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In reply to Post #17
they are obviously not scammers but they are encouraging people to gamble..
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In reply to Post #1
I've won a few things on raffles and If I totalled up the amount I'd spent on tickets, it would still be WELL under the price of the stuff I had won. Set of TXI-D's, Indulgence MF60 and SS3 Wideboy and about £600 worth of various other bits too. Each to their own of course, I do not expect everyone would like them but to say the people are scammers is just stupid, nothing scamming about it Blankosaurus
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I have had a couple of goes on the carp giveaways one. I only do the mini comps and only the ones that are between 99p to £2 I only do the ones that I want to win with decent odds on winning to.
Mate of mine won a solar bow loc net not bad for 2 quid
There is one on fb The guy is making massive profit it. Think his is carp gear something
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In reply to Post #1
I questioned one raffling a land rover ,They said they had paid £30k for it. Mine must have doubled im price overnight.
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In reply to Post #10
Looks like they’ve limited tickets per person on their site
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I got a bit caught up in this when one site first started at the beginning of the year. Won £400 of Korda end tackle, Korda Distance sticks and in March i won a Trakker Tempest Advanced 150. I totalled up how much i'd spent on "tickets". It was about £150.
To be honest, i didn't really need any more end tackle, i already had distance sticks, and the Trakker has just joined the many other bivvys in my garage on the off chance i may go to France sometime in the future.
I would like to think myself fairly level headed, but it would have been all too easy to become an expensive habit. Haven't bought any tickets on these sites since. I have been tempted a couple of times, but have now left these FB groups..
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I’m sure that Jag won’t mind me posting this. A few months ago they received a phone call from a guy who was just calling to give them his address. He’d won a complete jag pod kit in a Facebook raffle and apparently it was being dispatched directly to him by the manufacturers. Jag knew absolutely nothing about it. We’re not involved in anyway and I can confidently say wouldn’t be supplying any stock at trade prices to these kinds of outfits. Queue one very disappointed and pissed off caller.
Please be very careful paying money for tickets in these raffles. I strongly suspect that a lot of them are run by scammers and I doubt very much whether any reputable manufacturers or shops would have anything to do with them. Most manufacturers will have charities that they are already associated with and donate tackle to. In the case of Jag that’s Lucy’s Bowl. Fox used to donate money from life jacket sales after the Savay tragedy etc. Probably not to Dave’s Amazing Never to be Repeated Facebook Tackle Raffle.
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I saw that one 😂 I generally don’t mind these types of things and people earning money, but some of the profits are just outrageous. Then when you mention it you get the old “we have to pay for advertising” etc
I play the bonus ball type ones now and then but am under no illusion that it’s a dead cert. but the profit made on the items isn’t ridiculous so don’t mind playing it. Wouldn’t catch me playing the fisholux or whatever one though
Like I said I generally like them as it gives people a chance to win some good items (be that house, car, cash, tackle) for not a lot of money. Bit like doing the lottery, you know you probably ain’t gonna win but if you do happy days
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In reply to Post #9
Reduce the odds, buy 100 tickets, still didn't win, oh well better luck next time.
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In reply to Post #8
yes they will make money but someone will get alarms for 3.79! It is not like if people wouldn't know that it is a lotery kind a gamble... and it is 1:300 chance, not that bad  it is only 4 korda swivels worth
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I never like to see companies fail but I really hope this Fisholux fall on their arse with this.
Take the Delkim "competition" for example, (it isn't a competition, it is a draw) 300 tickets at £3.79 per ticket means that if all sold they will bring in £1,137 for a set of alarms and accessories which retail for circa £600. Bear in mind they will have been obtained at cost price as well and the profit margin is even bigger.
Hopefully most will see through this and wont be taken for mugs...  
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In reply to Post #6
they ones I looked at are registered UK companies
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In reply to Post #5
Probably based offshore to avoid tax.
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And before anyone says 'No one is being forced to play' try saying that to a gambling addict (my god father was, he died on his own and pennyless)
This is not a little raffle at the local working mens club or a charity once or twice a year, it a business model.
I like businesses that make stuff, build things, educate people, add to society. These take money for nothing 
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In reply to Post #1
There’s so many of the businesses about one called BOTB doing raffles for cars and watches etc.
So many popping up as people are seeing how lucrative these companies are, on some of them they will not even run the raffle until they have enough tickets sold which could be never!
Bit of a scam but if people are falling for it then more fool them
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