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Car raffle on Facebook?

harveybobbles · 2015-07-16 22:03:43

Is this the latest way of trying to sell your car? Noticed on some of the car selling pages on FB that people TRY to raffle their car by getting buyers to "purchase" a number (1-49) for a set fee, ie £50.. Once all numbers have sold they then use that weeks Lottery bonus ball as the number they pick out. One guy was just…

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motorguy Posts: 22,623 Forumite

17 July 2015 at 4:36PM

scotsbob wrote: »

I assume the sellers are dealerships and they just keep selling tickets until they have covered their profit margin and then draw the winner

You would assume wrong then. These are private individuals on facebook trying to raffle off some car they own to get more than the market rate for it.

Completely unregulated and riddled with potential problems.

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