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In reply to Post #73
What i cant get my head around is when the person selling says unwanted item won on a comp.
Why buy a ticket for that item in the first place.
Why not, I saw the options..if you're the gambling type what are you going to take chance on?
£2000 of reels or 10kg of pellets or boilies?
If I was prepared to drop a fiver on the chance of some TXis and another fiver on some Tech-mags I'd probably take the TXis as an upgrade to my 20+year old V1s
But there is zero chance that my rods would be sporting 2 grands worth of reels at the weekend 
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I think that "unwanted raffle prize" is a great way to stop you asking why they are selling brand new gear. Stolen likely is my guess. Organised theft of brand new fishing tackle must happen, kaizen greens would be the perfect product to target. That's my conspiracy.
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In reply to Post #73
I would imagine many of the people doing these raffles for lower ticket items aren't financially stable. Probably realise 2 weeks later they could do with cash.
Without sounding like a complete snob, I wouldn't enter a raffle for a set of budget range rods.
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What i cant get my head around is when the person selling says unwanted item won on a comp.
Why buy a ticket for that item in the first place.
I have has a little dabble on the comp site purely for sport and I’m taking 20-30 quid over a few weeks, won nothing haven’t bothered since.
But i only bought tickets from items i would use ( not want as if i needed some new reels say, i am in the fortunate position i can just buy them) I understand not everyone is in this position and I wasn’t in my younger years, now I’m older mortgage paid off, few promotions in work etc, I’m a little more financially secure, however I wouldn’t buy tickets for kaizen 4lb rods as i dont want them or wouldn’t use them, but might buy a ticket for some Basia reels, dont need them and wouldn’t pay RRP as reels for £200 each do me fine, but I would like a set, for a punt of £20’s worth of tickets to me its a bit of fun and a raffle.
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In reply to Post #71
That's what I like about the tacklebox they will sell you what you need, not push you towards what is most profitable for them.
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In reply to Post #51
I’m not surprised to hear this.
Kev and Gary have always been clear on their pricing. Not the cheapest, but quality service when you buy, and after purchase.
If that’s not what someone wants then they suggest they take their chances elsewhere.
Back in the day I viewed their prices as being “pay a couple of quid more and get 20 minutes free consultancy and advice from Lee Jackson”, which seemed like a bargain, especially when he advised me what not to buy.
I’m glad to hear that they have stuck to their guns when it comes to raffle sites 
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In reply to Post #68
People seem to think they're owed a slice of the luck.
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In reply to Post #67
Wouldn’t bother
It’s yesterdays news now lol
As long as I’m not imagining it that’s all that matters to me 
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In reply to Post #66
Yeah I've seen it with people selling cars, thinking that because the person won it, it now must have less value. It's a way of thinking i just can't get my head around.
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In reply to Post #66
You sound like me as of late
I remember it mate, can't remember how long ago it was though or what, might have a look if I get bored 
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In reply to Post #65
As I said earlier
I really wish I could find it
A guy got torn a new one for trying to sell some gear on here that he won.
Someone else must remember it…
My view is sell it for whatever you want
Someone will buy it or they won’t
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In reply to Post #62
So the question is
What price should these competition winners be selling for
What does the way someone's acquired something make any difference? Would you expect a rich person to charge a different amount than someone who is poor? Or a person with generational welath to charge something different that someone who got their money to buy it from working?
The bulk of people aren't winning a set of kaizen greens for 99p. They spend hundreds if not thousands of pounds on tickets. I used to play the raffle my friend did, £10 here or there, I was convinced I had spend a couple hundred quid over a few years, but when I looked though my history, it was an order of magnitude more money than I had realised I had wasted. I did win £1k once, and I would not have been selling that for £750.
Tackle retailers aren't the poor innocent guy here, they also push preditory buy now pay later
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In reply to Post #59
So the question is
What price should these competition winners be selling for??
if it's something that people will pay top dollar .I wouldn't ask for s/h forum prices
I'd hope for at least 75%of the lowest advertised price for a brand new item,
For example a set of Shimano 14K MGSGMSXTs; 2/3 is nothing to be sneezed at and whoever pays that should be happy enough.
I wouldn't,... you wouldn't give them away just to keep the knockers happy.
Years ago I won three Century FS rods on Century's own short lived forum, I think there was under 20 entries.
I used them three times, didn't really get on with them and ker-ching 75% of retail.
Which was spent on different Centrury rods 
Should I have punted them out for £300 because it was a free comp?
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In reply to Post #62
My view is the same as yours
If it’s a price I think is fair for an item I want then I would buy it if not walk away.
Same for a tackle shop
I’m happy going to a shop that charges top dollar because I’m getting good customer service and any problem I can get it sorted.
I also don t walk into any shop and say I can get it cheaper on line.
How many times on here do people moan about shops like TF,AD or FR
And How many moan about shops like JR or TB ?
I hate having to go shopping on line and the way it’s going we won’t have shops left soon it will all come from storage units via a bloody robot or chucked over a fence.
Maybe I’m just getting old ?
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In reply to Post #59
So the question is
What price should these competition winners be selling for
Answer : whatever they want. It’s not another’s individuals right to dictate price of someone else’s for sale items. If however they have a problem with such sales then they can ignore it. Like it or not it’s one of the fundamentals of our society.
It’s probably not the most popular view but the most just. Such an old fashioned word which shaped our society.
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