Raffle sites

Nomoremonkeys

Are these raffle sites where you buy a ticket for free genuine? Has anyone ever won and how do they make their money?

Archie_Duke

What do you mean by “buy a ticket for free” ? You either buy, or something’s free.

They Sell a good number of tickets (across multiple competitions), sales pay for X prize, which is only won by one competitor. Total Sales - (Prize value+Operating costs) = Profit

Comping_Rich

Nomoremonkeys said:

Are these raffle sites where you buy a ticket for free genuine? Has anyone ever won and how do they make their money?

Yes they are genuine, I have won from a few of them as have a few others on here.

mjm3346

There are now many sites that exploit the "free" entry method to avoid the many regulations that would apply if they were properly licenced (which most couldn't get for the draws they run). They can make very good money for the people running them and there should be no need to "rig" the draws (apart from greed).

Zinger549

The free ticket is to get you interested. They hope once you enter the free draw you might buy  some tickets for the paid ones.

Haribobo19

I've won from a few of them! They do the free draws in hopes that they will attract customers that will then enter the paid draws too, but you don't have to do that. It's all up to personal preference though. 

20LegendClaire

On NYE I won a £50 Amazon voucher from a free entry one, they sent it right away (Easy Living Competitions). So yes, they do work. I wasn't sure about them until now but now I will certainly continue to enter them.

Trancenut23

mjm3346 said:

There are now many sites that exploit the "free" entry method to avoid the many regulations that would apply if they were properly licenced (which most couldn't get for the draws they run). They can make very good money for the people running them and there should be no need to "rig" the draws (apart from greed).

Thank you, I was wondering why there were suddenly so many of these websites!

hertzyabazas

100% genuine. I've won three smaller prizes over the last year. £25 and £25 credit which I turned into £200.

An old DJ friend of mine won the Elite christmas competition and his prize was a Mclaren sports car and a Range Rover or £145,000. He's taken the cars which I was taken aback at mainly due to upkeep for the Mclaren.