc, was a massive ball ache tbh (although we did raise a tidy sum for chariteeeee) I was just wondering if there was a herd of air cooled Paddy Power desparardoes out there! I'm sure when the time comes to sell the car it won't be £60k...although at the moment you never know...!

mns1977

46 posts

210 months

Sunday 22nd March 2015
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I thought all the good ones were being exported to Oz or China now?