I'm sure any petrol heads going through any major UK airport in the last few years has seen these "win a supercar" competitions. £60 a ticket for the supercar or £25 for the sports car, run by www.bestofthebest.co.uk
Does anyone know of any winners personaly? Or know what the odds are of winning?
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No I don't know any winners! I must admit I thought the tickets were a bit more than the figures you mention. I recall that they do say how many tickets are sold for each car and a figure of about 2000 comes to mind
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Ticket prices are spot on, but nowhere on the website could I find the info on how many tickets are sold for each competition so who knows what the odds are.
All the times I have been through MAN and the many hours I have sat there due to delayed flights I haven't actually seen anyone milling around the stand that appeared to be buying a ticket, so unless they do most of their ticket sales online then your odds are better than say, winning Euro Millions??.
There is a list of winners on the site so I imagine if you really wanted to, you could track down one of them.
Something that strikes me as odd is that there seems to be quite a few joint winners listed. Not sure if that means they went half on a ticket and have to share the car or won a car each or ???.
There are a couple of married women with male joint-winners who didn't share the same name so either there are alot of wives sneaking away for dirty weekends with the postman ;-)or two unrelated people are chipping in to purchase a single ticket???.
Also none of the joint winners seem to have been photographed on the same day or even in the same place.
Maybe its nothing, just found it odd thats all.
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Yes i know someone who won. A work mate of mine bought a ticket at Glasgow A/P en route to Sudan. Won a DB9 Kept it for a month then sold it on for book price
As to all the women in photo's picking up cars. His wife had to pick theirs up, as he was in Sudan. I see her photo as a winner evertime i go through Manchester A/P
I sometimes buy a ticket if i'm feeling flush. Its not a proper raffle like it claims it's actualy spot the ball on a computer
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During a a flight delay at STN I spent sometime chatting to a sales person on a stand, they were as bored as I was. Apparently the best target punters were described as 'weekend break city financial employees' particularly around bonus time, travelling with new girlfriends and 'Irish professional punters returning home from major horse racing festivals' who are generally alcoholically less inhibited than the population as a whole. Whether this was from their sales training or observation I cannot recall.
I would guess that both of these fully understand the odds, which if IIRC represent about a 100% profit for the company after paying te staff sales commision. Probably a much better investment than many lotteries.
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pmh (was peter)
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I should have checked into the website further, I didn't know it was a "spot the ball" type. Too bad, I was actually thinking of buying a ticket before I knew this. That would explain the joint winners if two people placed the ball in the exact same location. So much for my naughty Wives theory.
Other "win a supercar" competitions have I heard about were bog standard raffles where a limited amount of tickets are sold and the winner is drawn out of a hat.
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"Airport" or some such program on BBC1 featured these guys swapping the cars over and having trouble pushing it through a smallish gap, until they discovered a bit of the wall swung away.
As you can see it made rivetting telly.
Better odds than the lottery I would imagine, but then most things are.
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Like trancer I was previously under the impression (convinced!)that it was a straight lottery with fixed odds as the number of tickets to be sold was fixed.
Whether there are 2 similar operators or the rules have changed I suppose we will never know. Alternatively there was some serious mis-selling going on. Altho the more I think about it, I am sure that I was correct on fixed odds.
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pmh (was peter)
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>>I was previously under the impression (convinced!)that it was a straight lottery with fixed odds as the number of tickets to be sold was fixed.Whether there are 2 similar operators or the rules have changed I am sure that I was correct on fixed odds.
I saw these competitions years ago in the Gulf.
Often there were three cars on display in three competitions.
IIRC there were a fixed number of tickets and they were a lot more expensive even those years ago.
IIRC cheapest were £60 for a Jaguar and up to £100 for others.
Aer Lingus airport operations were running them?
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I wouldn't mind a higher ticket price for fixed number of tickets, the problem is finding an oufit that you could trust. All those claiming to be registered with this organization or the other doesn't really mean anything to me.
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The draw I had in mind was like this in Bahrain
www.bdutyfree.com/raffles/index.cgi
Or for 16 years in Dubai airport
tinyurl.com/kzz86
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Like trancer I was previously under the impression (convinced!)that it was a straight lottery with fixed odds as the number of tickets to be sold was fixed.
Yes they definitely used to be a straightforward "raffle" and they used to tell you the number of tickets sold. I remember there being the occasional full-page advert in car mags for them. I worked some of the figures out and it would be along the lines of: Car value £75000, 2000 tickets to be sold at £75 each = £150k. The prospective income was always around double the value of the car. The comps. either didnt have a closing date, or the closing date was ages away to they could sell all the tickets.
They used to print on the ads that they were independantly audited by such-and-such nationally recognised firm of accountants.
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Thanks for your response guys, but how many of you would part with your hard earned? I see it as a (remotely) possible way of getting a car I could never practically afford normally.
I'm considering getting a couple of tickets as they have a 3 for 2 offer on at the moment, at the end of the day it's only costing the same as a good night out, but with the benefit of not being sick afterwards...
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I'm considering getting a couple of tickets as they have a 3 for 2 offer on at the moment, at the end of the day it's only costing the same as a good night out,
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Dont be a cheapskate! Go for the real thing in Dubai- a BMW 750Li or a Lamborghini Gallardo.
You can buy online.
Live up to your name!
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I'm considering getting a couple of tickets as they have a 3 for 2 offer on at the moment, at the end of the day it's only costing the same as a good
It been 3 for 2 for at least a year i think its a bit like a the shops that have the closing down sales every week
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Just flown through Manchester airport so put this comp in google, and as of February 2015 I see there are rumours of friends of the company and stooges winning, and even talk of a mistake and the same person winning TWICE.
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