Thursday, Oct 16, 2008
desperately disappointed to not be handing keys over to the lucky winner (and bagging £1m)
BBC News: Estate's £1m prize draw delayed
People who bought raffle tickets to win a house in Devon have been told the prize draw, due to take place later, has been postponed.
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1. Landedgentry said...
Beautiful.... theres just no escape from HPC.
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3. maddison said...
The gambling commission are hard types. They stopped a client of ours even putting the word casino in an advert! If this doesn't work then I would be suing their solicitor who supposedly advised them it was all legal. Hence the BBC ramped it on their behalf.
4. Luckyjim said...
Excellent - these people where handed thousands of pounds of free publicity by the media for what was clearly a scam.
If I recall, the terms of the deal where that the draw would only go ahead if they sold £1.3 million in tickets. If they failed to reach this tidy sum they would return the money - sans interest of course. It was a 'no lose' deal for them - or so they thought.
I was no 'element of skill' and no 'no purchase necessary' way of entering. It was a lottery for profit.
5. peter_2008 said...
46000 tickets of £25? That's bagging £1.15 Million. What excuses this couple are going to use to justify their greedy crime? Maybe something like "well, my house was valued at £1 Billion 12 months ago, so we are not making a profit out of it. We are more or less just giving it away, honestly."
6. d'oh said...
Given that few other people had done this, I think it was a right clever move, and they should be applauded for it. Mind, it can only work once.
7. Stevie Dee said...
What is the interest on £1.15 million? The Gambling Commission are another useless quango!
8. theboltonfury said...
they better hope it goes through or that is a lot of refunds that need doing!
9. mark said...
well off to paypal to claim a refund........
10. Fjcruiser said...
To be honest, what is the difference between selling tickets to win goodies from a private tennis club tombola for eg and selling tickets to win a house ? the tennis club does not need to apply for a licence , so why should these guys do ?
It is again greed which motivates such action and not just from the sellers, from the buyers as well. For £25 your chances are one in 46,000 you can get a house which you know will be worth more than the price of a ticket you paid for. For the sellers, they sell their house at the price they think it is worth. After all, all ticket had sold out, so surely at least 46,000 thought they were entering into a good deal.
The reason it got stopped by this government is on dubious moral reasons. I hope it goes to court and the sellers win. They deserve it.
11. unplugged said...
Heres the link from the last time this was discussed here.
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/newsblog/2008/08/blog-couple-raffle-off-their-devon-estate-for-per-ticket-16490.php